Protest and Checkmate

Breakthrough in the temporality of mapping

Student report (2023)

Authors

K.C. LAI Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

Rachel Lee History, Form & Aesthetics - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

20-04-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

their places of living. This media became popular and applied as real-time responses during the massive protests in 2019 in Hong Kong. One of the anonymous streams of mapping produced more than 500 maps over the year and attracted thousands of views per each map. To understand the significance of real-time maps, this thesis investigated the history of social cartography in Hong Kong and explained the emergence of the maps from the perspective of the protestors. It also includes a critical reflection on the maps using the contents from an interview and alternative examples of communication among the protestors. At the end of the thesis, the archiving format of the maps was discussed in a way to reestablish their role after the protests. Foreign precedents were brought into analysis to find a better way to construct the archive of tragedies and present it to future generations who may want to defend their rights in a similar manner.

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