CC2426 Leungpo's group remarks 3: Presentation 1

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Brief presentation on Monday 14 Apr (10am - 1pm/ ALL class):

1. Report from the field:

What to report:

What is the major activity taking place there?

What is the relationship between the place, object and the people? (what, who, how?)

Draw one page to report to the class at Wanchai(draw on A3 paper)

Please revise everything and present all your findings with a few sheets of A3 papers/ no more than 10 pages of powerpoint. (All material has to be in English)

2. Research proposal:

a. What:

Area of study (roughly defined)

Basic information about that place you found from secondary material (major activity, spatial characteristics, demography and etc / cite your references)

b. Why:

Why you want to study that place? What relationship do you have with it?

c. How:

Method- how you will study that place? (what to observe? whom to do interview? when you will visit? etc...)

> present in class with no more than 10 pages of powerpoint.

> give me one page of A4 written summary of your proposal.

Each group would have about 15 mins to present, and then we'd have discussion. Try to ask constructive questions to your classmate.

CC2426 Apr 11 Fri Fieldwork in Wanchai

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CC2426 Leungpo's group remarks II: Fieldwork in Wanchai

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10:00 Briefing Roof garden, Bowrington Road Market, Wanchai鵝頸橋街市天台花園

10:00-11:30 Observation at your field:

gp 1. Bowrington Road Market 鵝頸橋街市

gp 2. Lockhart Rd 駱克道 (菲林明道至馬師道一帶)

gp 3. Time Sq. & Russell St. 時代廣場羅素街一帶

gp 4. Causeway Bay Centre灣景中心

gp 5. Jardine Bazzar乍甸坊

11:30-12:30 Report from the field- go back to our gathering place.

(You may take tunnel bus to go back to CC college. It's about 15 mins travel. )

Preparation and equipment:

Sketch book, digital camera, map, few pages of A3 papers - and your attention to details.

What to report:

What is the major activity taking place there?

What is the relationship between the place, object and the people?

Draw one page to report to the class (draw on A3 paper)

More useful ref:

網絡‧社區http://www.hkcommunities.net/home.php

Hong Kong Place香港誌http://www.hkdatabase.com/

Planning Department香港規劃署http://www.pland.gov.hk/index_c.html

活在觀塘http://kwuntong.wordpress.com/

要較感性的讀物，可翻翻各種香港文學和藝術作品，例如小思、吳吴、魯金、陳慧、西西、潘國靈、也斯、白雙全、江記、智海......Please suggest your favorite English reading.

Remarks:

Do you know how to search in the library? Do you know how to use date base to assist preliminary research?

CC2426 Leungpo remarks 1

CC 2426 Study Trip Project Leungpo's group (class 204)

Leungpo:

leungpo@gmail.com

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Place: Venue Rm704

Schedule:

	Mon	Wed	Fri
wk 1 7-13 Apr	project brief grouping	10:00 Site visit brief 10:30UG03 Mass lecture 12:00 tutorial after lecture	Site visit 10:00 Wanchai (meeting place-tbc)
wk 2 14-20 Apr	Presentation: report from the field + research proposal (group)	Leungpo's lecture: "studying culture, going to the field"	Report from the field (group / individual)
wk 3 21-29 Apr	Report from the field (group / individual)	Report from the field (individual)	Report from the field (individual)
wk 4 28-30 Apr	Presentation preparation	Final presentation	no class
wk 5 (optional)	optional meeting for report review

Meeting time: 10:00-1:00 (unless special notice)

Meeting session:

group 1 10:00-10:30

group 2 10:30-11:00

(break)

group 3 11:15- 11:45

group 4 11:45-12:15

group 5 12:15-12:45

Do not late for your session!!! No consultation after assigned time.

Keywords:

Culture, Hong Kong, place: to study the production of culture in Hong Kong, its material existence and this formation in space

What to look at:

Space > place (people, objects, space)

Process book:

No smaller than A4size! 2-3 pages of analysis for each tutorial meetings.

Communication:

Please keep close contact with your group leader, I will inform your group leader for any special arrangement.

Useful website;

http://www.inmediahk.net

http://www.hk-place.com/