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This site presents projects across a multitude of topics and locations generally fielded in the design disciplines. I believe most complex problems can be mediated and advanced through design using a wide recognition of development processes and human-environment interactions.
My research and practice focus on scenario-building and filling knowledge gaps for sustainable development, especially in regions that lack adequate knowledge or transparency in development information and spatial data. I apply 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 coupling high-resolution remote sensing with historical narratives for novel impact assessment. 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 and studios on environmental conservation, modernization and rural development in Hong Kong, China, South Asia, Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Laos, Thailand), and Latin America. I have coordinated the thesis in landscape architecture at The University of Hong Kong for five years.
Date posted: 02 November 2024
On Saturday, Hong Kong's professional institutes of architecture, landscape, planning, urban design, surveying, and architectural conservation co-organized their third forum on Hong Kong's Northern Metropolis. Design and planning programmes from four universities in Hong Kong presented studios, student theses, and research in and around the site of the future Northern Metropolis. HKU's Division of Landscape Architecture presented two Master of Landscape Architecture t...
Date posted: 14 September 2024
Design Trust Hong Kong hosted an event at Tai Kwun reflecting on Rem Koolhaas's seminal Harvard studio on the Pearl River Delta from roughly 25 years ago. What has changed in the questions designers are asking of urbanization in the region and of the evolution from the Pearl River Delta to the Greater Bay Area? HKU Landscape's professor Ashley Scott Kelly presented on a roundtable with Kate Orff, Stephanie Smith, Mihai Craciun, and Design Trust grantees Elaine Yan Lin...
Date posted: 10 May 2024
HKU Landscape undergrads just concluded their final year with our Thai-Myanmar Border Studio. For its second year, this landscape planning studio course, led by professor Ashley Scott Kelly, examined a series of contentious and protracted development projects along the border between Thailand and Myanmar. These projects included planned dams on the Salween and Yuam rivers, a coal mine in Chiang Mai province, and a large-scale water diversion tunnel proposed from the S...
www.designforconservation.org/news/thai-myanmar-border-studio-2024-final-review
Date posted: 18 March 2024
Landscape architecture undergraduates from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) travelled over 400-kilometers along the Thai-Myanmar Border from Chiang Mai to Mae Sot in Thailand. For its second year, this landscape planning studio course is focusing on a set of controversial and long-delayed development projects along the border, including dams on the Salween and Yuam rivers, a coal mine concession in Chiang Mai province, and the planned large-scale water diversion tunn...
www.designforconservation.org/news/hku-landscape-students-return-thai-myanmar-border
Date posted: 08 May 2023
HKU Landscape undergrads capped their senior year with the Final Review for our Thai-Myanmar Border Studio. This year, students focused on a set of controversial and long-delayed development projects along the Thailand-Myanmar border, including dams on the Salween and Yuam rivers, a coal mine concession in Chiang Mai province, industrial zones in Mae Sot, and the planned large-scale water diversion tunnel from the Salween to Chao Phraya basins. Taught by professor Ash...
www.designforconservation.org/news/thai-myanmar-border-studio-final-review
Date posted: 25 March 2023
On Saturday, academics from the design schools of The University of Hong Kong and University of California, Berkeley opened an exhibition with a forum at Hong Kong's Central Market: Trading Bays: Resilience Design Strategies for San Francisco Bay Area and China's Greater Bay Area As an increasingly mainstream criteria for sustainability, "resilience" refers to the capacity for a system, whether urban or ecological, to function and rebound from disturbances. Trading B...
Date posted: 15 March 2023
University of Hong Kong (HKU) students studying landscape planning travelled in March for roughly 600 kilometers along the Thailand-Myanmar border between Chiang Mai and Mae Sot in Thailand. Students met with several environmental and human rights advocacy groups, academics, and communities regarding a series of controversial and long-delayed development projects along the border, including dams on the Salween and Yuam rivers, a coal mine concession in Chiang Mai prov...
www.designforconservation.org/news/hku-landscape-students-travel-along-thai-myanmar-border
Date posted: 08 August 2022
For Myanmar civil society engaged in conservation and sustainable development, it is often difficult to make connections between government-published information and current remote-sensing data on landscape change, if such data can easily be accessed at all. This post contains a new series of 125 maps for Tanintharyi Region at 1:50,000 scale matching the extent of the commonly used map series published in 2007 by the Myanmar Survey Department, Ministry of Agriculture...
www.designforconservation.org/news/150000-maps-forest-loss-land-cover-tanintharyi
Date posted: 12 May 2022
HKU Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies BA(LS) students capped their senior year with the Final Review for Studio Laos: Strategic Landscape Planning for the Greater Mekong. The studio focused on northern Laos's rapidly transforming landscapes along its border with southwest China. Co-taught by professors Ashley Scott Kelly and Xiaoxuan Lu, this studio teaches students not merely how planners or architects or landscape architects might be involved in large-scale plan...
www.designforconservation.org/news/studio-laos-2022-final-review
