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Practitioner: 

Date: 

May 4 2009

Location: 

Hong Kong

From Public Delivery:

Kacey Wong has a knack for creating art that investigates the space between people and their surrounding environment. Paddling Home, which was performed on the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor, was a star feature in the Hong Kong contemporary art scene.

The project features deep architectural elements, which clearly appear in the design. The project also features various functional and commercial aspects. The result of the Paddling Home house was the creation of artwork unbounded by business values or functionality, which allowed it to represent Kacey Wong’s philosophies.

Paddling Home was created to resemble real-life Hong Kong architecture ; the floating installation resembled a Hong Kong apartment and was created to address a serious social issue in Hong Kong; the living conditions in the country.

Paddling Home was built with ready-made materials and provoked the local society by suggesting alternative ways in which people could live in the city. Wong created the piece to inform the local community that they had the freedom to look for alternative means of accommodations.

External sources: 

https://publicdelivery.org/kacey-wong-paddling-home/
Posted by leviya on May 12 2025

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Provides (a useful service)Provides a useful social service.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
The goal is to get people thinking about housing and accommodations in Hong Kong.

Notes

It's just a reimagining of how things could be, and I think it definitely succeeded in getting people to consider housing in Hong Kong and how things could be different.