Environment Community and Design<\/b>
\nBALS3 2011-2013 – Arch 3029<\/p>\n
This course was an applied research seminar in the Bachelor of Landscape Studies program in the Division of Landscape Architecture, University of Hong Kong.
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\nStill from ‘Ride with me, Ride the Breeze’, a short documentary about the debate over a grassroots proposal to build a bike path along the northern edge of HK Island. The project was developed by 2012 ECD students Joshua LEUNG Lik Heng, Tamsin THORNBURROW, Yvonne MENG and Macy CHUNG Mei Sai.<\/i><\/p>\n
The course explores the complexity and interaction between urban environments and their communities, as well as the role of agency in design practice. It includes local and international research and case studies that demonstrate typologies of landscape formation, process and meaning. The course also includes a review of methods of community engagement, both formal and informal, as well as engaging students in \u2018real world\u2019 community issues , in particular the investigation of local community environments faced with the possibility major transformation through the development and construction of significant infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The primary focus of the engagement exercises of the 2011 iteration of the course was the escalator proposed for Pound Lane. The collected work can be found here<\/a>. The projects and workshop were supported by the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and an HKU KE grant.<\/p>\n The 2012 iteration of the course asked the students to investigate and engage in a contemporary issue in Hong Kong related to infrastructure development and its community impacts. The collected work of the course can be found here<\/a>. The development of the framework of the course and the student projects were supported by an HKU Teaching Development Grant.<\/p>\n The primary focus of the engagement exercises of the 2013 iteration of the course was the future of Pokfulam Village in the context of development pressures, heritage conservation and the lack of proper sanitary services in the village. The course worked in tandem with the student’s studio<\/a>, also taught by Melissa Cate Christ (in collaboration with Seth Denizen). The collected work of both courses can be found at pokfulamvillage.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Environment Community and Design BALS3 2011-2013 – Arch 3029 This course was an applied research seminar in the Bachelor of Landscape Studies program in the Division of Landscape Architecture, University of Hong Kong. Still from ‘Ride with me, Ride the Breeze’, a short documentary about the debate over a grassroots proposal to build a bike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-exhibition","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}