Dialogue with the Masterminds – The West Kowloon Cultural District Series

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“Dial ogue with the Masterminds – The West Kowloon Cultural District Series

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“Dialogue with Masterminds” is a series of discussion forums which provides a

supportive environment for conversation and dialogue with experts from different

professionals such as urban and town planning, environmental conservation, cultural

conservation and so on. The emphasis is on sharing of ideas because we believe this is

the spark that ignites the thinking needed to deliver the most creative solutions.

For the West Kowloon Cultural District Series, we have invited designers, architects

and arts and cultural practitioners from Foster + Partners’ and also professions in

different areas to discuss what we are expecting toward our Cultural District and how

we can realize it.

Register Now! There are only 50 seats for each session! Refreshments will be served.

Session 1: Delivering Sustainability - Achieving Carbon Neutral

Date: 12th Nov 2010 (Friday)

Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm

Speaker:

Dr. Leung Man Kit, Academic Director of Applied Science Discipline,

Hong Kong Institution of Vocational Education.

Philip Fung, Director of Hong Kong Architecture Center Dr. Raymond Yau, Fellow and Director, Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd

Colin Ward, Partner of Partner, Foster + Partners

Session 2: Great Cities Great Parks - Public Spaces and Connections

Date: 18th Nov 2010 (Thursday)

Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm

Speaker:

Tanya Chan, Legislative Councilor, Member of Community Development

Initiative

Stephen Chan Ching Kiu, Academic Dean of Arts and Professor of Cultural

Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Policy Fellow of Community

Development Initiative

David Biddlecombe, Founder of Freedom Ball

Alan Macdonald, Director of Urbis

Spencer de Grey, Senior Partner, Head of Design of Foster + Partners



Appendix: Speakers’ Biography

(In chronological order to the event schedule)

Dr. Leung Man Kit Dr Christopher Leung is the Academic Director of Applied

Science Discipline, Hong Kong Institution of Vocational

Education. He is an avid advocate of Lifelong Learning. His

academic achievements include Bachelor of Science

(University of Western Australia), Master of Business

Administration (Oklahoma City University USA), Doctor of

Philosophy PhD (University of Hong Kong, 1987) and

Doctorate of Education EdD (University of Durham UK,

2005). This book contains the major findings of Dr Leung’s EdD dissertation.

Dr Leung is an educationalist with a strong social conscience. He served in the early

stage of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking & Health, initially as Deputy Executive

Director and subsequently the Executive Director (1987-1991). During this period, he

was appointed as Consultant to the World Health Organization for the study of

tobacco control activities in Guam and the Marianas Islands.

Dr Leung has been involved in various voluntary works over the years. In 2002, he

was appointed by the Hong Kong Government as a member of the Community

Investment & Inclusion Fund Committee. When he retired from the Committee in

2008, Dr Leung was the Chairman of the Assessment Sub-committee. Dr Leung was

awarded the Medal of Honor by the Hong Kong Government that same year for his

contributions to the community.

Dr Leung practices what he so passionately believes in. As the Academic Director, he

has modeled the approaches and courses at the Hong Kong Institution of Vocational

Education based on his research and findings. Readers of his book will be able to

appreciate how the methodology is applied and the corresponding successful

outcomes.



Ir. Dr. Raymond Yau

Ir Dr Raymond Yau, PhD, CEng, FCIBSE,

MIMechE, MASHRAE, LEEDTM AP, BEAM

Professional, FHKIE, RPE, is Arup Fellow,

Director of Arup Hong Kong. He is a building

physics specialist and a building services engineer

who specializes in integrated design of sustainable

and environmental responsive buildings. He was

one of the pioneers in the UK in mid eighties who adopted the use of Computational

Fluid Dynamics and Dynamic Thermal Modelling techniques in built environment

applications. He then pioneered the use of such advanced simulation techniques to

Hong Kong in early nineties in complex indoor environment and lately developed

advanced turbulence modeling for external air ventilation assessment for high rise and

high density urban environment.

He has been involved in several pivotal sustainable consulting studies for the HKSAR

Government, which have had a strong influence on the development of sustainability

in Hong Kong and put Arup in the lead on formulating the roadmap for the local

sustainability agenda. These projects include drafting a Comprehensive

Environmental Performance Assessment Scheme (CEPAS) for buildings in Hong

Kong, similar to the BREEAM in the UK and LEEDTM in the USA, and establishing

the life-cycle assessment and database model for building construction in Hong Kong.He is Core Co-investigator of HKSAR Government Study on Urban Climatic Map

and Standard for Air Ventilation Assessment. Many of his projects have won Green

Building Awards or Sustainability Recognition such as MTR Disney Resort Line

Sunny Bay Station, Hong Kong Public Housing on Microclimate Research and

LCA/LCC Sustainable Tools for Buildings in Hong Kong. He is presently Member of

BEAM Faculty and Chair of Energy Use Aspect Panel of HKGBC, Adjunct Associate

Professor at Department of Architecture of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He

was Regional Vice-Chair on Technology Transfer of ASHRAE Region XIII(2009-2010).



Mr. Colin Ward

Colin is a partner in the Hong Kong office of Foster + Partners,

from which he has led many key local and regional projects.

Colin Ward graduated from the University of Manchester.

Later, he took an 18-month sabbatical, travelling widely in Asia,

Australasia, and North America. He joined Foster + Partners to

work on the new airport at Chek Lap Kok and the new Nation

Stadium at Wembley.

In January 2007 he moved back to Hong Kong as part of the continued expansion of

Foster + Partners in the region. He currently overseas the development of a number of

projects in Asia and these includes the new first and business lounges for Cathay

Pacific Airways at the Hong Kong International Airport and the new West Kowloon

Cultural District conceptual plan design.

Ms. Tanya Chan

Tanya Chan Suk-chong is a Legislative Councillor

(Hong Kong Island constituency) and is a member of the

Central and Western District Council of Hong Kong

(Peak Constituency). She is also a founding member of

the Civic Party.

Mr. David Biddlecombe

David is the founder of Freedom Ball.

He puts balls in parks to stimulate debate about the design, management andregulation of parks and public spaces



Prof. Stephen Chan Ching Kiu

Stephen Chan is the Academic Dean of Arts andProfessor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University,Hong Kong. He established its BA Cultural Studiesdegree in 1999, and was founding Head of Departmentfrom 2000 to 2003. He has been Deputy Coordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development

Programme since 2004, directing projects in culturalresearch, education, and policy. A member of theSteering Committee of the Consortium for Inter-AsiaCultural Studies Institutes formed in 2010, Chan also

serves on the Board of the international Association for Cultural Studies representingthe Asia constituency. Chan received his BA and MPhil (Comparative Literature)from the University of Hong Kong, and PhD in Literature from the University of California, San Diego. Published internationally on Hong Kong culture, film,literature, education and cultural studies, Chan’s current scholarly interest is inapplied cultural research and education, urban creativity, cultural and creativeenterprise, audience development and cultural policy. Locally, Chan was convenor

of People’s Panel for West Kowloon and and Heritage Watch, and has been a memberof the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2008, chairing its sub-group onCriticism. He is a founding member of The Professional Commons and a policyfellow of the Community Development Initiative.

Mr. Alan Macdonald

Alan Macdonald is Director of Urbis Limited and has been

with the company since 1990. In the 9 years prior to

joining Urbis Alan undertook assignments in South America,the Middle East and sub Saharan Africa. Alan has

accumulated extensive experience of master planning, rural

and urban planning, urban design, waterfront planning,

urban renewal, demographic analysis, low incoming housing

studies, rail planning, rail related property development, and

project management.

Since coming to Hong Kong Alan has undertaken assignments in mainland China, the

Middle East, Africa, Hong Kong and South West and South East Asia. A number of

the assignments for which Alan has been responsible have received regional and

international awards.

Alan’s first project in Hong Kong concerned the preparation of Planning and Urban

Design Plans for the entire West Kowloon Reclamation. Other key projects in Hong

Kong include Central and Wan Chai Reclamation Feasibility Study and Urban Design

Parameters Investigation, Kai Tak Development Study, Concept Plan Competition for

the Development of an Integrated Arts, Cultural and Entertainment District on the



West Kowloon Reclamation, etc.

Alan services a wide spectrum of clients that include private sector developers,

national and local governments, railway corporations and funding agencies such as

the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

Alan has written extensively on various planning and urban design related issues and

is also a periodic lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and other institutes of

learning in Hong Kong.

Urbis is an independent consultancy specialising in Planning, Urban Design and

Landscape Architecture. The company was established in Hong Kong in 1977 and

now also operates offices in Shanghai, Manila and Dubai. The entire Urbis group of

companies employs over 110 professional staff. (Urbis web site can be found at

http://www.urbis.com.hk ).

Mrs. Rachel Cartland

Rachel Cartland graduated from Oxford University in 1972 and joined the

Administrative Grade of the Hong Kong Civil Service where she worked until her

retirement from service in early 2006. During her time with Government she served in

a variety of senior posts and has wide experience of policy formulation and the

workings of the civil service. When Deputy Secretary for Recreation and Culture, she

oversaw the legislative and regulatory framework for the introduction of cable andsatellite TV and the setting up of the Arts Development Council, among other things.

As Assistant Director of Social Welfare (Social Security) she had responsibility for an

annual budget of HK$25 billion and 2000 staff. Rachel now undertakes public

sector consulting while current community service includes the Hong Kong Foresight

Centre (founding councillor), the Tender Committee for the Renovation of the Fringe,

HKU's SPACE Academic Committee for the Higher Diploma in Social Security,

Vision 2047, and the Committee of the Oxford & Cambridge Society.

http://www.urbis.com.hk/





Cathy Hunt

Cathy is one of the founding directors of Positive

Solutions with over 20 years experience of working in

the arts and creative industries both in Australia and

the UK. Her previous professional experience was in

the management of art centres, touring performing

companies and festivals, including as Founding

Director of the UK Liverpool Festival of Comedy and

Artistic Programmer of Battersea Arts Centre, London.

In Australia, Cathy has worked extensively on cultural

policy development including cultural plans for local

governments, strategy reviews and planning for State

government, cultural facility developments and organisational and business planningfor arts organisations. This has included the preparation of a regional and district

cultural facilities strategy for the Government of Hong Kong, with GHK Consulting

(HK).

Cathy has a first degree in English and Theatre Studies and a Master of Philosophy

(through the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool UK), on the design and

development process of buildings for the performing arts.

Mr. Anthony Sargent

After 12 years in a sequence of BBC and TV posts,

finally as Planning Manager for the Proms and the

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Sargent moved

to London’s South Bank as Artistic Projects

Director – responsible for many of its artistic policies

and the department leading its own originalprogramming.

As Head of Arts for the Birmingham City Council, Anthony created and implemented

the Council’s Arts Strategy and led many of the city’s most ambitious arts initiatives,

including Birmingham’s 10-year festival of the 20th Century Towards the Millennium,

planned jointly with Sir Simon Rattle.

In 1999, he re-joined the BBC in the management of Millennium Music Live, the

most ambitious cultural project the BBC has ever staged.



Now, in his fifth newly created job in succession, he heads the team creating The Sage

Gateshead as General Director.

Anthony Sargent is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Mr. Spencer de Grey

Spencer de Grey shares the design responsibility for

all projects in the office as joint Head of Design.

He joined Foster Associates in 1973, and he later set

up Foster Associates' Hong Kong office in 1979, to

work on the HSBC Headquarters. Spencer has

overseen a wide range of projects, including the

Commerzbank Headquarters in Frankfurt, the Law

Faculty at Cambridge University, the Great Court at the British Museum, the Great

Glasshouse at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the redevelopment of Dresden

Station, The Sage (Music Centre) Gateshead, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the

new Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln

Center and the competition-winning scheme for the National Portrait Gallery

courtyard at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

He lectures widely, is the architectural advisor for the Royal Botanical Gardens inKew, Chairman of the Building Centre Trust and Chairman of the Cambridge

University School of Architecture Advisory Board. He was made a CBE in the

Queen's Birthday Honours of 1997 and was elected a Royal Academician in

December 2008.

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