Lectures Design Studios Capstone Projects
Lectures
As part of our dissemination effort, the lab have organised lecture series in the GBA, including at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Harbin Institute of Technology scholars, designers, and practitioners from across the Greater Bay Area and beyond. These lectures create a platform for dialogue on water-driven urbanism, adaptive urban design strategies, and regional collaboration, contributing to a growing network of research exchange and collective learning.
2026
Water, Morphology and Design
A core vision of Liquid Territories is to empower students as active agency of urban transformation, to equip students with knowledge to navigate the social and environmental complexities in the Pearl River Delta. The lecture series plays a pivotal role in this vision, forming a shared space of learning, dialogue, and critical inquiry. The lecture is organised into 5 clusters: 1) Theories and Methodologies 2) Instruments and Tools 3) History and Legacies 4) Adaptations and Transformations 5) Typology and Morphology
During the first term of the 2025–2026 academic year, the lecture series hosted nine invited speakers from the Netherlands (TU Delft), London, and across China. The lectures introduced territorial and urban design methodologies, with a particular focus on Dutch traditions of spatial planning, delta thinking, and long-term infrastructural and environmental strategies, establishing a shared methodological foundation for students working across scales and systems. In the second term, the series turns toward comparative and global delta perspectives, expanding the discussion beyond the Pearl River Delta to engage with diverse planning cultures and case studies worldwide. It is within this broader, comparative framework that we are pleased to invite your participation in the lecture series.
The series is embedded in two courses led by Liquid Territories at CUHK throughout the academic year:
1. ARCH5110/6210: Delta Plug-ins
A Master of Architecture design studio teaching a mix of first- and second-year students, Delta Plug-ins explores architecture as agency within the urbanising Pearl River Delta. The studio invites students to adopt a multi-scalar approach, developing adaptive spatial tools that respond to systems such as hydrology, urban infrastructure, and regional governance.
2. Undergraduate Capstone Course 1: Live with Water – Sustainable Water Heritage at Sangyuanwei
This undergraduate capstone course brings together students from psychology, sociology, public policy, geography, and urban studies to examine Sangyuanwei, a historic water-based infrastructural system in the Pearl River Delta. Through field-based research and interdisciplinary collaboration, the course explores strategies for sustainable water heritage, aiming to inform future development and raise public awareness.
3. Undergarduate Capstone Course 2: Re-imaging Port City Territories: Promoting Social Equity through Port-driven Urban Development
The same course structured as above. This project explores how port development impact urbanization and promotes regional development across the Pearl River Delta.
2025
Mapping the Hong Kong Megaproject Territories
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As part of our dissemination effort, the lab have organised lecture series in the GBA, including at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Harbin Institute of Technology scholars, designers, and practitioners from across the Greater Bay Area and beyond. These lectures create a platform for dialogue on water-driven urbanism, adaptive urban design strategies, and regional collaboration, contributing to a growing network of research exchange and collective learning.
2026
Water, Morphology and Design
A core vision of Liquid Territories is to empower students as active agency of urban transformation, to equip students with knowledge to navigate the social and environmental complexities in the Pearl River Delta. The lecture series plays a pivotal role in this vision, forming a shared space of learning, dialogue, and critical inquiry. The lecture is organised into 5 clusters: 1) Theories and Methodologies 2) Instruments and Tools 3) History and Legacies 4) Adaptations and Transformations 5) Typology and Morphology
During the first term of the 2025–2026 academic year, the lecture series hosted nine invited speakers from the Netherlands (TU Delft), London, and across China. The lectures introduced territorial and urban design methodologies, with a particular focus on Dutch traditions of spatial planning, delta thinking, and long-term infrastructural and environmental strategies, establishing a shared methodological foundation for students working across scales and systems. In the second term, the series turns toward comparative and global delta perspectives, expanding the discussion beyond the Pearl River Delta to engage with diverse planning cultures and case studies worldwide. It is within this broader, comparative framework that we are pleased to invite your participation in the lecture series.
The series is embedded in two courses led by Liquid Territories at CUHK throughout the academic year:
1. ARCH5110/6210: Delta Plug-ins
A Master of Architecture design studio teaching a mix of first- and second-year students, Delta Plug-ins explores architecture as agency within the urbanising Pearl River Delta. The studio invites students to adopt a multi-scalar approach, developing adaptive spatial tools that respond to systems such as hydrology, urban infrastructure, and regional governance.
2. Undergraduate Capstone Course 1: Live with Water – Sustainable Water Heritage at Sangyuanwei
This undergraduate capstone course brings together students from psychology, sociology, public policy, geography, and urban studies to examine Sangyuanwei, a historic water-based infrastructural system in the Pearl River Delta. Through field-based research and interdisciplinary collaboration, the course explores strategies for sustainable water heritage, aiming to inform future development and raise public awareness.
3. Undergarduate Capstone Course 2: Re-imaging Port City Territories: Promoting Social Equity through Port-driven Urban Development
The same course structured as above. This project explores how port development impact urbanization and promotes regional development across the Pearl River Delta.
2025
Mapping the Hong Kong Megaproject Territories
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The
2022
2021
2021