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Origin of Research

Mapping my research path - Macau fieldwork​​​​​

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Macau Hunt

Research Review

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A remote focus group of children and parent participants in Macau with Chinese, Macanese and Portuguese roots

5. 2025
online

Hightlights​

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An online card game designed to engage young research subjects and to enable open-ended responses on Macau identities  

macau hunt
macau days
Macau_Days

Visual Vignette​ 1

A first colour ethnography of Macau through hyperlocal visual mapping of ambiences and materialities to invite a playful revisit of Macau identities and cultural constructs

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* visual essay exhibited at International Visual Essay and Film Exhibition 2026, Gauhati University, India and being considered for publication by Visual Studies

11. 2025
macau

Hightlights​​

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How to distill the information overload which impacts a visual researcher when starting fieldwork in a new locality?

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What if we ask the question, "What are the Colours of Macau?"

macau days
macau nights
Macau_Nights

Visual Vignette 2​

A colour ethnography 2.0 of Macau after dark, minted into visual tokens to invite a reflexive unknowing of Macau and its spectacle at night

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* condensed essay to be published by the online journal Lo Squaderno: Explorations in Space and Society in July 2027

3. 2026
macau

Hightlights

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This second vignette is an outcome of analysing the night scene photos not included in the original vignette, out of which a new research theme of "strategy of knowledge" emerged

macau nights
macau colours
Macau Colours

Visual Research

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An expansion and integration of Colour Ethnography of Macau

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* subject to funding

12. 2026~
macau

Proposition

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A research project building on visual vignettes (1 to 4) in Macau and Portugal to explore the methodological potentials of Colour Ethnography as Visual Research and the notion of "Macaneseness"

macau colours
unframing
Un/Framing

Visual Vignette 4

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A further experimentation with Colour Ethnography as a research method to also explore epistemological and ontological issues

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* subject to funding

4. 2027
macau

Proposition

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A visual research exercise on the subject of framing/unframing with fieldwork at Jardim de Lou Lim Ioc, a Chinese classical garden in Macau and its current mixed use

un/framing
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