Letters | How Hong Kong’s Ocean Park can get a creative makeover: with a little imagination
- Instead of outsourcing part of the theme park for the usual commercial ventures, it could be transformed into a hub for Hong Kong’s creative industry, offering opportunities for young people
Why not turn Ocean Park into a creative industry park? There are many creative cultural parks in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Taipei and Seoul. In Hong Kong, we have none. Transforming Ocean Park into a creative industry zone would bring together all of Hong Kong’s designers, artists, animation specialists, creative technicians who work in special effects, and others within the same space.
This leverages on, and extends from, Ocean Park’s legacy as a Hong Kong cultural brand. Doesn’t it make more sense for it to, in its second life, continue in this same spirit and nurture the next generation of creative talent?
Second, Hong Kong’s creative industries and Ocean Park both conveniently fall under the jurisdiction of Hong Kong’s Commerce and Economic Development Bureau. This means CreateHK under the bureau can cooperate with Ocean Park on this project.
Thirdly, such a transformation could also breed different forms of projects, such as design centres, that would invigorate Hong Kong’s cultural and creative industries.