Pocket Spaces Puke Aʻo Hoʻolālā Kaiāulu na Lee Ngai Man

ʻO Pocket Spaces Puke Aʻo Hoʻolālā Kaiāulu na Lee Ngai Man he mea lanakila hanohano loa o ka 2026 A' Design Award Gula ma ka Māhele Hoʻokūkū Hoʻolālā Kaiāulu.

GulaKaiāulu· 2026

Pocket Spaces Puke Aʻo Hoʻolālā Kaiāulu

na Lee Ngai Man

Mea Kūʻai: Estate Of Mine

Mea Lanakila A' Design Award Gula ma ka Māhele Kaiāulu

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Nānā ma A' Design Award Hoʻolaha Nūhou Hōʻailona Makana

Nā Waihoʻoluʻu

Ka Hoʻolālā

E Pili Ana iā Pocket Spaces Puke Aʻo Hoʻolālā Kaiāulu

He alakaʻi hoʻoponopono pilikanaka ʻo Pocket Spaces no nā kahua hale noho lehulehu paʻapū. Hoʻololi kēia hoʻolālā i nā ala hāiki a me nā alapiʻi i mau wahi launa kaiāulu. He puke aʻo lawe lima he 12 ʻaoʻao i paʻi ʻia ma ka pepa hana hou ʻia e alakaʻi ana i nā kamaʻāina i kēlā me kēia ʻanuʻu, mai ka ʻike ʻana i nā wahi haʻalele ʻia a hiki i ke kūkulu ʻana i nā ʻāpana modular maʻalahi. Hoʻohana ka hoʻohui ʻana i ka lāʻau i hōʻiliʻili ʻia mai ka ʻōpala kaiāulu, nā kaula hoʻopaʻa a me nā ʻūmiʻi maʻalahi, no laila hiki i nā kamaʻāina ʻelemakule a me nā keiki ke hoʻopau i hoʻokahi ʻāpana i loko o 30 minuke me ka ʻole o nā mea hana kūikawā. Kākoʻo ʻo Pocket Spaces i ke kūʻokoʻa o ka wahi a me nā pilina hoalauna ma nā kaiāulu e kū nei i ka hoʻomohala hou ʻia.

Ka Hoʻomaikai

E Pili Ana i ka A' Design Award Gula

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Pocket Spaces Puke Aʻo Hoʻolālā Kaiāulu i ka A' Design Award Gula, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā pae mua, kupaianaha a kūʻokoʻa. He mau hana hou loa, ʻike maka a nani hoʻolaʻa nā lanakila Gula e hōʻike ana i ka ʻuhane akamai, ka naʻauao a me ka mākau o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Pocket Spaces Puke Aʻo Hoʻolālā Kaiāulu he mea hoʻokumu i hoʻomaikaʻi nui ʻia, e hoʻokumu ana i nā ʻano hou, he nui, e hāʻawi ana i ka waiwai ʻaʻole i ʻike ʻia ma mua. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Gula he papahana kupaianaha, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi nui a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. Hoʻāla ka hoʻolālā Pocket Spaces Puke Aʻo Hoʻolālā Kaiāulu i nā manaʻo makemake ikaika, hoʻāla i ka ʻiʻini, hoʻoulu i ka hana noʻeau a hoʻopūliki iā mākou.

Ma Hope o ka Hoʻolālā

ʻEke Nūhou

Nā hōʻoia, nā lālā hui a me nā kikoʻī ʻenehana i hāʻawi ʻia e ka mea hoʻolālā.

Nā ʻAno Kūʻokoʻa: This project is a social intervention guide developed for high-density housing estates. It establishes an open infrastructure system using assembly protocols based on grassroots materials. This empowers elderly residents and children to transform narrow 2 meter corridors and stairwells into co-creation spaces. It is a social resilience tool characterized by zero marginal cost and rapid scalability.
Nā Ana a me ka Hoʻopili: The toolkit uses a nested frame structure of 148 x 210 mm, 105 x 148 mm, and 125 x 176 mm. This ensures the design is portable, while the lightweight materials are easy for elderly people and children to carry. The structures are also designed to be easily relocated during cleaning or maintenance periods.
Nā Lepili: Social design, social impact, spatial justice, systemic design, discursive design, participatory design, community design
ʻEnehana Hana: The core product is a 12-page A5 portable manual printed on 100% recycled paper. Physical units utilize local material cycles, such as common public estate items and wood collected directly from community waste. Assembly employs low-barrier connections, such as industrial cable ties and simple clamps. This allows non-professionals to conduct community-making in 30 minutes without specialized tools.
Pilikia Hoʻolālā: The primary challenge was moving beyond the traditional helicopter model of social housing intervention which often relies on one off actions. This project focused on building deep trust through 700 hours of field research to address the apathy caused by extreme density and upcoming redevelopment. It shifts the designer role from designing for to community led design. The project acts as a mobile preservation system that allows social relationships to migrate and integrate into housing plans.
Noiʻi: This action research project addresses human made ignorance and spatial injustice in high density urban environments. Through 700 hours of immersive ethnography and field research involving 500 residents, we found that urban apathy is a cognitive bias. Neighbors often overestimate the reluctance of others to interact. Public housing lacks the spatial rights to maintain connections rather than the connections themselves. The project resulted in a 40 percent increase in neighborly interactions.
Hoʻoulu Manaʻo: This design originates from ethnographic observations of the extreme living density in Hong Kong where space averages 15.5 square meters per person. Through 700 hours of field research and 500 resident interviews, we discovered spontaneous space hacking in corridors and stairwells to build neighborhood bonds. The core inspiration involves translating scattered grassroots wisdom into a systematic social intervention guide. We used an high participation in the manual to awaken spatial autonomy and empower neglected spaces.
Ka Lōʻihi o ka Papahana: This organic system launched on January 30, 2025 and evolves alongside public housing redevelopment. The first phase is located in Wah Fu Estate. The second phase will be exhibited at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design in June 2026. The third phase will expand to other high density communities like Mei Lam and Butterfly Estate in 2027 to establish a cross regional social design network.
Kaʻina Hana: The Pocket Space Playbook is a portable toolkit designed to help residents transform lifeless public housing corridors into vibrant social hubs. The guide uses a step-by-step approach to help users identify neglected spaces and apply modular grassroots wisdom. This method is effective because it triggers a fundamental community shift: residents realize they have the right to define their own spaces, creating a bottom-up, sustainable ecosystem.
Nā Lālā Hui: Pak Hei Wang
Ngai Man Lee
Kai Yin Lin
Nga Suet Julytha Ho
Hiu Man Chiu
Nā Kuleana Kiʻi: Image # 1: Designer Pak Hei Wang, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Ngai Man Lee, Kai Yin Lin, Social Pocket, 2026.

Image # 2: Designer Ngai Man Lee, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Kai Yin Lin, Pak Hei Wang, Social Pocket 2, 2026.

Image # 3: Designer Pak Hei Wang, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Ngai Man Lee, Kai Yin Lin, Engage Material, 2026.

Image # 4: Designer Ngai Man Lee, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Kai Yin Lin, Pak Hei Wang, Informal Knowledge, 2026.

Image # 5: Designer Kai Yin Lin, Hiu Man Chiu, Julytha Nga Suet Ho, Ngai Man Lee, Pak Hei Wang, Social Engage, 2026.