In partnership with the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, ULI Hong Kong embarked on a year-long initiative to identify, improve, and activate underutilized urban spaces in Hong Kong.

In collaboration with LinkREIT, the ULI Hong Kong Bank of America Grant Team identified the rooftop of Choi Wan Estate in Kowloon as a great privately owned public space that can benefit from enhancement in sustainability and social wellness.

The team surveyed the site and came up with a scheme to upgrade the rooftop plaza with new planters and seating area for rest. Art In Place Team supported the Plant & Paint opening day, by arranging an engage-through-painting event with two Hong Kong artists, DD Yung and Sidney Cai, who are passionate about co-creating with kids and friends from the community to paint their collective impression of Choi Wan.

Enter DD's World

Meet the Artist

DD Yung

DD is the cat lady and just like her feline friends, she loves to create art using a playful technique. Art and painting are woven deeply into her life, in the same way as the wool she uses in her crochet work. DD says “You can't be a boring artist, you need to be an interesting person with an optimistic attitude to be able to be creative. By using lines to connect various shapes my work explores the inter-relationships between people and this relationship with nature. Nature is the most basic of all art forms”. Through-out DD’s work she tantalizes the audience with a world of exotic flowers and plants expressed via different materials, some of which are recycled, to reconstruct a new life. “Beautiful things are not necessarily perfect, but can be unique, just like the process of creation is more important than the result”.

IG: @the_dd_only

Explore with Sid

Meet the Artist

Sidney Cai

Sidney (SketcherSid) is a Hong Kong-based landscape designer, illustrator and Associate Member of HKSI. He does sketches everywhere, anytime, by any means. He enjoy urban sketching and the process of it that takes him into the story behind. In 2023, Sidney established Public Space Users, a local art group focuses on public spaces around the city. It aims to encourage one to explore the potential of the public spaces, sharing stories and feelings in the form of illustrative notes.

IG/FB: @sketcher_sid