We are living in a period characterised by intense urbanisation, escalating effects of climate change and environmental challenges. Amid these uncertainties, there is a growing desire to build more sustainable, liveable and climate-ready cities. From the mushrooming of eco-cities, smart cities to the circulation of high-tech urban solutions, the kind of sustainable narratives dominated (and fuelled) by technocratic and capital-intensive approaches without sacrificing economic development has been visualised as the way to move forward.

Sustainable Urbanism project seeks to respond to these contexts and explore the complex human-environment-urban relations and sustainable urban solutions in Hong Kong and beyond. In drawing material, cultural and technological narratives into conversation, it is interested in the way in which various modes of environmental narratives intra-act and co-shape the futures of cities. How might these narratives co-shape the futures of cities? What kind of possibilities of world-making might open up if we foreground a more-than-human perspective to rethink shared responsibilities in a climate-changing world? What alternative possibilities may emerge through a kind of “sustainable becoming” (Braidotti, 2006) grounded in ecological practices?