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“Designing Our City” Exhibition
On 3 October 2015, our school celebrated its Centenary in a
trilogy of events, beginning with the Kick-off Ceremony early in
the morning, then the inauguration of the “Designing Our City”
Exhibition and finally the Secondary School Open Day, which
lasted for the entire weekend.
Back in March 2014, a “Gallery Taskforce” was formed to take
up the challenge of re-designing several spaces in the secondary
school campus to establish the SPCC Heritage Trail and the
Zhuyuetang Gallery in celebration for our school’s Centenary.
The former would give SPCC students and alumni a better
understanding of our alma mater’s heritage and history. The
Gallery was set up to provide a place for the students to have a
better understanding of arts, design and architecture, or any other
subjects related to their career prospects. Indeed, it was established
just in time to exemplify the contributions of our alumni in the
design industry to the society. Several designers (alumni and parent
volunteers) were given sections of the school interior to re-design.
My husband Jason and I were most fortunate to be assigned
to work on the Gallery space. Back in my school days it was a
residue space where benches were stored underneath the stairs.
With the Centenary coming, the Taskforce decided to give this
space a meaningful purpose and inaugurate with the “Designing
Our City” exhibition.
“Designing Our City” is the first exhibition held in the newly
renovated Zhuyuetang Exhibition Gallery in SPCC. The
Exhibition Taskforce was formed by members from the Campus
Improvement Committee and the Archive Committee, both being
working committees under the School Council, to undertake the
preparation and execution of this very first exhibition.
The Taskforce proposed “Architecture and Interior Design” as the
main theme of this exhibition. SPCC has been well-known for its
academic excellence and has groomed many outstanding designers
and architects over the years. The exhibition displayed 15 award-
winning projects in Hong Kong and publications by alumni,
including works by renowned architects Dr Rocco Yim (1969),
Dr Ronald Lu and Mr Andrew Lee (1950). Interior designers
like Andre Fu (1992) and I myself also presented works. The fun
part was that we were all asked to display our student photos (in
SPCC school uniform) together with our projects! The exhibition
Caroline Ma (1985)
1. The Exhibition Taskforce: (from left) Ms Winnie Lai, Mr Timothy Yuen, Mr
William Tseng, Dr Rocco Yim, Ms Winnie Ho and Prof. David Lung.
2. (From left) Mr Edward Leung, Ms Betty Ip and Mr Andy Lam.
3. “Designing Our City” Exhibition.
4. Architectural model in display.
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