Dignity of Obsolescence

The project is a installation displayed at the 2015 UABB HK, a speculative narrative of an archaeological artifact found in Hong Kong in 2050:

Recycled Copper is the new gold rush:

In 2050, flood of obsolete electronics produced during 1980s are being rediscovered. The city is running into a copper rush, the landfill became the new mine. Once sitting silently behind the walls, the switches, the aluminium cases, the pixels that we consume, it is now the hottest material designers and architects.

The 2000s is the new nostalgia, with the popularised digital modelling and fabrication, coppers are endlessly reshaped and reformed.

Found in a basement of an architecture school, these sculptures looks strangely familiar, perhaps it is the facade of my grandpa’s flat.

廢棄的尊嚴

後工業2050

回收銅是新的淘金潮。

2050年，洪水般的電子廢料被重新發現，整個城市正進入一個淘銅潮，堆填區成了新的礦山。從牆後靜靜的，屏幕後悄悄的，銅已成為了目前在藝術家，設計師，建築師之中最熱門的材料...

21世紀初成了新的留戀，透過普級的數位化建模和製造，銅被不斷地改造和活化...

在建築學院地下室發現的雕塑似曾相識，也許跟我爺爺單位的外牆有幾許相似...

Team: Gary Yeung, Eric Ng, Jasmine Leung, Linus Cheng

Photography: Eric Ng

Editing: Linus Cheng