Pocket Spaces Puka Aratohu Hoahoa Hapori nā Lee Ngai Man

Ko te hoahoa Pocket Spaces Puka Aratohu Hoahoa Hapori nā Lee Ngai Man he kaitoa whakahirahira o te 2026 A' Design Award Koura i te Wāhanga Whakataetae Hoahoa Pāpori.

KouraPāpori· 2026

Pocket Spaces Puka Aratohu Hoahoa Hapori

nā Lee Ngai Man

Kiritaki: Estate Of Mine

Kaitoa o te A' Design Award Koura i te Wāhanga Pāpori

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Ngā Tae

Te Hoahoa

Mō Pocket Spaces Puka Aratohu Hoahoa Hapori

He aratohu wawaotanga pāpori a Pocket Spaces mō ngā papa kāinga tūmatanui kikī tangata. Ka huri te hoahoa i ngā ara whāiti me ngā arapiki hei wāhi pāpori tiritahi. Mā tētahi puka aratohu kawe haere e 12 ngā whārangi, i tāia ki te pepa hangarua, e ārahi ngā kainoho i ia hipanga, mai i te kimi wāhi kua warewaretia ki te hanga i ngā waeine kōwae māmā. Ka whakamahia mō te whakahiato ngā rākau i kohia mai i ngā para o te hapori, ngā here waea me ngā kuku māmā, kia oti ai i ngā kaumātua me ngā tamariki tētahi waeine i roto i te 30 meneti, kāore he taputapu motuhake e hiahiatia ana. Ka tautoko a Pocket Spaces i te mana motuhake ā-wāhi me ngā hononga ā-hapori i roto i ngā hapori e anga atu ana ki te whakawhanaketanga anō.

Te Whakamihi

Mō te A' Design Award Koura

Ko Pocket Spaces Puka Aratohu Hoahoa Hapori te toa o te A' Design Award Koura, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke tuatahi, whakamīharo me te hiranga. Ko ngā toa Koura he mahi tino auaha, he tirohanga mamao, he kanapa ahi, e whakaatu ana i te pūmanawa, te mātauranga me te tohungatanga o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Pocket Spaces Puka Aratohu Hoahoa Hapori he hanganga tūnga e whakatū ana i ngā ia, he whakanuia rawa, e kawe mai ana i te uara kāore anō kia kitea. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Koura he kaupapa whakamīharo, whakahonoretia e whakawhānui ana i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ka whakaara a Pocket Spaces Puka Aratohu Hoahoa Hapori i te hiahia nui, ka whakaoho i te kaingākau, ka whakatenatena i te auaha, ā, ka whakamīharo i a tātou.

I Muri i te Hoahoa

Kete Pāpāho

Ngā whakamihi, ngā mema o te rōpū me ngā taipitopito hangarau i whakaratohia e te kaihoahoa.

Āhuatanga Motuhake: This project is a social intervention guide developed for high-density housing estates. It establishes an open infrastructure system using assembly protocols based on grassroots materials. This empowers elderly residents and children to transform narrow 2 meter corridors and stairwells into co-creation spaces. It is a social resilience tool characterized by zero marginal cost and rapid scalability.
Inenga & Pēketanga: The toolkit uses a nested frame structure of 148 x 210 mm, 105 x 148 mm, and 125 x 176 mm. This ensures the design is portable, while the lightweight materials are easy for elderly people and children to carry. The structures are also designed to be easily relocated during cleaning or maintenance periods.
Tūtohu: Social design, social impact, spatial justice, systemic design, discursive design, participatory design, community design
Hangarau Whakanao: The core product is a 12-page A5 portable manual printed on 100% recycled paper. Physical units utilize local material cycles, such as common public estate items and wood collected directly from community waste. Assembly employs low-barrier connections, such as industrial cable ties and simple clamps. This allows non-professionals to conduct community-making in 30 minutes without specialized tools.
Wero Hoahoa: The primary challenge was moving beyond the traditional helicopter model of social housing intervention which often relies on one off actions. This project focused on building deep trust through 700 hours of field research to address the apathy caused by extreme density and upcoming redevelopment. It shifts the designer role from designing for to community led design. The project acts as a mobile preservation system that allows social relationships to migrate and integrate into housing plans.
Rangahau: This action research project addresses human made ignorance and spatial injustice in high density urban environments. Through 700 hours of immersive ethnography and field research involving 500 residents, we found that urban apathy is a cognitive bias. Neighbors often overestimate the reluctance of others to interact. Public housing lacks the spatial rights to maintain connections rather than the connections themselves. The project resulted in a 40 percent increase in neighborly interactions.
Whakaaweawe: This design originates from ethnographic observations of the extreme living density in Hong Kong where space averages 15.5 square meters per person. Through 700 hours of field research and 500 resident interviews, we discovered spontaneous space hacking in corridors and stairwells to build neighborhood bonds. The core inspiration involves translating scattered grassroots wisdom into a systematic social intervention guide. We used an high participation in the manual to awaken spatial autonomy and empower neglected spaces.
Roanga o te Kaupapa: This organic system launched on January 30, 2025 and evolves alongside public housing redevelopment. The first phase is located in Wah Fu Estate. The second phase will be exhibited at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design in June 2026. The third phase will expand to other high density communities like Mei Lam and Butterfly Estate in 2027 to establish a cross regional social design network.
Rerenga Mahi: The Pocket Space Playbook is a portable toolkit designed to help residents transform lifeless public housing corridors into vibrant social hubs. The guide uses a step-by-step approach to help users identify neglected spaces and apply modular grassroots wisdom. This method is effective because it triggers a fundamental community shift: residents realize they have the right to define their own spaces, creating a bottom-up, sustainable ecosystem.
Ngā Mema o te Rōpū: Pak Hei Wang
Ngai Man Lee
Kai Yin Lin
Nga Suet Julytha Ho
Hiu Man Chiu
Whakamana Whakaahua: Image # 1: Designer Pak Hei Wang, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Ngai Man Lee, Kai Yin Lin, Social Pocket, 2026.

Image # 2: Designer Ngai Man Lee, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Kai Yin Lin, Pak Hei Wang, Social Pocket 2, 2026.

Image # 3: Designer Pak Hei Wang, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Ngai Man Lee, Kai Yin Lin, Engage Material, 2026.

Image # 4: Designer Ngai Man Lee, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Kai Yin Lin, Pak Hei Wang, Informal Knowledge, 2026.

Image # 5: Designer Kai Yin Lin, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Ngai Man Lee, Pak Hei Wang, Social Engage, 2026.