by webmaster FAB | Nov 9, 2010 | event, News, Uncategorized
The award ceremony was held at the lecture hall in Faculty of Built Environment, UTM in the morning of 1st November 2010. It was attended by the Company Managing Director Prof. Adjunct Haji Shamsuddin Muhammad, Executive Associate Ar. Hj. Nazri Abdul Aziz, Head of Department External Programme (S.P.A.C.E.) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mahmud Jusan, the head of Architecture Department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Sani Ahmad, lecturers and students.
The award ceremony served to inspire Architecture students to work hard in order to achieve their dreams as a professional architect. Adjunct Prof. Ar. Haji Shamsuddin Muhammad through his company, KASA, has kindly contributed 2 awards yearly for deserving students. UTM is honoured to be the first IPTA given such an outstanding award to the final year students. This is a great milestone towards the establishment of collaboration between university and industry partners. This year, the recipients who were chosen by the Department of Architecture are Mr. Mohammad Hafizuddin Abd. Rahman and Mr. Ryan Chok anak Wat.
Adjunct Prof Ar Haji Shamsuddin Muhammad was then invited to deliver his speech at the award ceremony by introducing their company’s profile and the many benefits of the KASA awards. In his speech, he also emphasizes the many issues related to design and practise. A photo session and lunch buffet was held at ‘Linangan Jernih’ after the award ceremony.
Mr. Mohammad Hafizuddin Abd. Rahman later mentioned he is highly grateful and honoured to be chosen as one of the recipients and would encourage other students to grab any opportunities available to them during their study in UTM.
by webmaster FAB | Nov 2, 2010 | event, News, Uncategorized
Dr Kate Bishop
Date: Friday, 10th December 2010
Time : 3.00 -5.00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Faculty of Built Environment
Participatory research with children and young people has increased dramatically in the last 15-20 years. Previously, children’s research largely consisted of research on children rather than with them as is common today. This change reflected a new respect for, and understanding of, childhood as a distinct social period in its own right and not simply a step along the way to adulthood. Researchers became interested in understanding this period of life from children’s perspectives, recognising that they themselves would always be outsiders as adults.
This new approach to researching children’s experience, now well established in social science research, brings with it remarkable methodological, ethical and practical challenges. These challenges need to be negotiated with understanding to ensure the experience of research is a positive one for children and young people and that the research results are robust, rigorous and credible.
The lecturer will draw on her experience of participatory research, identifying some of the challenges, their implications and possible solutions, using recent research projects to illustrate the discussion. The aim of this lecture is to be thought provoking and promote further discussion around the issues raised as there are always a number of solutions to any challenge in research.
This lecture would be of interest to anyone who is thinking of carrying out a participatory research project with children and young people and those who are more experienced.
by webmaster FAB | Oct 23, 2010 | event, News, Uncategorized
Prof Kim from Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, is a visiting professor to Faculty of Built Environment. From 30th October to 13th November 2010, he will be visiting Department of Landscape Architecture to deliver lectures and to attend a viva-voce for a PhD candidate. The title of the PhD candidate thesis is Effects of Experiential Contacts with Green Infrastructure on Wellbeing of Residents in a Small Town. The supervisor of the candidate is Dr Ismail Said.
The topics and date of his lectures are as follows:
- 1st November 2010 Monday: Siheung Tidal Channel Ecological Park Project
- 3rd November 2010: A Sustainable Landscape Design for a High Rise Residential
(Remian Apartment) Complex in Seoul, Korea
- 8th November 2010: Han River Waterfront Landscape Management Project
All lectures will be held in Seminar Room Block B05 Faculty of Built Environment from 9 am to 11am. All academics and undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to attend the lectures.
by webmaster FAB | Oct 19, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
Prof. Michihiko Shinozaki from College of Engineering Design, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, is a former visiting professor of Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, UTM (2007-2009). And he is also currently one of the international research fellows of GIRG (Green Innovation Research Group). From 21st and 22nd October 2010, he will be visiting Department of Landscape Architecture to have a research progress meeting with GIRG members, Dr.Kei, Dr.Ismail, and Dr.Hisyam. The research topic is Design Method for Micro-scale Landscape in Tropical Climate, which has been conducted since July 2009. And, he will hold a discussion about future collaboration research with GIRG and his research laboratory.
by webmaster FAB | Oct 2, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
One of the ongoing studies by Green Innovation Research Group is Developing a participatory workshop method for use with children in UHI mitigation strategies in Malaysia. It is a joint research between UTM and Hiroshima University with RM24000 fund from Hiroshima University. From 21 September to 6 October 2010, Dr Hisyam Rasidi and Dr Ismail Said and their postgraduate students as well as two undergraduate students from Hiroshima University conducted two agenda for the research including: (1) four meetings with local authority (Majlis Perbandaran Johor Bahru Tengah), housing developer (SP Setia), Johor Bahru District Education Office and Taman Bukit Indah Primar y School to conduct a participatory workshop with the students of the primary school at a neighborhood of Taman Bukit Indah; and (2) survey questionnaire program with the school children on 30th September—see photographs. The researchers obtained excellent cooperation from the local authority, housing developer, school management and children. And, on 6th October, a workshop will be held at central park of Taman Bukit Indah to elicit children’s view on effect of green spaces to mitigate urban heat. For the workshop, the local authority will provide tents and tables, housing develop will supply food and the school management will organize the children to participate in the walk-through program i.e. a journey from the school to the central park.
by webmaster FAB | Sep 21, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
Two undergraduate students, Koji Tajima and Mitsunaka, from Hiroshima University are conducting a 2-week internship at Green Innovation Research Group laboratory. Their internship begins 21 Sept and ends on 4 October 2010. They will be helping Dr Hisyam Rasidi and Dr Ismail Said to conduct a joint research between UTM and Hiroshima University. The research topic is Developing a participatory workshop method for use with children in urban heat island mitigation strategies. This research is being financed by a RM24,000 grant from IDEC, Hiroshima University under the supervision of Dr Tetsu Kubota.
Prof Kim from Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, is a visiting professor to Faculty of Built Environment. From 30th October to 13th November 2010, he will be visiting Department of Landscape Architecture to deliver lectures and to attend a viva-voce for a PhD candidate. The title of the PhD candidate thesis is Effects of Experiential Contacts with Green Infrastructure on Wellbeing of Residents in a Small Town. The supervisor of the candidate is Dr Ismail Said.
