CONFERENCE

Panel 5 – Urban Development and Rural Culture

What role do rural areas and countryside play in the process of urban development? Beyond environmental conservation, do they also serve a function in cultural preservation?

SPEAKERS

King Kwok Cheung

Principal Manager (Countryside Conservation Office)2

Professor Ling Kar Kan

Senior Advisor to the President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Professor Qu Yan

Professor, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts | Director, Institute of Urban-Rural Art Construction

Sze Ka Yan

Founder and Artistic Director, Fragrant Village

Professor Thomas Chung

Professor of School of Architecture, Founding Director of Centre for Sustainable Placemaking and Urban-rural Regeneration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong