North Point 北角
Neighbourhood: North Point
Project Date: 2020
Partnered with: Hong Kong Arts Centre
Key Topics Explored: New & Old Integration, Inclusive Open Spaces
As part of the Via North Point initiative, the Hong Kong Arts Centre invited Neighborhood Innovation Lab (NIL) to study how people in North Point are currently using, thinking, and feeling towards their neighborhood through online surveys and on-site polling campaigns. The objective is to engage the community with a series of participatory programs, to explore connecting the new and the old areas in the district, building capacity on public space, celebrating the uniqueness of North Point and hence cultivating a sense of belonging and building the cultural citizenship through imaginations of urban spaces.
The project aims to understand the public’s perception towards the North Point neighborhood and its open spaces.
NIL used a combination of desktop research, quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis conducted between March and November 2020.
The desktop research, consisting of gathering existing published insights and field observations, aims to understand and hypothesize the current issues in North Point. These existing insights inform our research directions for the subsequent stages.
The quantitative analysis is consisted of two surveys. The first focuses on understanding the public’s perception of North Point in general and their behavior pattern, and the second survey aims to understand the public’s behavior and perception around Chun Yeung Street and it’s surrounding public spaces.
The qualitative analysis features story bubbles, a tool to encourage the public to express their aspirations towards the neighborhood, and 18 1-on-1 interviews with different members of the North Point community for in-depth understanding of their opinions towards the neighborhood.