{"id":22433,"date":"2025-12-23T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22433"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:38:37","slug":"hong-kongs-ai-driven-future-and-human-past-contrasted-in-2-riveting-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22433","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s AI-driven future and human past contrasted in 2 riveting projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/23\/bc9d13f7-1324-440d-9884-b534aa9ef143_1070afc5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two vastly different projects in Hong Kong, one looking to the AI-driven architecture of the future, the other to the human stories of the past, are constructing different narratives of the city.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">At the Hong Kong section of the 2025 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\\Architecture (UABB) \u2013 sometimes known as the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\\Architecture<\/span> \u2013 you can find prototypes of a new Hong Kong where AI grapples with the messy, difficult problems of how to bring communities together.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the same time, a group of young researchers is trying to unlock and record a tapestry of personal stories from a now-dispersed community that once lived in one of the city\u2019s oldest housing estates.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">These seemingly opposing projects reinforce the importance of emotions and cultural affinity in urban planning.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The AI solutions presented at the UABB exhibition, titled \u201cTechformance\u201d, range from sterile to impractical to dystopian \u2013 but this is intentional. By exposing the limitations of machine imagination, the exhibition \u2013 co-organised by The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation, The Hong Kong Institute of Architects, The Hong Kong Institute of Planners and the Hong Kong Designers Association \u2013 is meant as a critical challenge to prevailing techno-solutionism.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Take, for example, the models of tower blocks in <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Exporting Aesthetics: AI-Generated Futures of the Greater Bay Area<\/em>, one of the exhibits at the East Kowloon Cultural Centre<em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">.<\/em> These designs were prompted by bleak predictions of society in the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Greater Bay Area development zone<\/span> of the future, such as an unstable energy supply, rising heat and limited open space. They end up alien and unwelcoming, too quirky to be habitable.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3337275\/hong-kongs-ai-driven-future-and-human-past-contrasted-2-riveting-projects?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two vastly different projects in Hong Kong, one looking to the AI-driven architecture of the future, the other to the human stories of the past,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3616,13984,2562,3569,2618,5010,3924,13985],"class_list":["post-22433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-aidriven","tag-contrasted","tag-future","tag-hong","tag-human","tag-kongs","tag-projects","tag-riveting","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}