In addition to schools’ participation, PMQ Seed actively expands its programme this year by collaborating with various community centres for the first time. These include Aberdeen Kai-Fong Welfare Association, The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Hung Shui Kiu Youth S.P.O.T., The Hong Kong Girl Guides Association and The Hong Kong Playground Association Choi Tak Integrated Service Centre for Children & Youth, enabling children from a wider range of interests to participate in projects and encouraging young friends from different backgrounds to explore the world with an experimental spirit.
“Creative Training Class” is based on design thinking and is conducted in different primary and secondary schools and communities with four teaching teams. The teaching team AAA | Architecture And All and Mudwork have respectively devised different eco-themed story scenarios for children from Primary Three to Four, to unleash their creativity by adopting the principles of recycling or upcycling, collaborating to complete tasks, and reflecting on reducing plastic pollution. How would children respond to the serious plastics issue?
Participating schools (listed in alphabetical order):
Ching Chung Hau Po Woon Primary School
ELCHK Ma On Shan Lutheran Primary School
Hop Yat Church School
S.K.H. Lui Ming Choi Memorial Primary School
St. Francis of Assisi's English Primary School
The programme began with a fictional story called "Plastic Storm". Children participants took on the role of young explorers who encountered a storm during a voyage. After the ship was destroyed and sank in the storm, they found themselves stranded on an island. The young explorers discovered various resources on the island, including discarded plastics and driftwood. Seeing these resources that have been abandoned by humans, they worked as a small team and used their creativity, upcycled these materials to create transportation tools and help them return home. They also built a plastic recycling cart for their real-life use. The teams shared their making process and creative works at the last day, which further deepened their learning outcomes.
Before the end of each day's activities, the instructors led the team in a 20-30 minutes review and sharing session, allowing the children to express their thoughts and ideas, thereby enhancing the learning effect.
MUDWORK, an art and design studio founded by artists Chung Wai Ian and Ng Ka Chun in 2013, uses sculpture and installation to explore the contemporary state of urban space, community, and nature.
