【History Salon | 歷史沙龍】文娛建築的多重空間——後殖民時期香港公共文化建築

【歷史沙龍】文娛建築的多重空間——後殖民時期香港公共文化建築

講者：姚凱琳博士
日期：2025年10月11日 （星期六）
時間：下午2:30至4:30
地點：Research Space, Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB
語言：廣東話

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備註：
– 實體活動。
– 請於Ticketpass報名，屆時會有少量港式茶點提供。

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自60年代，大會堂/文娛/文化中心的建設一直融合在香港城市發展和公共政策之中。這些公共文化建築的設計考量是什麼？它們在構建社區意識方面又扮演著什麼角色？本次分享從建築和規劃的角度追溯香港70至90年代市政文化建築的發展，探討作為福利政策延伸的休閒文化建設當時如何塑造一個“現代城市生活”的理想模式。

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姚凱琳從事城市設計及研究工作，現為香港中文大學建築學院研究助理教授，早年於跨國企業任職時曾主理大型規劃及城市設計項目。於2018年回港定居後，以建築及城市設計經驗融合對文化藝術的興趣和背景，轉型研究城市建築及文化發展議題，同時進行各類跨界別空間設計及藝術創作項目。目前的研究主題為探討公共空間作為文化基礎建設及亞洲城市文化建築發展等相關議題。

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【History Salon】Spaces of Leisure and Culture: Late colonial public cultural architecture in Hong Kong 

Speaker: Dr Melody Hoi-lam YIU
Date: 11 Oct 2025
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space, Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: Cantonese

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Additional Information:
– In-person only.
– Please register on Ticketpass. A small amount of Hong Kong-style refreshments will be provided.

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Since 2022, when the Hong Kong City Hall became the first modern building to receive declared monument status, coupled with the iconic cultural buildings opened in recent years, the museums and theatres have turned from a venue for specific art lovers to everyday spaces with public attention. Although without the glamour and publicity of these landmark projects, the places of leisure and culture have always been embedded in urban development and public policy since the late colonial period. What were the considerations of designing municipal cultural facilities, and what role do they play in constructing a local sense of community? This sharing will trace the development of municipal cultural buildings in Hong Kong during the 1970s-90s from an architecture and planning perspective, to discuss how leisure and culture as an extension of welfare policy have shaped the ideal of a balanced “modern” way of living in late 20th-century Hong Kong.

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Dr Melody Hoi-lam YIU is an urban researcher-designer with a focus on public architecture and cultural practices, currently a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Building upon international experience in urban design practice from London to Shanghai, she integrates this professional insight with her interest in arts and culture to pursue research on urban cultural development and artistic collaborations in spatial design. Following the recently published monograph, “Cultural Architecture and Late-colonial Space” (Routledge, 2025), which accounts for the spatial history of public cultural architecture in Hong Kong, her current research investigates the topic of cultural infrastructure and its agency in the cultural development of Asian cities.