Seminar Series 2: Strategic Design, Landscape and Environmental Approaches

 

Date         29 September 2018 (Saturday)

Time        10:00am-1:00pm (Registration starts at 9:30am)

Venue      Room S202, THEi (Chai Wan), 133 Shing Tai Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong

*Get out of the MTR Hang Fa Chuen station at Exit A and walk along Shing Tai Road for approximately 10 minutes.

*By Car, public parking is available at public parking 5 min from campus.

 

You are cordially invited to attend the SUSTAINABLE PLACEMAKING Seminar Series 2 : 'Strategic Design, Landscape and Environmental Approaches' to be held on 29 September 2018. The seminar is organized by the Faculty of Design and Environment, THEi (Chai Wan). It serves as a key platform to exchange latest insights and knowledge in the fields of landscape and environmental strategic design.

 

Topics and Guest Speakers:

 

1. Place-based Landscape Opportunities for Hong Kong

 Ms. Deborah KUH

 Head of Greening, Landscape and Tree Management Section, Development Bureau,

 The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

 

2. Achieving a Liveability Paradigm

 Dr. Peter Cookson SMITH

 Founder, URBIS Limited

 Past President, Hong Kong Institute of Planners and Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design

 

3. Sustainable Cities | Recognising the Power of Kinetic Space

  Ms. Caroline SOHIE

  Co-Founder / Principal, INSTINCT

  Guest Professor, KU Leuven University, Faculty of Architecture, International Masters

 

4. Green City, Resilient City

  Ms. Linda CORKERY

  Associate Professor, Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney  

 

FREE Admission. All are welcome.

RSVP Required. Please complete the online REGISTRATION FORM

Language: English

 

*A Certificate of Attendance will be issued upon request in ONLINE REGISTRATION to those participants who attend the seminar on 29 September 2018.

*Attendees will get a SUSTAINABLE PLACEMAKING Seminar Series Booklet for FREE.

 

#This seminar series was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No.: UGC/IIDS25/H01/17).

 

For enquiry, please contact:

Ms. Anita KWOK (Tel.: 3890 8375 / Email: anitak@vtc.edu.hk) | Faculty of Design and Environment, THEi