Gardens of Chinese dream : correcting Hong Kong's rightist tendencies and foreign hostile reactionaries using landscapes for public opinion guidance

Abstract

This thesis establish a critique on the political actions that Central Government have currently put to Hong Kong.

Using the Chinese Dream Propaganda campaign as the start off point, this thesis explore on the structure of Chinese Dream strategy, and how can it be represented through landscape architecture.

This thesis also question on the role of landscape architecture in politics. Is it simply a space that designed and managed by the authority? Or can it be propaganda as well, in different kinds of appearance and representation?

The thesis report starts with an analysis on Chinese Dream propaganda campaign, then a research in relationship between propagated messages and space. Thirdly it comes to the execution of design and finally an explore in graphic representation.