UTM-LCARC, JPBW and ISI Exhibit and Promote Malaysia’s “Science to Action” (S2A) Approach to Low Carbon, Sustainable Communities at WUF9

UTM-LCARC, JPBW and ISI Exhibit and Promote Malaysia’s “Science to Action” (S2A) Approach to Low Carbon, Sustainable Communities at WUF9

by | Feb 12, 2018 | Conference & Seminar, News, photo, UTM News

Kuala Lumpur, 10th February – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), through the UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre (UTM-LCARC) that is based in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (JPBW), Faculty of Built Environment, and the Institut Sultan Iskandar (ISI) organise an exhibition and a side event at the 9th Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on 7-13 February 2018.

Organised every two years by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the WUF is the largest United Nations conference on urban development and cities.  Held for the second time in an Asian city, the forum features over 500 events, including assemblies, high-level roundtable talks, dialogues, side events and exhibitions.  WUF9, themed “Cities 2030, Cities for All: Implementing the New Urban Agenda”, focuses among others on advancing sustainable urban development and low carbon communities and is expected to be attract over 25,000 people from 193 countries.

Through WUF9, JPBW showcases UTM-LCARC’s latest work and achievements in advancing city-level sustainability and climate change action plan-making through the “Science to Action” (S2A) approach, which involves scientific evidence-based policy-making through multiple stakeholder engagements and real policy implementation in Iskandar Malaysia, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur and Pengerang.  Also featured are research and consultancy works by the Centre for Innovative Planning and Development (CIPD) that straddle multiple disciplines of transportation and logistics, tourism, urban design and rural development.

Institut Sultan Iskandar (ISI), UTM’s gazetted, independent not-for-profit research and development company specialising in planning and development, showcases its high-profile flagship MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program that started in 2014.  The MIT-UTM MSCP mission is to study and document sustainable city development efforts in Malaysia. Visiting scholars from around the world spend September-December each year conducting research in Malaysia. They then spend February-May at MIT developing research findings into instructional materials to enhance and extend the teaching of sustainable city development across universities in the global South. The MSCP is housed in the Science Impact Collaborative in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and ISI at UTM.

Reported by: Chau Loon Wai, Ahmad Faizal Salleh

Source: UTM-LCARC, JPBW and ISI Exhibit and Promote Malaysia’s “Science to Action” (S2A) Approach to Low Carbon, Sustainable Communities at WUF9

Joint Postgraduate Colloquium 2018

Joint Postgraduate Colloquium 2018

by | Jan 30, 2018 | Conference & Seminar, News, photo

Greenovation Research Group at Faculty of Built Environment succeeded to organize the Joint Postgraduate Colloquium 2018 with Department of Architecture and Planning of Universitas Gadjah Mada on 22 January 2018. 58 PhD and 68 master candidates from 8 Malaysian universities and 3 Indonesian universities participated in the colloquium. 17 academics from Malaysia served their time as keynote speaker, moderator, discussant and co-chairman at the one-day event. It was a debut joint program towads the betterment of postgraduate studies in built environment. Apart from students from Malaysia and Indonesia, students from Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Surinam, and Poland presented their research materials.

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UTM Landscape Architecture Students Joined 2017 IFLA APR Student Design Charrette Held in Bangkok

UTM Landscape Architecture Students Joined 2017 IFLA APR Student Design Charrette Held in Bangkok

by | Nov 19, 2017 | Conference & Seminar, News, photo

On the 29th of October till the 1st of November 2017, three landscape architecture students from the third year studio class namely; Muhamad Zulhelmy Azmi, Muhamad Taqiy Asshaari and Sharifah Nurul Syafiqa Al-Yahya took part in the Student Design Charrette of IFLA APR Congress held in Bangkok themed: ‘Blue, Green and Culture’. The design charrette was patronized by several well-known practicing Landscape Architects from Thailand and it was hosted by The Chulalongkorn University. This workshop had to bring together landscape architecture students from different countries. 

The workshop began with ice-breaking and networking session accompanied by lecturers and other students. Subsequently, TALA director and other prominent landscape architect delivered site briefing Bangkachao’s issues that regard to equestrian and function of Bangkachao act as a green lung in Bangkok City. All design workshop participants had one day site visit to familiarise and also to see the beautiful culture of Bangkachao. After the site visit, students need to carry out a site analysis and landscape design outcome to resolve Bangkachao problem. Likewise, the design critique session conducted by tutors and the lecturers who are essential to internalize students’ design ideas and to enhance critical design thinking skills.

 

UTM-LCARC Exhibits and Promotes Malaysia’s “Science to Action” (S2A) Approach to City-level Climate Change Action Plan-making at COP 23

UTM-LCARC Exhibits and Promotes Malaysia’s “Science to Action” (S2A) Approach to City-level Climate Change Action Plan-making at COP 23

by | Nov 16, 2017 | Conference & Seminar, News, photo

Bonn, Germany, 12th November – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), through the UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre (UTM-LCARC) that is based in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, organises an exhibition and participates in side events at the 23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany, 6-17 November 2017.

Prof. TPr. Dr. Ho Chin Siong and TPr. Chau Loon Wai from the Department of Urban Regional Planning lead UTM’s participation at COP 23, which is presided by the island nation of Fiji and hosted by the German Government.  The exhibition marks UTM’s seventh installation at the COP since participating in COP 17 in Durban, South Africa in 2011.  UTM remains the only Malaysian university with an accredited Observer institution status at the COP.

The exhibition showcases UTM-LCARC’s latest work on advancing city-level climate change action plan-making (science to policy-making through multiple stakeholder engagements) and implementation (real actions on the ground) in Iskandar Malaysia, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur and Pengerang.

The successful “Science to Action” (S2A) approach used in climate change mitigation at the city-level impresses visitors of diverse professional backgrounds (ranging from senior government officials, politicians, industrialists, scientists engineers, architects and academicians to activists, NGO volunteers and university students) from over 30 countries in South America, Africa, Europe, the Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia, with many indicating interests in future collaboration.

UTM-LCARC also contributes to side events at the Japan Pavilion (as speakers and panellists) and Malaysia Pavilion (as speakers and poster exhibitor).

 

UTM-LCARC Co-organises High Profile 3rd International Conference of Low Carbon Asia and 6th LoCARNet Annual Meeting

UTM-LCARC Co-organises High Profile 3rd International Conference of Low Carbon Asia and 6th LoCARNet Annual Meeting

by | Nov 2, 2017 | Conference & Seminar, News, photo

Bangkok, 1st November – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), through the UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre (UTM-LCARC), Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, co-organises the three-day 3rd International Conference of Low Carbon Asia (ICLCA 2017) and the 6th LoCARNet Annual Meeting with the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonbury (KMUTT) in Bangkok, Thailand.  The ICLCA and LoCARNet annual meeting, which assemble over 150 participants hailing from 16 countries, will see the presentation of six keynotes and some 120 papers that collectively aim at advancing sustainable low carbon emission development in Asia.

The international conference and annual meeting of the rapidly growing low carbon Asia research network is officiated by Dr. Wijarn Simachaya, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand.  The event will also hear a keynote address by Y.Bhg. Prof. Tan Sri Zakri Abdul Hamid, Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Prof. TPr. Dr. Ho Chin Siong, Director, UTM-LCARC delivers a welcome speech with other key senior officials from Thailand and Japan.  Prof. Ho will also be chairing, mediating and speaking in several conference sessions in the next three days as well as doing the important plenary wrap-up on 3 November 2017.

The three-day high-profile event is expected to see the launching of the LoCARNet Bangkok Declaration that outlines LoCARNet’s strong stand and policies on Asia’s contribution to the Paris Agreement.  The Declaration that is co-drafted by UTM-LCARC will be released at the upcoming 23rd Session of Conference of the Parties (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany in November 2017.