︎Year 4
Jacqueline Tsang
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At a Good Death’s Door
Hong Kong
Traditions of aging and death long represented kinship
and social hierarchies in Hong Kong, but as socio-political constraints
developed, new traditions were imposed upon the population. Conditions were
created for death to become an unnatural process and normalisation of elderly
institutionalisation contributed to diminishment of elderly social role and
cultural expectations, negatively perceived as waiting terminals for death. This
project explores residential care home environments and their potential to define
the process of aging and “good death”, investigating spatial alternatives to reintroduce
residential care home environments into the city fabric as places to reconcile with
and understand mortality.
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jfyt2@cam.ac.uk