{"id":1084,"date":"2018-07-19T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sepiadesign.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:38:15","slug":"schmidt-wins-placemaking-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/schmidt-wins-placemaking-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt Wins Placemaking Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Placemaking Award winner Thomas Schmidt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong, 18 July 2018<\/strong> ————– Founder and Managing Director of Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/em>, Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP<\/strong> was awarded a Placemaking Award. He was awarded the “Best-crafted Art Piece in the ‘Eat & Drink’ Category” in Swire Properties <\/em>“Hometown Heroes:  I am a Placemaker”<\/strong> community outreach program.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 400 Quarry Bay residents volunteered to participate in a community art project to voice the types of food, art, entertainment and shopping experiences they want to see in their neighborhood.  Curated by the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation<\/em>, the project attracted a wide range of participants who were each given a 150 x 150 mm art box to design and decorate within a two-hour time frame to convey their visions.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schmidt remarked, “The initiative to seek community involvement in design decisions which directly affects their lives is very inspiring in a city that is often driven by a top-down development approach.”<\/em>  Schmidt explained his winning entry, entitled “Picnic Time”, as “a wide open grassy park in this claustrophobic concrete city where a resident can simply walk out of their door on a nice day and have a picnic, without being shooed away by overzealous security guards.” <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An awards ceremony was held on 18 July 2018 at Citiplaza South<\/em>, located in Hong Kong’s Taikoo Shing district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editor’s Note:\u00a0 Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP <\/strong>is the founder of Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/strong><\/a>, an award-winning design multi-disciplinary consultancy specializing in creative and sustainable design solutions for the hospitality industry.\u00a0 Schmidt is also author and illustrator of the award-winning Bumbling Traveller Adventure Series<\/em><\/a> which seeks to promote environmental and cultural awareness through entertaining mysteries and adventures, which was recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) through a 2010 Chapter Citation.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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