FOREWORD


The common starting point for this year’s Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture is Innovation & Technology and the curatorial direction for the Hong Kong part of the Biennale (UABBHK2019) builds on the belief that Imagination is the key driver for Innovation that makes the most of available Technology to deliver the future of our city.


Entitled “2x2: Imagine to Innovate”, UABBHK2019 will explore new ideas and experiments that can bring positive change to the city. It also hopes to build on an initial idea of ‘ImaginiCITY’, a hypothetical index to measure the level of imagination in the town, to create a ‘Listening Biennale’ for UABBHK2019 to encourage the expression of imagination. The energetic curatorial team and its international curatorial advisors believe that how current and future generations imagine and envision the city will unlock unlimited possibilities in city living. More specifically, the curators identified three interrelated sub-themes for the biennale: IDENTITY, LIVEABILITY and SUSTAINABILITY.


As Chief Curator of UABBHK2019, I am particularly honoured to write the forward for this issue of Construction+ with its special focus on The Smart City Blueprint for Hong Kong and Smart City Development in Kowloon East. The curatorial team look forward to hearing feedback generated from this particular issue and picking up the discussions through the exhibition and programmes of the Biennale, which will take place in the Mills between December 2019 and March 2020.


ROGER WU Chief Curator UABB (HK) 2019


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