Taking-off is a recreation of part of a site specific installation made at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 2010. It uses the graphics from the runway, reproduced here at their original size.

Jim has a diverse background including architectural practice in Hong Kong and the United States. He actively participates in local and international art and architectural competitions and has won a number of awards. He won a commission to construct a kinetic weather machine at the Hong Kong Science Museum which is now permanently installed at the museum.

HK FARM is an organization of Hong Kong aspiring farmers, artists and designers founded in April 2012. They aim to communicate the value of rooftop farming and benefits of locally produced food. HK Farm grows local food, produces design products and offers services relating to urban agriculture.

HK Honey is an organization of Hong Kong beekeepers, artists and designers founded in July 2010. Their aim is to communicate the value of bees and the benefits of locally produced honey. They have a network of bee farms, a design studio and collaborate with many organizations and different local communities.

This design for a street bench, by the London studio of Oval Partnership, evolved as a response to working in different parts of the world, in different cultures and time zones. It is both universal and site specific. A bespoke gabion is filled with locally sourced rubble into which native plants are sown. The seat acts as a rain catcher, funnelling the rain into the gabion. Seat sensors measure the number of people who sit on the bench and this data is uploaded to the web and appears on built-in counters. Sounds of the city and conversations are picked up and relayed to a twin bench in another part of the world. This bench receives the local sounds of its twin in Hong Kong.

This 'triorama' model, by the London and Beijing studios of Oval Partnership, explores the public realm around just one tower within a much larger master plan for an entire new city quarter. The development, which is ranged around a new eco-park, is conceived as an integrated urban living complex. Green spaces would be used not only for leisure and culture but for allotments, urban farming, hydroponic cultivation and micro-climate improvement. It is an alternative prototype for dense development whereby the density is pushed up at the perimeter to create a park at the centre. The park is then irrigated with grey water from the surrounding towers.

Hour25 Production is an independent Hong Kong based research and design group founded in Kwun Tong in 2012. Their work explores the relationship between space and time in the built environment using a diversity of media and materials to express architectural ideas beyond the presence of architecture. The Cultivation of Urban Cracks excavates narrative layers in the history of the city. By concretising time and space past, present and future are juxtaposed. Several 'cracks' are excavated along Kai Tak Nullah and 'layers of urban space' from past decades unearthed.

The work looks into the past of five sites in Hong Kong, condensing history into a time scale of 0.5cm to one year.

A response to the persistent growth of so called dog-cage dwellings in Hong Kong, this sky-scraper proposal will be packed and camouflaged into the city fabric by day. At night the units will shift and turn to the sky as a new realm for public leisure and private enjoyment for all. No matter how rich or poor, we are under the same sky and share the same city. This proposal, constructed from bamboo, is indeed symbolically a sky-scraper, occupying the air zone above existing office towers.

Wallace Chang runs the Urban Place Research Unit, School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Wallace Chang has used this much abused urban river as a political testing ground for raising awareness of ecological issues. Realising that this physical, natural thread through the city could be used to link schools and communities, his work, rather than asserting the underlying natural landscape in a purist way, has emphasised the ways that the river can 'irrigate' the human landscape.

CAVE is a young Hong Kong-based architectural design practice established in 2011 by three graduates from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. They are a creative collective that aims to push the boundaries of architecture to deliver both fresh and engaging projects. They have recently completed an interior for a beauty clinic and the façade design for a serviced apartment building due to be completed in 2013.

In Imaginary Kai Tak, CAVE reverses the conventional methodology of master planning by exploring local culture and shared memory before the process of zoning. Six narratives are inspired by different qualities of South East Kowloon and further developed into six device systems. These systems function collaboratively to form the speculative future Kai Tak city.

"The Cruise Terminal, currently under construction at the tip of the former Kai Tak runway 13 continues Foster + Partners unique association with the design of gateways into Hong Kong such as the KCRC station terminus from China and Chek Lap Kok Airport Passenger Terminal. It will be one of the foremost cruise facilities in the world. The terminal's sustainable design combines a number of energy saving measures, as well as generating power from renewable sources and making use of recycled rain water for cooling. The vision is that the building will be used 24 hours a day, with a public roof garden providing a stage for recreation with open and covered spaces for activities such as family picnics, outdoor dining and wedding banquets with stunning views of Hong Kong."

A concept model, by the London and Hong Kong studios of Oval Partnership, working with Integer, exploring ideas for a micro-boutique smart hotel for Hong Kong.

In the future, as cities become increasingly wired, buildings will retain real memories of past inhabitants, their habits and desires. The project explores not just new ways in which we might imagine the hotel as a building type in the context of this technology but the emergence of this new electronic palimpsest and how it might affect our future understanding of where and how we live.

"Venice and Hong Kong have this in common: we are both bridge cities. In Hong Kong, a fast-developing 21st century city honeycombed with opportunities, bridges are needed to span terrains of cultural, traditional and historical differences as well as physical boundaries. Our story is inspired by the unearthing of the Lung Tsun Stone Bridge in Kai Tak. Built in 1873, the bridge was demolished by the invading Japanese forces in 1942 to make way for the airport runway extension. Our investigation draws parallels from this vanished bridge and aims to explore both physical and cultural aspects of the transforming cityscape of Kwun Tong."

The Flat for Flat project is a unique development by the Hong Kong Urban Renewal Authority whereby new flats are created in exchange for old residences. The focus is on community building for people displaced by the urban renewal process. Before the relocation of the airport, Kowloon City, To Kwa Wan, San Po Kong and Kowloon Bay were extreme environments. Noisy and polluted. Yet they remained vibrant neighbourhoods. The adverse living environment generated a vibrant street life. With the relocation of the airport, these areas are becoming prime real estate. Some of the older residents will be displaced due to the rising rents and demand for new developments.

The new Kai Tak Flat for Flat neighbourhood eschews maximizing the commodity value of the development preferencing the creation of communal spaces. Rooftops are not sold, but rather designed as common indoor and outdoor recreational facilities. Ample greenery at grade is proposed over valuable car parking spaces.

"The project explores the juxtaposition of authoritative planning versus collective aspiration. Rather than a simplistic perception of the two as conflicting positions, we seek to generate whimsical chemistry through a dialogue between them. We believe this constantly unbalanced relationship and tension is exactly the distinctive vibrancy of Hong Kong. Through juxtaposition of real vs speculative proposition, art vs architecture, illegal vs legitimate, collective aspiration will be revealed as the common ground of public desire, the essence of 'place making'.

The installation serves a dual function as a generative device which structures our research and design process; and also, as a physical representation of our final architectural proposal and the spatial quality of derivative architecture."

Hidden Agenda is an independent live music venue in the Kwun Tong industrial area, associated with many different indie cultures and artists from the local community. Their DIY approach has won the support of many music lovers and they aim to push the boundaries of Hong Kong's cultural planning and freedom of art. From 2009 onwards, Hidden Agenda managed more than 1000 bands and artists' performances.

Kwun Tong is now home to over 1,000 independent artist studios, band rehearsal spaces, street art workshops and film post-production houses that appeared gradually after the regime change of the city.

Shortly after receiving a warning letter from the Hong Kong Lands Department, Hidden Agenda decided to film everything that happened in and around the music venue: from music shows, audience interviews, police actions, street protest, to board meetings, night life in the industrial area, to picking up unwanted furniture on the street.

"Sites of Erasure examines cultural artifacts, customs and buildings, in areas that may soon disappear. We use film in ways that go beyond simple documentation to persuade and influence our audience, and in this way question received ideas of progress.

The constantly evolving urban environment of Hong Kong allows little time for reflection on how its relentless spatial reconfiguration might alter the collective unconscious of its inhabitants. This is not an issue unique to Hong Kong; it is a common condition of contemporary urban development: a reductive process whereby the lowest common denominator often determines expectation, funding and delivery.

Control of civic space is delegated to a select few rather than developing organically from occupants who actively inhabit the space on a daily basis. All too often, universal solutions are imposed instead of time being spent finding subtle responses to place and context.

There needs to be an active engagement by all across society. We need a society which questions the right of who is able to have their voice heard, who has the right to form policy, who has the right to decide how the city might change, and for whom."

For a special teaser for the films, please click here.

A series of fixed camera video portraits of inhabitants of Kwun Tong. The work is conceived of as an integral part of the exhibition design and is intended to evoke the complex, non-linear, partial experience of moving through a busy, dense city, full of competing claims and ideas, contradictory stories and motives.