Revisiting the Great Leap Forward at Tai Kwun (News, Ashley Scott Kelly)

Revisiting the Great Leap Forward at Tai Kwun

Date posted: 14 September 2024

Design Trust Hong Kong hosted an event at Tai Kwun reflecting on Rem Koolhaas's seminal Harvard studio on the Pearl River Delta from roughly 25 years ago. What has changed in the questions designers are asking of urbanization in the region and of the evolution from the Pearl River Delta to the Greater Bay Area?

HKU Landscape's professor Ashley Scott Kelly presented on a roundtable with Kate Orff, Stephanie Smith, Mihai Craciun, and Design Trust grantees Elaine Yan Ling Ng and Zhang Lei.

Design Trust Decade Talks, "Remapping Landscape, Heritage and Future", left to right: Ashley Scott Kelly, Stephanie Smith, Zhang Lei, Mihai Craciun, Kate Orff, Elaine Yan Ling Ng. By Yongki Sunarta, courtesy of Design Trust, 2024.

Design Trust Programme Card. By Design Trust Hong Kong, 2024.

Sarah M. Whiting describing the importance of the Project on the City and Great Leap Forward for the Harvard GSD. Courtesy of Design Trust, 2024.

Rem Koolhaas delivering the keynote for Design Trust Decade Talks. By Yongki Sunarta, courtesy of Design Trust, 2024.

Posted by: Ashley Scott Kelly (ashleyscottkelly.com)