Already named in TIME magazine’s list of 100 greatest places for 2018, Tai Kwun has received a million visitors.

Model of the Mauretania outside the Caronia Restaurant, part of the QE2 Heritage Trail. The lighting within the case changed during the course of the day and fibre optics had been painstakingly installed inside the model itself so that, when guests arrived or left the restaurant in the evening, the model ship glowed as if there was a party in full swing.

And so, after nearly six years I thought it time (with some trepidation) to return to the Hong Kong Wetland Park (HKWP) to see how it is faring. It represents, after all, five years of my life as Director of Research with the designers MET Studio.

Nice to see Frame Magazine feature the Civic Education Resource Centre which I worked on with Marc & Chantal Design. CommArts described it as a welcoming environment to teach youth cultural- and self-awareness, personal responsibility and citizenship.  It was a challenge to define the storyline and interpret the content into a way which a notoriously skeptical audience (teenagers) would find engaging but I think the end result is sufficiently intriguing. The Gallery divided into five segments titled, My Room, My Home, My Neighbourhood, My City and My Country.