Design Workshop
Workshop 2: Design of “Hong Kong Index”

The emergence of social software has changed the internet as a possible tool for the democratization of (urban) policy. It can be a way to activate the 'swarm intelligence' of citizens to generate well-informed opinions on urban topics. But how to index these individual opinions into a collective monitor? The workshop will lead participants to discuss, analyse on ways to reinstate citizenship as an active involvement into the appropriation of the urban landscape, and to create our own “Hong Kong Index”. For more details about "Rotterdam Index", please refer to Dennis Kaspori's presentation.

Dennis Kaspori introduced his project the Rotterdam Index, which is the reference of the workshop

Participants were divided in different groups and to gather the news of the neighborhood in different ways. A group was assigned to source the news from printed materials like newspaper or local bulletin.


A group trying to acquire the news by interviewing the people on the street


Another group searched the news on the internet

Kaspori then asked all the groups to discuss and choose three threads of news from their result


The participants then voted for the chosen news according to their impact on the future development of the neighborhood

The second task was to design a system or game to spread the news to community


A group presenting the systems they design