Hong Kong – The Hong Kong Design Studio is an architectural design workshop directed by Michele Sbacchi from the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo and Kirchooff Ulrich from the University of Hong Kong. The workshop, which lasted 5 days, took place in Hong Kong and welcomed 33 students from Hong Kong and 13 from Palermo. The theme was Exchange / The Rugged City, and the urban area studied was Causeway Bay, an urban nerve center in Hong Kong. Students produced videos and drawings that have were debated during the Final Crit by Michele Sbacchi, Ulrich Kirchooff, Christiana Lange, Giovanna Licari, Koon We and Weijen Wang. The collaboration between HKU and Unipa foresees a future Design Studio session that Professors Sbacchi and Koon We will organize in Shanghai for 2016. (9Colonne)
