Date: 19 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:30am – 12:20pm (HK time)
Venue: KB621, Knowles Building, Main Campus, HKU (entrance via DLA studio space, visitors should register at DLA office KB601)
Speaker: Ms. Susanne Elisabeth Trumpf, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, HKU

This course introduces students to essential digital and manual tools of design and representation in landscape architecture. Students explore techniques in material testing and digital fabrication as an iterative part of the design process with digital platforms and procedural tools as key elements of a cross-media approach to digital production. Shifting from material analysis to visual programming and 1-to-1 prototyping, the course covers a variety of scales and modes. Three projects transform the products of material observations into design methodologies and create an understanding of abstraction, rigor, and transformation through experimentation.

4 seats per session (Enrolment will be on a first-come, first-served basis.)

In the first part of this session, students will discuss their progress on fabrication processes with the course instructor and their peers. The second part of the session will introduce a new course brief and will conclude with a Q&A session in which students can address technical and conceptual concerns.

Ms. Susanne Elisabeth Trumpf is a senior lecturer in the Division of Landscape Architecture, where she teaches design studios, landscape media and research seminars. She was recently awarded the Teaching Innovation Award (Individual) 2023. Susanne’s teaching and research have adopted an interdisciplinary approach to address urban-environmental concerns, with courses reflecting a commitment to landscape and materials through an emphasis on experiential, hands-on learning. She has co-founded TAL-L, a database that focuses on landscape materials and material ecologies.