Human Touch - Community Market

During the 1960s and 1970s, the government put in a lot of effort to improve environmental hygiene in Hong Kong by relocating hawkers to public market stalls. Today, there are more than 70 government built and operated public market complexes in Hong Kong. However, they are not popular, being dull, wet, dark and chaotic places. The public still favours the traditional open market. This exhibition shares the findings of artists who had undertaken in-depth studies on the design of public markets from the perspective of local users, so as to explore possibilities for their future development.