TAL-L: An Archive for Living Materials

Introduction

The ‘Taxon | Archive | Lab – Library’ or, TAL-L, is a database and teaching tool for landscape materials. Open and extendable, it indexes the varied materials that make up Hong Kong’s constructed terrain, recording the material alterations, extractions, and accumulations within its physical composition over time. The project reflects on the environmental challenges of contemporary material design and specification in landscape architecture and challenges designers and educators to restore traditions of making and material experimentation within our public realm.

For enquiries, please contact Ms. Ada Jiang (Email: jq1201@connect.hku.hk)

Supported by

HKU Division of Landscape Architecture, Taxon | Archive | Lab – Library (TAL-L), HKU Teaching Development Grant

Curators

Susanne Trumpf, Ivan Valin, Ceci Sze Lee Wong

Exhibition works from

CHAN Ching Yin Kurt, CHAN Shu Fai Eddie, CHAN Kung Wing Chris, CHAN Yuet Sum Canossa, CHANG Pui Ching Wendy, CHEUNG Kai Yin, CHIU Ho Wan Issac, CHUNG How Yu Jonathan, HO Po Yu, KWONG Wai Lam Rae, LAI Sophie, LAM Yuen Ching Esther, LAM Pui Kwan Candace, LAU Fong Yui Yvonne, LEUNG Hoi Kiu Kathy, LIN Heimen Vanessa, LIN Kevin, TSIM Yuenting Jessica, TSUI Ho Yin Tony, YEUNG Hei Marco, ZHAO Yuwei.

Special thanks to all students of ARCH7182, ARCH7307, ARCH7138, ARCH7254 and ARCH7156 whose hard work, curiosity, and imagination are behind the development and success of the TAL-L project.

Digital Archive

Byron Pai Lun Chiang