Sustainability of Community Art in Hong Kong: The Case of Woofer Ten Through Actor-Network Theory

Community art explores alternative social participation and sustainable community life in urban regeneration. There is a need to design an assessment model for the sustainability of community art from a comprehensive and long-term perspective. This report introduces Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as an analytical framework to make a case study of the sustainability of Woofer Ten. The SNA (Social Context-Neighborhood-Actors) model comprehensively reveals the social context, neighborhood, and actors cluster in the network and summarizes the impact of actors and their interactions in the community arts network on sustainability. This report reveals the interactions between urban regeneration, place-making and community arts and their ongoing impact on broader social well-being. Renewed attention to these processes will contribute to the right to the city, citizenship, and activism in the context of Hong Kong’s community culture.

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