Wah Fu Estate, located on the southern edge of Hong Kong island was one of the first in Hong Kong to be designed as a self-sustaining new town in 1967. Now it finds itself in what is a very high value and desirable location, and is known as a “luxury residence for ordinary people” Modernist housing estates were often built on the basis of eradicating the past and creating a tabula rasa. Wah Fu was built on the site of an old cemetery, whose ghosts refuse to lie down. Now however, this urban strategy is increasingly understood to be environmentally unsustainable, economically unviable and socially and culturally destructive, so how can we do things differently? This studio used situationist mapping methods to explore the existing estate and its community, drawing attention onto the ordinary and everyday. Using methods of dialectical site analysis, students imagined alternative visions to the demolition of the estate.