The tangible Cultural Heritage of Hong Kong continues to be eroded, changed by the environment that becomes unpredictable by the day, from conflicts to climate change, from people who care to people who don’t. The tramway we took in our childhood journeying next to the shoreline no longer serves a nostalgic purpose, but rather becomes a party line for the next generation. Our beloved community markets of the past are now malls serving packaged food. To capture Hong Kong’s Cultural Heritage of the present requires more than preservation of the physical entity; it requires preservation of our interpretation of the present, our stories of the moment, our connections to the places that we remember now.

This work is part of the Urban Walks project, supported by Goethe Institut Hong Kong, in association with Studio for Narrative Spaces and Goethe Institut Korea.