The Impossible Book

In 1977, NASA launched its two Voyager spaceships to travel to the distant reaches of the galaxy. Attached to each vessel was the ‘Golden Record’, an LP made of gold-plated copper containing 90 minutes of music from around the world, as well as a montage of other...

Food for Thought

Making philosophy accessible to a wider audience has been a mission for Associate Professor Dr Joe Lau. He created the Critical Thinking Web a few years ago that has been accessed by thousands of schools around the world to help teach students this skill. More...

Healing through the Arts

Pummelling, squeezing and moulding clay into shape, splashing paint across a canvas or moving freely to music should instinctively feel satisfying. Professor Rainbow Ho Tin-hung of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration has put that insight through a...

Paintings from Myanmar’s Lost Transition

Myanmar’s tumultuous history has not only been a major research focus for Professor Ian Holliday, it has impacted him personally. When the country began to open up just over a decade ago, he was Dean of Social Sciences at HKU. Given the significance of the changes at...

A Brief History of Art

“Chronology is our mental scaffolding for organising historical reasoning. It provides us with a strong sense of the continuity and incidences of time in order to understand historical causality,” says the introductory page of the Hong Kong Art Timeline, a project put...