First 100In1Day @ MaD Forum 2016

Jan 2016

 

What if hundreds of people united, each taking one small action to improve their city, all on the same day? This is the motivation behind the 100in1Day project, a citizen-driven action started in Colombia in 2012. Its aim is to encourage citizens from different cities around the world to have one-day community based interventions. Over the year, almost 30 cities joined the initiative including Bogotá, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Vancouver, and Kaluga. Many of these one-day interventions have later become real innovations within these cities.

 

This time we took up the torch and conducted it in Hong Kong. Our city became the 1st Asian city to take part in the 100in1Day process. Before the action day, we moved our “idea mobile” to different community events. Over 100 possible ideas of activities for our streets were collected. The first group we engaged were our senior citizens, our DesignAge Club members, this was because we believe they have more experience of our city. Thus, we encouraged them to think outside the box and asked them what they would do if we could reclaim or open our streets like in the old days. 

 

On Saturday the 23rd January 2016 we carried out our actions. A few workshops were conducted to put together people from different generations and backgrounds. A community was formed and together they planned and delivered over 30+ ideas across six areas of Hong Kong. After this they also carried out a reflection with 100in1day founders at the Made a Difference (MaD) forum 2016.