Student Name: Terri Leung
Project Name: EXTRASTATECRAFT - Urban Factory
Course: GD3 MFP Studio
Course Instructor: Jennnifer Yoos
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Urban space has become an instrument that contains mobile and monetized technology. One of the infrastructures, the free zone, was described by Keller Easterling as EXTRASTATECRAFT. The zone has developed drastically from an out-of-way area for manufacturing customfree goods as a postwar surviving method to a model for thriving cities like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai. This project is looking at the city of Hong Kong and makes a change to this bleeding pattern of infrastructures. Ongoing trade war, Umbrella Revolution in 2014, Extradition Law in 2019, and the pandemic have evoked the problem of over-reliance on the thriving cities to the manufactory in developing countries (urbanspace-to-be).
What if one day the trade war becomes more serious, could people in Hong Kong still survive without imported food? What if one day another wave of a pandemic comes, China or other countries are not capable of transporting goods, would the economy of Hong Kong die? What if the main ports in the world lost their resources, could developing cities pick up the manufacturing technology and speed to provide the city’s needs?
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