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 …
Sungai Tembus, a mangrove village in Seberang Perai, reveals how community, culture, and conservation are deeply intertwined. This post highlights the village’s ecological knowledge, Nypa-palm livelihoods, and local conservation efforts while reflecting on the challenges of sustaining heritage in a changing landscape. It offers insights from my paper published in Planning Malaysia (Vol. 23, Issue …
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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 …
For my reference, sourced from MOTAC’s FB. 28-29 November 2022.
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