Financed by Research Grants Council (RGC), THEi Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Horticulture and Landscape Management programme offers a series of seminars related to Urban Green Infrastructure. The third seminar “Planting and Landscape Design for Better Life” was conducted on 21st October, 2017 at Hong Kong Central Library Lecture Theatre.

The seminar series is in collaboration with Greening, Landscape and Tree Management Section of Development Bureau and Hong Kong Institute of Horticultural Science. Speakers of the seminar include: Professor WANG Jintao, College of Architecture at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Ms. XIAO Jieshu, Senior Engineer of BLY Landscape & Architecture Planning & Design Institute in Shenzhen city, Mr. ZOU Yubo, CEO and chief designer of UP+S (Beijing) Architecture & Landscape Design Co., Ltd., and Dr. SHI Shulin, Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Design and Environment, THEi. They shared their experience about how to build better life through planting and landscape design, drawing over 160 participants from various sectors, including arborist, landscape architects, practitioners in landscaping industry, lecturers in tertiary institutions, researchers, university, and secondary teachers and students.

The aforementioned seminar enhanced the public awareness of the importance of planting and landscape design for better life. The forth seminar “Sustainable and Effective Bio-technical Techniques on Slope Upgrading” will be conducted on 16 December 2017, please visit our website (https://www.thei.edu.hk/events) for more information.