If many architects and urban planners envisage Hong Kong as a potential exemplar for the creation of future urban models--not just in China but internationally--it is because its unique geographic, economic and cultural status make it an intriguing site for experimentation. In HK Lab , an array of scholars from the fields of design, visual culture, business management, architecture, urban planning, art history and semiotics focus on the singular conditions--geographic, historic, political, economic, social and cultural--that have produced the ever-expanding network of influences of which Hong Kong is composed.