Sheung Wan is the earliest developed area after the British had set up their government here, it was planned in a practical and functional-based manner. The inner main roads were designed perpendicular to the shoreline for better transportation of military weapons and goods to the harbour, meanwhile, the roads builts along the major roads are narrow and sometimes are one-way traffic lines, in which pedestrians, vehicles, workers and shop owners often need to fight for their spatial rights. On the other hand, habitats in Sheung Wan Wet Market have seemed to gain consensus by imposing several shared public areas in the already-limited space of the Wet Market. They shared not spaces but also other daily objects like hangers, radios, chairs etc.

In both cases, we see consistent and high levels of interactions and negotiations between various subjects (i.e humans, objects, vehicles and environment) that certain patterns are formed to achieve a state of balance. We are curious about how people have been surviving in this small city of Hong Kong, and thus we want to know how these negotiations have contributed and how do the concepts of publicness and privateness work in actual Hongkongers daily lives. (2021)