Living Inside-out

Art Promotion Office, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) is an organization representing The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to provide quality leisure and cultural services commensurate with Hong Kong's development as a world-class city and events capital. All public parks in HK are initiated, implemented and managed by their professional teams. The Art Promotion Office (APO) is a subsidiary section of LCSD aims to raise the public's interest in art creation and appreciation, and let everyone experience the fun of art. APO dedicates to provide high quality and diversified visual art activities and services. They often work as strategic partners with various art and design practitioners and the organisations, groups or parties who are dedicated to promote art in different dimensions. To cope with the emergent needs of the society and people, APO introduces different scopes of visual art or creative forms to the public, so as to connect art and creative thinking with people and the community and to embrace it in daily life of Hong Kong residences and visitors. APO and LCSD intended to, through the initiative of the "Park Déco – Cornwall Street Park" project, upgrade the furniture and signage system of the original Cornwall Street Park. It features a holistic design–oriented approach with a view to establish a set of design principles for application to other public parks in Hong Kong in the future. The project was commissioned to three teams of designers and architects by LCSD in 2011 and co-organised by the two Leisure Services Branch, the APO and the Architectural Services Department with collaboration of Hong Kong Design Center (HKDC) who appointed Mr. Billy Tam from Thomas Chow Architects as project’s curator. One out of the three project teams leaded by Mr. Brian Lee and Miss Denise Chan is nominated to implement their design ‘Living Inside-out’ in 2012.