HKU-Landscape-Annual-2013-14

BA(LS)
ARCH2041
Environment,
Community and Design
Instructors:
Melissa Cate Christ
Environment,
Community and Design
This course operated as an applied research seminar exploring
the complexity and interaction between urban environments
and their communities, as well as the role of agency in design
practice. Though a series of themes which explored key agents
of the anthropogenic landscape, the course sought to define
the terms of the course’s title, as well as a contemporary
role for landscape and the landscape architect in our rapidly
transforming, often conflated local-global context. The course
included local and international research and case studies that
examined the influence of human constructs such as politics,
culture and economics on typologies of landscape formation,
process and meaning. The course also included a theoretical
review and ‘real world’ practice of methods of community
engagement, both formal and informal, in a Hong Kong
community, Pokfulam Village, that is faced with the possibility of
major environmental transformation due to changes in policy and
the development and construction of significant infrastructure.
Environment,
Community and Design
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Students conducting
a community engagement
exercise at Pokfulam Village
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Students participating in
the famous Pokfulam Village
Fire Dragon Dance
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