Urban Thinkers Campus 4.0
New Territories Tomorrow:
Challenges and Opportunities
Urban Thinkers Campus 4.0
Date: 15 June 2019 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Venue: AIT Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The World Urban Campaign is to rally all stakeholders to the same cause: making cities liveable and sustainable. It aims at engaging all who have a potential to articulate pressing urban issues, propose solutions and commit to shared goals and actions
towards realising the New Urban Agenda, endorsed by 167 countries in United Nations' Habitat III Conference in 2016, including:
- Positive urban development
- Solutions to urban challenges
- Giving voice to people to change our urban future
In the Chief Executive's 2018 Policy Address, the government of the HKSAR has announced a mega-project- Lantau Tomorrow Vision that includes the construction of artificial islands with a total area of about 1,780 hectares through massive
land reclamation in the eastern waters of Lantau Island. The built-up area of Hong Kong made up only 24.3% of land and discounting country parks in largely rugged terrain and other conservation areas (47%), the city should still have some 29% of land for use.
More importantly, a lot of this land lies in the New Territories. Perhaps Hong Kong needs a New Territories Vision too?
In the 2017 Urban Thinkers Campus 2.0, participants have come up with the following principles for planning the future of Hong Kong:
- Inter-disciplinary and interdepartmental coordination for regional planning
- Small is beautiful: localised planning and building guidelines with early involvement of urban designers to promote diverse neighbourhoods
- People-centric approach
- Environmental friendliness, sustainability and resilience
In a
Preparatory Workshop held on 16 March 2019, participants use the "Six Thinking Hats" to explore the following dimensions of development in the New Territories:
- Information required
- Positive aspects of development in the New Territories
- Negative aspects of development in the New Territories
- Creative ideas
- Emotional issues
- Process issues
Based on the
results of the Preparatory Workshop, we hope to invite more stakeholders to identify collectively challenges and opportunities in planning, designing and developing the New Territories in this Urban Thinkers Campus 4.0.
We aim at providing an open platform for stakeholders to think and explore various issues related to the future development of Hong Kong in general and the New Territories in particular, with reference to United Nation's
New Urban Agenda.
Programme
Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 10:00am-10:15am | Registration | |
| 10:15am-10:30am | Urban Labs: Introduction
• UTC & work in HK
• World Urban Campaign and New Urban Agenda
|
Mee Kam NG, CUHK
Lars STORDAL, UN-Habitat
|
| 10:30am-12:30noon | Urban Labs: | |
| 10:30am-10:45am | Contextual background of the New Territories | Representative(s) of the Liber Research Community |
| 10:45am-10:55am | New Territories Ordinance | Winston CHU, Founder, Society for Protection of the Harbour |
| 10:55am-11:25am | Voices from the indigenous villagers
• Heung Yee Kok (HYK)
• Indigenous Village Representatives
|
Ho Yin SIT, HYK Research Centre
Victor LEE, Chi Cheung NAM
|
| 11:25am-12:05pm | Users/operators
• Recycling business
• Logistics
• Farming perspective
|
Miu Shing LAU, Yiu Shing LAU,
Stanley CHAING,
Hoi Lung LAU
|
| 12:05pm-12:30pm | Q&A | |
| 12:30noon-1:30pm |
Lunch | |
| 1:30pm-3:00pm | Urban Thinkers Breakout Sessions | Participants |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Urban Thinkers Report back Session and charting the way forward | |
Photos from the Event
See even more photos on the the Hong Kong Urban Thinkers Campus Facebook Page.
Video from the Event
Registration
Please submit your registration here. (Deadline: 10 June 2019)
Contact
For enquiries, please contact Mr. Chan at timchan@cuhk.edu.hk
Links to Previous Events
Links to Relevant Information
Venue Map
Organizers
Partners
For More Information on the Hong Kong Urban Thinkers Campus, please contact:
Mee Kam Ng 伍美琴教授
Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management (GRMD)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Room 226, 2/F, Wong Foo Yuan Building
Department of Geography and Resource Management
Faculty of Social Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3943 6645
Fax: +852 2603 5006
meekng@cuhk.edu.hk
www.iofc.cuhk.edu.hk
Hendrik Tieben 田恆德
Associate Professor
Director, MSc in Urban Design Programme
School of Architecture
Faculty of Social Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rm 306, AIT Building, CUHK
Tel: +852 3943 8095
hktieben@cuhk.edu.hk
http://web5.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/urbandesign/index.html
