The urban environment consists of many residual spaces, leftover conditions assemble through the changes in the city fabric and built form. These residual conditions intertwine with the streetscape and have a dystopian quality. They often have an absence of invitation or sense of place.
This research project explores how leftover spaces in the city can be activated under social condition to form a new spatial perspective, and how a revitalised appreciation can be produced to viewers through noticing the reframed situations. This research project tests the way of bringing awareness to the multiple leftover sites that having significant historical background with the gestures of materiality, narrative, citation and proximity to reactivate the past. The project also investigates the temporariness of trace, which acts as a curator of memory and a stimulater of leftover conditions. The potential of the city leftovers can be connected as a system and formed a particular language across the community which allow a new experience.