What's On : Exhibition
Artificially Natural: Experiments for Hong Kong’s Wetland Ecology
Thu 06-02-2025 to Wed 19-02-2025
Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery
Are conservation and development mutually exclusive? Is it possible to attract people to the landscape without having a detrimental impact on the existing ecology? In response, we have designed a series of devices that enhance the current fishpond operations to future-proof the wetland ecology from further degradation. At San Tin, we have built three support structures that harness solar energy to power ecological machines that assist aging operators in making their work less labor-intensive. The exhibition demonstrates these design ideas, and the difficulty of realizing the project, in this contradictory, yet unique zone.