Vol.1 Reflections from the Water, Morphology and Design Lecture Series
In 2025–2026, we are hosting a Water Morphology Lecture Series as part of the CU-ASK programme. The series invites students to reflect on water urbanism and to critically engage with the spatial, ecological, and cultural dimensions of water in the Greater Bay Area, China. This volume brings together a collection of reflective essays written by students, drawing either from their own design projects or from their broader understanding of the relationship between water and urbanism in the region. For more information, visit our CU-ASK Page.
We host a continuing series of events on Water-driven Urbanism, fostering regional and territorial dialogues around urban design and planning. These discussions serve as moments for us to reflect on and recalibrate our own practice. In this section, we invite students and team members to share their reports and reflections, capturing how our collective work evolves through these ongoing conversations.
Vol.0 About the Newsletters
This publication grows out of an ongoing effort to understand how writing can strengthen the dialogue between research, teaching, and practice, particularly within the evolving context of delta regions such as the Pearl River Delta and the Greater Bay Area. Over recent years, our collaborations across universities, disciplines, and institutions have brought students and researchers into shared conversations about territorial change, urban processes, and the methods we use to study them. The pieces collected here represent part of this reflective process. They capture students’ and researchers’ attempts to situate their own projects within broader territorial questions, to connect classroom learning with field insights, and to align personal perspectives with ongoing regional debates.