Preserving Bonds
a Hong Kong-based contextual design studio
Bobo Choy Po Yin
蔡寶賢
Director
總監
Graduated from the dept. of Journalism and Communication, Bobo is the writer of the documentary books “For Our Future City ： Ideas and Cases for the Sustainable Developed Hong Kong” (2022) and "Salt to the Sea: The Interviews of the Hong Kong Post-90 Generation" (2019). She was the reporter of the local newspaper Sing Tao Daily, the online media platform Little Post and Cultural Masseur of Hong Kong Arts Centre. She worked mainly focusing in Liberal Studies of Hong Kong secondary school education, local art and culture, community building and media-based projects. She is now a freelance reporter, editor, content designer and creator.
Bobo has been focusing on different communities of Hong Kong in recent years through field researches, on-site interviews and reporting, so to develop and create several different forms of writing and publication, including student booklets of Jockey Club New Arts Power (2018-2019), "Chung Ying Educational Press 2017/18” from Chung Ying Theatre Company (2018), a walking journey at North North District (2021) , published by The Hongkong Federation of Youth Groups . She was also the content creator of "A Story of Wandering" (2020), "A Window into Tsuen Wan: Stephanie Teng Photo Exhibition" (2020) and "Nice to Meet You Kapok" (2021), “Playing Woodstock: Hong Kong Woodwork” （2021） organised by The Mills. She was the reporter and editor of a North Point tabloid which is under a community-based art campaign "Via North Point" (2020-2021) organised by Hong Kong Arts Centre.
She has also started working as a community docent and curator for several community projects. She curated a community program “Full Moon Reunion ：A Pilgrimage to Nature” (2021) at Wan Chai.
For individual creation, created "Billows vs. Waves" video exhibition (2019) and a living experiment "Staying Home Vocation" (2020) as further extension of the book "Salt to the Sea". And she also created community experience tours at Kam Tin, Yuen Long, and Wan Chai as the extension of the book “For Our Future City“ in 2022.
畢業自新聞及傳播學系，《香城再造——民間可持續發展實踐紀錄》（2022）、《海浪裏的鹽——香港九十後世代訪談故事》（2019）作者；曾任職《星島日報》、社區網媒「一小步」及香港藝術中心「文化按摩師」記者，涉獵範圍包括香港中學通識科、藝術及文化、社區營造及媒體項目。
現為記者、編輯、文本設計及創作自由工作者；亦開始籌組社區項目，擔任「社區游動花園」客席策展人，策劃《月滿團圓：與自然有約》（2021）。
近年深入香港不同社區及社群，以採訪及實地考察為本，延伸不同類型的文字創作或出版刊物，包括：編寫「賽馬會藝壇新勢力」學生導賞手冊（2018-2019）、中英劇團《戲味非凡：中英教育報 2017/18》 ；參與南豐紗廠主辦的社區藝術項目文字創作部份，包括《慢一天流浪團》（2020）、《遇上荃灣》鄧詩廷攝影展（2020）、《幸會木棉》（2021）、《不是玩玩下: 香港木工展》（2021）。曾任香港藝術中心「路過北角」社區藝術計劃 《北角有誌》區報記者及編輯。 另亦有出任社區導賞員，策劃導賞內容，曾參與《賽馬會社區持續抗逆基金 ─ 「未來的我們」文化歷史探索計劃》的深水埗導賞環節。
個人創作方面，出版《香城再造——民間可持續發展實踐紀錄》後，延伸策劃導賞活動「從內到外再到返外嘅尋根體驗團」@錦田及「一夜輪迴」體驗團@窗後巷；出版《海浪裏的鹽》後，延伸策劃《驚濤 vs. 駭浪》影像創作及展覽（2019）及《沒有離家出走》體驗活動（2020）。曾籌組及開設「城市紀錄員文字紀䤸工作坊」@窗後巷、「記錄就在我們身邊的時代 ── 口述故事紀錄工作坊」@青春工藝。
創立 humance archive 藝術及文化工作室，協助出版《帶個腦返學：藝術與生活的學習之旅》（2022）