Faculty of Design

Illustration

Wing Lam Chan

03 The Haunted School 達德學校

It is said that the abandoned Tat Tak School is haunted by spirits of Indigenous New Territories inhabitants killed by British and Japanese troops. Buried within a nearby mass grave, they wander through the ruined classrooms searching for their seats among nameless gravestones and rubble.The piece examines haunting as an act of reclaiming erased Indigenous identity and history under British rule and Japanese occupation.