COMMUNITY MAPPING IN KWAI FONG 

HONG KONG, 2020 – 2021

Documenting local community assets in industrial district 

Formerly called ‘Gin Drinkers Bay’, and, less flatteringly, ‘Trash Bay’, Kwai Fong was best known as a garbage dump. In the 1960s, the bay got a facelift and with it came a new name, after the freshly completed Kwai Fong Estate. The heyday home of heroes in manufacturing, Kwai Fong has now become a modern residential district. However, it will always remain a hood of modest industrious people.

This project brought together long term residents to map what matters to them. Part of the “We Connect” programme, funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and organised in collaboration with the HKSKH Lady MacLehose Centre the project was all about building up self-competence and a sense of belonging to under-privileged communities in older urban districts.

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“What really makes my day is to meet old time residents who come back to taste our food.”

– Mr. Yu, Kwun Kee Noodle