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Common
Core
Curriculum
CCHU9001
Designs on the Future:
Sustainability of
the Built Environment
Course Instructor:
Matthew Pryor
Tutors:
Maxime Decaudin,
Ian Fan Qi, Nina Wang
Designs on the Future:
Sustainability of
the Built Environment
This foundational course examines a broad range of
sustainability issues relating to population and urbanization;
transportation; water; energy; food; community and
governance; technology and mobility etc. through the
perspective of contemporary and historical examples of how
we have sought to perfect built environments as settings for
model communities. Hong Kong is used as a running case study
throughout the course with the unique history of development
in the Territory used to explore and critique key principles
in sustainable development and to highlight the enormous
challenges that we face in the future.
Designs on the Future:
Sustainability of
the Built Environment
The pedagogy of the course focuses the investigation of
these issues directly through the personal experience of
the students, asking them to examine their own lives and
communities to identify specific sustainability problems, to
research the nature and history of them, and to map these in
relation to the relevant global, territorial and local contexts.
Students are challenged to identify one issue within their own
community and to devise a potential solution and an action
plan to address it. The course is intended to inspire thinking
about the way we should construct our living environments
in future, in order to find a sustainable balance. The student
output from the course is consolidated into a course booklet
which is given back to students at the end.
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Carrie Tsz Tin LEUNG
Joanne Ji Yeon FUNG
Jordan Tien Foo YEW
Alex Kei Long NG
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Brian Ka Wing CHEUNG
Jia Hao LIANG
Didi Yat Yee MAK
Xi He YANG
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