Description

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Students will explore how heritage shapes individual and collective identities, and how heritage is used to construct and negotiate cultural, national, and ethnic identities. Furthermore, students will engage in the study of collective memory and how memory influences the preservation and interpretation of heritage.  

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Students will use “Wild Things” found in Hong Kong’s high-density built landscape to examine the politics of memory. Based on Judy Attfield’s definition, we will uncover physical objects and urban structures on the streets of Hong Kong that ‘mediate emotions, relationships, and identities’ (Attfield, Wild Things, 121) and digitize them.