Notes from the Pre-APSA2015 Postgraduate Colloquium
My colleagues and postgraduate students attended the Pre-APSA2015 Postgraduate Colloquium last year in August, organized by Fakulti Alam Bina (Built Environment Faculty), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in Skudai, Johor. APSA stands for Asian Planning School Association. We were invited to attend this colloquium by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ismail Said. The colloquium was presented by several keynote speakers from the Asian region, and several papers by postgraduate students from FAB. My interest in research has always been a multidisciplinary one, so it's always insightful to listen to research findings that came from different fields. Some key points that I captured from the presentations are scribbled here in the form of "sketchnotes".
Prof. Yukio Nishimura from the University of Tokyo presented on the urban conservation at a local community area in Hida-Furukawa, Japan. He researched on ways to conserve the local neighbourhood while rebuilding the appreciation of the town's characters among the locals. Among the points that caught my attention was to "recreate the atmosphere for locals to appreciate". Often planners and designers recreate a heritage town's atmosphere for visitors or tourists to appreciate, when essentially, it is the locals who dwell in the area daily. He highlighted that we also need to "try to understand what should be remained".
Prof. Mack Joong Choi from Seoul National University presented on how planning strategies shift in transforming Korea. He talked about "historical revolution" where we need to shift from development to management. He advocated that future planning should focus on the socio-economic and cultural approach, which I agree, alongside keeping all that in balanced with the local environment. An important key point here is "site-specific solution" that is integrated with the larger context of things. I'd say this points to planning and designing while thinking and acting at shifting/multiple scales.
Prof. Chu-joe Hsia from Nanjing University presented on the idea of networked urbanization. In this hyper-connected world, we cannot not think about network and integration. He suggested the idea of "reconstructing the culture of cities". Now this can lead us to do some thinking... as cities get more multicultural and global, how then do we go about in thinking about "culture"?
So that was the Pre-APSA Colloquium. The APSA 2015 13th International Congress of Asian Planning Schools Association is actually going to be organized this coming August, 2015. The "Call for Abstract" is still open until 31 March (Tuesday). Let's send in a paper, shall we? Hop on here for the details.
Prof. Yukio Nishimura from the University of Tokyo presented on the urban conservation at a local community area in Hida-Furukawa, Japan. He researched on ways to conserve the local neighbourhood while rebuilding the appreciation of the town's characters among the locals. Among the points that caught my attention was to "recreate the atmosphere for locals to appreciate". Often planners and designers recreate a heritage town's atmosphere for visitors or tourists to appreciate, when essentially, it is the locals who dwell in the area daily. He highlighted that we also need to "try to understand what should be remained".
Prof. Mack Joong Choi from Seoul National University presented on how planning strategies shift in transforming Korea. He talked about "historical revolution" where we need to shift from development to management. He advocated that future planning should focus on the socio-economic and cultural approach, which I agree, alongside keeping all that in balanced with the local environment. An important key point here is "site-specific solution" that is integrated with the larger context of things. I'd say this points to planning and designing while thinking and acting at shifting/multiple scales.
Prof. Chu-joe Hsia from Nanjing University presented on the idea of networked urbanization. In this hyper-connected world, we cannot not think about network and integration. He suggested the idea of "reconstructing the culture of cities". Now this can lead us to do some thinking... as cities get more multicultural and global, how then do we go about in thinking about "culture"?
So that was the Pre-APSA Colloquium. The APSA 2015 13th International Congress of Asian Planning Schools Association is actually going to be organized this coming August, 2015. The "Call for Abstract" is still open until 31 March (Tuesday). Let's send in a paper, shall we? Hop on here for the details.
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