HKUST Library
Digital Scholarship + landscape · opening Fall 2026
DScape is an experimental node-grid installation for digital scholarship, curated and woven into the Library's architecture. Using old monitors, floppy disks, and legacy media, it showcases digital projects on various physical machines and formats. We invite you to pause, interact, and rethink how the "digital" is shaped, and how to build alongside technology. Come look. And join. ↓
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Launched in Spring 2024, DS Colab is an active co-learning sandbox bridging the gap between student curiosity and professional digital scholarship.
Seven projects in so far. Playing the latest one. Archived and displayed at floppy disks via NFC, tap and see!
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Victory 1945: Japan's Surrender in Guangzhou
P005 DS Colab · now showing
A Spatio-Documentary History of Japan's Surrender in Guangzhou
Reconstructs Guangzhou (Canton) at the moment of victory at the end of World War II.
Walk along the parade route. Meet the faces in the crowd and feel the atmosphere of the day.
And ask at its core: how do place, memory, and one person's experience shape this historical moment?
Historical maps · archival documents · newspapers · photographs · memoirs · documentaries