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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Post-pandemic in October 2020, my team received a project grant to conduct a knowledge-transfer programme with a community in Kuala Lumpur. This grant is not a research grant, which meant that it had to be executed as a project. Our selected community was the community of PPR Gombak Setia, located in Taman Melati, Kuala Lumpur …
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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.
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 …
For these past few days, my Facebook feed has brought me back some memories from my old post, that for some particular reason, related to tips on doing presentations. Coincidentally (or not), I had to give a presentation on Project Based Learning this morning to a group of academics for their Basic Teaching Methodology Course. …
A post that I shared in FB in 2017. Masa di 8th Grade dulu (sama dengan Form 2), saya ada ambil satu kelas "Speech" (or was it called "Public Speaking" terlupa pula). Cikgu ajar ada beberapa cara nak mulakan presentation. Mulakan dgn something yg "catchy", yg boleh grab people's attention. Antara cara-cara yg saya ingat …
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 …
24 IIUM Students from KAED had the opportunity to attend the Plenary Sessions of Placemaker Week that was held at Chin Woo Stadium, KL. They are 6 students from Landscape Architecture, 4 students from Quantity Surveying, 4 students from Architecture, 5 students from Applied Arts & Design, and 5 Post Graduate students. Here's what they …
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