This site presents projects across a multitude of topics and locations, generally fielded in the design disciplines. I believe most complex problems can be advanced and mediated through design, using a wide recognition of urban processes, economy, ecologies and social observations.
Biography
My work focuses on scenario-building and filling knowledge gaps for environmental conservation and sustainable development, especially in regions that lack adequate knowledge or transparency in development information and spatial data. I apply landscape and architecture design methods to land change and landscape ecology, with wide expertise on the manipulation of geospatial data for the study, advocacy, design and delivery of projects in ecologically complex and contested landscapes. Recent works include design guidelines for tropical road infrastructure, corridor modelling for wildlife crossing design, and a Development and Conservation Awareness Map for southern Myanmar and Hong Kong. Key professional works range widely in scale, from new town planning to the winning entry for New York City’s 46,000-acre Gateway National Park. I offer studio and lecture courses on regional landscape planning, landscape media, and GIS and research-based seminars on environmental conservation, modernization and rural development in China, Myanmar, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America. I have coordinated the thesis in landscape architecture at The University of Hong Kong for three years.
Date posted: 11 April 2018
Saturday, 21 April 2018, 11:30-13:00 H6 CONET G/F, The Center, 99 Queen's Road Central Speakers: YEUNG Ha-chi, Liber Research Community Camille LAM, Liber Research Community Ashley Scott KELLY, Division of Landscape Architecture, HKU This second HKILA forum on land supply will address the technical and regulatory complexity of how landscapes are evaluated for development. Given Hong Kong's unremitting development pressures, both pro-development and pro-conservation groups are now calling for w...
www.designforconservation.org/news/evaluating-land-land-supply-strategies-hong-kong
Date posted: 12 March 2018
University of Hong Kong (HKU) students studying landscape planning recently traveled the planned route of the China-Laos Railway to learn of the opportunities brought by development and immense changes underway along the 400-kilometer corridor. As part of a course in HKU's Division of Landscape Architecture, students will create scenarios and speculative strategies related to the railway's environmental and social impact and its supporting infrastructure, as well as sustainable agriculture and...
www.designforconservation.org/news/hku-landscape-students-visit-laos
Date posted: 17 October 2017
Ashley Scott Kelly will deliver a talk, hosted by the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects (HKILA), titled: Engineering Conservation: Upstreaming landscape design and sustainable construction in linear infrastructure planning. Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2017, Time: 7:00-9:00 PM. Where: Caritas Community & Higher Education Service, 14/F, On Lok Yuen Building, 25-27A Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong. Synopsis: Regional corridors propelled by China's 2013 Belt and Road Initiati...
www.designforconservation.org/news/upstreaming-design-linear-infrastructure-with-hkila
Date posted: 09 July 2017
New York-based Storefront for Art and Architecture, in partnership with Hong Kong Design Trust, held events across Hong Kong from 7-9 July as part of Storefront IS (International Series) Hong Kong. The three-day program included public city walks on urban transformation, dialogues on cross-border issues, and mixed-media performances exploring density, sustainability and development. At the closing event, Ashley Scott Kelly hosted a game titled "Land Development vs Conservation Hong Kong". The ...
Date posted: 22 May 2017
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), together with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, hosted the Forum on Sustainable Infrastructure: Integrating Climate Resilience and Natural Capital into Transport Infrastructure Planning and Design on May 17 and 18 in Hanoi, Vietnam. During the forum, Ashley Scott Kelly presented innovative ways that design-level considerations can drive sustainable infrastructure planning. His talk, "Infrastructure, I...
www.designforconservation.org/news/forum-on-sustainable-infrastructure-with-adb-wwf
Date posted: 05 May 2017
Final-year HKU undergraduates in landscape architecture defended their design strategies today for southern Myanmar. Many of their designs built credible scenarios of how changes in landscape management and planning and design scopes can mitigate development and conservation conflicts, especially in areas of weak governance and environmental regulation. View course page www.designforconservation.org/news/design-on-road-burma-final-review Posted by: Ashley Scott Kelly (Design for Conservation) ...
www.designforconservation.org/news/design-on-road-burma-final-review
Date posted: 14 March 2017
For the third year, final-term undergraduate students from the University of Hong Kong, led by Ashley Scott Kelly and assisted by Maxime Decaudin, travelled overland from Thailand to Myanmar to study regional development and conservation impacts in Myanmar's Tanintharyi Region. Preceding the trip, the students spent 6 weeks producing a 120-page research report that combined detailed timelines on investment and conservation, regional case studies, and site-specific studies on landscape processe...
www.designforconservation.org/news/hku-students-return-southern-myanmar
Date posted: 01 February 2017
Illegal Wildlife Trade in Hong Kong, Automated notification of potential cases in the judiciary To help efforts limiting or banning the trade in endangered species, Design for Conservation is hosting an automated notification system that searches Hong Kong's daily court listings for potential wildlife crime related offenses. Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department reports a recent increase in the market value of illegal wildlife seizures in Hong Kong totalling HK$ 117 million for the five-ye...
www.designforconservation.org/news/automated-monitoring-illegal-wildlife-trade-hong-kong
