TEACHING

  • Dec 2023 & 2024 | Seminar for students of APA digital scenography program This is a series of four seminars for theatre design students to discuss space and its performative quality from an architectural/urban perspective. As designers, we create space in different dimensions, whether it is a stage, a room, or the city. While the

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  • 2021-23 | seminars and workshops, a learning platform of the SDGs and its relevance in urban design Adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is a framework set out to envision a better world. While it is conceived from a (inter) national policy perspective, its implementation relies on localisation efforts

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  • Urban Design Research Methods

    urbd5704 | 2022/23 T1 | MSUD Why do we do research and how do we study urban form and urban life? What is the significance of research to us as urban designers, architects, or simply responsible citizens?   Nowadays, research seems to be easier than ever, as there is a vast amount of information readily

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  • TechBox: Space

    Jan 2022 | Creative workshop with theatre students on Space Design | co-curated by School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts of HKAPA and WKCD Freespace | Collaborator: Artist Pak Sheung-Cheun About TechBox: a four four-year collaborative platform established between Freespace and the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing

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  • Lecture for cuhk SoA elective 5731A – Architecture and Cultural Practice Before we begin this week’s discussion on performance in urban space, it would be helpful to revisit the two types of cultural participation based on the distinctive role of cultural producer (performer) and cultural consumer (audience). Typical participatory art invite the audience “to join”

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  • Lecture for cuhk SoA elective 5731A – Architecture and Cultural Practice Cultural architecture is a container of public and cultural activities. The previous discussion on the idea of place in urban planning demonstrated a return of cultural institutions to focus on public engagement in recent decades. As civil awareness arise and state cultural budget decline,

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  • urbd5710 | 2021-22 | Studio partner: Jessica Cheung @shanzhai city Studio Website | Instagram The Urban Collaborative Studio explore urban design opportunities in various scale from regional network to community public space in response to contemporary urban issues and challenges. The studio builds upon the topic of collaboration, to investigate how networks and communities function

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  • arch5731A | 2021/22 T1 | elective course for MSUD and MArch students. This course investigates the role of cultural architecture in urban context, asking the question of how cultural form and practice is situated in the city and affect its development. It will be a dialogue about the two aspects – (1) Cultural Forms (aka

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  • Urban History + Theory

    arch5721 urbd5703 | 2021/22 T1 | MSUD and MArch | co-teach with Prof. Hendrik Tieben Cities in the 21st century face a range of urgent challenges. This course explores the history of urbanisation and its theories, identifying reasons why cities evolved the way they did and where we potentially could find answers to the pressing

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  • arch5731B | 2020/21 summer elective workshop for UG & MArch students. This course will review cultural architecture and its public space in Hong Kong, reflecting upon how cultural acts in public space plays a role in the making of urban landscape. The dynamics between built and experienced space can be portrait as a spatial narrative,

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