For more than a decade, my colleagues and I at the Department of Landscape Architecture have been teaching and researching landscape heritage through immersive, project-based fieldwork with our students. Together, we’ve walked through historic towns, traced cultural motifs, interviewed the locals, and built exhibitions that attempt to honour the stories embedded in cultural landscapes. This …
Last year, our project team was awarded a grant from the Malaysian National Commission for UNESCO to conduct a project that we call “THE:DAWN” - “Taiping Heritage Exploration: Digitalisation and Appreciation of Wondrous Narratives”. This project was done by four lecturers: our project leader LAr. Gs. Dr. Norhanis Diyana Nizarudin, Assoc. Prof. LAr. Dr. Putri …
My first article for 2021, in the newly launched Land.Scape Magazine published by Institute of Landscape Architects Malaysia (ILAM). I wrote about Birch, a project by a friend of mine from Idris Studio, who is one of the Honour Award winners for the Malaysia Landscape Architecture Awards 2019 - MLAA12. It was definitely an interesting …
On Day 1 of the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic on 18 March 2020, I was interviewed by Sim Wie Boon from BFM Radio 89.9 to share about the importance of recreational parks to cities. During the MCO, park is one of the outdoor places that all of us …
Last week I had the opportunity to attend SPARK3 at GMBB KL. This is the third year that ILAM has organised SPARK, this year and last year with IYC. The first SPARK was held in 2017 at the PAM Building. I participated for the 2 full days session and joined the tour to APW Bangsar …
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