About the Project

“Building Urban Nature: Lessons from the collaborative and multidisciplinary experience from greening the city” aims to reconnect the epistemologies of landscape and ecology through a close investigation of their project-based collaborations in urban contexts. The resulting case studies will explore the gaps and challenges in ecological knowledge between these fields and help to create a framework for reconciling difference to enhance the education and practice of landscape architecture and adjacent fields. The primary methodology for this project involves case studies drawn from site visits and expert interviews with the key project professionals involved in these urban nature-based ecological projects. Field observation and case study research will provide the material for conducting deep, reflective interviews, in which themes, conflicts, and reflections are actively drawn out from the conversations.

This project builds on our previous project, titled “Ecological Literacy for Designers“, which features a set of digital case studies focused on constructed wetland ecologies in Hong Kong and China.

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Team

Principal Investigator: Natalia Echeverri

Co-Investigators: Ivan Valin and Wei Jen Wang

Research Assistant: Anson Leung

This project is funded under the Teaching Development Grant 
(Project Number: XXX) awarded by the University of Hong Kong.

HREC Reference Number: EA230236