Chinatown in Rotterdam

1KM2

A b b y J u a n Q i n

Assignment 2 —1KM2 How do I understand 1km2?

I understand the 1km2 into a Hybrid way, it’s a community which get a group of people together and they sharing similar culture, value, eatting hobite, life style...

Why? There are so many different Chinatown all over the world, In United state, Holland, UK, France, Italy etc. I am an exchange student from Beijing, China and have been here for 4 months, In order to know different perspective about Holland and China, I started getting to know “Dutch Culture” and "Chinese culture" from “Chinese” view.

The people of Rotterdam Chinatown These group of people they are originally from China (Mainland or HK), and lived in Rotterdam for a long time.

They speak Dutch, holding Dutch ID, reading Dutch news paper, got Dutch friends arround them.

Seams like they already use to the Dutch culture and became "European".

Dutch or European people see them as Chinese, but will pure Chinese who never been out side of China before and see them as Chinese?

And how will they identity themself?

Will they identity themselves as European? Dutch? Chinese or Dutch-Chinese?

And how they see China and Netherland.

About In order to make the concept for this project be more reasonable and reacting a real soucial phenomena. I made a design research basing on Rotterdam Chinatown which cloese to the Rotterdam Central Station.

Inside of this area, people with Asia face in Rotterdam, they have their own food, eating hobite, language, culture background, life style.

Face and Stories < T h ey a re b o r n i n t h e

Neteherland, their father i s D u t ch a n d l i ve i n t h e Netherlands, mother is from mainland China.

They speak Dutch with very bisic Chinese speaking level.

At the same time they can also understand English very well. I tried to say hello in Chinese to them, but they are quite shy to respond me in Chinese.

I met them in a Chinese suppermaket.

This is a " restaurant family".

The old lady u can see from the picture, she is the earliest one to move to NL in this"Family". She is from Hongkong.

T h e y o u n g l a d y i s f ro m Fujian, she came here a s d i vo rc e d w i t h h i s ex Husband in China. She moved to Holland for discovering and star ting a new life. She works very hard ever yday and ver y friendly to customer. She can speak basic dutch for comunicating with h e r c u s t o m e r. W i t h h e r " r e s t a u ra n t f a m i l y " s h e speaks mandrain.

Face and Stories They were picking up some Chinese food at a small Chinese suppermarket.

They were talking in Chinese and comparing the prise and the food quility.

Founction Area

- Suppermaket -

Founction Area - Restaurants -

Founction Area - Healthy -

Colors and Typeface

Colors and Typeface