About 1st Year
The “Bi-city Youth Cultural Leadership Programme” is a two-year programme. The first year was held from Oct 2022 to Feb 2023. 95 students from Hong Kong and Beijing are recruited (approximately 50 from each city). They interact with each other through a virtual learning platform to complete various creative missions online and offline throughout 8 sessions of curated learning workshops. To consolidate their learning, they have developed ideas and pitched for the future development of the Hong Kong Palace Museum as the programme conclusion. Participants who excel in the first-year programme have a greater chance to be selected to join the second year of the programme.
The “Bi-city Youth Cultural Leadership Programme” is a two-year programme. The first year was held from Oct 2022 to Feb 2023. 95 students from Hong Kong and Beijing are recruited (approximately 50 from each city). They interact with each other through a virtual learning platform to complete various creative missions online and offline throughout 8 sessions of curated learning workshops. To consolidate their learning, they have developed ideas and pitched for the future development of the Hong Kong Palace Museum as the programme conclusion. Participants who excel in the first-year programme have a greater chance to be selected to join the second year of the programme.
「雙城青年文化人才交流計劃」為香港故宮文化博物館主辦、太古地產全力支持及教育燃新設計的青年學習及交流項目，
目的為鼓勵北京與香港兩地青年透過藝術文化交流，置身於藝術氛圍當中，
Programme Highlight
The 8 Sessions invited cultural and arts innovators to share their experiences in the Museum and Cultural and Arts sectors from China and Hong Kong, besides they interacted with participants and give them inspirations. Furthermore, participants digest and showcase their learning outcomes in the past months through staged missions, and lastly conducted idea pitching for their imagined future Hong Kong Palace Museum to conclude the programme.
The 8 Sessions invited cultural and arts innovators to share their experiences in the Museum and Cultural and Arts sectors from China and Hong Kong, besides they interacted with participants and gave them inspiration. Furthermore, participants digest and showcase their learning outcomes in the past months through staged missions, and lastly conducted idea pitching for their imagined future Hong Kong Palace Museum to conclude the programme.
Recap from 1st Year
We were honoured to invite 20+ cross sectored, art and cultural leaders and innovators to be guest speakers. These speakers come from diversified backgrounds including museums, technology, education, cities cultures and local communities etc. They have provided us with insightful sharing on the trend and development of their industries, personal experiences and stories, as well as having interesting dialogues with our students.
We were honoured to invite 20+ cross sectored, art and cultural leaders and innovators to be guest speakers. These speakers come from diversified backgrounds including museums, technology, education, cities cultures and local communities etc. They have provided us with insightful sharing on the trend and development of their industries, personal experiences and stories, as well as having interesting dialogues with our students.
Playlist
Ms. Ada Wong Ying Kay, JP from Hong Kong, Mr. Li Jie from Chengdu, and Ms. Chris Sigaloff from Amsterdam analyzed the trend of museum development in the future, and interpreted possible roles of culture and arts, ways for different stakeholders to participate in curating exhibitions from the development of museums and cities, thus the possibility of transforming your character from cultural consumer to cultural maker.
Ada Wong Ying Kay, JP
Li Jie
Art Curator, iSTART Children's Art Festival
Chris Sigaloff
Former Director of Kennisland
Mr. Yu Kwok Lit Louis, MH shared the relation between the city and its culture, as well as the value of cultural organisations. Students were divided into groups afterwards to interact and exchange values, memories, and issues as a culturist, thus fulfilling the first mission - creating digital avatars.
Mr. Yu Kwok Lit Louis, MH
Hong Kong Art School
Ms. Qingqing Liu, Ms. Babby Fung, and Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang shared their experiences in engaging different communities and art spaces. including inclusive design for museums, private art space design, and exhibition curations of HKPM.
Qingqing Liu
Children's Museum Research Center
Babby Fung
Swire Properties
Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang
Curatorial and Programming,
Hong Kong Palace Museum
Mr. Paul Chan, Mr. Martin Ting, and Dr. Han Zhi shared their inspirations and experiences in designing cultural locale related projects and experience activities, and introduces the uniqueness of cultures of different cities. Moreover, students fulfilled Mission 2 - My Most Favourite Cultural Locale, and shared their most favourite cultural locale in the city they are located in, as well as their imagination of living there in the future.
Paul Chan Chi Yuen
Martin Ding
Dr. Han Zhi
Swire Properties
Ms. Jin Jing, and Ms. Sarah Mui shared their inspiration for participating in placemaking and community revitalization, and their relative experiences in Shanghai and Hong Kong respectively, to show how different art initiatives can reform or revitalize communities.
Sarah Mui
One Bite Design Studio
Jin Jing
Bigfish Community Design Center
Dr. Louis Ng Chi Wa and Ms. Ada Wong Ying Kay, JP conducted a fireside chat on the "Interaction" and "Future" of museums; Dr. Rico Chan and Ms. Blanche Xu shared their experiences in museum innovation while designing disabled accessible and youth-centric projects.
Dr. Louis Ng Chi Wa
Hong Kong Palace Museum
Ada Wong Ying Kay, JP
Dr. Rico Chan
Beyond Vision International
Blanche Xu
Learning and Interpretation, M+
Mr. Zhang Chen from Shanghai and Mr. George Huang from Hong Kong shared their experiences in combining Tech and Culture & Arts, and dug into the role of Metaverse in cultural development further.
Zhang Chen
Instinct Pump
George Huang
1010 Limited
12 groups containing students from both Beijing and Hong Kong co-created and designed a "Digital Souvenir" and "Inclusive Museum Experience" for the future Hong Kong Palace Museum, and presented their ideas accordingly. Ms. Ada Wong Ying Kay, JP, Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang, and Ms. May Lam-Kobayashi, were invited as judges to select the best 3 groups. Lastly, Mr. Lou Wei, Executive Deputy Director of The Palace Museum delivered a speech on the successful conclusion of the first year of "Bi-city Youth Cultural Leadership Programme".
Lou Wei
The Palace Museum
Ada Wong Ying Kay, JP
Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang
Curatorial and Programming,
Hong Kong Palace Museum
May Lam-Kobayashi
Innovative Ideas
After 4 months of learning, participants conducted idea pitching on their imagination on the future Hong Kong Palace Museum as a programme conclusion. Below are the Best 3 groups selected, let’s look closely at students’ ideas and witness their learning outcomes in the past months.
After 4 months of learning, participants conducted idea pitching on their imagination on the future Hong Kong Palace Museum as a programme conclusion. Below are the Best 3 groups selected, let’s look closely at students’ ideas and witness their learning outcomes in the past months.
Group 11 Digital Souvenir - Brick Space
Groupmates: Tang Jing (Tsinghua University), Li Wanqing Lydia (Central Academy of Fine Arts), Hu Lei Roey (Beijing Normal University), Song Rui (Beijing Normal University), Chu Weiqi (City University of Hong Kong), Kwong Hoi Shan (Hong Kong University), Wong Mei Kuen (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Tang Kwan Ting (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Red walls and golden tiles, carved beams and painted rafters, the Palace Museum is formed by different building parts. "Brick Space" is a digital proposal merging digital souvenir and Metaverse technology, allows every visitor to adopt a piece of brick, tile or other building parts of the Palace Museum, and build their own digital space. Visitors may gain decorations for their spce through visiting offline exhibitions, and gain new knowledges by engaging with cultural celebrities; may visit neighbors to found concensus; may hold exhibitions to showcase yourself; may build parent-child space to get along with your family......Each of us is a seperate world and we can wander around our own locale; we may also form a biger world together, to build a Palace Museum in Metaverse. Future, is "Interaction" and "Co-creation", lets create the future together!"
Group 10 Inclusive Museum Experience - Multi-sensory Interactive Exhibition
Groupmates: Zhao Zixu (Communication University of China), Yang Junwen (Communication University of China), Cao Fengru (Central Academy of Fine Arts), Xu Jingyang (Lingnan University), Yu Nga Ki (Chinese University of Hong Kong/Beijing University Dual Degree), Lam Ka Wing (Hong Kong University), Liu Yiyang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Leung Man Chin (Hong Kong University)
"Multi-sensory Interactive Exhibition" used iclusive and innovative method to spread Chinese culture and history to diversify audiences, and bare the responsibility of spreading cultural sustainability. 3D prinnting and AR technologies are implemented to antiques, to innovate the relation of antiques and audiences, and to include visually impaired people as part of audiences. Our objective is to "Revive" antiques through digital technology, encountering antiques closely and raise awareness on heritage conservation and visually impaired people.
We focus on the mobilization of exhibits to multidimensional sensories of visitors, allow them to toch antiques in real life, to deeply feel the power brought by antiques. We hope that our exhibitions may benifit more audiences, and allow visually impaired people to participate, thus truely promote the beautiness of antique to more and more people. "
Group 7 Digital Souvenir - Journey of the Young: Cloud-based Education Platform of HKPM
Groupmates: Chan Wing Sum (Beijing University), Chen Qinran Cynthia (Central Academy of Fine Arts), Li Yinuo Chloe (Tsinghua University), Xu Jingyang (Lingnan University), Jin Dingding (Education University of Hong Kong), Fung Yan Yan Conchita, (Hong Kong Baptist University), Tian Jinru (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Qiu Zhilin (Lingnan University), Kong Yeung (Beijing University)
"While exploring Hong Kong Palace Museum, we discovered that underage children lost interest and perceptual experience easily, and learnings on museum antiques and related histories often have physical space limitation. Therefore we would like to build a platform which is more conforming to perceptual cognition mode and with long shelf life. We fix our attention on the three stages of before, during and after visiting exhbitions. Through substituting into a Qing Dynasty avatar, visitors used first-person perspective to explore Hong Kong Palace Museum, to accelerate multidimentional conversations between audiences and exhibits, between audiences, as well as between audience and curator. After the visit, the previous experience will produce a continous youth community and exhibit database, forming a participative academic space."
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