M.SC. (URBAN DESIGN) × CUHK

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In his research, Hendrik Tieben focuses on public space and the relationship between urban forms, health, and wellbeing. In this context, he developed a series of placemaking projects empowering local communities. During the recent health crisis, he developed with Luisa Bravo (founder of the Journal of Public Space) the global initiative “2020: A Year without Public Space under the COVID19 Pandemic”, which attracted attendees from more than 80 countries. Most recently in 2023, he curated with Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano the exhibition “Transformative Hong Kong”, the territory’s contribution to the 18th Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Venice.

integrating urban resilience, infrastructure, indigenous technology and local community empowerment. She was invited to present her project “Water, Connection, Communtiy – A Resilient Public Housing Project in New York” in The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) in Detroit 2016.

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Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Hong Kong) 2017, 2019, Venice Biennale (HK) 2020-2021.She has initiated and leading the Smart City and Sustainability initiatives at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node since 2019, co-taught and led the “Hacking Kowloon East” 2021 IAP Workshop and Spring course with Prof. Brent Ryan (MIT) ; and “Beyond Smart Cities- 10 min self-sustainable neighbourhoods in Island South” 2022 IAP Workshop with Prof. Kent Larson (City Science Group, Media Lab, MIT) ; Urban Technology Week 2023-2024 with MITDesignX, Morningside Academy for Design, MIT.

PhD in architectural history and theory at The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include architectural representations, translations in architecture, the concept of Chineseness, and contemporary architectural practices.

various architecture schools, such as TU Delft, KU Leuven, Napoli Federico II, HUST, etc, and practiced in internationally renowned offices ThomsonAdssett and KCAP. Jiaxiu’s first book, Design with Forms as well as Patterns (2018), demonstrates how the morphological approach in combination with the pattern language approach assist urban designers to achieve historical continuity in urban design both on theory and application levels. Her second book,together with Professor Henco Bekkering, Mapping Wuhan: Morphological Atlas of the Urbanization of a Chinese City (2021), applies the Delft school of morphological approach, reveals Wuhan transformation and distills its spatial structural elements intending to assist decision-making on the city’s future development. Her edited special issue in Landscape Architecture, together with Professor GUO Wei, Mapping and Design of the Urban Landscape (2022), has invited notable international scholars and designer to showcase mapping research and projects across the continents. Her two ongoing research projects: 1) Transitional Adaptive Territories: Urban-Rural Landscape as a Tool to Enhance Sustainable Development focuses on the Northern New Territory and its adjacent cities Hongkong-Shenzhen; and 2) Mapping the Urban-Rural Landscape System in Pearl River Delta reveals the structural changes due to urbanization and distills the underlying spatial mechanism across scales.

Series, Routledge, 2022), traces a spatial history of Hong Kong through the lens of speculative housing practices. Her edited book, The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment (University of Toronto Press, 2022), explores the spatial and material processes of speculative urbanization in cities around the world. Her current research projects include an investigation of the socio-technical histories of infrastructure landscapes in Hong Kong, as well as a comparative study of conservation practices in Asia that have given rise to new interpretations of colonial heritage and histories. Chu is a co-founder and past president the Hong Kong Chapter of Docomomo (International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites, and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement). She is also an editorial board member of Journal of Urban History, Journal for the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, Built Environment, and the ArchAsia series of the Hong Kong University Press.

community development. Besides working on large transport projects. Daniel is also involved in a small scale residential retail and hospitality projects and through his interest in interaction with the community he is a contributor to a number of public art projects. Drawing from his experience, in the M.Sc. in Urban Design programme, Daniel teaches the course module Urban Transport (URBD 5732) and design studios.

John Dyckman Award for Best Dissertation in Planning. Prior to joining CUHK, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In the programme, she teaches Environmental and Urban Economics (URBD 5702).

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committee for Harvard University’s annual Dean’s Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge. His work has been published in New York Times, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Good Magazine and PSFK. Eric is currently also a faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York and teaches design thinking and design strategy in their Global Executive Masters Program in Strategic Design and Management. He is also a part-time faculty at Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Architecture. In 2019, he started “Neighbourhood Innovation Lab” in 2019 to tackle how we might design human-centred cities, one neighbourhood at a time.

CHENG Sifan is a PhD Year 2 student. Her research interests focus on urban analytics in employing multi-source open data to quantitatively characterise urban form, design, and planning philosophy, and their impact on residents’ physical and social behaviour in the context of Hong Kong’s new towns. Methodologically, she use computational techniques from statistics and spatial analysis, for instance, text mining, machine learning, semantic segmentation and natural language processing on open-source datasets gathered from social media, crowdsource maps, street view images or collected by mobile phones and sensors.

LEI Danyang is a Year 2 PhD student supervised by Prof. ROSSINI Francesco and Prof. MO Kar Him. Her research interest is healthy ageing in High dense Asian urban context, focusing on the social health impact of the neighborhood physical environment. She is also a member of Happy Ageing Lab, a CUHK-SKPF funded social enterprise at School of Architecture.

LI Junwei is a second-year PhD student. His research explores the hygiene narratives under the notion of modernity represented by the housing transformation, considering the historical contextual background and political considerations from the 1950s to the 1960s. His current work reveals how hygiene was interpreted, differentiated, and aligned to the government goals by examining the indicators of the street, housing form and density control.

LIN Shuiyang is an urban designer and researcher. He is currently studying for his PhD in the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests focus on the renewal evaluation of urban historic districts base on cultural identity. Methodologically, he attempts to construct a multivariate correlation model and quantitatively evaluate the intervention indicators of urban renewal in Hong Kong and mainland China by using space syntax and multi-source big data.

Liu Xinyu is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), focusing on the study of street vitality based on the application of data-driven technology. Before that, she was an alumnus at the Dalian University of Technology (DUT) and the Inner Mongolia University of Technology (IMUT). Her previous research interested in Child Friendly Cities and ethnic minority area design.

LU Pengyu is fully devoted to her PhD research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She has a passion for the intersection of urban planning and Architecture, particularly in densely populated urban areas. She is also passionate about exploring and attempting different advanced methods dedicated to enhancing urban environments. Her research interests include urban analysis, public space, urbanism, landscape architecture, environmental restoration, sustainable development, machine learning, and artificial neural networks. Her academic achievements have been strongly supported by her educational experience at the University of Manchester (UK) and her research experience at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University (China). She has been shortlisted for the World Landscape Architecture Award and is a member of the World Association of Landscape Architecture, a member of the Hong Kong Young Scientists Association, a member of the Shandong Province Artificial Intelligence Association as well as a candidate of the Shandong Province Scientists Association. She is currently researching the relationship between children, play spaces and densely populated cities, for instance, the relationship between child development and high-density urban environments, the impact of urban microclimates on play spaces, and so on.

Provides Ng is an architecture designer and researcher, her work intersects cybernetics theory, immersive technology, decentralisation, and participatory design. Pursuing her PhD at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), her academic experiences encompass Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Managing Editor of the B-pro Prospectives Journal (interim), Researcher at the Strelka Institute Moscow and more. Provides is an alumnus of the Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC) Germany, and a co-founder of two international R&D collectives, which specialise in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to volumetric cinema and bio-design: Current.cam and R.E.Ar_. Provides’s research has received accolades such as SIGraDi 2021 ‘Best Presentation Award’, the Silver Prize in Educational Technology at TLI Expo 2022, and Second Runner-up in Information Technology at the 9th HKUSIEC. She was invited to conduct international workshops at CumInCAD, Matadero MediaLab Madrid, SCI-Arc, and other institutions, with her work showcased globally at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, UCLA SCI|ART, UABB 2022 among others. Beyond her professional pursuits, Provides actively serves as a committee member at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and a member of the Youth Network at the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau, HKSAR. She regularly imparts volunteer teaching through NGOs, earning recognition and fostering ongoing collaboration with HKFYG. Provides was recently appointed as a Data Champion at the CUHK Library, and has spearheaded numerous international events, including free and inclusive VR roundtables, metaverse conferences, and guest seminar series, demonstrating her commitment to educational innovation and learning-for-all.

SONG Qiwei, OALA, CSLA, SITES AP, is a Year 1 Ph.D. Student and he also cross-registers as a Computational Social Science Fellow at the CSS Lab. Upon entry to the PhD program, he received prestigious awards such as the CUHK Vice-Chancellor Scholarship and the CSS Fellowship. As an alumnus of the University of Toronto where he obtained Master of Landscape Architecture degree, Qiwei has accumulated extensive experience in practice as a registered landscape architect and project manager in Canada and the UK, where his leadership and design skills were reflected in the successful delivery of complex urban renewal endeavors and winning entries of international design competitions. His work earned him international recognitions such as the ASLA Student Honor Award and the National Urban Design Awards Award of Excellence. Qiwei’ s research aims to utilize computational social science methods to examine the accessibility to public amenities and the quality of life in the New Towns. He is also interested in pandemic-induced planning responses and their impacts on micro-mobility travel behaviours. He has shared his insights at platforms including CSLA, IFLA, ACSP, and CUPUM, among others, solidifying his role to bridge the gaps between the realms of professional practice and academic inquiry.

Wajiha TARIQ is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Architecture at CUHK. She holds a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Planning from the University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan. Her current research interests include the application of big data, geospatial technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) in urban planning. She is particularly interested in the potential of these tools and technologies in the planning of cities, as well as in shaping future policies to promote more equitable and livable communities. Wajiha is currently developing a data-driven approach to evaluating the various livability issues associated with land-use planning in Hong Kong.