Co-creator: ANDREW KUDLESS (USA), RIYAD JOUCKA ( HONG KONG)
Andrew Kudless and Riyad Joucka have collaborated to create the Shell Star Pavilion, an iconic, temporary structure to provide shelter and accommodate varied activities and gatherings for deTour 2012. The pavilion’s star shape was a reference to the nearby harbour and the five-petal bauhinia flower which was the symbolic centrepiece of Hong Kong’s flag.

Co-creator :CAROLINE MAK
Mak transformed a portion of “cells” in the Former Wan Chai Police Station into a large evolving drawing. Using the simple medium of tape and PVC tubing, Mak created an imagined network, mapping out hidden pipes which snake through the walls and using the existing structures in the prison as cues.

Co-creator: Kacey Wong
Artist Kacey Wong presented an exhibition in Fa Yuen Street entitled Hawkerama (Hawker + Panorama) in july 2012 with many fun events conceived by artists and designers set out amid the real hawker stalls. Together with more than 20 artists, Wong brought the Hawkerama to deTour to promote Hong Kong’s street culture to a broader audience.

Co-creator: Raumlabor
Providing an adequate water supply for Hong Kong has always been difficult, Raumlabor from Berlin created the Hong Kong Fountain House, a public fountain project that explores low-tech methods for capturing and filtering rainwater for easy use.

Co-creator: N55 (Denmark)
XYZ Mobile Factory, was based on their design of the XYZ Spaceframe Vehicle. It was an open-source human-powered vehicle which was affordable, lightweight, and durable enough for everyday urban use.

Co-creator: Otto Li
To illustrate some of Wan Chai’s “background music”, Li uses a recording of a short clip of sounds in the area around the local police station. This is also represented through the soundwave visualiser, describing the same experience from a quite different perspective.

Co-creator: START FROM ZERO
The creative group Start from Zero picked up old wood from the streets for their work, as they thought it has more ‘experience’, and in their hands the wood is reborn.

Co-creator: THE CAVE
Through this creative piece, The Cave sought to comfort and ease the local communities resistance towards a construction site by creating a relaxing and welcoming public space.

Co-creator: Tim Li
Tim Li took his nylon folding bed which could represent Hong Kong people’s flexibility and creativity throughout the process of urbanisationto to different public spaces. With the surrealistic intrusion of private space into the public arena, he tried to create a new scenario – a lush urban resting place.

Co-creator: WONG Tin Yan
Wong Tin Yan’s Snake Trolley was inspired by the busy old-and-new district of Wan Chai. Finished with a strong ‘street’ feel, the trolley was an interactive sculpture since the audience was welcome to push it into the streets.

“Uni – One, Single. From Latin uni-, combining form of unus(“one”).”
Drawing on the concept of Uni(form), Yesterdayskin’s creative take on the single fixed form of an object transforms it with a mixed media wrap to complete a metamorphosis. The creative team uses uniform as a core element for their works for DETOUR 2012, as it symbolically represents “classes”, “system”, and “order” – which may need to be opposed.

Moderator: Marisa Yiu
Many artists and designers continue today to retool and refine their craft for the benefit of the public. Through interventions, installations, performances, and visual provocations, the artists and designers of deTour 2012 drew upon unsuspected opportunities to re-imagine public life in Hong Kong.

Moderator: Kacey Wong
Speaker: Tim Li, Wong Tin Yan, Otto Li
In this process, artists of deTour 2012 had a discussion about tactical urbanism and participatory design

Co-creator: Emptyscape
Is it possible for Hong Kong to turn its “unused landscapes” into “public space”? And where are these spaces? In their presentation, Emptyscape discuss research findings from a recent mapping exercise.

Introduction by Dutch Design Desk South China.