The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment - TU Delft, commences the second round on strategizing the Greater Bay Area (GBA).
The Greater Bay Areaex Masters Class 2020 will reformulate strategies and critical interventions, pertinent to the development of the GBA. As before, the methodological approach aims to maximise strategic potentials, reconsidering the disciplines of spatial planning and territorial design.
This builds on the existing work completed in 2019, expanding on mega-regions linked to urban-agglomerations. The concepts of systems and strategies, emphasises planning principles through specific planning models. Each model explores speculative frameworks that challenge conventional planning practices, raising critical debates in terms of scales of development, settlement morphologies and economic characteristics within the region.
The Master Class design studio is supplemented with lectures and seminars, shared between PolyU and TU Delft faculty and PhD candidates.
Schedule
| Tue | 12-May | Start of Master Studio 2 – Online Masters Studio |
| Tue | 13-May | Lecture 1 | KK Ling (DISI) – Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Emergence | Formation | Challenges |
| Tue | 18-May |
Lecture 2 | P Hasdell – Border Ecologies. Lecture 3 | Dr. G Bruyns – Topological Urbanism. |
| Tue | 19-May |
Lecture 4 | Evelyn Peng – PhD Candidate – States of Urban Megablock. Lecture 5 | Darren Nel – PhD Candidate – Spatial planning, Practices of the Global South. |
| Tue | 26-May |
Lecture 6 | Krity Gera – PhD Candidate – Gender Mobilities. Lecture 7 | Jasmine Zhang – PhD Candidate – GBA heritage. |
| Tue | 29-May | Final Presentations | POLYU and TU Delft Collective review panels |
Organisers
Gerhard BRUYNS (PolyU Design)
Peter HASDELL (PolyU Design)
Coordinators
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU Design)
Department of Urbanism, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Participating Institutions
Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation (PolyU DISI)
Tutors
Gerhard BRUYNS (PolyU Design)
Peter HASDELL (PolyU Design)
Diego SEPULVEDA (TUD)
Luisa CALABRESE (TUD)
Qui LEI (TUD)
PhD Researchers (PolyU Design)
Jasmine Suxin ZHANG
Yixuan Eveline PENG
Darren NEL
Jen Yoohyun LEE
Krity GERA
Visiting Lectures
KK LING (PolyU DISI)