The webinar will focus on various sub-themes of the July 2023 UIA Copenhagen World Congress. The main aim of the webinar is to discuss and explore ways to design for climate adaptation and to build resilient communities. It will feature distinguished speakers, each sharing their research and expertise.
The webinar aims to provide attendees with a better understanding of the importance of designing for climate adaptation and building resilient communities. The speakers will highlight the need to preserve cultural landscapes, incorporate climate-adaptive design in urban planning and create sustainable and resilient communities.
Edward Leung is a practising architect with experience ranging from modern commercial architectural |
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Anju Pradhan is the Immediate Past President of the Society of Nepalese Architects (SONA) and |
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Wan Srihani Wan Mohamed holds a Diploma in Architecture from the MARA Institute of Technology |
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Luo Deyin is a renowned professor of architectural history at Tsinghua University, Beijing. In 2003, he |
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Athena Chau is a licensed architect whose research interests lie in healthy ageing, resilience,
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Synopsis of the presentations
Wan Srihani Wan Mohamed
Community Self-Help Approach: Towards Sustainable Conservation in Rural Areas of Malaysia
Communities are facing daunting social, economic and environmental challenges. Using a self-help approach to construct homes enables stakeholders to plan and take action, becoming effective agents to achieve sustainability. This concept has demonstrated simple techniques for using local materials to build self-help housing that can accommodate many impoverished people and foster community involvement in developing countries. However, despite the availability of local construction materials on the market, there is evidence that affordable construction materials may not be straightforward to use. Therefore, government involvement is essential in providing adequate workshops or roadshows on self-help housing to encourage the current generation in rural areas of Malaysia to consider this alternative approach.
Luo Deyin
From Fire to Terraces: The Multi-Level Space Cohesion of Hani Terraces Society, Conservation of Cultural Landscape and Community of Moqiu Field, Yunnan Province of China
This presentation examines the factors contributing to the creation of the world’s most impressive terrace by analysing the community of Moqiu Field. It demonstrates how people living around the terrace develop a strong sense of cohesion. The differential distribution of ethnic groups at various altitudes in the mountainous regions allows spatial cooperation in terrace cultivation. Despite being situated far from the centre of civilization, the Hani people in the Ailao Mountain area demonstrate exceptional collective cohesion and individual tolerance, creating settlements and buildings integrated with nature using limited labour tools.
Athena Chau
Community: A study of the impact of climate-responsive design on urban renewal in Hong Kong
Climate change represents one of the most pressing challenges of our time and is an increasingly important concern for built environment professionals in Hong Kong. However, most measures taken so far have focused on individual building performance and have neglected the larger neighbourhood context, particularly in the case of urban renewal districts. This study aims to identify the climate-responsive designs adopted in the three predominant housing neighbourhood typologies in Hong Kong between the 1950s and 2020s and to examine how older people, who are particularly sensitive to their local environments, perceive these designs. The study’s findings shed light on the challenges and opportunities associated with the adoption of climate-responsive design in the context of future urban redevelopment in Hong Kong.
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