The Project Focus

Ferry-only islands beyond the city’s edge.

Stories from Lamma, Cheung Chau, Peng Chau, Tai O, and Hong Kong’s other outlying islands — places you reach by ferry, not MTR. Hong Kong is often perceived as heavily urban areas like Central or Mong Kok. In telling the stories of more rural, more natural island life, we hope to expand that perception by the public at large.

Stories from the trail and mapping journeys.

In addition to more conventional news and feature stories on the outdoors and the environment, we hope to document the stories of the land itself: As our class walks year after year, we hope to offer personal reflections from students, and collective, written “journey maps,” chronicles of our hikes that document the land, the people, and the issues both are facing in that particular moment in time. And then, hopefully, we will be back in the years to come, to see and listen, and to document again…

Profiles of local people living and working in Hong Kong local environments.

From far-flung islands, to the more rugged and remote areas of even Hong Kong island, how do local people interact with the natural and cultural environments of the sprawling archipelago of the “Fragrant Harbor?” Our profiles hope to illuminate their lives and show how humanity and the land are connected

Where the city border ends and the wild starts.

The map of Hong Kong reveals it all: No matter how dense the urban infrastructure in whatever area of the city, if you head outwards from it, you eventually hit a place where the concrete and the population density dwindles — and nature starts to take over. What stories lay along that boundary? We hope to explore them here.

Sharing stories, from the trails to the waves.

The 263 Island Walk project is dedicated to going off Hong Kong’s beaten paths, enabling students to get in touch with nature and the people who live there. Where the road ends is where our stories begin.

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