Work
2025
Ding Lab
A Hong Kong tram becomes its own research subject: Tram0, a cyborg tram that tells its own life story.
As Foreseen Agency, Shan Wong and I set up a fictional research department in the Whitty Street Tram Depot. For three months we interviewed the engineers, mechanics, drivers and workers whose daily maintenance keeps the trams running.
From that fieldwork we built Tram0. A spine-like structure lined with sixteen screens runs through the lower deck, showing images of the city’s past. Upstairs, the tram recounts its own life and its memories of an older generation of trams.
The city usually offers its infrastructure two endings, preservation or abolition. Tram0 rehearses a third, in which the tram evolves.
