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Exhibition of Encounters with Elderly in Tai Kok Tsui

Exhibition of Encounters with Elderly in Tai Kok Tsui

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Over the past two months, six students from the Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Sociology and Community Studies programme became connected to a group of senior residents from the Tai Kok Tsui area. A host of activities like tea gathering, dyeing art creations, board games, and mobile phone and weaving workshops were organized for the residents to bring them closer to young people and to foster cross-generational understanding. The students documented their encounters with the senior residents with an exhibition at the EdUHK campus from 9 to 11 April, allowing their fellow students and members of the EdUHK community to appreciate their impact on community inclusion. (The exhibition will also be displayed in Tai Kok Tsui in the future, so keep an eye on the instragram @kok_echoes).

This event is organized as part of a capstone project of the Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons) in Sociology and Community Studies programme, also supported by Specific Student Empowerment Work Scheme (Specific SEWS) 2024/2025 under the supervision of Dr. Izzy Yi JIAN.
 

Student was explaining the achievements of past cross-intergenerational integration activities through exhibition boards. 
Students was playing with the exhibition visitors to recall the childhood memories.
Student demonstrated their weaving skills in an exhibition, showcasing the techniques they used in a workshop where they made seat cushions together with the elderly.
Students were showing visitors the art creations and playthings made by the elderly.
The exhibition board introduces the different functions of cell phones nowadays that the students shared with the elderly through the workshop.