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| View over Hong Kong, from the PolyU Innovation Tower |
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| Hong Kong skyline, near the Space Museum |
Between
the 20th and 24th of April, two of our Tamk Media and Arts lecturers - Howell Istance and I, Carita Forsgren - went to visit
Hong Kong. (Yes, the city, not the Finnish hardware and various items
store by the same name.) We were there by the generous invitation of
the University of Tampere, Centre for Practice as Research inTheatre. Thank you also for being such nice
travel companions, Riku Roihankorpi and Maria Salomaa! What a pity that Jaakko Lenni-Taattola was not able to join us, due to attending another conference.
Here's what the CPRP has published in their blog.
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| Howell Istance, Riku Roihankorpi and Maria Salomaa: our first evening in Hong Kong |
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Riku tries out a student installation work at the
Innovation Tower, HK PolyU |
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Maria and Howell at the
Happy Valley horse races |
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| Chi Lin Nunnery |
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| Local meat shop |
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| One of the entrances to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
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| Jockey Club Innovation Tower at the HK PolyU, where we had the workshop |
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| Hanna Wirman |
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Maria, Howell and Hanna, as we were drinking coffee
and tea at the HK Polytechnic University |
"Dr
Hanna Wirman teaches and coordinates the Game Development stream of
MSc in Multimedia & Entertainment Technology and supervises game
design projects, often with a focus on social responsibility and
innovation. She leads educational game research projects working
closely with the local community and NGOs in Hong Kong."
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| Entrance to the Innovation Tower |
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| One of the student installations |
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We had some dim sum at the staff restaurant
(and learnt real quickly how to use chopsticks) |
Among
the interesting people we met were also Ida Kathrine Jørgensen (Hong
Kong PolyU), Olli Leino (City University of Hong Kong), Simon
Niedenthal (Malmo University), Kaneda Yasuhiro, and
many others.
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| Simon and Yasuhiro |
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| Riku, Maria and Simon |
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| Here's where we met Olli Leino |
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| Virtual cave installation |
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| Mocap lab that Olli showed us |
From
our meetings grew an idea; it's too early yet to start explaining it
here, but we all were pretty excited about the possibilities for
mutual collaboration towards one goal. I - and all of us - hope that
the seed we planted will grow into a fine tree that stretches its
limbs between the continents. Ah, maybe I've already revealed too
much... But stay tuned - there will be interesting opportunities for
students to do fun projects and workshops!
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Hong Kong skyline, seen from the Star Ferry,
as we went back to Kowloon to our hotel |
Text & images: Carita Forsgren 2015
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