At the conference, I presented a paper titled ‘Performing Hong Kong’s Identity: From Civic Square to Occupy Movement – A Spatial Perspective on Social Activism’ which examines how new spatial experiences have been created in the Umbrella Movement and contributed to the building of public sphere in civil society and performativity of the people’s identity in the civil movements.
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The international conference Designing Experience: ‘The Ballerina on the Elephant’ was held 27-29 November 2014, and organized by the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.