Marking the second time (2011-2012) at the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture, openUU presented the installation, “urbanUPLIFT” in response to the Biennale’s theme—Tri-Ciperocal Cities: The Time, The Place, The People. The streets of Hong Kong are filled with a catalogue of urban artifacts that serve as amenities and destinations for the everyday citizen. In “urbanUPLIFT,” a selection of these oft-forgotten elements of the everyday (street vendors, stalls, pagodas, gardens, billboards, newsstands) are combined to form an urban furniture. Situated within a man-made landscape of natural elements - Kowloon Park, “urbanUPLIFT” is a transplant of urban elements featuring a garden of artificial green.