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CITIES, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING NOVEMBER 2011 The making of a place of health, the making of a place of culture: the case of Duckling Hill cultural garden designed and built by older people Presented by: Kwok Yan Chi Jackie (Dr.) Institute of

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CITIES, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING NOVEMBER 2011

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The making of a place of health, the making of a place of culture: the case

  • f Duckling Hill cultural garden

designed and built by older people

Presented by:

Kwok Yan Chi Jackie (Dr.) Institute of Active Ageing, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Project collaborator: Ms KO Ming Wai, Mr Cheng Yiu Tung, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Tseung Kwan O Aged Care Complex, Tseung Kwan O Association of Care in Elderly Livelihood

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  • Designing and

constructing a cultural garden by

  • lder neighbours:

the Duckling Hill in Cheung Kwan O

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Geographical location of Duckling Hill at Chenug Kwan O

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Duckling Hill Height: 199 meter

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The densely populated area viewed from Duckling Hill

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A ‘marginal place’ (Shields, 1991)

  • Po Lam area in Cheung Kwan O ( a satellite town built during

the latter half of the 1980s) :

  • A place left behind: a site at the social periphery
  • A place evoke no nostalgia and fascination

According to 2006 census:

  • Population of Cheung Kwan O: 369,113
  • Percentage of people older than 65 living in Cheung Kwan O: 7.9% (29,381)
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Duckling Hill hiking route

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  • Facilities designed and built by older

people

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Seating area

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Fences and handrails

decorations dustbin

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A garden near the hill top: Places for planting flowers

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Pavilions for the rainy days

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Mr Chan: designer and builder of a staircase of 200 steps to the hill top (aged 70 When constructing the staircase)

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Built during 2006

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Naming the place and writing poems to glorify nature, the happiness

  • f old age and motivating people to go hiking
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Design and craft of the walking sticks for hiking by Mr Ko, aged 77

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Campaign for participatory design and planning of the duckling hill cultural park

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Map indicating their design ideas

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What does the case tell? Why did the older people design and build with their hands the hiking landscape?

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The theories which go beyond…

  • Health geography's social and cultural turning

away from medical geography (Andrews & Kearns, 2005 )

  • Successful ageing surpassing the biomedical

model of ageing (Rowe & Kahn, 1997)

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A model of successful ageing (compared with the case of Duckling Hill)

source: Rowe & Kahn, the gerontologist, volume 37, No. 4 1997

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conclusion

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  • New paradigm to understand the issue of health

and especially that of health related to ageing

  • Moving beyond the biomedical model to view

ageing

  • More emphasis to explore the ‘socio-

psychological models’ which focus on life satisfaction, social functioning and participation (Bowling & Dieppe, 2005)

  • Cultural model: the older people continues to

see life being full of possibilities

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Post-medical geography of health (Brown & Duncan, 2002):

  • Social relation and bodily practice take

place within spaces and in space

  • People shape the space and are shaped

by space and place (Peterson and Lupton,1996)

  • Older people activity shape the space:

creating landmarks of achievement and expressions of identity

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Policies on ageing

  • Policies on ageing (e.g. ageing-in place) is

not just ‘to promote health related activities and cognitively stimulating activities’ ---

  • Encourage neighbors to build up social

activities and network

  • Provision of enabling community facilities

is a must: Open space should be seriously considered as a place for social and cultural activities.

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Thank You

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Bibliography

  • Bowling, A & Dieppe, P. (2005). What is successful ageing and who should define it? BMJ 2005;331:1548
  • Brown, T. & Duncan, C.. (2002).Placing geographies of public health. Ares, 33-4, 361-369
  • Kearns, R. & Moon, G.. (2002) From medical to health geography: novelty, place and theory after a decade of change. Progress

in Human Geography, 26, 5, 650-625

  • Kearns, R. (1993) Place and Health: Towards a Reformed Medical Geography. Professional Geographer, 45 (2) 139-147
  • Rowe, J.W. & Kahn, R.L. (1997). Successful Aging. Gerontologist, 37, 433-440
  • Shields, R. (1991) Places on the margin. Alternative geographies of modernity (Routledge, London and New York)
  • World Health Organization. (2002). Active Ageing: A Policy Framework. Ageing and Life Course Program, Second United

Nations World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, Span April 2002

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Acknowledgement

  • The content of the presentation is a part of

the output of a project funded by the departmental research grant of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University