01. ACLA (Asian Cultural Landscape Association), Newsletter 5.3, 2 June 2016

ACLA (Asian Cultural Landscape Association), Newsletter 5.3, 2 June 2016

ACLA • ASIAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION

Editors: Prof. Rana P.B. Singh (Vice-President, ACLA; Banaras Hindu University, India); & Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim (President, ACLA; Seoul National University, Seoul, Rep. Korea)

CONTENTS

1. ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association, Mission Statement 2

2. Cultural Landscapes of Asia and role of the ACLA 3

3. A Call for joining Membership of the ACLA 3

4. Activities of the ACLA 4

5. Charter - ACLA 4

6. ACLA Declaration 4

7. For further information and suggestion/s contact 5

8. ACLA Executive Committee, 2013~2016 6

9. ACLA Members: by 40 Countries (total 324), updated 15 May 2015 7, 37

10. ACLA Membership Form 8

11. ACLA joins mission UNO- IYGU- International Year of Global Understanding, 2016 9

12. 1. Report. 2011 IFLA-APR CLC & 1st ACLA Inaugural Symposium, 5~8 Dec. 2011 11

13. 2. Report. 2nd ACLA–, & the IGU C12.07 and IGU C12.25. 12

14. 3. Report. ISPRS/IGU/ ICA Joint International Workshop on “Borderlands Modelling and Understanding for Global Sustainability”: 5 - 7 December 2013.

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15. 4. Report. The 12th Asian Urbanisation Conference: 28-30 December 2013; Special Session on “City, Society, Heritage and Cultural Landscape” under the aegis of ACLA

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16. 5. Report. International Seminar: 7~9 February 2014, “Banaras, the Heritage City of India: Culture, Tourism and Development” under the aegis of ACLA

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17. 6. Report. 3rd ACLA – International Symposium on “Waterfront Asian cultural Landscape” SNU Seoul, Rep. Korea: 07- 09 October 2014

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18. 7. Report. ICOMOS International Conference on “Toward Understanding the Outstanding Universal Value of Religious Heritage”, Seoul, Rep. Korea: 23~25 April 2015.

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19. 8. Report. 4th ACLA International Symposium on “Agricultural Landscapes of Asia: Learning, Preserving, and Redefining” at Udayana University, Bali- Indonesia: 11~13 Sept. 2015.

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20. A Participant’s Viewpoint, 4th ACLA Bali Symposium: 11~13 Sept. 2015 26

21. 9. Report. 1st APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum on “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture” at SNU Seoul, 23 ~ 25th Nov. 2015

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22. 1st Circular. IGU (-ACLA) Symposium on “Role of Heritage Sites and Cultural Landscapes in Harmonizing the World” – 33rd IGU Congress, Beijing, PR China 21~25 Aug. 2015.

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23. 2nd APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum on “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture” at Pugio Valley, Seoul, Korea: 17 ~ 19th Oct. 2015

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24. 5th ACLA International Symposium: “Sacred Sites, Cultural Landscapes, and Harmonising the World of Asia” at Lampang University, Lampang, Thailand: 02~5 December 2016

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25. OBITUARIES: Ronald van Oers; Prabhakar B. Bhagwat; Mohammad Shaheer 40

26. ACLA List of Members by surname, instiotution, countries; by 15 May 2016 (Total: 324) 42, 7

Asian Cultural Landscape Association, ACLA [Dec. 2012]: Mission, Vision, Programmes, Reports, Furure Events; June 2016. 2

ACLA : Mission Statement

Of course, there are agencies that deal with cultural landscapes and associated architecture, heritage, habitat (rural, urban, peri-urban) planning and conservation and envisioned cultural landscape as heritage resource for sustainable development at different degrees, still there has not been any prime organisation that should deal Asia in its own historically rooted cultural forms. To fulfil this noble task and demand of the global scenario in which cultural landscape is not taken only as an impediment to development, but a heritage resource that can contribute to maintain environment and landscape serene in its nature, cleanliness in outlook, aesthetically beautiful, ecofriendly in interrelationship, socially cohesive, culturally awakened ― in order to make Man-Nature integration and aliveness more sustainable, the ACLA (Asian Cultural Landscape Association) has been formed recently and declared on 3rd of December 2012; registered in Rep.

Korea (SNU Seoul): Reg. No.: 119-80-13757. The ACLA shall highlight the ‘Cultural Landscapes as Living Cultural-Sustainable Resources’; foster the safeguard and sustainable use of the unique and diverse cultural landscapes and heritagescapes of Asian Region; promote the physical, natural and cultural heritagescapes, traditions, crafts and creativity as driving forces for overall sustainable landscape development.

Asian traditions have a chain in continuity of history and maintenance of such traditions as part of life-philosophy and life-ways. To make these traditions strengthened and universally work the Asian Cultural Landscape Association (ACLA), will function as think-tank and the path-way in this direction through policy advice, capacity building, good practice exchange, awareness raising, technical assistance, promotion of green pilgrimage, conservation of sacred sites and gardens, seminars and discourses and the facilitation of partnerships among the Asian countries and rest parts of the world. The Asian region consists of 38 countries (from Siberia in the north, to Timor-Leste in the south), inhabited by 4.19 billion people (28 February 2015), spread over an area of 40.91 million sq km; thus sharing about 57 per cent of the world’s population, spread over 27.47 per cent of world’s land area. The region is broadly divided into four sub-regions, viz. North & Central Asia, East & North-East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South & South-West Asia. In Asia total 212 heritage properties (50 Natural, 155 Cultural, and 7 Mixed) are inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, thus recording share of ca. 21 per cent in World’s number (total 1007, in December 2015).

Virtually all landscapes have cultural associations, because all landscapes have been affected in some way by human action, perception and imagery. Therefore, the frame “cultural landscape” does not mean a special type of landscape; instead, it reflects upon a way of seeing and living landscapes and the associated attributes that emphasizes the interaction between human beings and nature over time ― maintaining existence-continuity-transformation-transferability and transcendentality ― all that together makes landscape a cosmic whole and complex heritage. According to UNESCO “cultural landscape” embraces a diversity of manifestations of the interaction between humankind and its natural environment. Cultural landscapes ― ranging from cultivated terraces on lofty mountains, gardens, to sacred places ― testify to the creative genius, social development and the imaginative and spiritual vitality of humanity. Cultural landscapes represent the “combined works of nature and of humankind”; thus, they are part of our collective identity, expressing a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their natural environment; Cultural Landscape is a “Design

with Nature for Humankind”. This way ‘cultural landscapes’ represent visionary symbiosis and interpretive synthesis. As established notion “cultural landscapes” inspired by the belief that preservation and protection of globally, nationally, regionally and locally significant cultural landscapes, both designed and vernacular, are critical to sustaining the continuum of land use and history across generations. Therefore, protection of these cultural landscape resources offers inspirational values and an appreciation of past and present ingenuity, accomplishments, hardships, and hopes, as well as insight into future land use, design solutions and maintenance of heritagescapes.

ACLA: Asian Cultural Landscape Association, is a recently formed global body of landscape profession with members from all the countries in Asia (i.e. thirty-eight), and also those concerned to Asian Cultural Landscapes from any part of the globe. It represents the cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary study of cultural landscapes in both governmental and non-governmental organizations.


ACLA is a non-political, non-governmental and non-profit democratic organization in the service to make the happy, peaceful and sustainable cultural landscapes of Asia.

The logo of ACLA is itself a testimony of metaphysical exposition of the aims and objectives of this foundation. The two sides ‘A’ symbolises the beginning and returning (‘A’) through the cyclic notion of continuity ‘C’, and attached ‘L’ denotes the locomotive function of longevity. Similarly, the letter symbolism A-C-L-A constitutes distinct metaphoric illustrations, viz. A– Aspiration (from affectation to articulation), C– Connectedness (from cognizance to cohesiveness), L– Liveliness (from learning to liberation), A– Association (from accompaniment to accomplishment). In the light of inherent messages and cosmic vision, the ACLA would take lead in marching for deeper understanding and making bridges between Analysis and synthesis, Culture and nature, Laconic and luminous, and Allegory and allusive. This would justify the logo symbolism and further help to promote human march from known to unknown, visible to invisible, simplicity to complexity, finite to infinite, uniqueness to commonality, generality to rationality, periphery-core to core-periphery, fragmentation to consolidation, experience to exposition, realisation to revelation, thought to awakening, mind to soul, transformability to sustainability, …, and so on.

Cultural Landscapes of Asia and role of the ACLA

• Asia’s unique cultural heritage lies in its historically rich and culturally diverse settlements and habitat systems forming a complex and highly developed fabric of human habitation. It is through this cultural habitat that the Asian culture flourishes, continuously undergoing a process of change, interacting with new elements, assimilating new ideas, thoughts, as well as the aspirations and creativity of its people, and the enveloping nature. The habitations are thus constantly renewing themselves while maintaining their unique and diverse culture and heritage.

• The uniqueness and the diversity of Asia’s cultural landscapes and heritages can be seen reflected in the morphology, building typologies, activity patterns, social structure, religious beliefs, pilgrimages, sacred sites and gardens, and varying associated traditions that exist in the villages, towns and varying forms of settlements.

• With the turn of the century rapid urbanization and more recently with globalization, the pace of change in all aspects of life has accelerated. The habitat systems and eco-environments of towns and villages are exposed to strong extraneous, fast growing agents disturbing the delicate balance among the physical, social, cultural and ecological habitat environments.

• To have deeper understanding, cross-cultural integration and strengthen the capacity of Asian cultural landscapes coping with these fast changes, the Asian Cultural Landscape Association (ACLA) is formed to take the initiatives for making Asian Cultural Landscape sustainable, eco-friendly and envisioning Green Pilgrimages, revival of spirit of sacred sites; and would also seek cooperation from international bodies like UNESCO WHC, UNDEP, IUCN, ICOMOS, Green Pilgrim Cities Initiative (GPCI), Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), Sacred Sites Initiative, ‘Bhumi Project’, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), IFLA, IGU Commission on Cultural Approach, IGU Commission on Landscape Analysis & Landscape Planning, and other such institutions.

A Call for joining Membership of the ACLA

The regional, national and international organizations (and NGOs) and dedicated individuals with a strong commitment to foster cultural landscapes and heritage resource based sustainable development are invited to join hand for the noble task in promotion of the Network and action programmes for Asia. ACLA membership is opened for researchers of much broader area, such as architecture, geography, anthropology, archaeology, city and regional planning, civil engineering, landscape architecture, forestry, literature, arts, etc. and from any part of the globe countries. Such institutions or individuals should send a letter highlighting ongoing or planned activities in the field of cultural landscapes and heritage conservation and also their expectations from ACLA. They will subsequently be asked to sign the Membership Agreement and state how they intend to work towards achieving the common goals. The Executive Board of the ACLA will review the applications and decide on the membership and the nature of the member’s contribution/s. ACLA will be governed and operated by (i) Executive Board, (ii) Advisory Board, and (iii) International Board of Editors.


Activities of the ACLA

• Documentation & Communication: Setting up a Knowledge Databank for Cultural Landscapes

and Cultural Heritage Resource and an Expertise Locator;

• Web portal: Establishing an electronic communication network linking members through the internet facilitating partnerships and knowledge exchange, both in Asia and rest parts of world;

• Public campaigns: Organization of seminars, workshops, exhibitions, field trips, awareness drives, etc. for local communities, such as Cultural Heritage Walks, Green Pilgrimage Walks, Sacred Sites intimate experience camping, and partnering with Heritage Festivals;

• Publications: Publishing of a journal, newsletter, information brochures, and workshop papers;

• Technical assistance: Provide technical expertise to sites/culture areas in developing strategies for adapting existing state and municipal planning, legal and regulatory frameworks for cultural heritage protection and conservation; assistance in landscape planning interventions for heritage-based sustainable and balanced cultural landscape development;

• Partnerships: Brokering partnerships between members (Asia and Pacific regions, and rest part of world; Institutions, NGOs and Individuals) to exchange experience and good practice in cultural landscape conservation and development;

• Training: Organizing training programmes for members of the ACLA through Study tours, technical workshops for solution exchange and facilitating longer term training for capacity – building in urban cultural heritage management and development (rural, urban, peri-urban);

• Thematic workshops and conferences: Organization of workshops and conferences with the participation of experts from both Asia and other parts of world promoting co-sharing experiences, wisdom and realising the common roots;

• Education and capacity building: Develop a system of short term courses, mid term trainings, long term educational curricula for students, and green pilgrimage walks for practicing cultural landscape architects, elected representatives, administrators, technical staff and professionals.

Charter - ACLA

• Recognizing that Asia’s unique and diverse living cultural landscapes and heritage lie in its habitats (rural areas, villages, towns, cities, peri-urban areas) and associated cultural and spiritual values and alive traditions, like pilgrimages, maintaining sacred gardens, ecospirituality;

• Keeping in mind that the culture landscapes and character of our habitat system are based on and closely interlinked with the serene and sacred natural environment within and around them;

• Acknowledging that the Asian cultural landscapes flourish through the changing nature of urban fabric of cities, continuously undergoing a process of change, interacting with new elements, assimilating new ideas, thoughts, as well as the aspirations and creativity of its people;

• Accepting that rapid urbanization and more recently globalization have accelerated the pace of change in all aspects of cultural landscapes exposing our villages, cities and towns to strong extraneous, fast growing agents which have disturbed the delicate balance of their physical, social, cultural and ecological environments;

> We, the members of the Asian Cultural Landscape Association (ACLA), declare to:

- Jointly work towards strengthening the Asian cultural landscapes (rural areas, villages, towns, cities, peri-urban areas) to cope, with the rapid changes faced on the basis of their cultural and natural resources and related traditions like green pilgrimages, ecospirituality, etc.;

- Contribute, each in the remit of their roles and competencies, to the valorisation, awareness, knowledge and respect of the living cultural landscapes, heritagescapes and sacredscapes;

- Advance the close link between the development of the Asian cultural landscapes and the safeguarding of their cultural and natural heritagescapes and sacredscapes;


- Raise awareness of the uniqueness and diversity of cultural heritage in Asian rural and urban settlements, its tangible and intangible aspects, and of the benefits and potentials of cultural heritage and sacred sites conservation;

- Use the resource that is the cultural and natural heritage of Asian rural and urban settlements for the social, economic and ecological development and benefit of the common people;

- Encourage and awaken local community participation and help to create partnerships between the people, technical experts, and administration in the process of cultural heritage based development and conservation that promote sustainable cultural landscapes;

- Foster sustainable development of Asian rural and urban settlements, based on the strength of their traditions, cultural identity and social networks for meeting the contemporary needs of the citizens and raise awareness and awakening about their potential to develop into the vibrant 21st century centres with adequate amenities, transport systems and economies without loosing their character and culture-historic assets;

- Work towards the alleviation of inner city poverty through employment generation, financial and social empowerment of its local inhabitants and neighbourhoods, while respecting the roots of the people, their culture, traditions, cultural landscapes and social networks;

- Work towards adapting the existing state and municipal planning, legal and regulatory framework to incorporate the protection of living cultural landscapes, heritagescapes and sacredscapes, and make vital issues like conservation and heritage based sustainable urban development a concrete part of the state and city’s overall planning process;

- Build the capacity of Asian rural and urban settlements, their administration, civil society and inhabitants to protect and conserve their cultural and natural heritagescapes;

- Encourage city-to-city cooperation and networking among local governments and urban/rural stakeholders of national and international member cities for sharing experience and knowledge.

For further information and suggestion/s please contact:

Prof. Dr. SungSungSungSung----Kyun KIMKyun KIMKyun KIMKyun KIM, Ph.D. President, ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association; President, KILA, Korean Institute of Landscape Architects; Delegate, IFLA, International Federation of Landscape Architects; Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, SNU - Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. Republic of KOREA. Tel.: +82-2-880-4872. Fax: +82-2-873-5113. CP: +82-10-6700-2121. E-mail: [email protected] ACLA President <[email protected]> CC

Prof. Dr. Rana P.B. SINGH, Ph.D., F.J.F., F.I.F.S., F.A.A.I., F.A.C.L.A., ‘Ganga-Ratna’. Vice-President - ACLA (Asian Cultural Landscape Association) President: Society of Heritage Planning & Environmental Health Professor of Geography (spel. Cultural and Heritage Studies), Banaras Hindu University Head (2013~2015)- Department of Geography, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, & Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.07 ‘Cultural Approach in Geography’, 2012-2016, and Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.25 ‘Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning’, 2012-2016. # New F - 7, Jodhpur Colony, B.H.U. Campus, Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA. Cell: +091-9838-119474. E-mail: [email protected]

Secretariat E-mails: ACLA President <[email protected]> ACLA Secretariat <[email protected]>

(Updated: 2 June 2016)


Executive Committee, 2013~2016 ACLA • ASIAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION

President – ACLA

Prof. Dr. Sung-Kyun KIM, Ph.D. President, KILA (Korean Institute of Landscape Architects); & Delegate Elect, IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA. Tel.: +82-2-880-4872. Fax: +82-2-873-5113. CP: 82-10-6700-2121. E-mail: [email protected]

Vice-President – ACLA

Prof. Dr. Rana P.B. SINGH, Ph.D., F.A.C.L.A. Professor of Geography (spel. Cultural and Heritage Studies), & Head (2013~2015), Department of Geography, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University; and President: Society of Heritage Planning & Environmental Health # New F - 7, Jodhpur Colony; B.H.U. Campus Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA Cell: +091-9838 119474. E-mail: [email protected]

Members

Prof. Je-Hun RYU, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Geography, Korea National University of Education, & Member, National Committee on the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration # 250 Taeseong Tapyeon-ro, Gangnae-Myeon, Cheongwon-gun, Chungbuk 363-791, R. KOREA Tel: (+82)-43-230 3616. Cell: (+82)-10-9102 9942. Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]

Prof. Dr. (Ms.) Shangyi ZHOU, Ph.D. School of Geography, & Head of Institute of Regional and Urban Planning, ShengDi building, Beijing Normal University, No. 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100875. P.R. CHINA t: 86-10-58807455 ext 1627 (office) f: 86-10-58806955. Email: [email protected] http://geogother.bnu.edu.cn/teacherweb/zhoushangyi/

Assoc. Prof. Ismail bin SAID, Ph.D. Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, & Academic Manager of Generic Program, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Sekudai, Johor. MALAYSIA Tel: 075530714; 0127907273 Email: [email protected]

Prof. (Ms.) Nobuko INABA, Ph.D. Professor and Director, World Heritage Studies Program, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8577 Ibaraki, JAPAN Tel: +81-(0)29-853-7099. Tel: +81-(0)80-3205-6558. Fax: +81-(0)29-853-7099 Email: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Monica C. KUO, Ph.D. Dean, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Environmental design Chinese Culture University, Taipei TAIWAN Email: [email protected]

Dr. (Ms.) Ariya ARUNINTA, Ph.D. Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Rd., Phathomwan BKK 10330. THAILAND Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]

Mr. Benjamin ISHAK Founder: KALBU (Indonesia Cultural Landscape Community), Jalan Bunga Cempaka Nomor 2B, Cipete Selatan, Jakarta 12140. INDONESIA Tel.: 081311 155990. Email: [email protected]

Dr. Ngo-Viet NAM-SON, Ph.D. Director, NVD Architects & Planners HCM City. VIETNAM http://www.nvdco.com/ Tel. Vietnam: +84-9090 41 143 North America : +1-770-272-4750 Email: [email protected]

Prof. Seyed Hassan TAGHVAEI, Ph.D. Asstt. Prof., Dept. of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Evin, Tehran, 19839. IRAN Phone: +98(21) 29902855 Email: [email protected] ;

Dr. Ms. Susan C. AQUINO-ONG, PhD, FPALA Assistant Professor- Landscape Architecture - Heritage & Cultural Landscape Conservation, Crop Science Cluster College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, Third Street, Marymount Village, Los Baños, Laguna 4031. PHILIPPINES Tel.: +63 49 536440. Fax: +63 49 5362468. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]


Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kenneth NICOLSON, Ph.D. Architectural Conservation Programme, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Flat 6, 3/F, No. 8 Mansfield Road, The Peak HONG KONG Tel./ Fax.: (852)- 2649 8586 Email: [email protected] http://acp.arch.hku.hk/people/Ken%20CV.htm

Prof. Dr. Nodar ELIZBARASHVILI, Ph.D. Head, Dept. of Regional Geography and Landscape Planning, & Chair: IGU Commission - C12.25 ‘Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning’. Tbilisi State University, 1 Chavchavadze Av., Tbilisi 380028. GEORGIA Phone: +995 99 410804. Fax: +995 32 253313 Email: [email protected]

ACLA Members: by Countries; 2 June 2016 [40 countries, total members: 324]

Argentina 1 France 4 Korea 44 Sri Lanka 4 Australia 14 Georgia 1 Malaysia 32 Sweden 1 Austria 2 Germany 3 Nepal 1 Taiwan 4 Bangladesh 1 Hong Kong 6 Netherlands 2 Thailand 10 Belgium 1 India 40 New Zealand 1 Trinidad 1 Cambodia 1 Indonesia 27 Philippines 6 Turkey 1 Canada 2 Iran 14 Rumania 1 U.K. 5 Chile 2 Israel 5 Russia 1 U.S.A. 27 China 17 Italy 2 Singapore 8 Vietnam 3 Denmark 3 Japan 25 South Africa 1 UNESCO 2

Updated: 2 June 2016.

The Asia Region is divided into four spatial and cultural realms, covering 38 countries:

1. North & Central Asia – 9 (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Siberia (Russian Fed.);

2. East & North-East Asia – 8 (China People’s Rep., Hong Kong- China, Japan, Korea S. Rep., Korea North DPR, Macao- China, Mongolia, Taiwan);

3. South & South-West Asia – 10 (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Islamic Rep., Iraq, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka); and

4. Southeast Asia – 11 (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam/ Vietnam).

(Updated: 2 June 2016)

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ACLA: Asian Cultural Landscape Association, is a recently formed (2012) global body of landscape profession with members from all the countries in Asia (i.e. thirty-eight), and also those concerned to Asian Cultural Landscapes from any part of the globe; registered in Rep. Korea (SNU Seoul): ACLA Reg. No.: 119-80-13757. It represents the cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary study of cultural landscapes in both governmental and non-governmental organizations. ACLA is a non-political, non-governmental and non-profit democratic organization in the service to make the happy, peaceful and sustainable cultural landscapes of Asia.

Regional, national and international organizations and dedicated individuals/ institutions with a strong commitment to foster cultural landscapes and cultural heritage resource are invited to join hand to promote a Network and action programmes on sustainable development; till May 2016, are 324 members.

Please fill in the membership application form and mail it (.pdf or .jpg) back with a statement highlighting ongoing or planned activities in the field of cultural landscapes and heritage conservation to the executive board of the ACLA, Prof. Sung-Kyun KIM at: [email protected], the Seoul National University, Korea; and CC: Prof. Rana P.B. SINGH at: [email protected] * >> also attach one-page highlights (max. 500 words) of your works and CV related to the Cultural landscapes.

Application Form (Please write in BLOCK CAPITALS)

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ACLA joins the mission in making the bridge between Locality & Globality

‘2016’ - the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU)

“Building bridges between global thinking and local action”

The International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) jointly announced today that 2016 would be the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU). The aim of IYGU is to promote better understanding of how the local impacts the global in order to foster smart policies to tackle critical global challenges such as climate change, food security and migration. “We want to build bridges between global thinking and local action,” said Prof. Benno Werlen of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. “Only when we truly understand the effects of our personal choices – for example in eating, drinking and producing – on the planet, can we make appropriate and effective changes,” said Werlen, who initiated this project of the International Geographical Union (IGU).

How to translate scientific insight into more sustainable lifestyles will be the main focus of activities – research projects, educational programmes and information campaigns – for 2016. The project seeks to go beyond a narrow focus on environmental protection and climate policy and explore quality of life issues and the sustainable, long-term use of local resources.

“We live in the most interconnected world in history. Yet at the same time that world is driven by conflicts, dislocations and uncertainties - an unsettling and disturbing mixture of huge opportunities and existential risks,” said Lord Anthony Giddens, former Director of the London School of Economics, UK. “Finding a positive balance will demand fundamental intellectual rethinking and new forms of collaboration of the sort the IGYU offers” he added.

“Sustainable development is a global challenge, but solving it requires transforming the local – the way each of us lives, consumes, and works. While global negotiations on climate attack the sustainability crisis from above, the IYGU complements them beautifully with coordinated solutions from below - by getting individuals to understand and change their everyday habits. This twin approach elevates our chance of success against this crisis, the gravest humanity has ever seen,” said former ICSU President and Nobel Laureate Yuan-Tseh Lee.

For example, on each day in 2016, the IYGU will highlight a change to an everyday activity that has been scientifically proven to be more sustainable than current practice. Primers on everyday life which take cultural diversity and local practice into account will be compiled and distributed. “Now more than ever it is vital that we find the strength to understand and relate to the positions, thoughts, and expectations of others and seek dialogue instead of confrontation,” said Professor Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS).

It is hoped that this focus on tangible, local action will generate ideas for research programmes and school curricula, as well as highlight best practice examples. Wherever possible, activities will be communicated in several languages. Using this bottom-up approach, the IYGU hopes to support and extend the work of initiatives such as Future Earth, the UN’s Post-2015 Development Agenda, and the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).

“In Rwanda, environmental pollution through plastic litter was a widespread and intractable problem. Ultimately, the insight that plastic is harmful to ruminant animals, in particular cows, turned the tide in favor of environmental legislation. This led to a ban on plastic items that could cause litter. Today you’d be hard pressed to find plastic polluting public areas in Rwanda,” said Werlen.

The involvement of the ISSC, ICSU and CIPSH in IYGU underwrites broad collaboration across the natural and social sciences and the humanities, from across disciplinary boundaries and from all around the world.

In 2016, the IYGU program will be coordinated by about 50 Regional Action Centers. This network is currently being established and cities such as Tokyo. Washington, Sao Paulo, Tunis, Moscow, Rome, and Seoul while Beijing, Mexico City, Maçao/Coimbra, Nijmegen, Hamilton, Bamako, Kigali, and Varanasi are confirmed as hosts of such Centers with their regional to continental reach. The IYGU General Secretariat in Jena, Germany coordinates these Regional Action Centers, IYGU-RAC. The three Coordinators of the IYGU-RAC are the executive members


of the ACLA, viz. Prof. Je-Hun Ryu (KNUE Seoul, Korea), Prof. Ms. Shangyi Zhou (BNU Beijing, China), and Prof. Rana P.B. Singh (BHU Varanasi, India), and they are the spirit behind making bridge/s through vision, action and sharing the common Global understanding and Harmony formation.

Further information on the International Year of Global Understanding, IYGU, is available at www.global-understanding.info . Prof. Benno Werlen is available for further interviews upon request.

Contact:

IYGU General Secretariat Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Department of Geography c/o Prof. Dr. Benno Werlen, Chair: IYGU Loedergraben 32, 07743 Jena. Germany Tel.: +49 -3641-948840. Mobile: +49-178- 4723660 Email: [email protected] Website: www.global-understanding.info

Vice-President ACLA associate to IYGU Regional Action Center

Prof. Dr. Rana P.B. SINGH, Ph.D., F.A.C.L.A. Professor of Geography (spel. Cultural Geography & Heritage Studies), Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University; and Vice-President: ACLA # New F - 7, Jodhpur Colony; B.H.U. Campus Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA Cell: +091-9838 119474. E-mail: [email protected]

About Prof. Dr. Benno Werlen: Prof. Benno Werlen was born in Münster (Switzerland) on 10 October 1952. After studying Geography, Ethnology, Sociology, and Economics, he received his Ph.D. (1985). As a visiting fellow, he spent time at Cambridge University, the UCLA, and the London School of Economics. Werlen has been professor of Social Geography at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since Spring 1998; he has been a member of the European Research Council since 2008.

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What the noble authorities and world leader say about IYGU 2016 Dr. h.c. Eliezer Batista (Brazil), Key Initiator of the Rio Summit 1992 and founder of the World Business Council

for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Knowledge is the factor that leads us to change our way of thinking. However, it is the understanding that leads to change attitudes. The IYGU puts emphasis on culturally different paths to global sustainability. And that only changing individual action will lead to change of collective action whose result will be the improvement of the system in global scope.’

Professor Klaus Toepfer (Germany), Former Executive-Director of UNEP, Director of Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) ‘The fall of the Berlin Wall was the crucial symbol of overcoming the bipolar world. Now more than ever it is vital to the globalization process that we find the strength time and again to also understand and relate to the positions, thoughts, and expectations of others and seek dialogue instead of confrontation. Furthermore, it will be important to advance the quest for solutions that do not challenge one’s own inalienable values while also granting this privilege to others.’

Professor Gordon McBean (Canada) Nobel Prize Laureate for Peace (IPCC), President of ICSU and Council for Future Earth ‘The IYGU is very important in building societal understanding, enabling actions to face the risks posed by global environmental change. It is seizing opportunities in transitions to global sustainability and is providing a critical start for a successful Future Earth Programme.’

Professor Anthony Giddens (UK), Member of the House of Lords and former Director of the London School of Economics 'We live in the most interconnected world in history. Yet at the same time that world is riven by conflicts, dislocations and uncertainties - an unsettling and disturbing mixture of huge opportunities and existential risks. Finding a positive balance will demand fundamental intellectual rethinking and new forms of collaboration of the sort the IGYU offers’.

Professor Yuan Tseh-Lee (Taiwan), Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (1986) ‘Sustainable development is a global challenge, but solving it requires transforming the local - the way each of us lives, consumes, and works. While global negotiations on climate attack the sustainability crisis from above, the IYGU complements them beautifully with coordinated solutions from below - by getting individuals to understand and change their everyday habits. This twin approach elevates our chance of success against this crisis, the gravest humanity has ever seen.’


1. Report 2011 IFLA-APR Cultural Landscape Committee & 1st ACLA Inaugural Symposium International Symposium on

“Sustainable Rural LSustainable Rural LSustainable Rural LSustainable Rural Landscape & Planning in Asia Pacific Regionandscape & Planning in Asia Pacific Regionandscape & Planning in Asia Pacific Regionandscape & Planning in Asia Pacific Region”

SNU Seoul, Rep. Korea: 5 ~ 8 December 2011; under the aegis of Urban Greening Institute, SNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Since introduction of a new paradigm called ‘Sustainable Development’ in 1987, it has become a global issue in the national development and global strategy. Rural areas are most closely linked with the natural environment and traditional culture, therefore the implication of sustainable development in rural area is a vital issue for maintaining balance between urban and rural landscapes. Recently, due to rapid urbanization and resultant urban sprawls, the population has become centralized in the urban areas of most of the Asia-Pacific region. This left most of the rural areas in a ‘hollow’ state or only inhabited by senior citizens. This phenomenon is the prime force behind the collapsing rural communities and the deterioration of rural environments, most commonly visualised in all the APR countries in different ways and in varying degrees.

Different from of the traditional Western lifestyle, which is based on nomadism, the rice agriculture-based traditional Asian people have lived in a certain area from generations past adapting to the local environment harmoniously and living with peoples co-existentially in a sustainable way. However, the growing pace of modernization in Asia, have drastically deteriorated the sustainable culture. Realising this problem Cultural Landscape in APR should be conceived as cultural renaissance to recover, revive and revitalise our cultures in our own perspective of cultural histories, life philosophy and lifeways taking in view of sustainability.

The goals of this international symposium have been: to review and assess the above perspectives of Sustainable Cultural Landscapes in Asia; to share ideas and experiences in different countries and to understand the inter-cultural linkages; and finally to find future strategies and solutions for rural planning which sustainably and rationally suited to Asia-Pacific cultures. The symposium was sponsored by Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture, Korean Institute of Traditional Landscape Architecture, ICOMOS Korea, Samsung C&T, Daelim Industrial, GS E&C, POSCO E&C, Hyundai E&C, Daewoo E&C, Kumho E&C, Dongbu Corp., Kyeryong Construction, Doosan E&C, Hanwha E&C, Hyundai Development, Taeyoung E&C, Korea Development Corporation.

The Symposium has been a great success in terms of representation from various parts of the Asia-Pacific Region, viz. Korea (4), Japan (3), China (3), Taiwan (1), Malaysia (4), Indonesia (3), Thailand (1), Bangladesh (1), India (4), Iran (2), and New Zealand (1), and in total presentation of 25 thematic papers, and attended by over 200 participants. The inaugural keynote address was delivered by Prof. Rana P.B. Singh (India), entitled “Rural Cultural Landscapes of Asia: Vision of Sustainability and Man-Nature Interrelatedness”. The papers were arranged into four cultural regional sections of Asia-Pacific: East Asia, South-East Asia, South Asia, the Pacific, and divided into two broad thematic sessions: (i) Sustainable Rural Landscape, and (ii) Sustainable Rural Planning. The program structure was framed in 4-days, consisting of 2-days (5-6 December 2011) paper presentation and discussion, one-day field trip to visit UNESCO World Heritage sites of Yangdong village and Dokrakdang-Anabji-Gyeongju rural area (7 December), and finally half day Workshop and Discussion that resulted to recommendations for future Work-Plan (8 Dec.). However, these recommendations are always open for dialogues, updating, changes, and incorporation of new ideas. Beside the presentation, field trip and workshop, 2011 IFLA APR CLC Annual Meeting was held on 5 December (17:00~1830) at International Conference Hall (Bldg 25-1), SNU.

During the symposium, all participants and specialists discussed and initiated the topic of rural cultural landscapes and planning in each country and continued it in further discussions, especially during workshop session. We found that the Asian rural cultural landscapes and planning could be more dynamic and prosperous in terms of history, natural resources, and religious importance, and have potential for sustainable rural development.

The symposium had a spirit of positive collaboration and we have had a wonderful time with all participants in terms of representation, interdisciplinarity, thematic coverage, and perspectives of approaches. We confidently hope for ongoing future cooperation and participation of more scholars and experts in the study and promotion of Cultural Landscape studies in Asia-Pacific countries.


There are some specific recommendations as a result of the workshop: 1. Networking among scholars and practitioners of Cultural Landscapes should be strengthened and

maintained, taking in view the continuous feedbacks from on-going works, and projecting the diversity of cultures ― their cross-cultural comparison with respect to general aspects and distinctive features.

2. Both the approaches, i.e. Regional (Asia-Pacific: East Asia, South-East Asia, South Asia, the Pacific), and Thematic and Contemporary should constantly be taken care of following continuously re-reorganization of the working and focuses through interdisciplinary/ multidisciplinary interactions, ideologies/ perception and practices/ narratives, challenges, and active linkages and discourses with various Cultural Landscape organizations in different countries. The perspectives of ‘historicity-continuity-maintenance-envisioning’, which is an overall scenario of Asia-Pacific region, should be highlighted with respect to life-ways, philosophy, orientation and projections.

3. Review and Appraisal paper(s) should be prepared that critically examine the grass-rooted perspectives of the regional personalities of the Asia-Pacific region, emphasizing multidisciplinary collaboration, regional representation and review-appraisal of thematic literature. And, finally the overall review paper(s) of Asian Vision should be prepared that deals with the conceptual frame(s), definitions, attributes and aspects of concerns. Such review paper(s) be disseminated through IFLA Cultural Landscape Website and email networking, and constantly should be updated and revised. Also, care should be taken that the overall appraisal may not be oriented towards Euro-centric or Americo-centric contexts. The definitions and dialogues about ‘Cultural Landscapes’ as projected under UNESCO World Heritage Committee and ICOMOS should be re-examined in the light of ‘Asian Vision’.

4. The issues of natural disaster and rehabilitation should also be taken as issues of concerns by landscape architects, in the light of economic issues, cultural loss, and sustainability. Critical appraisal of loss of Cultural Landscape and their re-settlement and revival in terms of ‘aliveness’ and ‘visuality’, ’aesthetics’, ‘perception’, ‘spirit of place’, etc. should be taken care of.

5. As Cultural Landscapes are the living entity, therefore various aspects of community, cultures, habitats and society also be emphasized, e.g. poverty, tangible-intangible/ vernacular aspects, built-space and environs, foodscapes, gardenscapes, sacredscapes, heritagescapes, faithscapes, life-styles, role of local/regional and national policies, traditions, eco-cultural tourism, globalization, and other related issues.

6. The changes and impacts on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites (esp. Cultural Landscapes) should be assessed in terms of landscape deterioration, economic needs, political imperatives, environmental concerns, various facets of tourism, use/misuse and encroachment of cultural spaces, and other resultant issues. Continuous country/ site level reports should be sent for highlights and dissemination through networking and IFLA E-Newsletter.

The annual meeting of IFLA-APR CLC was held on 5th December 2011, at International Conference Hall (Bldg 25-1), Seoul National University. There were several discussions in this meeting, concerning: 1) Diversification of activities through Symposia, 2) Membership Issues, and 3) the functioning of IFLA-APR and formation of ACLA for more diversified and active representation of the Asian regions. Thus, finally 3rd of December 2012 ACLA has been frmed.

For further interaction, please contact one of us, of course CC to other one:

Prof. Dr. Sung-Kyun KIM, Ph.D. President - ACLA

President, KILA (Korean Institute of Landscape Architects); Delegate Elect, IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects). Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA. Tel.: +82-2-880-4872. Fax: +82-2-873-5113. CP: 82-10-6700-2121. E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Rana P.B. SINGH, Ph.D., F.A.C.L.A. Vice-President - ACLA Professor of Geography (spel. Cultural Geography and Heritage Studies), Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University; & Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.07 ‘Cultural Approach in Geography’, and IGU C12.25 ‘Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning’. # New F - 7, Jodhpur Colony, B.H.U. Campus, Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA. Cell: +091-9838-119474. E-mail: [email protected]


2. Report

2nd ACLA– Asian Cultural Landscape Association, & the IGU C12.07 and IGU C12.25.

International Symposium on

“Meanings & Aesthetics in Asian Cultural Landscape”

SNU Seoul, Rep. Korea: 12 - 14 October 2013; under the aegis of Urban Greening Institute, SNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Symposium has been a great success in terms of representation from various parts of the Asia, viz. Australia (2), Belgium (1), P.R. China (3), Hong Kong - China (1), Taiwan - China (1), France (1), India (3), Indonesia (2), Japan (3), Korea (2), Malaysia (3), Philippines (1), Thailand (4), U.S.A. (1), and Vietnam (1), and in total 28 papers were presented, focussing on the three thematic areas: (i) Exposing the Meaning and Spirit of Place, (ii) Heterogeneity vs. Homogeneity in Cultural Landscape Aesthetics, and (iii) Making Harmonious Path through Integrity and Co-sharedness. The programme structure was framed in 3-days, consisting of 2-days (12-13 October 2013) for the symposium, followed with one-day (14 October 2013) field study of UNESCO Heritage site of the folk village of Hahwe and its environs, and at the end the sacred experience of interconnectedness between human sensitivity and landscape eternity by visiting the Bongyudongcheon Garden (the serenity of rocks, vegetal cover, flow of water, surface grass, alignments of sites) at the dawn and moonlight.

The inaugural keynote address entitled “Meanings & Aesthetics in Asian Cultural Landscape: Commonality, Distinctivity and Transcendentality” was given by Rana P.B. Singh, the Vice-President of ACLA, that attempted to establish the cultural-historical linkages among the East Asian and the South Asian countries, especially Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, India, and Indonesia.

The three members of the IGC Commission C12.07 ‘Cultural Approach in Geography’ (Chair: Prof. Benno Werlen, from Germany), viz. Shangyi Zhou (China), Je-Hun Ryu (Korea), and Rana P.B. Singh (India), and also a co-opted member Stanley Brunn (USA), have actively attended the ACLA Symposium and also being Executive Members of ACLA they attended meetings and took active part in making future strategies of ACLA and its collaboration with the IGU C12.07 and IGU C12.25 “Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning” (Chair: Prof. Nodar Elizbarashvili, from Georgia, also Member of Executive - ACLA). Taking in view of Asian Cultural Landscapes, a common consensus emerged to develop a research anthology on the theme, tentatively as “The

Personality of Asian Cultural Landscape”, representing the regional traditions that may emphasise the cultural continuity and inter-linkages, and an essay that deals with commonality, distictivity and uniqueness, and similarities and contrasts among the regional traditions, and finally to envision sustainable landscapes for global peace, harmony and better understanding of interconnectedness between Man and Nature as illustrated in the cosmographic frame of landscape (like Feng-sui in China, landscapic Kyosei in Japan, Pung-su in Korea, Pancha-mahabhutas in India, etc.).

This will further support the UNO Mission of Global Understanding 2016, and help the IGU C12.07 in this direction. We the members of the IGU C12.07 and IGU C12.25 agreed in the words of Rana P.B. Singh that “Because all the life-forms are interwoven and interconnected, the land and its living creature can be viewed as symbols reciprocally and interactionally responsive to each other, popularly represented as spiral frame of mandala that begins at the centre and expands into infinity. Spirits permeate matter and animate it, so to say there generates the inherent force of terrestrial unity, what we call ecological cosmology. That is how the rich symbolic association brings the sacred as a life-force into everyday life. Each cultural landscape in the visual form of habitat and cosmos, such as a forest, cave, mountain, or even island, is like a chapel for a higher life where lies the deeper human quest to get connected with the spirit of their ancestors through various symbolic natural attributes, including varieties of landscapes, as well as the sun, clouds, moon, or sea. This permeates and encourages human sensitivity to march from realisation (anubhava in Sanskrit) to revelation (anubhuti in Sanskrit).” On these lines further steps to be taken to comprehend these ideas in the forthcoming ISPRS/IGU/ ICA Joint International Workshop on “Borderlands Modeling and Understanding for Global Sustainability”: 5 - 6 December 2013, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, China, in which some of the members of the IGU C12.07 and also Vice-President


of the IGU Giuliano Bellezza (Italy) will take part and further strengthen the causes and perspectives of the IGU C12.07 with collaboration of Shangyi Zhou, and also with support of IGU C12.25.

Shangyi Zhou opines that the conception of contextualism emphasizes integrity of architecture design and surroundings; however, planning theories have not clarified the extent of the background describing its utility as illustrated in her study of Nanluoguxiuang (Beijing). Her concluding remarks that renovating cultural values and activating social network should be well taken for further study. In the light of studying Korean traditional ways of viewing natural scenery Je-Hun Ryu has compared the cultural connotations and objects of nature that provides the sense to grasp the spirit of places and expose them into artistic or poetic frames, and that while watching the natural features, people discovered something, which generated the elegance or/and encouraged the will for self cultivation, turning to self-awakening.

As a senior American geographer Stanley Brunn has considered beauty to be at the intersection of three categories: sense of place, landscape appreciation and pleasurable experiences. Beauty is a feeling associated with a moving experience, a sense of awe, inspiration, heightened pleasure, and also spiritual, transcendent and harmonious feelings. He further submitted that many of these qualities are also integral to the experiences and feelings in many sense with “earthly and imagined/virtual” places, landscapes and environments. These insightful ideas need further investigation under the direction of the IGU C12.07 and IGU C12.25. In his another presentation Rana P.B. Singh presented glimpses of the cultural-historical and perceived notions of Indian Cultural Landscape, ICL, that represents a mosaic and amalgam of spatiality of time, temporality of space, and ritualscapes that all are bind by the process of sacrality and the faith system. Some other geography-trained but finally turned as landscape architects have emphasised the essential role of cultural niches and traditions that make the landscape alive and organic; this is another area examining the perceptual landscapes and landscape geometry through interdisciplinary vision, also compared and linked to Historic Urban Landscape, HUL.

In his introductory and concluding addresses the ACLA President Sung-Kyun Kim (SNU Seoul, R. Korea) has synthesised all these issues, and appreciated the leading role of cultural geographers and their impact on understanding meanings, aesthetics and exposition of cultural landscapes. He assured that with the cooperation of the IGU C12.07 and IGU C12.25 the ACLA will succeed in creating a basic database of cultural landscapes in Asian Region and also to build a strong and extensive network of relevant experts.

Prof. JINNAI Hidenobu (Director) and Prof. TAKAMURA Masahiko (Dy. Director), both LRDE Laboratory of Regional Design with Ecology, Faculty of Engineering & Design, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, are in process of organising multidisciplinary International Symposium on “Waterfront Cities: Viewpoints of History and Environment”, during 04th – 5th October 2014 (Saturday-Sunday). We are in close contact and cooperation with them to get active representation of ACLA, and IGU C12.07, which will further emphasise the role of culture and nature elements in making landscape more beautiful, happy and sustainable through deeper and cross-cultural understanding – a mission of the IGU C12.07 and IGU C12.25. We expect that our representative would take active role, like Rana P.B. Singh (India), Shangyi Zhou (China), Je-Hun Ryu and Sung-Kyun Kim (Korea) in this project.



President, KILA (Korean Institute of Landscape Architects); Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA. Tel.: +82-2-880-4872. Fax: +82-2-873-5113. CP: 82-10-6700-2121. E-mail: [email protected]



3. 国国国国际际际际学学学学术术术术研研研研讨讨讨讨会会会会 ISPRS/IGU/ ICA Joint International Workshop on “Borderlands Modelling and

Understanding for Global Sustainability”: 5 - 7 December 2013, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, ShengDi building, No. 19, XinJieKouWai St., HaiDian District, Beijing 100875, P. R. CHINA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A Report: Envisioning IGU C12.07, IGU C12.25, and ACLA

This International Workshop on “Borderlands Modelling and Understanding for Global

Sustainability” was organised under the joint aegis of the International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ISPRS), International Geographical Union (IGU) and International Cartographical Association (ICA), and was sponsored by the Geographical Society of China, and Association of American Geographers (USA), and attended by their representatives from Australia, Canada, China, Italy, India, Russia, South Africa, UK, and the USA. All the addresses and presentations were structured into 02 Keynote sessions comprising of 08 thematic addresses, and 05 Sessions consisting of 21 papers. All the Sessions ended with brainstorming dialogue and discussions. The two special events included were the Opening Ceremony through cordial welcome and focused introduction by Prof. Yuejing GE; and, at the end the Closing Ceremony that comprised of Rapporteurs’ Reports and the final recommendatory remarks and envisions by Prof. Shangyi ZHOU.

The Workshop concluded with realization that a better understanding of borderlands can be advanced through an integrated multidisciplinary researches and the utilization of new technologies that helps to make a strong and sustainable bridge between science and the society as visualized in the resultant cultural landscapes. This also makes it possible to conduct a more comprehensive research of the borderlands areas in our planet, which have distinctly superimposed and transitions of varying cultural landscapes, through multidisciplinary collaboration. New concepts and theories, methods and algorithms, as well as the advanced geocomputing tools/platform can be developed and used to support the planning, monitoring, and management of borderlands. Scientific innovation and excellence in this domain will not only contribute to the socioeconomic development and human wellbeing in disparate and distinct territories or border areas, but will also benefit the global understanding and sustainability of cultural landscapes and the society. These ideas and understanding are in corroboration and befitting into the objectives and plans of the Asian Cultural Landscape Association (ACLA), and the IGU Commission C12.07 “Cultural Approach in Geography” (Chair: Benno Werlen, from Germany). Prof. Shangyi ZHOU (China), Prof. Stanley Brunn (USA), Prof. Giuliano Bellezza (IGU Vice-President) and Prof. Rana P.B. Singh (India) together agreed upon to further promote these ideas and action programmes by our group, taking collaboration with Commission IGU C12.25 “Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning” (Chair: Prof. Nodar Elizbarashvili, from Georgia). Rana P.B. Singh is serving as a liaise person among the IGU C12.07, IGU C12.25, and ACLA.

In the spirit of our common concerns and collaboration, Shangyi ZHOU was inspiring force to call upon me as special invitee and representative of India to deliver a keynote address on “Cross-

Cultural Understanding for Global Sustainability: Messages and Meanings from Asian Cultural

Landscapes”. Moreover, Prof. ZHOU has further organised under her chairmanship a slide-show PPT lecture on “Sacred Geography and Landscape Geometries: Interfaces in Holy Places of North India” for the Graduate Students at the School of Geography, Beijing Normal University. We have agreed to develop a series research anthology on the theme, tentatively entitled as “Resurrecting Heritage in Asian

Cultural Landscape”, representing the regional traditions that may enlighten the cultural continuity and inter-linkages, emphasising commonality, distictivity and uniqueness, and similarities and contrasts among the regional traditions, and finally to envision sustainable landscapes for global peace and harmony.

For further interaction, please contact: Prof. Rana P.B. Singh Vice-President: ACLA Asian Cultural Landscape Association Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.07 ‘Cultural Approach in Geography’ Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.25 ‘Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning’ & Professor of Geography, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA Email: [email protected]


4. The 12th Asian Urbanisation Conference: 28~30 December 2013. Special Session on “City, Society, Heritage and Cultural Landscape”

Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Report: Envisioning IGU C12.07, IGU C12.25, and ACLA

Under the aegis of Asian Urban Research Association (AURA) and Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI), an International Conference was organised, in which a full session on “City, Society, Heritage and Cultural Landscape” under the chairmanship of Rana P.B. Singh was held on 29 December 2013. In this session ten papers were presented on the interrelated themes by scholars from China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Singapore, and Turkey. The focus of the papers were: Sensing Banaras in a frame of Inclusive Heritage Development Programme (Rana P.B. Singh), Ayodhya, Faizabad: Evolving Cultural and Heritage Landscapes (S. Kumar and Rana Singh), Intersectionality of Gender and Migration and its Socio-cultural Consequences (S. Singh and A. Singh), Heritage Protection Models for Symbolically Embedded Domestic Architecture: Comparing Russian and Chinese Practices (D. Zueva), the Historical construction and transmission of the stigma of Shanghai Shantytown (Jun-fun Wu), Measuring Social Capital with Emphasis on the Contribution of Public Spaces: A Case study of Songhor City (H. Komasi), Quality of Walking in Public Space of Tehran (N.M. Sohrabi), City, Society and Culture in the Era of Information Communication and Technology (R. Rachmawati), Public Housing, Urban Culture and Singapore Society (K.C. Ho), and A Place Called McCluskiegunge (R. Dhussa).

The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet’s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population, living in some of its oldest and densest urban centres. It encompasses some of the world’s oldest civilizations and colonisations, and today contains some of the world’s fastest growing urban centres and economies like China and India. As such Asian urban landscapes create concomitant imagery – polarizations of poverty and wealth, blurred lines between formality and informality, and stark juxtapositions of ancient historic places with shimmering new skylines – where continuity and absorption of traditions and modernities go hand-in-hand and resultantly visualised, realised, experienced and exposed in its varieties and distinct cultural landscapes.

In his welcome and concluding addresses Rana P.B. Singh (BHU India) has emphasised that for architects and urbanists both in Asia and the West, the term “Asia” often suggests a loosely defined land mass along the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The oldest examples of urban cultural space are Asia’s virgin landscapes, whose patterns emerge as much from socio-religious beliefs as pragmatic responses to climate, landscapes and geography. Here one finds the ruins of one of the world’s earliest planned cities, Mohenjodaro (2600 BCE), with a citadel designed not around an agora or piazza, but a great public bath as its communal space. One finds the ruins of Parsa (Persepolis), the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid dynasty in circa 515 BCE in Iran, as well as those of China’s first metropolis, Changan, built to the northwest of modern Xian, with an area of around 35 square kilometres, probably equalled only by Rome in size. These all sites have maintained continuity and change and also having imprints of superimpositions, thus they all converge into mosaicness, which to be studies through the interdisciplinary lenses of multiple layers. It is realised that with the cooperation of the ACLA, IGU C12.07 and IGU 12.25 the joint mission will succeed in creating a basic database of cultural landscapes in Asian Region and also to build a strong and extensive network of relevant experts that help in the UNO Mission for declaring 2016 as Year of Global Understanding.

For further interaction, please contact:

Prof. Rana P.B. Singh Vice-President: ACLA Asian Cultural Landscape Association Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.07 ‘Cultural Approach in Geography’ Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.25 ‘Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning’ & Professor of Geography, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA Email: [email protected]

Asian Cultural Landscape Association, ACLA [Dec. 2012]: Mission, Vision, Programmes, Reports, Furure Events; June 2016. 17 Updated-revised: 01 March 2014.

5. International Seminar: 7~9 February 2014. “Banaras, the Heritage City of India: Culture, Tourism and Development” Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A Report: Envisioning IGU C12.07, IGU C12.25 and ACLA.

In a way, the city of Banaras is perceived as an intellectual laboratory of humanity where any aspects of life, from past to future, tradition to modernity, chaos to order, realization to revelation, perspectives to prospects, illusion to vision, death to life, displacement to settlement, … and so on, .. can easily be seen, envisioned, portrayed, purveyed, and also presented a model frame for step forward in understanding and co-sharing by making bridge between locality and universality, and also between humanity and divinity. This Seminar was the 7th one in the chains of seminars on Banaras/ Varanasi, and was intended to offer an opportunity to discuss, debate and analyse the problems plaguing the emerging issues of the heritage city of Banaras and to work out potentiality for the more rational, applicable and acceptable future prospect, especially in the light of inclusive development programmes, ‘Master Plan 2011-2031’ in operation and related environmental and sustainable strategies in coming future.

Altogether 24 papers were presented in six sessions: History, Images and cultural representation (3 papers), Landscapes, Heritagescapes and Urban Ecology (3 papers), Pilgrimages & Tourism (3 papers), Land use, Environmental status, and planning (4 papers), Evolving Nature of Urban Society (5 papers), and Urban Governance (2 papers). In his welcome address Rana P.B. Singh emphasised the meso-cosmic frame of the city and called for enjoying the lifeworld of Banaras – unique and distinct – carefreeness (mauj-masti) and cosmic (brahamandiya). The participants, excluding India and local, included from Austria (Bäumer), Germany (Petra, Joerg), Switzerland (Beat), Norway (Tove and Halldit), U.S.A. (Mitchell, and Oltman), Spain (Alvaro), Italy (Paolo), Sri Lanka (Widyalankara). Three university teams of research students participated in various discourses were Long Island University, U.S.A., Oslo University, Norway, and School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.

In her keynote address Prof. Bettina Bäumer, an iconic scholar of Hindu symbolism and aesthetics, has finally warned: “It is a change of attitudes and priorities not only in the minds of the authorities, but of each responsible citizen of Banaras, that is now required, a return to the timeless spiritual and cultural values for which Banaras has been standings for. If we do not wake up now, it may be too late.” The chief guest Prof. D.P. Singh, a legendry figure in mineralogy and emeritus professor in the IIT-BHU, has further evoked for re-orientation in environmental sensitivity and educational awakening that my help in making mass cadres of youth who are the future carriers.

A fresh light was shed on narration of Varanasi in Sri Lankan historiography that expanded the horizon of studying Varanasi through diffusion of Buddhism, examining a narrative of how history was recorded in indigenous literature interpreting events and people of the pre Christian era, and further how since the 7th century onwards have created a Varanasi a strong linkage in image making (ref. Widyalankara). In a metaphysical purview Paulo narrates that “more than ever the invisible city of Banaras seems to constitute the epicentre where the invisibility of the contemporary world converges, and therefore, more than ever, it is the images of Banaras, that is to say, its maps, its special geographical

charts, its cosmic diagrams which, integrating the various, dispersed images of the world can show us new forms of orientation in this general invisibility.” These all sites have maintained continuity and change and also having imprints of superimpositions.

It is realised that with the cooperation of the ACLA, IGU C12.07 and IGU 12.25 the joint mission will succeed in creating a basic database of cultural and heritage landscapes for the heritage city of Banaras, as an example, and also to build a strong and extensive network of relevant experts that help in the UNO Mission for declaring 2016 as Year of Global Understanding. The recommendatory report and concluding remarks were presented by the Secretay-General of the Seminar, Prof. Ravi S. Singh, email: [email protected]

For further interaction, please contact: Prof. Rana P.B. Singh Vice-President: ACLA Asian Cultural Landscape Association Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.07 ‘Cultural Approach in Geography’ Member, Steering Committee, IGU C12.25 ‘Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning’ & Professor of Geography, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA Email: [email protected]


6. Report

3rd ACLA – Asian Cultural Landscape Association

International Symposium on “Waterfront Asian cultural Landscape”

SNU Seoul, Rep. Korea: 07- 09 October 2014; under the aegis of Urban Greening Institute, SNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The 2014 ACLA symposium entitled “Waterfront Asian Cultural Landscape” was held during 7~9 October 2014, at the Seoul National University in Korea with the participation of international scholars and students from various parts of Asia and Europe, including Austria (1), P.R. China (1), Hong Kong - China (1), India (2), Indonesia (6), Korea (3), and Thailand (3). This year, seventeen papers were divided into three themes and presented during two-day symposium; (i) Waterfront Cultural Landscape, (ii) Human Settlement, and (iii) Religion and Symbolism.

The focus of papers were: Sustainable Waterfront Cultural Landscape in Korea: The Case of Hahwe Village (Sung-Kyun Kim), To an Integrated Management of Urban River Landscapes-What Have We Learned about Restoration and Flood Risks Reduction in Central Europe? (Jurgen Breuste), Waterfront Community Landscape of the Bang Pakong River: Identity, Transformation and Co-existence (Siriwan Silapacharanan), From Canals to Streets: Spatial Transformation of Jakarta (Euis Puspita Dewi), Potential Futures: The Changing Cultural Landscape of Yangon’s Waterfront (Melesa Cate Christ), Riverfront Development – Old and New in the Urban Context: Case Study of Riverfront Gomti at Lucknow, India (Vipul B. Varshney), History and Experience: the Transformation of Urban Land Use from Traditionality to Modernity: A Study of the Old Shanghai Town and Its Creek Landscape (J.F. Wu), A Modern Transformation of Cultural Landscape along the Hangang Rier in Seoul City (Je-Hun Ryu), Megalithic Culture with Water Management Systems of Ancient Urban in Northern Thailand (Suparp Tajai), From Heritage to Landscape: The Strategy for Conservation of Bugun-Dang, Traditional Ritual Space along the Han-River, for Local Communities in Seoul (J.B. Woo), The influence of Muludan Tradition on the Spatial of Cultural Landscape, at the KratonKanoman Cirebon, Indonesia (Dini Rosmalia), Waterfront Landscape Patterns in Uthai Thani District (Natsiporn Sangyuan), Redesign of Urban Riverfront Park to Support Old Colonial Type of Bridge in Bogor Indonesia (Nurul Najmi), Boat Pattern on Landscape of Baubau City, a Phylosophy Design by Ancestor (Ray March Syahadat), Panchakosi Narmada Parikrama “Parikramas as medium to experience landscape” (Sonal Tiwari), The Phenomenon of Temporality Public Open Space Utilization for Community in Jakarta, Indonesia (Siti Sujatini), and The “Green Bridge” Concept: Relating High Density Settlement to Ciliwung River (Tri Utomo Z. Noviandi).

In his welcoming address, Sung-Kyun Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) emphasised that creating sustainable waterfront landscape might be the most important aspects of Asian cultural landscapes and encouraged all the participants to exchange their ideas and share expertise for cultural landscape at the symposium. In his presentation, Korean traditional villages which created very unique waterfront cultural landscape were introduced. In the environmental and economic sustainablility, he analysed traditional waterfront cultural landscape emphasizing that the basic geographic form of the Korean pung-su was symbolizing the concept of ecological watershed considering mountain and water together. The social sustainability was analysed from common community places of the waterfront such as waterfront pine grove and big and old zelkova trees. The aesthetic sustainability was analysed from traditional conceptualized beautiful landscape, such as gyeong and gok from a nujeong which is often located on the waterfront rock and hills. He concluded that Koean traditional waterfront cultural landscape was very significant for the future sustainable planning and development and that we had to shed new light on the traditional cultural landscape form this point.

The keynote address entitled “The Role of Water Resources in Shaping the Cultural Landscape in Indonesia: Some Experiences” was given by Siti Nurisyah (Indonesian Society of Landscape Architecture, Indonesia. In her presentation, almost all human settlements in Indonesia were located near the water bodies mainly on the side of river banks and coastal areas. Depending on water quality and problems of water bodies, the way that people live adapted to those water conditions. Their cultural elements, such as settlement lay out, house form and architecture, home yard, house materials and tools, farm land use, local market, transportation mode were created based


on their surrounding environmental conditions. About 400 types of ethnic groups in Indonesia had also shaped various type and uniqueness of water based cultural landscape in the island country. She concluded that almost all of these types of water-based cultural landscapes, philosophically as well as physically and emotionally, needed to be researched, published, preserved and registered by national government and international committee for guarantee on their sustainability to support historical and cultural identity and treasures.

An European participant, Jurgen Breuste (Paris-Lodron University, Austria) presented “To an Integrated Management of Urban River Landscapes - What Have We Learned about Restoration and Flood Risks Reduction in Centeral Europe?” In his presentation, urban rivers needed space for natural development, flood protection and provided necessary nature contact for urban dwellers. The urban river landscapes showed that urban ecosystems depend on natural processes and management of these was essential. He evaluated the different steps of management regarding their effectiveness and developed rules and methods for an effective design and risk management of urban river landscape. Two trends were identified, restoration of urban waterfronts and flood risk management. For both trends European examples, the Munich Isar Restoration Plan, Germany, and the Elbe river flood management in Dresden, Germany, was analysed and evaluated. It showed that how generally prepared the cities were for restoration and urban flooding, what management they did to reduce flood risks, to manage the actual floods and to develop urban river landscapes for urban dwellers. The activities of management for restoration and after the floods to consolidate the urban river landscapes were described as examples to learn for Asian cities.

In the student session on the second day of the symposium, Siti Sujatini (University of Persada, Indonesia) presented “The Phenomenon of Temporality Public Open Space Utilization for Community in Jakarta, Indonesia”. In her presentation, she started to address a lot of problems occurred in Jakarta due to a high enough density, neglected public open spaces, etc. She observed the utilization of public open space for community in Paseban Kampong as dense residential area and Taman Fatahilah as urban space. Through the research of literature and journals, qualitative approach of data collection to study of empirical and descriptive about the phenomenon of public open space utilization, she concluded that sustainable temporary public open spaces could be achieved with the presence of people empowerment and development of the region with the concept of waterfront.

For the technical excursion (9 October 2014), the participants visited the UNESCO Heritage site of the folk village of Hahwe and its environs. Led by Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim (Seoul National University, Korea), they experienced the valuable Korean culture such as preserved old style architecture, clan based folk traditions, and pavilions, etc. The participants also had opportunity to visit Mungyeong Traditional Chasabal (Ceramic) Festival, where they could encounter the legacy of the traditional Korean pottery and houses. As the last event of the symposium, they visited the Bongyudongcheon Garden to experience the sacred elements of rocks, vegetations, the flow of water, and alignments of sites and all together planted a Phoenix tree which used be the food for the legendary bird, Phoenix, which is the symbol of the Garden “Bongyudongcheon”. For further interaction, please contact one of us, of course CC to other one:


President, KILA (Korean Institute of Landscape Architects), Delegate Elect, IFLA Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA. Tel.: +82-2-880-4872. Fax: +82-2-873-5113. CP: 82-10-6700-2121. E-mail: [email protected]



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ICOMOS International Conference on “Toward Understanding the Outstanding Universal Value of Religious Heritage”

hosted by the Steering Committee for the Nomination of the Traditional Buddhist Mountain Temples of Korea as UNESCO World Heritage and arranged by ICOMOS Korea: 23rd ~ 25th April 2015, Seoul, R. KOREA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The ICOMOS International Conference, hosted by the Steering Committee for the Nomination of the Traditional Buddhist Mountain Temples of Korea as UNESCO World Heritage and arranged by ICOMOS Korea (President: Prof. Ms. RII Hae Un), was attended by the invited representatives of ICOMOS and specialist of the Religious World Heritage Sites. The specialists included from Buddhism (Korean, Sri Lankan), Judaism (Israel), Hinduism (India), Islam (Bangladesh), and Christianity (Belgium).

The inaugural address on ‘Overview on Outstanding Universal Value on Religious Heritage on the World Heritage List’ was delivered by Prof. Guo Zhan (Ex-President, ICOMOS-China), who illustrated examples from all parts of the world and explained the various facets of religious sites and their universal values. The presentation and discourses included issue of the Process of nominating Religious Heritage on the World Heritage List in terms of Outstanding Universal Value (Prof. Ms. Britta Rudolff, Germany), the Christianity related World Heritage Sites (Prof. Thomas Coomans, Belgium), Value of Judaism Heritage on the World Heritage List (Prof. Michael Turner, Israel), Outstanding Value of Buddhism Mountain Temples and justification for their inscription on World Heritage List (Prof. Sang Hae Lee, Korea), Heritage Value of Religious Sites and Built Archetypes in Hinduism (Prof. Rana P.B. Singh, India), Buddhist Heritage Sites of Sri Lanka (Mr. Thilak Kumara Wijesinghe, Sri Lanka), Value of Islam Heritage on the World Heritage List (Prof. Sharif Shams Imon, Macau-China/ Bangladesh). The overall linkages and synthesis of all the papers and their reference withy respect to understand and evaluate the Religious Heritage Sites was presented by Prof. Hae Un Rii (President, ICOMOS-Korea), followed with with brainstorming dialogue and discussions, moderated by Prof. Jae Heon Choi (Secretary-General ICOMOS-Korea). Over fifty other participants, members of the ICOMOS-Korea and other institutions also actively participated.

As representative of ACLA Prof. Rana P.B. Singh have especially discussed, illustrating slide-show, the issue of considering “the Riverfront Religious Heritage of Varanasi in the purview of World Heritage Site and Cultural Landscape” for further evaluation and highlighting its relevance and universal values to get it inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and further putting the city in the list of World Heritage City. Known as the most Sacred city for Hindus and Cultural capital of India, Varanasi needs reappraisal in this context. He has also lamented for putting Varanasi at the margin, while proposing dossier for enlisting in the World Heritage City of the UNESCO, referring highlights of the Delhi’s dossier that focuses on Old Delhi’s Shahjahanabad area that served as the capital under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan from 1638 to 1648, and the British capital planned by architect Edwin Lutyens; this was prepared in February 2014, and finally after approval by the ICOMOS evaluation experts in October 2014, already submitted to UNESCO, expecting that by June 2015 the final decision with favour will be declared. There is a little hope in this situation that the Riverfront Varanasi may compete with! The experts that attended the present Conference were very sympathetic to this condition. Unfortunately, till date no final dossier has been prepared for the sacred city of Varanasi (that may emphasise the Riverfront Heritage and the Old City Sacred Landscapes).*

Two days special field visits have been performed. On 23 April by bus the participants paid visit to the two monastery-cum-temple sites of Buddhism in the Mountain region of Korea, viz. Beopjusa Temple and Monastery, and Magoksa Temple and Monastery. These sites are now in the process of getting inscribed in the World Heritage List. At both of these sites special discourses with experts were organised on the scaling of religious heritage sites and their further implication in development. On 25 April, the group visited two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the city of Seoul, i.e. Changdeok-gung Palace, and Jongmyo Shrine, the later one was also supervised by Prof. Sung-


Kyun Kim, the President- ACLA. The experiences of these sites have been helpful in further comprehending the understanding of religious heritage and their role in universal understanding.

Prof. Rana P.B. Singh (India) was invited as special guest of honour by Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim (President, ACLA – Asian Cultural Landscape Association, SNU Seoul, Korea) in the evening of 25 April 2015 in the deliberations of the Korean Landscape Poetry Eve, sponsored by Tagore Society of Korea founded by ‘Padmshri’ Ms. Kim Yang-Shik in 1983, where I presented a PPT slide-show on cultural linkages between Korea and India, reminding that according to a Korean book written in the 11th Century “History of three Kingdoms” (Sam Kuk Yusa) in the year CE 48, an Indian princess by name Huh Hwang-Ho (her Korean name), came to Korea from Ayodhya (India) on receiving a divine revelation, who was sent on a sea voyage to the Silla dynasty of Karaka kingdom in southern Korea to marry with King Kim Suro, who was the great king and founder of the Karaka/Kaya kingdom (ruins exist at present Kimhe city) that established Buddhism in Korea. I also recited Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poem, “Lamp of the East” that he wrote to inspire Korean freedom fighters, and published in the Dong-A Ilbo newspaper on 2nd April 1929:

“In the Golden Age of Asia, Korea was one of the lamp-bearers.

That lamp waits to be lighted once again for the illumination of the East.”



President, KILA (Korean Institute of Landscape Architects), Delegate Elect, IFLA Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA. Tel.: +82-2-880-4872. Fax: +82-2-873-5113. CP: 82-10-6700-2121. E-mail: [email protected]


* This address, in extended and elaborated form, is recently published [feel free to ask author for a copy]:

Singh, Rana P.B. 2015. Heritage Value of Religious Sites and Built Archetypes: The Scenario of Hinduism, and illustrating the Riverfront Varanasi; [A special address in the ICOMOS-UNESCO Conference, Seoul, Korea: 24 April 2015]. Aatmbodh, the Journal of Knowledge of

Self (ISSN: 0972-1398. RSMT, U.P. College, Varanasi), vol. 12 (1), Spring 2015: pp. 1 - 24. Pdf <430.15a> ; see Web: https://banaras.academia.edu/RanaPBSINGH/Papers/

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8. Report

4th ACLA International Symposium on “Agricultural Landscapes of Asia: Learning, Preserving, and Redefining” Udayana University, Bali- Indonesia: 11~13 Sept. 2015; under the aegis of School of Landscape Architecture, Udayana University, Denpasar-Bali, Indonesia. Web: http://balicls.unud.ac.id/ Venue: Hotel Puri Ayu: Puri Agung Pemecutan, Bali, Indonesia, 3rd Floor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This Symposium event has been a forum for participants to share, discuss, and debate on any issues in regards to the varieties and distinctions of Asian agricultural landscapes. Hopefully starting from this symposium event, a forum concerning Agricultural Landscapes of Asia can be endorsed in near future that can formulate a new paradigm in viewing the Agricultural Landscapes of Asia and contribute to enrich an understanding and knowledge on agricultural system.

It is perceived that human culture starts from being gatherer, hunter, plants and animals domestication until nowadays they become the creator of a sophisticated technology. Up to present moment, human being still depends on agricultural sector to fulfil their nutrition. Product from agricultural is still the main source for food, medicine, and other uses that support human daily life. However, we all aware that there is a competition on land use between agriculture and settlement. There is also an alarming tendency in some Asia countries about transforming the agriculture knowledge and wisdom that relates to the community culture to the young generation. Agriculture sector is not a popular profession for the young people, in spite of its necessity for the human life.

The following three major themes and the sub-themes are taken into consideration: Learning:

• Sustainable practices and heritages of agricultural landscapes • Tangible-intangible heritage scenario of agricultural landscapes, nature-culture interfaces,

types of farming practices • The architecture of rice-farming settlement • Conflicts and matters in agricultural landscapes and practices

Preserving:

• Local genius system of agricultural landscapes like rice fields, spirit of places • Remarkable and distinct attributes of agricultural landscapes, and their regional typologies, and

the cultural milieus • Biodiversity and natural conservation among the agricultural landscapes • Culture, planning and the conservation of the paddy’s landscape

Redefining:

• Resilience of agricultural landscape and associated cultural practices


• Empowering farming community in respect to agricultural landscapes, rural-urban linkages • Economic benefits of rice farming: current practices and prospect for sustainability • Transferring practical and ritual knowledge of agricultural community to young people • Positioning agricultural landscapes among interests

The opening ceremony started on 11 September at 9.15AM by Balinese dance, and welcome

speeches by the Dean, F/o Agriculture Prof. I Nyoman Rai, the Rector of the Udayana University Prof.Dr.dr. Ketut Suastika, and President ACLA Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim (address given in the followed up sequence). After Coffee Break, 03 keynote speeches performed. Prof. Heiko Faust (Germany) narrated the critical appraisal of the frame of cultural landscapes and its present practices, illustrated with examples from different parts of the world. Prof. Surya Adiwibowo (Indonesia) has shown the history and culture of agricultural landscapes in Bali. And, Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim (Korea) has elaborated the themes of cultural landscapes in general, and history and vision of ACLA highlighting the accomplishments and the plans. The Organising Chairperson Ms Naniek Kohdrata (School of Landscape Architecture, Udayana University), has presented the outline and schedules of the programme.

Altogether seventeen papers arranged into 6 thematic sections were presented in two days Symposium. The twenty presentators represented the six countries, viz. Indonesia (8), Thailand (4), India (3), Korea (2), Japan (2), Sri Lanka (1); and the 05 keynote speakers were: Prof. Heiko Faust (Institute of Geography, University of Gottingen, Germany), Dr. Soeryo Adiwibowo (Bogor Agricultural University, IPB Darmaga, Bogor, Indonesia), Prof. Wayan Windia (Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University - Bali, Indonesia), Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim (President - ACLA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea), and Prof. Rana P.B. Singh (Vice-Preident ACLA, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

A good mass of researchers and senior students of Landscape Architecture from Udayana University actively participated, including 06 moderators for each of the sessions and some observers and recorders. Altogether there were around 90 persons. The 4th ACLA Symposium has provided opportunity to understand more closely the interfaces among the cultural landscapes of South, South-east and the East Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea), with special emphasis on learning, redefining and preserving cultural landscapes. All the sessions at the end were followed by brain storming discussion, and each one is handled by a moderator.

Session 1: Learning, consisted of three papers: 1. Tourist Preference of Lodok Rice Field, the Spiderweb Rice Field from Manggarai (Indonesia) by Balqis Nailufar (Indonesia); 2. The Laying Out a Water Control System in A Rice Field: Lampang Province, Thailand by Chetsadaphong Lertvilairut (Thailand); and 3. Fostering and Organizing a System of Human Resources to Encourage Local Groups to Care for the Land: A Study of an Australian Model with a View to Learning from this for the Benefit of Japanese Rural Areas by Tomomi Maekawa (Japan).

Session 2: Learning, where two papers presented: 1. Agricultural culture of Labalawa at Baubau Municipality: has it significant value? by Nuraini (Indonesia); 2. Interfaces of Hindu Pilgrimage routes and Agricultural Landscapes: A study of Ayodhya by Sarvesh Kumar and Rana P.B. Singh (India).

Session 3: Redefining, consisted of three presentations: 1. The Real Subak – Integrated Organic Farming as Tri Hita Karana Manifesto Show Case: Subak Blongyang, Megati Village, East Selemadeg District, Region of Tabanan by Anita Syafitri Arif (Indonesia); 2. Klong Bang Luang Canal Front Fruit Orchard and Agricultural Landscape: The Transformation and Resilience of the Old Community to Urbanization Threats by Ariya Aruninta (Thailand); and 3. Place making in Tea plantations: Case of Nuwara - Eliya Sri Lanka by Chandana Shrinath Wijetunga (Sri Lanka/ Korea).

On 12 September in the morning session, 9.00~10.30, three keynote addresses delivered: by Prof. Shozo Shibata (Kyoto) has critically illustrated the grassroots of cultural landscapes in various Asian, mentioning the similarities, contrasts and uniqueness; Prof. I. Wayan Windia (Indonesia) illustrasted the vernacular landscapes, environmental attachments and various ritualscapes that has inherent meanings of understanding spirit of place; and Prof. Rana P.B. Singh (B.H.U., India), has


emphasised the cultural landscapes of India (especially village landscapes) and compared its close links with Bali, mentioning the Hindu culture.

Session 4: Redefining, consists of three presentations: 1. The Impact of Population Growth to the Environment and Subak Culture: A case study in Tabanan, Bali by I Nyoman Wardi (Indonesia), 2. Empowering Farming Community in Respect to Water Resource Management of the Underground River in Pucung Village, Eromoko, Wonogiri, Central Java by Priyono (Indonesia), and 3. Culture Interface of Agricultural Landscape of the Warlis, India by Vipul B. Varshneya (India).

Session 5: Preserving, consists of three papers: 1. Agro-fisheries culture, a Bunisari Village Local Wisdom by Bayuanggara Cahya Ramadhan (Indonesia), 2. Lakes Restoration for Bali Agricultural Landscape Sustainability Show Case: Lake Bulian, Region of Buleleng by Ni Luh Kartini (Indonesia), and 3. Agricultural Settlement Landscape in Central Plain of Thailand by Siriwan Silapacharanan (Thailand)

Session 6: Preserving, consisted of 2 presentations: 1. The Rice in ritual and myth: Northern Thailand by Suparp Tajai (Thailand), and 2. Conservation of Rural Landscape from the Rural Amenity Point of View: A Case of Gyeongsangbuk-Do by Yeon-Su Ryu (Korea).

In the afternoon, Closing ceremony held by joint declaration of Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim, President-ACLA and Prof. Rana P.B. Singh, Vice-President ACLA. Special thanks is casted to Ms Naniek Kohdrata (School of Landscape Architecture, Udayana University), who as a colleage and Chairman of the Organising Committee of the 4th ACLA Symposium put her energy, insight and devotion for the great success of this Symposium. In the later afternoon a city tour was conducted to experience Plaza Vishnu-Garuda temple, and Jimbaran beach – sunset, and sea-food gala dinner.

13 Sept. Field tour was organised to visit and walked in the Batukaru mountain temples, and Jatiluwih rice terraces, and Taman Ayun ancient temple complexes (all Unesco sites). 07.45AM by bus field tour to Batukaru mountain temple (8.00-9.15AM), a part of group of Unesco Cultural heritage site, walked around, all of us took many photographs, having discourses with local scholars; <10.45-12.15> Jatiluwih rice terrace in Subak region (also Unesco Cultural heritage site), walked in the valley and hill -150m down-up, seen splendour scene of terraced rice fields; <1.15~2.15PM> Balinese Lunch (fish, chicken, tofu, salad, pakora, rice, biryani, fried chicken, fruits, etc) at Lababa Restaurant in Pacung (Baturiti) village; continued journey to Taman Ayun temple (another Unesco cultural heritage site), a compound of several historical monuments, shrines and golden polished temples, cock-fighting hall, series of pagoda temples (1-2-3-5-7-9-11-9-7 series of pagodas in a cosmogonic design); while returning back we stopped at Pusat Oleh-Oleh Bali Souvenir shop at Jl. Nusa, Kambangan (Denpasar-Bali), walked around and purchased some things. Chairperson, Organizing Committee, 4th ACLA Symposium at Bali: 11~13 September 2015. (Ms.) Naniek Kohdrata, SP., MLA. Study Program of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, Kampus Bukit Jimbaran, Denpasar, Bali, 80361 INDONESIA. Email: [email protected] ; [email protected] Any other enquiry: Email: [email protected] ; Web: http://balicls.unud.ac.id/ For further interaction, please contact one of us, of course CC to other one:


President, KILA (Korean Institute of Landscape Architects), President, APELA Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA. Tel.: +82-2-880-4872. Fax: +82-2-873-5113. CP: 82-10-6700-2121. E-mail: [email protected]



4th ACLA International Symposium on “Agricultural Landscapes of Asia: Learning, Preserving, and Redefining”: 11 Sept. 2015. Welcome Welcome Welcome Welcome Address:Address:Address:Address: the President of ACLA the President of ACLA the President of ACLA the President of ACLA

Our dear Colleagues and Friends of ACLA,

On behalf of the ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association, I am pleased to welcome you all to the 2015 4th ACLA International Symposium at Udayana University in Bali, Indonesia: 11th~13th September 2015 <Friday-Saturday-Sunday>.

The ACLA is an international non-profit organization devoted to understanding the Asian cultural landscapes from an Asian point of view, and conserving and developing the Asian cultural landscape through sharing of knowledge and international collaboration.

Each year, ACLA organizes and hosts the Annual International Symposium. The goals of the symposium are: to review the existing cultural landscapes from an Asian perspective, to share ideas and experiences about cultural landscapes from different Asian countries, and to find better future solutions for landscape planning and conservation to fit Asian cultures. In keeping with the broad goals of the ACLA, we have decided this year’s symposium theme as “Agricultural Landscapes of Asia: Learning,

Preserving, and Redefining.” Agricultural Landscape is one of the most common Asian cultural landscapes. In Asia, similar cultivation and production methods still prevail, such as paddy fields, terraced paddy fields and aquaculture. It includes watershed management, irrigation networks, pond systems, and various waterway diversion facilities. Agricultural landscape in Asia is a complete ecosystem that combines human and nature harmoniously, and it needs conservation.

People in Asia have settled down as farmers and adapted themselves to their natural surroundings. In passage of time, through these traditional life-styles, sustainable methods of living have been created. This Symposium has been organized to exchange these sustainable and adaptive ideas on this subject with participants from various countries in our region. It is not only to help find solutions to the problems faced by rural areas in the Asia, but also to define the future direction of rural development and ecological sustenance in Asia.

This Symposium has been organized to exchange these sustainable and adaptive ideas on this subject with participants from various countries in Asia. It is not only to help find solutions to the problems faced by rural areas in Asia, but also to define the future direction of rural development and ecological sustenance in Asia.

For this purpose, Bali is the ideal place for the Symposium on agricultural cultural landscapes. Bali has an archetypal cultural landscape with terraced rice paddies using the Subak system, already inlisted in the UNESCO World Heritage List. I confidently hope that you have opportunities to explore, to experience and interface the cultural and historical richness of Bali through co-sharing, mutual interactions and field experiences.

Your participation in this Symposium is a vital energy to the success of the future actyivities of the ACLA. I certainly believe that the Symposium will bear fruitful results and lay firm groundwork for the future development and services of the ACLA.

Welcome you again, and thank you very much for cooperation and participation. Let me express our special thanks and gratutute to all the members of the Organising Committee of this Symposium who have joined their hands and put their energies with Ms Naniek Kohdrata in making this a great event.

Prof. Dr. Sung-Kyun Kim President, ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association President, KILA, Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture Professor of Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921. Re. KOREA.


A Participant’s Viewpoint, 4th ACLA Bali Symposium: 11~13 Sept. 2015

https://www.facebook.com/groups/755041287909292/ Also see the ACLA (Testimony) – YouTube, www.youtube.com

Ms. Anetha Athena (Indonesia), on the ACLA Facebook, September 27 at 9:33am, 9:28am, 9:14am, 9:08am

CONCLUSION IN ASIAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE: How and Where to Proceed

1. We need to see Asian cultural landscape through Asian point of view; 2. Cultural diversity is as important as bio diversity. We have to preserve diversity of Asian cultural

landscape; 3. Asian cultural landscapes have been sustainable. Goal of studying cultural landscape in Asia is not only

to preserve cultural landscapes well but also to look for solutions for sustainable future Asian landscape;

4. We need a forum to work on these issues.

MEANING AND AESTHETICS

1. The landscape showed the meet of Humankind of the Earth with the transcendence of Nature, and expressed through “meanings” and “aesthetics” of cultural landscape;

2. It is unified by human logic and optics, by the light and color of artifice, by decorative arrangement, by ideas of the true, and etc;

3. The ideology behind landscape aesthetic in Western tradition deals with formalist scenic landscape to ecological and phenomenological aesthetics;

4. Asian tradition emphasis is laid upon the experiences in everyday life ways and the deeper interpretation of the symbolic meanings manifested in landscape.

SUSTAINABILITY

1. Rice culture (different from nomadic culture), which permanently survived and continued staying in the same place blending in with natural surroundings, represents one of the significant identities of Asian sustainable cultural landscape;

2. This sustainable experience of traditional life-styles may be utilized in the structure plan for sustainable development in Asia landscape;

3. The dynamic, prosperity as well as multi-functionality of Asian cultural landscape can help to promote regional development other than only to be preserved and conserved;

4. Asian landscape can be developed in more unique, sustainable and integrative way without destructing these heritage landscapes.

IDENTITY

1. The time-honoured Asian countries have a long history of landscape architecture and have developed very distinctive landscape cultures;

2. In modern society those Asian landscape traditions are not well recognized and are undergoing dramatic changes as a result of rapid modernization and globalization in Asia;

3. Most of Asian landscape garden books are written by Westerners from a Eurocentric point of view; 4. We need to discuss these issues from the Asian point of view and find the identity of traditional Asian

landscapes; 5. Purpose of investigating identity lies not in defining the region-wide universality and making it

permanent in the historical sense, but rather seeking out ways to find the various differences and bringing them into the modern society with a new vision;

6. The true nature of identity is a substantial entity within the imagination of Asian people, which exists in a present progressive form and can continuously change in the future;

7. Reseaching cultural landscape will help formulate guidelines for positive changes of our future environment.

Ms. Anetha Athena September 13 · BlackBerry Smartphones App · Edited

The sustainability of farming in Asia depends on how good the spirit of the community: interdependence among the farmers, trust each others, care each others, share each others and help each others for water availability etc. Community-based Living, this is the symbol of Asian Cultural Landscape.


9. Report

1st APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum organised by The Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture (KILA) and Seoul National University (SNU) .. on “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture”: 23 ~ 25th Nov. 2015 Venue: Prugio Valley (Yeongdong-daero 337, Gangnam-gu), Seoul, Rep. Korea

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The 1st APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture, Forum was organised under the joint aegis of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture (KILA) and Seoul National University (SNU) on the focal theme - “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture”, during 23 ~ 25th (Mon-Wed) November 2015. The participants represented 17 countries, viz. Republic of Korea (20), Philippines (9), Indonesia (8), Malaysia (6), Thailand (4), India (4), Japan (3), Iran (3), Singapore (2), Vietnam (2), China PR (1), Taiwan (1), U.S.A. (1), Canada (1), Germany (1), Bangladesh (1), Australia (1); and total 70 papers/reports presented in 12 sessions (two parallel sessions, A and B, in two venues).

On Monday 23 November- morning the inauguration ceremony started with welcome address by Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim (President: APELA, KILA, & ACLA) <given in the followed up section>, messages from Mr Jai-Yeoung Lee, President - Korea Land & Housing Corp., and Mr Yong-Sik Park, President - Daewoo E&C. The keynote address was delivered by Prof. Ismail bin Said (University of Technology, Malaysia), who has presented a synergetic review and appraisal of landscape education in Asian countries, and highlighted the gaps and appraised the potential grounds for mutual cooperation among various Asian countries. On the third day, Wednesday 25 November, the participants walked around to observe, understand and experience the special street along the palace, Deosugung-gil (under the guidance of Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim, who designed the streetscape about twenty years ago), and the Wirye New Town developed by Korea Land and Housing Corporation and Daewoo E&C under the guidance of their representative officers. The tour was followed by the special evening, celebrating the Farewell Party, where various groups interacted and expressed their views, and exchanged their cards too. And finally, musical concerts, toast exchanges and a lavish dinner party held, and participants expressed their deep concerns and heartfelt thanks to Prof. Sung-Kin Kim and members of his team, students and colleagues. Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim was honoured by Prof Rana P.B. Singh (India) by presenting a silk shawl as a token of appreciation and love.


The focal themes was divided into TWO broad Sections, A and B. Section A aimed to create the leading platform for business networking and knowledge sharing for the Asia-Pacific landscape industry. Section B aimed to facilitate the exchange of information, experience and ideas among educators, researchers, and students in Asia-Pacific landscape architecture.

Session A1: ‘Landscape Design’ attempted to review present situation of landscape design practice in Asia-Pacific region; the nine papers included are: 1 Deoksugung-gil Pedestrian Oriented Streetscape Design (by Sung-Kyun Kim, Korea); 2 Re-enchantment of Site (Mu Xiaodong, China); 3 Strategies for Contemporary Landscape Architecture Practice in Vietnam (Nam-Son Ngo-Viet, Vietnam); 4 Singapore: From a Garden City into a City in the Garden (Maria Boey, Singapore); 5 Present and Future of Landscape Design Practice in Bangkok, Thailand (Yossapon Boonsom, (Thailand); 6 Design of Foundation for Sustainable Landscape Construction (Pingkan Nuryanti, Indonesia); 7 Insights into the Current Trend of Gardening Culture in Japan Gained Through Organizing the Gardening World Cup and Chelsea Fringe Festival in Nagoya and Fukuoka (Yuko Tanabe Nagamura, Japan); 8 The profession of Landscape Architecture in Taiwan: From the viewpoint of a practicing landscape architect (Lin Dah-Yuan, Taiwan); and 9 Restoration Scape of River Valleys Using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process: Case Study of North of Tehran- Iran (Morteza Maleki, Iran)

Session A2: ‘Public Projects and Legal System’ reviewed review present situation of policy and legal system of landscape architecture; the eight papers presented are: 1 The Present and Future of the Landscape Architecture in the Philippines (Vic Lopez Dul-loog, Philippines); 2 New Town Development of Korea (Kee Hyun Hwang, Korea); 3 Evaluation the Influence of Urban Landscape Practice in the Past, Present and Future on Urban Design in Indonesia (Febriane Paulina Makalew, Indonesia); 4 Comparative Analysis of Asian Urban Parks: A Case Study of Luneta Park, Philippines and Hong Kong Park (Joshua S. Cunanan, Philippines); 5 Multifunctional Administrative City Sejong, MAC Development Status (Nak-Seung Jung, Korea); 6 Regulated Practice of Landscape Architecture in the Philippines (Cecilia (H Tence, Philippines); 7 Gimpo Han River Wild Bird Park (Yong-Ju Lee, Korea); and 8 Nursery of Tropical Plants in Indonesia (Tati Budiarti, Indonesia).

Session A3: ‘Low Impact Development (LID)’ approached to land development that works with Nature to manage water; represented with six papers, viz. 1 Possibilities and Limitations of LID-Approach as a Solution for Urban Environmental Problems (Kyung Ho Kwon, Korea); 2 LID in Germany using the example of the city of Hamburg (Thorsten Schuetze, Germany); 3 From Conventional to Functional Landscaping: Plants in LID (Marla Maniquiz-Redillas, Philippines); 4 Development of LID-Based Urban Planning Guidelines by City Types (Young Un Ban, Korea); 5 Ecological Planning - An approach to Low Impact Development at Regional Planning & Urban Planning Stages in Indian Sub-Continent (K. Venkatesh Kumar, India); and 6 A Study on Selecting Plant Species Suitable for Vegetation-Based, Low Impact Development (LID) Facilities (Eun Yeob Lee, Korea).

Session A4: ‘Community Participation’; consisted of seven papers, i.e. 1 Creative Urban Communing and the Future of Civic Landscapes in East Asia (Jeffrey Hou, USA); 2 Community Participation to Promote Green Roofs in Japan (Ayako Nagase, Japan); 3 Semi-Public Landscape Redevelopment in Indonesia (Anita Syafitri Arif, Indonesia); 4 Luntiang Pook: The Grassroots Approach of the Pala-Ncca Landscape Design, Project for Healthy Earthy Communities (Cathe Desiree S. Nadal, Philippines); 5 Current Green Space Conservation Activities by Citizens in Japan and Participation Promotion Policies for the Realization of Multi-generational Exchange (Yui Takase, Japan); 6 Present and Future of Community Participation in Bangkok, Thailand: LanKilaPhat Park & Friends of the River (Yossapon Boonsom, Thailand); and 7 Looking Back on the Development of Community Participation Design in Korea through 'Hanpyeong Park Project' (Yeun-Kum Kim, Korea).

Session A5: ‘Landscape Construction’, represented with two papers, i.e. 1 The Methods of Planting Site Preparation by Giant Tree Transplanting (Dong Suk Lee, Korea); and 2 The Prevention of Landscape Tree Defect through Pest Control Prevention Techniques (Seung Jae Lee, Korea).

Session A6: ‘Landscape Facilities and Materials’, exposed in two papers, i.e. 1 The Introduction of Eco-Top Biz-Plan - Water Penetrable Paving Block & 3D Paving Block (Kyung Young Cho, Korea); and 2 Soil Improvement for Reducing CO2 Concentration Using Biochar Bead (Ho Chul Lee, Korea).

Session B1: ‘Landscape Education (Curriculum standards)’ covered seven themes as discussed in

case studies: 1 Landscape Architecture Education in Bogor Agricultural University, An effort to increase education outcome (Bambang Sulistyantara, Indonesia); 2 State of the Landscape Architecture Program in the Philippines (Zenaida DC. Galingan, Philippines); 3 Education of Landscape Architecture in Iran Universities (Amin Mahan, Iran); 4 The Environmental Benefits of Plant Composition in the


Agrisilviculture Sub-system of Oil Palm Small Holdings Practices (Nor Zalina Harun, Malaysia); 5 The Introduction of Korea University Landscape Architecture Program (Jin Hyung Chon, Korea); 6 Advanced Landscape Architecture Education in Singapore (Tan Puay Yak, Singapore); and 7 Designing Urban Contexts: Research on the thematic mapping & Students experiences in the International Workshops (Hangjoon Gio, Korea).

Session B2: ‘Landscape Education (Research & Journal)’ represented in ten papers, viz. 1 The Asia-Pacific Vision of Environment-Landscape Architecture: Envisioning Sacredscapes and Cosmolity (Rana P.B. Singh, India); 2 From French “Indochina Style” to “Vietnam Style” (Thai Nguyen Huu, Vietnam); 3 Concerns of Children's Environment Research for Landscape Architectural Education (Ismail Said, Malaysia); 4 Soil Conservation Management for Sustainable Mountain Development (Althea Lisbet Labrador, Philippines); 5 Role of Ecosystem Services toward Landscape Development for Malaysian Cities and Towns (Lee Bak Yeo, Malaysia); 6 A Research Strategy of Environmental Control Engineering for the Architectural Greenery System (Tae Han Kim, Korea); 7 “New Learning Environment” a Strategy to Win back Campus Green (Apinya Limpaiboon, Thailand); 8 Present and Future Curriculum of Landscape Architecture Education in Indonesia (Afra DN Makalew, Indonesia); 9 Teaching and Learning Practices of Landscape Urban Design Studio in Malaysian Universities (Nor Zalina Harun, Malaysia); and 10 Publication of Landscape Studies in a SCI(E) Journal - Landscape and Ecological Engineering (Young Keun Song, Korea).

Session B3: ‘Landscape Architect Association Summit’, was chaired by Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim, and was represented by a nominated delegate from each of the twelve representative countries having discourses, dialogues and evaluation of the associations’ programmes and activities, and vision for the future.

Session B4: ‘Student Workshop (Design & Research)’ projected in seven papers:- 1 The Future of Ciliwung River: It's Time to Move on from The Current Stigma! (Sulistio Widya Ramadhanty, Indonesia); 2 Community Participation Designing a Better Community (Sirintra Vanno, Thailand); 3 Modern Road Covered Heritage (Yongjae Shin, Korea); 4 Understanding Cultural Ecosystem Services for Tourism Use (Yasmina Azriani, Indonesia); 5 Green Infrastructure at Cities of Bangladesh: From Yesterday to Tomorrow a Review (Shamsad Firdous, Bangladesh); 6 Forest Revitalization: A Forest Resource Management Plan for the Sapang Anginan Sub-watershed in the Southern Sierra Madre Mountain Range (Clarence Jasper C. Agulia, Philippines); and 7 Cultural-Religious Landscape of Ayodhya (India): Continuity and Symbolism (Sarvesh Kumar, India).

Session B5: ‘Cultural Landscape’, covered in six papers, viz. 1 River Island of Majuli Cultural Landscape and Living Traditions (G.S.V. Suryanarayana Murthy, India); 2 Cultural Landscape of Littoral Space in Bali (Gusti Ayu Made Suartika, Indonesia); 3 Indigenous Countryside Development: The UPCA EDS Landscape Planning Process with the Sitio Kanawan Aetas of Mt. Natib, Bataan (Jose Antonio Bimbao, Philippines); 4 Morphing Bali: The Shifting Cultural Landscape of Tradition and Capital (Alexander Cuthbert, Australia); 5 Iranian Landscape Architecture in Past, Present and Future (Seyed Mohammad Farid, Mousavian, Iran); and 6 Landscape Characteristics of Traditional Malay Village in Malaysia (Mei-Yee Teoh, Malaysia).

Session B6: ‘Council of Landscape Architecture Schools’ presented an open forum, chaired by Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim, to have interaction among the faculty members and LA practitioners in view of developing close collaboration between thought-analytical frame and the issues of practices.

In the two special Sessions (B3 and B6), open discourses were arranged for brainstorming dialogues, framing the operational structures, funtioning and finally with common consensus the following recommendations have been approved for the follow up activities:

1. considering the limitation and less impact of the IFLA in Asia-Pacific Region (APR), the APELA be enhanced for securing the purposes of the Asia-Pacific countries.

2. regular and active exchange of LA students be promoted among the APR countries in a bilateral way.

3. strategies be adopted to promote young students and researchers under the umbrella of APELA.

4. care always be taken to highlight the basics and roots of landscape architecture understanding and expositions from the APR, while replacing and marginalising the Americanophobia and Europhobia in thought and action.


5. considering the barriers of varieties and diversities of languages in APR more models, designs and schematic diagrams and such pictorial illustrations should be used for better exposition and delivery of the messages.

6. thematic Working Groups also be formed in view of highlighting regionality and locality, and linking them with universality.

7. three broad Working Groups of the LA and its associates be formed: (a) LA Faculty members, (b) LA students, and LA practitioners; further an interlinking channel among them be promoted.

8. a common bridge between APELA and ACLA also to be built for better synthesis of analysing LA and maintenance of harmonious interaction between Man and Nature interrelatedness.

9. from time to time, the members of APELA should send their views, expressions and plans that may be incorporated in the ACLA/ APELA Newsletter.

10. APELA should regularly run its Facebook and Newsletter while maintaining continuity and contemporality of studies, re-evaluation of earlier works, and progress of ongoing projects, etc.

11. LA Education and Project formation be promoted while seeking collaboration of non-Asian countries, however the tradition and roots of APR be always given priority and distinction.

12. for future meet of APELA Forum, frame, place and theme to be fixed quite in advance enabling right and focussed presentations.

13. a Journal of ACLA & APELA should be started at the earliest on the line of earlier agreement for the JACLA, while searching and contracting for publisher, editorial team and the associates, and the detailed format and style (e.g. Harvard Style of Manuel), and themes/ sub-themes and their priority.

14. interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration projects be formulated and promoted for better exposition of LA studies and practices.

15. considering collaboration with UNO Declaration of 2016 as International Year of Global Understanding, IYGU, the APELA and ACLA together should take lead in highlighting APR and its vision and messages. Also noted that already through ACLA such collaboration has been started [* see news at the beginning].

16. in a special meeting with ACLA Executive members (Kim, Said, Ryu, Singh, and Nog-Viet), it is decided to collaborate and sponsor the IGU Commission’s (C12.07 ‘Cultural Approach in Geography’) International Conference on “Cultural and Natural Heritages in a Globalizing World”, scheduled during 14 ~18 August 2016 at Korea National University of Education, Seoul (Rep. Korea), Organizer: Prof. Je-Hun RYU, email: [email protected] / [email protected] (details given separately in the sequence). The focal theme: 4 covers “Cultural landscape in an Asian Context: a front area in the heritage planning and management”, which is of special concern to the members of ACLA and APELA.

For further interaction, please contact the President APELA:

Prof. Dr. SungSungSungSung----Kyun KIMKyun KIMKyun KIMKyun KIM, Ph.D. President, APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture President, ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association; President, KILA, Korean Institute of Landscape Architects;

Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, SNU - Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA. Tel.: +82-2-880-4872. Fax: +82-2-873-5113. CP: +82-10-6700-2121. E-mail: [email protected]

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The 1st Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture, APELA, Forum

‘Present & Future of Asia Pacific Landscape Architecture’ 23 ~ 25th (Mon-Wed) November 2015, Prugio Valley, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

▪ Welcome Address by the President of APELA

The proposition that the 21st Century is the “Age of Asia” has been often mentioned. As the largest Continent on Earth, Asia is its most dynamic region in terms of economic development and change. In landscape architecture, Asian countries have a long history and have developed very distinctive landscape cultures and associated traditions and practices that have their own distinctiveness and similarities and interlinkages too. However, in modern landscape society those Asian landscape traditions are not well recognized. Moreover, these traditions are undergoing dramatic changes as a result of rapid modernization and globalization in Asia. To start with a new vigour and energy in this direction through the vision of understanding, exposition and practices of landscape architecture, the 1st APELA Forum is a call for joining hands in envisioning the deeper message from Asia-Pacific Region to ‘Global Understanding’ on the line of declaration of UNO ‘2016 – to be the International Year of Global Understanding’ (IYGU) that will focus on “Building bridges between Global thinking and Local action”. I happily declare that our parent organization ACLA has already joined hands for the good causes of IYGU, represented with some of executive members of the ACLA.

It is my pleasure to welcome distinguished participants who come from all over the Asia-Pacific Region to attend the 1st Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture (APELA) Forum. Asia possesses the most dynamic environment of regional identity and diversity in terms of economic development and change. In landscape architecture, Asian countries record a long history and have developed distinctive and diverse landscape cultures.

Since the modern landscape profession began late in Asia-Pacific Region, there is not yet any forum to discuss the issues of landscape architecture, present and future. Thus the focal theme of APELA - “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture” will enable us to exchange and share experience and ideas, and to build network and collaborate with landscape professionals in our region and ultimately providing sustainable and harmonious frame for the whole globe.

The APELA Forum is expected to inspire landscape architects around the Asia Pacific Region to become the cornerstone of and to take concrete action for the future of the landscape architectural development. This Forum will also provide a platform from all other associates dealing with landscape architecture, such as practitioners, researchers, professors, students, community leaders, representatives of national organizations, and public authorities involved in landscape development.

With grace and honour we’re hosting this 1st APELA Forum, for the noble cause of landscape architecture. On behalf of the organizing committee APELA and KILA, I welcome you all with deep sense of appreciation, and hope for a wonderful experience attending the forum, associated workshops and technical excursions, and personal discourses. And, thank you very much for your collaboration, companionship, support and friendship.

Prof. Dr. SungSungSungSung----Kyun KIMKyun KIMKyun KIMKyun KIM, Ph.D. President, APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum;

President, KILA, Korean Institute of Landscape Architects; President, ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association;

Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, SNU - Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA.


------------------------ forthcoming IGU & ACLA joint symposium ---------------------------

33rd International Geographical Congress; Beijing, China: 21~25 August 2016.

J09. Role of Heritage Sites and Cultural Landscapes in Harmonizing the World

Jointly organised by IGU Com. C12.25 Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning & IGU Com. C12.07 Cultural Approach in Geography, & ACLA Asian Cultural Landscape Association

Deadline of abstract submission: 31st March 2016

Organisers (the two Executive Members of the ACLA):

Prof. Ms. Shangyi ZHOU Member, Steering Committee IGU Comm. C12.07 Professor, School of Geography, & Head of Institute of Regional and Urban Planning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875. P. R. CHINA Te.: 86-10-58807455 ext 1627 (office) Fax: 86-10-58806955. eMail: [email protected]

Prof. Mr. Rana P.B. SINGH Member, Steering Committee IGU Comm. C12.07 Professor of Geography (spl. Cultural Geography & Heritage Studies), Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, INDIA # New F - 7, Jodhpur Colony, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA Tel.: (091)-9838 119474. eMail: [email protected]

For all details and information, please see the Web Site: http://www.igc2016.org Preamble and the Focal Sub-Themes Most of the ancient cultures, especially the Asians in the ancient past ordered the natural world on cosmological principles and shaped harmonious relation with nature. Mountains and springs, plains and rivers, were sites and channels of sacred power from historical events and timeless sacred forces. And, geographical features were inscribed by human hands to mark their sacredness in the frame of built structures. Such natural and constructed places commonly became centres of religious heritage and pilgrimage, serving as pivot of harmonizing the world through their inherent message and underpinning meanings. That is how they require special care for understanding and planning. This Session will examine the role of religious heritage sites and cultural landscapes in harmonizing the world, with emphasis on awakening the deeper sense of cultural and heritage tourism, drawing upon the perspectives of multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural 85 interfaces, beyond the world of Asia. (A) Sacred Landscape, Religious Heritage and Harmonizing the World: Evolution of sacred landscapes: textual base and contextual reality, historicity and cultural continuity; growth and representation of sacred landscapes: pilgrimage archetype and mandala; sacredscapes and cosmological principles: spatiality of time and temporality of space in the context of sacrality, sacredscape and symbolism, relevance and rationality today in harmonizing the world. (B) Ritual Landscape and Cosmogram: Ritual landscape: ritualisation process, cosmogram and complexity; cosmic geometry and cultural astronomy: geometry of time, travel genre and circulation network, hierarchy and patterns, sacred functionaries & sacred systems of network; sacred city and cosmic order, representation and identity between cultural (religious) landscape and heritage landscape. (C) Heritage Cities, Religious notions and making of Harmonious World: ‘Interfaces’ and cultural interaction: sharing the experiences of different groups from different parts of the world, role of NGOs in mass awakening, deep ecology, defining and identifying cultural heritage,


religion and cultural heritage management; planning for sacred places: heritage preservation and conservation, dynamics of change and ethical issues, social-cultural implications and public participation; issues of location, distribution and scale in spatial dimension of heritage cities; envisioning the role of religious heritage sites and cultural landscapes in harmonizing the world. FULL REGISTRATION (US Dollar $)

Early Registration fees before 15 April, 2016

Regular Registration fees 15 April – 15 July, 2016

Late Registration fees after 15 July, 2016

• Participant • 400 USD • 460 USD • 520 USD • Student • 200 USD • 230 USD • 260 USD • Accompanying Person • 150 USD • 150 USD • 150 USD Registration fees and conference dinner costs quoted include the Tax. The Registration fee includes: ● Full Registration includes: attendance to all Scientific Meeting, lunches, tea breaks, abstracts of Congress papers and Welcome Reception ● Student registration includes: attendance to all Scientific Meeting, lunches, tea breaks, abstracts of Congress papers and Welcome Reception. If you registered as a student, please attend the Congress with your student ID. IMPORTANT DATES The 33rd International Geographical Congress in Beijing, China: 21~25 Aug, 2016

Call for abstracts/papers: 15 Sep. 2015 – 31 March 2016

Evaluation of abstracts/papers by session chairperson(s)/ Notification: 31 March 2016 - 30 April 2016 * Submit your Abstract through on-line submission to IGU Web, and also send separately copies of the Abstract/s to Prof. Shangyi ZHOU and CC to Prof. Rana P.B. SINGH

Registration deadlines: 15 Sept. 2015 - 30 May 2016 for Early Bird Registration 16 April 2016 - 15 July 2016 for Regular Registration After 15 July 2016 for Late Registration

CONTACTS

IGC 2016 Organizing Committee The Geographical Society of China 11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101. P. R. CHINA Tel.: +86-10-64870663, 64889598. Fax: +86-10-64889598. Email: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.igc2016.org


----------- forthcoming 2nd

APELA Forum joint symposium: 17 ~ 19 Oct. 2016 ---------

2nd APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum organised by The Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture (KILA) and Seoul National University (SNU) .. on “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture”: 17 ~ 19th Oct. 2016 Venue: Prugio Valley (Yeongdong-daero 337, Gangnam-gu), Seoul, Rep. Korea

▪ INVITATION

In the emerging era the proposition on the 21st century as the Age of Asia has often been projected. Asian history dales back into the millennia of the past, while maintaining its continuity. Being the largest Continent on the earth. Asia possesses the most dynamic environment of regional identity and diversity in terms of economic development and change. In landscape architecture, Asian countries record a long history and have developed distinctive and diverse landscape cultures that also maintain unitary principle. However, in modern landscape scenario the Asian landscape traditions are not well recognized. Nevertheless, this tradition is undergoing dramatic transformations as a result of rapid modernization and globalization.

Since the modern landscape profession began in the Asia Pacific Region quite late, no comprehensive forum discussing the issues of present and future of landscape architecture has been conducted. Thus, the theme “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture” will confidently enable us to exchange and share experiences, ideas, building networking and collaborating with landscape professionals, linking all the concerned disciplines, in the region.

The Forum will provide a brainstorming discussion platform from various sectors of landscape architecture, such as the practitioners, researchers, professors, students, community leaders, representatives of national associations, and public officials those invoiced in landscape development and its empowering environment in Asian Pacific Region.

To start with a new vigour and energy in this direction through the vision of understanding, exposition and practices of landscape architecture, in continuation of the 1st APELA Forum, the 2nd APELA Forum is a call for joining hands in envisioning the deeper message from Asia-Pacific Region to ‘Global Understanding’ on the line of declaration of UNO ‘2016 – to be the International Year of Global Understanding’ (IYGU) that will focus on “Building bridges between Global thinking and Local action”. I happily declare that our parent organization ACLA has already joined hands for the good causes of IYGU, represented with some of executive members of the ACLA.

The 2nd 2016 APELA Forum : 17th ~ 19th October 2016, is expected to inspire landscape architects around the Asia Pacific Region, to become the cornerstone and to take concrete action for the future at landscape architectural development.

With grace and honor, we are hosting such a Forum for the noble cause of landscape architecture, and promise you that we will make every endeavor for your time here fulfilling - with fun and fruits. We will welcome you all and hope you would have a wonderful experience attending the Forum, associated workshops and technical excursions.

Thank you very much,

Prof. Dr. SungSungSungSung----Kyun KIMKyun KIMKyun KIMKyun KIM, Ph.D. President, APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum;

President, KILA, Korean Institute of Landscape Architects; President, ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association;

Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, SNU - Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921. KOREA.


Opening Ceremony 09 00 - 10 00

2nd APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum organised by The Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture (KILA) and Seoul National University (SNU) .. on “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture”: 17 ~ 19th Oct. 2016

2016 the 2nd Asia-Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum

Present & Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture Date : October 17 (Mon) - 19 (Wed)

■ PROGRAM Venue : Prugio Valley, Seoul, Korea

10/17/2016 (Monday)

TlME ACTlVlTY

08: 30 – 09: 00 Registration

09: 00 – 10 : 00 Opening Ceremony

10: 00 – 12: 00 Session A1

Landscape Design Session B1

LA Association Summit

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 15:00 Session A2

Public Projects and Law Session B2

Council of LA Schools

15:00 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 17:30 Session A3

Landscape Education Session B3

LA Construction, Facilities & Materials

18:00 – 21:00 Welcoming Party

10/18/2016 (Tuesday)

TlME ACTlVlTY

10:00 – 12:00 Session A4

Community Participation

Session B4

Student Workshop (Design / Research)

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00– 15:00 Session A5

Cultural Landscape

Session B5

Low Impact/ Sustainable Development

15:00 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 18:00 Session A6

Cultural Landscape

Session B6

Others

10/19/2016 (Wednesday) TECHNICAL EXCURSION

TlME ACTlVlTY

08:00 – 18:00 Technical Excursion

18:00 – 21:00 Farewell Party

LANDSCAPE PRODUCT EXHlBlTlON

10/17/2016 - 10/19/2016 (Monday - Wednesday) TlME ACTlVlTY

08:00 – 18:00 Exhibition of Landscape Products

(Design / Construction / Facilities / Material / etc.)

11:00 – 12:00

(10/18/2016) Product Presentation


2nd APELA, Asia Pacific Environment Landscape Architecture Forum organised by The Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture (KILA) and Seoul National University (SNU) .. on “Present and Future of Asia-Pacific Landscape Architecture”: 17 ~ 19th Oct. 2016 Venue: Prugio Valley (Yeongdong-daero 337, Gangnam-gu), Seoul, Rep. Korea

Session A: The purpose of session A is to create the leading platform for business networking and knowledge sharing for the Asia-Pacific landscape industry.

Session A1: Landscape Design This session will review present situation of landscape design practice in Asia-Pacific region. We are anticipating enthusiastic discussion of current designs and practical issues among many landscape architectural designers in the region. We hope the Forum will result in innovative and Asia specific solutions reflecting the trio of Asia-Pacific identity-diversity-unity, and create networks among landscape professionals for the future of Asia-Pacific landscape design practice.

Session A2: Public Projects and Laws This session will review present situation of policy and legal system of landscape architecture in Asia-Pacific region. We will also review current public projects led by public authorities and discuss about future collaboration among Asia-Pacific public authorities.

Session A3: Landscape Education This session will review the education systems of landscape architecture programs and share experience on course and curriculum development, and collaborative developments in teaching. Participants will discuss on the development of education and curriculum standard in the Asia-Pacific region universities. This session will also review current situation of landscape researches and discuss about promoting interaction between academics and researchers within the discipline of landscape architecture, furthering the development of Asia-Pacific-wide landscape academic community, through the development of common research agendas and the establishment of collaborative research projects. We also expect to discuss about publishing a landscape architecture journal in Asia-Pacific region listed in internationally renowned index such as SCI, A&HCI, etc.

Session A4: Community Participation This session will share the issues and realities of community participation in Asia-Pacific region and share effective tools for community participation. We invite community group leaders and community oriented landscape architects and companies.

Session A5: Cultural Landscape Participants will discuss the cultural landscapes from the Asia-Pacific point of view and have an opportunity to exchange and share experiences and knowledge to deal with cultural landscapes in APR – while understanding the linkages among the past, present and future. The outcome will help to formulate future guidelines for positive changes of our cultural landscape and the associated environment. All ACLA members are invited in framing the future development of ACLA activities.

Session B: The purpose of session B is to facilitate the exchange of information, experience and ideas among educators, researchers, and students in Asia-Pacific landscape architecture.

Session B1: LA Association Summit In this session, we invite the presidents of landscape architecture associations in Asia-Pacific


countries. They will discuss about the current issues and the future of landscape architecture in the APR. Session B2: Council of Landscape Architecture Schools In this session, we are inviting representatives of landscape architecture programs in Asia-Pacific universities. Participants will introduce their academic programs and discuss their knowledge while exchanging with professors and students, research collaborators, academic and project partners, etc. We are expecting to organize the council of landscape architecture schools in APR to foster scholarship in landscape architecture throughout Asia-Pacific by strengthening contacts, enhancing networks, and enriching the dialogue among members of the Asia-Pacific landscape academic community.

Session B3: Landscape Construction, Facilities and Materials The participants will present various landscape construction practices in Asia-Pacific region. They will discuss about knowledge sharing in landscape construction, such as current landscape construction methods, management technique, and relevant regulations of each country. Participants may further create business networking for the Asia-Pacific landscape construction industry. This session invite professionals from landscape facilities and hard & soft materials in Asia-Pacific region. Participants may present their landscape products and discuss international trading of landscape facilities and materials. We will also provide exhibition booths for your product advertise.

Session B4: Student Workshop In this session, the students will present and discuss their design and research projects. It will be a great chance for them to broaden their knowledge and build social network with other students from different countries in Asia-Pacific region.

Session B5: Low Impact Development (LID) and Sustainable Development Low Impact Development (LID) is an approach to land development that works with Nature to manage storm water as close to its source as possible. This session will discuss about current development of the LID approach and collaboration among specialists in Asia-Pacific region.

Session B6: Others Any issues which are approved by the Organizing Committee will be presented. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DEADLINES

• 30 July 2016 Curriculum Vitae (CV)/ Abstract (Required MS Word file with 300 words approx. • 15 September 2016: Power Point file for presentation (approx. 30 pages)/ Full paper is optional

(max, 5000 words) N.B. Abstract includes: Tile of Paper, First-Family Name, Current Position, and institutional

affiliation (University, Organization, or Company, Country; Email Address. Related Session Theme, and Curriculum Vita (CV), Presentation topic must cover general information of each session theme in your country.

REGISTRATION

• Registration Fee : US $150 (Fee includes Meals - breakfast is not included), Coffee & Drinks/ Technical Excursion/ Welcoming & Farewell & Parry/ Proceedings etc.)

• For Selected International Presenters, Accommodation (double occupancy) and Registration Fee are provided.

CONTACT/ SUBMISSION

APELA Forum Organizing Committee Secretary: Yasmina Azriani Mobile: +082 10 8721 8006, Office: +082 2 880 4882. Fax: +082 2 873 5113. Email: [email protected]


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5th ACLA International Symposium

Sacred Sites, Cultural Landscapes, and Harmonising the World of Asia Date: 02~3~4~5 December 2016 (Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon) Venue: Faculty of Humanities and Social Science; Lampang Rajabhat University # 119 Lampang-Maetha Road, Muang District, Lampang Province 52100. THAILAND Tel-Fax: (+66)-054-316154, Cell: (+66)-0813866147. Email <5-ACLA Symposium>: [email protected]

Important dates § Abstract Submission Deadline: 5th August 2016 § Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 30th August 2016 § Final Paper (in Harvard style format; max. 6000 words with Abstract): 30th October 2016

Keynote Speakers Prof. Dr. Sung-Kyun Kim (President- ACLA); Seoul National University, Seoul, KOREA. Prof. Dr. Rana P.B. Singh (Vice-President- ACLA); Banaras Hindu University, INDIA. Dr. Susan Aquino-Ong; (ICOMOS Phil.) University of the Philippines; Laguna, PHILIPPINES. Scientific Committees Prof. Dr. Manat Suwan; University of Chiang Mai, Faculty of Geography, Chiang Mai, THAILAND. Dr. Siriwan Silapacharanan; CU. ARCH. Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, Bangkok, THAILAND.

National & International Advisory Committees: Dr. M.R. Rujaya Abhakorn; Director SEAMEO SPAFA: Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts,

THAILAND. Mr. Borvornvate Rungrujee; President ICOMOS Thailand, THAILAND. Prof. Dr. Shigeharu Tanabe; National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, JAPAN. Dr. Richard Engelhardt; UNESCO Asia Regional Bureau, Bangkok, THAILAND. Dr. Bharat Dahiya; Chief Coordinator, UNDP, Bangkok, THAILAND.

Chair: Organising Committee

Prof. Suparp Tajai Faculty of Humanities and Social Science; Lampang Rajabhat University # 119 Lampang-Maetha Road, Muang District, Lampang Province 52100. THAILAND Tel-Fax: (+66)054-316154, Cell: (+66)0813866147. e-M: [email protected]

The 5th

ACLA Symposium: 2-5 Dec. 2016, Lampang, Thailand

Sacred Sites, Cultural Landscapes, and Harmonising the World of Asia Most of the ancient cultures, especially the Asians in the ancient past ordered the natural world on cosmological principles and shaped harmonious relation with nature. Mountains and springs, plains and rivers, were sites and channels of sacred power from historical events and timeless sacred forces in evolving the cultural landscapes. And, geographical features were inscribed by human hands to mark their sacredness in the frame of built structures. Such natural and constructed places commonly became centres of religious heritage and pilgrimage, serving as pivot of harmonizing the world


through their inherent message and underpinning meanings ensembles in the cultural landscapes. That is how they require special care for understanding and planning. This 5

th ACLA Symposium 2016 will examine the role of religious heritage and cultural

landscapes in harmonizing the world, with emphasis on awakening the deeper sense of cultural and heritage tourism, drawing upon the perspectives of multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural interfaces, within and beyond the world of Asia.

(A) Sacred Landscape, Religious Heritage and Harmonizing the World: Evolution of sacred landscapes: textual base and contextual reality, historicity and cultural continuity; growth and representation of sacred landscapes: pilgrimage archetype and mandala; sacredscapes and cosmological principles: spatiality of time and temporality of space in the context of sacrality, sacredscape and symbolism, relevance and rationality today in harmonizing the world.

(B) Ritual Landscape and Cosmogram: Ritual landscape: ritualisation process, cosmogram and complexity; cosmic geometry and cultural astronomy: geometry of time, travel genre and circulation network, hierarchy and patterns, sacred functionaries & sacred systems of network; sacred city and cosmic order, representation and identity between cultural (religious) landscape and heritage landscape.

(C) Heritage Cities, Religious notions and making of Harmonious World: ‘Interfaces’ and cultural interaction: sharing the experiences of different groups from different parts of Asia, role of NGOs in mass awakening, deep ecology, sacred theology, defining and identifying cultural heritage, religion and cultural heritage management; planning for sacred places: heritage preservation and conservation, dynamics of change and ethical issues, social-cultural implications and public participation; issues of location, distribution and scale in spatial dimension of heritage cities; envisioning the role of religious heritage sites and cultural landscapes in harmonizing the world through the voice of Asia.

Organizers:

1. ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association (SNU Seoul, Rep. Korea)

2. Lampang Rajabhat University (Lampang Province 52100. Thailand)

3. Lampang Tourism Council (Lampang, Thailand)


Obituary: Dr Ronald Van Oers (1965-2015)

With profound sadness and shock we announce the passing away of Dr Ronald Van Oers (1965-2015) on 28 April 2015; he was one of the founding members and an Executive Member of ACLA. Until last breath Van Oers was the Vice Director of the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for Asia and the Pacific Region, a UNESCO Category 2 Centre based in Shanghai, and a colleague of the World Heritage Centre since 2000. Ron was a brilliant professional in the field of heritage. His passion and rich experience contributed to the successful development and coordination of several World Heritage related thematic programmes, among which the Programme on Modern Heritage, the World Heritage Programme for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and the World Heritage Cities Programme. The UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (2011) was developed and adopted thanks to his initiative, commitment and persistence. He advocated with conviction and enthusiasm its application worldwide. We all pay our homage and deeply grieved condolence to the departed noble soul. His two works, as noted below, will serve as light tower in understanding and researching about the Asian Cultural Landscapes:

Francesco Bandarin and Ron van Oers (editors): Reconnecting the City: The Historic

Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage. Pb, 25x19cm, xxix + 376 pages, March 2015. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester U.K. ISBN: 978-1-118-38398-8. . Price: ₤55.-

Francesco Bandarin and Ron van Oers (authors): The Historic Urban Landscape:

Managing Heritage in an Urban Century. [25x19cm, xxvi + 236 pages, 117 coloured photographs, 3 appendices, bibliography, index. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester U.K.; 2nd Ed.2 Mar 2012; Hb, ISBN-10: 0470655747. ISBN-13: 978-0470655740. Price: ₤59.99.

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Obituary: Prof. Prabhakar B. Bhagwat (1930-2015)

With profound memories and deep grieve we all remember and salute Mr Prabhakar B. Bhagwat (1930-2015), known as the father of Landscape Architecture in India, who has passed away on 14th August 2015 peacefully amidst his immediate family. He had celebrated his 85th birthday on 20 June 2015. He was a pioneer landscape and design expert, and one of the founding members of the ACLA. He was national representative from India to IFLA, and a founder of ISOLA (Indian Society of Landscape Architecture). He had passed B.Sc. in Agriculture from University of Poona and later qualified PG Diploma in Plant Breeding, Soil Reclamation, Landscape and Design from Holland. He had acquired professional trainings in Denmark, UK and completed M.Tech. in Town and Country Planning from IIT- Kharagpur. He had long been associated with prestigious academic institutions including IIT - Kharagpur, National Institute of Designs - Ahmedabad; School of Planning & Architect at New Delhi (where he founded the first Landscape Architecture department in 1972), and Landscape Architect at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Having rich professional experience, he was associated with a host of leading institutions and organizations both within India and abroad. In one of his interviews, he expressed his vision: “Landscaping design is crucial for congenial environ for better living. In the ever growing population and the fast growing need for shelters, the urgency of having synergy of best of Man-Nature relationship is pivotal indeed”. Stressing the importance of landscape planning, he underlined the need for it is on the up graph as the process of urbanization is on the rise. Questioned about the high-rise buildings in the metro-politans, he opined that without proper plans of landscape with greenery all around, such structures are like “concrete jungle” graveyard. Proper and minutest attention has to be paid to layout plans.


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Obituary: Prof. Mohammad Shaheer (1948~2015)

One of the pioneering and founder landscape architects in India, and a founder member of ACLA, Mohammad Shaheer has passed away on 28 November 2015 at the age of 67. Though he was a scholar of repute, a respected teacher and as a member of numerous advisory committees, it was as a landscape architect he towered over the profession in India. He partnered with some of India’s most respected architects and institutions to weave magic into spaces he became involved with — ranging from industrial sites and institutions to memorials and monument complexes, among others. Having been born in Lucknow, he was delighted to have designed the Begum Hazrat Mahal Park and the award winning Ram Manohar Lohia Park.

Since 1997 Shaheer was the responsible landscape architect for several Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) initiatives in India and Afghanistan, the first of which was the Humayun’s Tomb Garden restoration. It was the first ever opportunity to undertake a landscape restoration project at any of India’s protected monuments and, as with everything he did, Shaheer spent endless hours understanding the site, guiding everyone involved on what is required to be undertaken. His deep involvement, almost daily visits and deep understanding of Mughal garden traditions coupled with the practical necessities of a site where over 2 million were expected to visit annually led to the project being the success it has been.

For AKTC, he was also responsible for the landscape design of the Bagh-e Babur in Kabul. Here again, his minimalist approach towards landscape restoration ensured that despite decades of huge changes, the garden, planted with orchards comprising over 2,000 trees, returned to its 16th century appearance with only subtle changes.

From 2005 up till 2011 he had served on the Delhi Urban Art Commission reviewing and advising on thousands of projects — often his incredible wit diffusing the stress and yet bringing attention to what needed to be done. It was a joy to see many frustrated with his recommendations to review design return with gratitude when the suggested improvement was clearly visible and understandable.

Since 2007, Shaheer had designed almost 200 acres for AKTC in the Humayun’s Tomb —Sunder Nursery — Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti area of Delhi and another 100 acres at the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park in Hyderabad, which he finally visited earlier this week. Though landscape works have been completed at many of these sites, they continue at the CPWD’s Government Sunder Nursery. Soon, when these works are complete and accessible will his genius, sensitivity to ecology and material, understanding of human behaviour and desire be apparent even more clearly, as will be the huge loss that we have suffered today.

He had set standards as a wonderful and selfless human, as a professional of integrity, as a teacher who was always sought after, as a friend who was always there when needed. For almost 18 years, I have cherished the opportunity to work with him on AKTC projects. In the last phase of his life he was working on designs for the best garden paradise that will ever see. As a teacher his influence on the work of a whole generation of landscape architects across India can hardly be measured.

With courtesy from Ratish Nanda, news-report Indian Express, 29 November 2015. See: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/noted-landscape-architect-shaheer-dies/




List of Members Registered: by surname, alphabet, country

# Surname, given name Institution Country

1. ABDULLAH Aldrin Dean, School of Housing, Pl. & Bldg., Universiti Sains Malaysia 2. AGRAWAL Ramesh Chandra President, Rock Art Society of India India 3. AHMAD Hamidah Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia Malaysia 4. AHMAD Raziah Land Arkt Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia Malaysia 5. AHMAD Sohail P-DF United Nations University, Tokyo Japan 6. AKAGAWA Natsuko LaArt University of Tokyo, Deakin Univ. Melbn. Ausrt. Japan 7. AKKACH Samer CAMEA, LA Univ. Adeleide Australia 8. ALISTE Enrique Geogr. Fac. Archt. Urbanism, Univ. Chile, Santiago de Chile Chile 9. AMANI Mina Science and Research Iran 10. AMIN Jusna J.A. LaA Env Tech, Trisakti Univ. Jakarta Indonesia 11. ANSARI Mojtaba Tarbiat Modares University Iran 12. ANWAR Widya Fransiska F. Universitas Sriwijaya Indonesia 13. AQUINO-ONG Susan Univ. of Philippines Los Banos(UPLB) Philippines 14. ARIF Anita Syafitri Ind. Practitioner LA Bali-Despanar Indonesia 15. ARIFIN Nurhayati Bogor Agricultural University Indonesia 16. ARUNINTA Ariya Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand 17. ASBOLLAH Asra Zliza University Malaysia Malaysia 18. AZMI Diyanah Inani Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia 19. BAEK Un-Hae Korea Land & Housing Corporation Korea 20. BAIRD Ian Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison U.S,A. 21. BALLARD Christopher CuLa Antropology ANU, Canberra Australia 22. BANDARIN Francesco Asst. Di-Gen Culture, Unesco, Geneva UNESCO 23. BANERJEE Banani Singhad College of Archt., Pune India 24. BANERJEE Tridib Sn California Univ. Los Angeles CA U.S.A. 25. BELLEZZA Giuliano IGU-VP Di-HomGeog Univ. Roma Italy 26. BERMUDEZ Julio Arkt Catholic University of America, Washington DC U.S.A. 27. BHANDARI Harbeen Archt. Dept. Chitkara Univ. Rajpura, Chandigarh India 28. BHARNE Vinayak University of Southern California Los Angeles CA U.S.A. 29. BHARTI Anupama Asstt. Prof. LaArkt UPTU Lucknow India 30. BIAGGI Christina Artist-author-lecturer, Palisades, NY U.S.A. 31. BIN MOHD ZAIN Zainul Hakim Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia 32. BOBBETTE Adam Univ. of Hong Kong Hong Kong 33. BOEY Maria Yuet Mei Institute of Parks & Recreation Singapore 34. BOOJH Ram Ed. Prog., UNESCO Reg. Office, New Delhi, India UNESCO 35. BORDE Radhika Agricul., Tribal Heritage Wageningen University Netherlands 36. BOSE Tushar LA, Sch. Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad India 37. BREUSTE Jürgen Landscape Ecology , Uni. Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg Austria 38. BRUNN Stanley D. Geography, University of Kentuky, Lexington KY, US U.S.A. 39. BUTLAND Rowena La geog USAus Aus Australia 40. BYASS Rowland LaArcht, 23 Ebbisham Drive, London SW8 1UB U.K. 41. CATTANEO Ermanno LA- AIAPP Italian Assoc. LA - NZ Italy 42. CHAMHURI Nurul Hidayah Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia 43. CHAN Yin-Lun Univ. of Hong Kong Hong Kong 44. CHANDLER Jennifer Ch & Ch LaArkts, PO Box 6896, Napa, CA 94581. U.S.A. 45. CHANG Chang-Yi David Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei Taiwan 46. CHANG Chun-Yen National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan 47. CHAPAGAIN Neel Kamal Interior Arct., University of Wisconsin-Stevens Pt. Nepal 48. CHAUHAN Shubhangi LIFE India 49. CHEUNG Kwok Pun Arch Cul Herit, Uni Hong Kong Hong Kong 50. CHO Yeong-Cheol GS Engineering & Construction Korea


51. CHO Yong-Il Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 52. CHOI Jae-Heon Director- World Heritage Program, Konkuk University, Seoul Korea 53. CHOI Youngsoon l'Univ. Libre de Bruxelles- l'ENSA de Paris/ InsInd Sty Seoul France/ Kor 54. CHUI Mei-Lan Seoul National University, Seoul China 55. CHUN Hyun-Jin Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 56. COLLINS-KREINER Noga Geog University of Haifa Israel 57. CUNHA Dilip da LaArcht, Sch. of Design, Un. of Penn., Philadelphia U.S.A. 58. CUTHBERT Alexander Vis-Prof Arck-Planning U New South Wales Australia 59. DAHIYA Bharat Asian Instit. Tech. Bangkok Thailand 60. DAVIES Renée Univ. of Technology, Auckland New Zealand 61. DEGHATI NAJD Meysam University Putra Malaysia Iran 62. DESHMUKH Ritu G. LaArkt Bharti Veedyapeeth Coll. of Archt., Nav Mumbai India 63. DIAN DAMAYANTI Vera Bogor Agricultural University Indonesia 64. DINATA Apriyan Universitas Islam Riau Indonesia 65. EDANI Hiroko Nara Nat’l Res. Ins. for Cult. Properties, Nara City Japan 66. ELIZBARASHVILI Nodar Reg. & Landscape Planning, Tbilisi St. Univ. Georgia 67. ENGELHARDT Richard A. Res. Prof. LaAr uni HgKg Hong Kong 68. FARHAN BIN JAAFAR Mohamad Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia 69. FAUST Heiko Human Geography, University of Gottingen Germany 70. FEBRIANA Utami LaArcht Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali Indonesia 71. FEIZABADI Tahereh Navaei Mashhad; presently – Res. Fl. Geog, B.H.U. Varanasi, India Iran 72. FIRDOUS Shamsad LA student Seoul National University, Seoul Rep. Korea 73. FUNCK Carolin Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Japan 74. GALINGAN Zenaida DC LA University of Philippines Philippines 75. GALLA Amareswar Exec Director, Int’nal Inst. Inclus. Museum, Copenhagen Denmark 76. GANDHI Nilesh Vijay Metadesign Architects PVT. India 77. GEVA Anat LA Texas A&M University, College Station, TX U.S.A. 78. GHANDHARIAN Nasrin (Mahnoush) City & Landscape Monthly Journal Iran 79. GHOSH Santosh Centre of Built Environment, Kolkata India 80. GOLCHIN Peiman University of Sistan & Baluchestan Iran 81. GRAJDIAN Maria Media Studies, F. of Socio-Cul. Div., Nagasaki Univ. Rumania 82. HADAVI Fatemeh Presently: Res Fellow Geog, Uni- Saarlands, Germany Iran 83. HAENRAETS Jan LaArcht. Pai Chai Uni. Seo-Gu, Daejeon, 302-735 Korea 84. HAKIM Luchman Dept. of Biology, University of Brawijaya, Malang Indonesia 85. HALDER Somenath Kaliachak College, Sultanganj, Malda, WB India 86. HAN Feng LaArcht, CAUP Tongji Univ. 1239 Siping Rd, Shanghai China 87. HARUN Nor Zalina International Islamic University Malaysia Malaysia 88. HARUYAMA Shigeko Mie University, School of Bio Resources, Tsu, Mie Japan 89. HASHIM Habsah Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia 90. HE Yinchun Univ. of Tsukuba Japan 91. HEE L. Architecture, National University of Singapore Singapore 92. OH Kunsoo Architecture, Sch. Engg., Namseoul Univ., Cheonan Rep. Korea 93. HOANG MANH Nguyen Institute of Tropical Architecture Vietnam 94. HOLLINGSWORTH Melissa LaArcht, City-Design Cooperative, Glasgow U.K. 95. HONG Sun-Kee IIC MnU Jeonnam Korea 96. HOU Jeffrey University of Washington U.S.A. 97. HOU Jeffrey LA University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. 98. HU Jie ASLA, Beijing Tsinghua T. Plan. & design Ins. Beijing China 99. HUU Thai Nguyen Urban Development Program, Ho Chi Minh Vietnam 100. HWANG Ki-Hyun Korea Land & Housing Corporation Korea 101. IIDA Akiko University of Tokyo Japan 102. INABA Nobuko World Heritage Studies Program, Univ. of Tsukuba Japan 103. ISHAK Benjamin KALBU Indonesia Indonesia 104. ISHIZAWA Maya N. Archt. Donaustrasse 25, 12043 Berlin Germany 105. ISMAIL Nor Atiah University Putra Malaysia Malaysia 106. IYER Natasha LA, Unitec Ins. Tech., Auckland NZ India 107. JEON Bong Hee Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 108. JIGYASU Rohit Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Japan 109. JIN Shizhu Yanbian University China 110. JINAN K.B. Activist, Archt., Kumbham, Aruvacode, Nilambur India 111. JOSHI Nikhil Architect. Taylor’s Univ. Selangor Malaysia


112. JÜRGEN Breuste Dept of Geography & Geology, Uni. of Salsburg Austria 113. KAMARUDIN Zumahiran Sch. Archt.- and Env. Design, International Islamic University Malaysia 114. KAMLAPURKAR Shubhada LdArct. Dr. B.N. College of Archt., Pune India 115. KANG Yong Seoul National University, Seoul China 116. KANG Chul-Hyun GS Engineering & Construction Korea 117. KANG Dong-Jin GAIA 3D Korea 118. KHALILNEZHAD Seyyed Mod. Reza Univ. Birjand, now at Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany Iran 119. KHANDEKAR Manjiri Heritage India India 120. KHANSEFID Mahdi Land-Archt Melbourne Sl. of Design, Univ-Melbourne Australia 121. KIKUCHI Yoshito Nara National Res. Ins. for Cult. Properties, Nara City Japan 122. KIM Min-Woo Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 123. KIM Su-Jin Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 124. KIM Sung-Kyun ACLA President, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 125. KIM Tae-Wan Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 126. KIM Dong-joon Samsung C&T (E&C Group) Korea 127. KIM Doo-Chul Rural Env. Management, Okayama University Japan 128. KIM Du-Won Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 129. KIM Min-Su School for Advanced Studies in the Soc. Sc. (EHESS), France France 130. KIM Tae-Yon Daewoo E&C Korea 131. KIM Do Kyong Tomoon Arch. Eng. Naejung-Ro 152, Bundang-Gu, Sungnam-Si Korea 132. KIM Jae-Eun Economics, Ins. Island, Mokopo Korea 133. KO Young-Chang Hyundai E&C Korea 134. KOH Mijin SK Forest, Korea Korea 135. KOHDRATA Naniek Udayana University, Jl. Pb Sudirman, Denpasar, Bali Indonesia 136. KOO Bonhak Sang Myung University, Chungnam, 330-720 Korea 137. KOWKABI Leila University of Tehran Iran 138. KRINKE Rebecca LA Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN U.S.A. 139. KU Hawon Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Study, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul Korea 140. KUITERT Wybe LaHis En Sc, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 141. KUMAR Sarvesh UGC Snr Fellow Geography, Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi India 142. KUO Monica College of Env. Design, Chinese Culture University Taiwan 143. KURODA Nobu Faculty of Art and Design, Univ. of Tsukuba Japan 144. KUWAKO Toshio Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan 145. LABRADOR Ana Maria Theresa Anthrop., Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City Philippines 146. LAHIRI-DUTT Kuntala CSPP, Australian National Univ., Canberra ACT 0200 Australia 147. LAING Craig R. Assoct-Prof Geog, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN U.S.A. 148. LEE Woo Hyoung Architecture, Sch. Engg., Namseoul Univ., Cheonan Rep. Korea 149. LEE Yoke Lai Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia 150. LEE Gwan-Gyu Kangwon National University Korea 151. LEE Jun Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 152. LEE Sang-Hae Sungkyunkwan University Korea 153. LENNON Jane L. AHC, Cultural Landscape Cons. Deakin University Australia 154. LIAO Kuei-Hsien National Univ. of Singapore Singapore 155. LIMPAIBOON Apinya LA University of Technology, Thornbury Thailand 156. LIN Dah-Yuan Ecospace Landscape Architecture Taiwan 157. LOGAN William Stewart Heritage and Urbanism, Deakin Univ., Burwood, Vic. Australia 158. LORMANEENOAPPARAT Sarunya Panyasaatra University and Norton University (lecturer) Cambodia 159. LOW B.L. Architecture, National University of Singapore Singapore 160. LUBIS Basauli Umar Architectural Design Research Group SAPPD ITB Indonesia 161. LUNG David P.Y. Arch Cul Herit, Unesco Chair, Uni Hong Kong Hong Kong 162. MAEKAWA Tomomi Decision Ins, Tokyo Inst. of Technology Japan 163. MAHAN Amin LA Dept., Islamic Azad University Iran 164. MAHAYUDIN Rosa Malinda Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia 165. MAHESHWARI Deepa CEPT University, Ahmedabad India 166. MALEKI Morteza PhD Cand. Archt. Iran Univ. of Sc. & Tech Iran 167. MALPATHAK Mugdha Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture, Pune India 168. MANNISI Alban Tokyo Institute of Technology (Visiting Res.) France 169. MANSOR Mazlina International Islamic University Malaysia Malaysia 170. MARTOKUSUMO Widjaja Architectural Design Research Group SAPPD ITB Indonesia 171. MATHUR Anuradha LaArcht, Sch. of Design, Un. of Penn., Philadelphia U.S.A.


172. MAZUMDAR Sanjoy Dept. of Planning, Policy, & Design, U. of CA Irvine U.S.A. 173. McCULLOUGH Karen LaArcht, City-Design Cooperative, Glasgow U.K. 174. MEHROTRA Rahul Urban Design & Plan., Harvard Univ. Cambridge U.S.A. 175. MEI Maria Boey Yuet LA Park & Recreation practice Singapore 176. MINOHARA Akane Satoyama Init. (IPSI), UNU Inst. of Advanced Studies Japan 177. MIRELLE Tchapi University of Tokyo Japan 178. MITCHELL Nora CulLad Conservation, U- Vermont U.S.A. 179. MIYAMOTO Mariko University of Tokyo Japan 180. MOHAMAD Noorizan University Putra Malaysia Malaysia 181. MOHAMAD Sapura Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia 182. MOHD YUNOS Mohd Yazid University Putra Malaysia Malaysia 183. MOUSAVIAN Sayed Mohd. Farid Faculty of Art & Architecture, Bu-Ali Shina University Iran 184. MUGAVIN Damien Seoul National University (f) Australia 185. MUKAKAYUMBA Edith Geog, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi Canada 186. MUKHOPADHYAY Malay HoD, Geography, Visva-Bharati Univ. Santiniketan, WB India 187. MULLER Dieter K. Umeå University, Geog. & Econ. History, 901 87 Umeå Sweden 188. MUN Young-Hoon Ministry of Public Adminis-tration & Security, Korea Korea 189. MURTAZA Mohd. Ghulam Khulna University Bangladesh 190. MURTHY, G.S.V. Suryanarayana Conservation Architect, Hyderabad AP India 191. MYRWATI Ray. Dani University of Muhammadyah Indonesia 192. NAG Shalini Centre of Built Environment, Kolkata India 193. NAGAMURA Yuko Tanabe 202-54-7-4 Shimasaki, Nishi-ku, Kumamoto-shi Japan 194. NAGASE Ayako Urban Life Studies, Tokyo City University Japan 195. NAKAGOSHI Nobukazu Lands. Ecology, Int. Dev. School, Hiroshima Univ. Japan 196. NAM-SON Ngo-Viet NVD Architects & Planners Ltd., HCM City Vietnam 197. NANIEK KOHDRATA Naniek Udayana University, Bali Indonesia 198. NASONGKHLA Sirima Independent Researcher in Southeast Asian Landscape Thailand 199. NASSER Noha Arch. Urb. Planning, Birmingham City University U.K. 200. NAURIYAL Kishan C. Archeolog. Survey of India, Region Kashmir, Srinagar J-K India 201. NAVARRA Nappy LA University of Philippines-Diliman Philippines 202. NAYAK Debashish Dept. Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University India 203. NEMETH David J. Dept. of Geography & Regional Planning, Univ.of Toledo, Ohio U.S.A. 204. NGAH Ismail bin Pres. ILAM, Selangor Malaysia 205. NGESAN Mohd Riduan Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia 206. NICOLSON Ken Univ. of Hong Kong Hong Kong 207. NIELSEN Thomas Sick PLUREL Program, Uni Copenhagen Denmark 208. NURISYAH Siti Bogor Agricultural University Indonesia 209. OTHMAN Sumaiyah University of Tokyo, Tokyo Malaysia 210. OTHMAN Noriah Land Arkt University of Tecnology Mara Malaysia 211. OZAETA Emilio U. Archt History Un-Phili-ppines Diliman, Qz. City Philippines 212. PALIWAL Nikita Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture, Pune India 213. PATIL Sandip CEPT University, Ahmedabad India 214. PENDLEBURY John Archt. Lad. Newcastle University, Newcastle u. Tyne U.K. 215. PERMANASARI Eka Univ. of Pembangunan Jaya Indonesia 216. PERNICE Raffaele Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool Univ., Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu China P.R. 217. PHORNPRAPHA Wannaporn Pul Mg-Dr. PL Co. Ltd., Klogton Nua, Wattana, Bangkok Thailand 218. PITTUNGNAPOO Witiya Faculty of Arch. Naresuan University Thailand 219. PRAHARAJ Sarbeswar Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab India 220. PRAMUKANTO Qodarian Bogor Agricultural University Indonesia 221. PRIHAYATI Yuni KALBU Indonesia / Cultural Landscape Community- Indonesia 222. RAMPERSAD Indrani SRF (Ram Lila), The University of Trinidad & Tobago Trinidad 223. RANA Pravin S. Cultural Tourism, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India 224. RAO Sridevi Cherala Archt., Jawaharlal Nehru Techn. University, Hyderabad India 225. RII Hae Un ICOMOS- Korea, and Dongguk University, Seoul Korea 226. ROBBERECHTS Geert INTACH Belgium, Khajuraho Garden Project Belgium 227. ROMERO Hugo Iván Geogr. Fac. Archt. Urbanism, Univ. Chile, Santiago de Chile Chile 228. ROSMALIA Dini Pancasila University / Cultural Landscape Community Indonesia 229. ROY Saswati Visva-Bharati Univ. Govt. of India India 230. RUGGLES D. Fairchild LaArct, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL U.S.A. 231. RYU Je-Hun Korea National Univ. of Education, Seoul Korea


232. RYU Kyoung Hee Rel Stdy SNU Seoul Korea 233. SAHACHAISAEREE Nopadon King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Thailand 234. SAHASRABUDHE Swati ISOLA, Dr. B.N. College of Archt., Pune India 235. SAID Ismail Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia 236. SAMANTA Gopa HoD-Geography, University of Burdwan, Bardhman India 237. SANUSI Muhammad Hijaz Klang Municipal Council Malaysia 238. SAPAWI Roslina Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia 239. SATI Vishwambhar P. HoD, Geog, Earth Sc. Cent. Univ. Aizawal, Mizoram India 240. SAURTIKA Gusti Ayu M Archit. & Planning, Udayana University, Bali-Denpasar Indonesia 241. SCARPACI Joseph L. LaArt Geog, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA U.S.A. 242. SCHÖNDORF Birgitta Swede architect, Aarhus Denmark 243. SEÇKIN Y. Çağatay Fa-Archt, Istanbul Tech. University, 34437, Taksim. Turkey 244. SEEBALUK Naurishka Sociology, Univ. of KwaZulu Natal, Durban South Africa 245. SEMRAJAYA Cok G.A. LaArct, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali Indonesia 246. SEO You-Lee Seoul National University Korea 247. SETIAWAN Wisnu Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta Indonesia 248. SHAW Julia Landscape Archeology, Inst. of Arch. Univ. College London U.K. 249. SHI Ding University of Tokyo, Tokyo China 250. SHIBATA Shozo Inst. of Agriculture, Kyoto University Japan 251. SHIN Heeryoon Archt. History, Yale University, USA Korea 252. SHIN Sang-Hyun Shingu University Korea 253. SHINDE Kiran Ajit Principal, Archt. School, Bharti Vidyapeeth University, Pune India 254. SHOSHANY Revital Ldp Architect, Givat Sm. Israel 255. SHROFF Meherzad LA Co. Adelaide Australia 256. SHUIB Kamarul Bahrain Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia 257. SILAPACHARANAN Siriwan Urban & Reg. Plan, F/ Archt. Chulalongkorn Univ. Bangkok Thailand 258. SILVA Kapila D. Arct.-Plan. Univ. Kansas, Lawrence KA U.S.A. 259. SIM Woo-Kyung Korea University Korea 260. SINGH Rana P. B. Prof. Cul-Geog. Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi India 261. SINGH Ravi S. Prof. Geogr., Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India 262. SINGH Shivendu Shekhar Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab India 263. SINHA Amita LaArct, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL U.S.A. 264. SIRISRISAK Tiamsoon LaArt, Mahidol University, Bangkok Thailand 265. SO Hyun-Su University of Seoul Korea 266. SOFER Michael Geog. Environment, Bal Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900 Israel 267. SON Yong-Hoon ESES, Seoul National Univ. Korea 268. SRIVASTAVA Amit CAMEA, LA Univ. Adeleide Australia 269. SRIVASTAVA Yashdeep Centre for Appropriate Technology, Australia Australia 270. SULISTYANTARA Bambang LA Bogor Agricultural University Indonesia 271. TABB Phillip LA Texas A&M University, College Station, TX U.S.A. 272. TAGHVAEI Seyed Hassan Shahid Beheshti University Iran 273. TAJAI Suparp Humanities, Soc. Sc. Lampang Rajabhat University Thailand 274. TAKAO Tadashi Env-Pl. Design Kyushu Uni Japan 275. TANG Damian S. Ins. LA, 02-10 Tech, Center, Singapore 159836 Singapore 276. TARDIN Raquel F. of Archit. and Urbanism , Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro Argentina 277. TAVAKOLI Mortaza University of Zabol Iran 278. TAYLOR Ken Australian National Uni., Canberra Australia 279. TEOH Mei Yee Seoul National University, Seoul Malaysia 280. TEOH Mei-Yee Green Res. Gr Univ- Technology Malaysia 281. THAKUR Nalini Archt. Cons., Sch. of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi India 282. TIWARI Sonal School of Planning & Architecture, Bhopal India 283. TSUR Naomi Dy Mayor, City Council, Jerusalem Israel 284. TURNER Michael Urban Design, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem Israel 285. VARSHNEY Vipul B. Sthapati Ass., Gomati Nagar, 1/24 Vipul Kd, Luck. 226010. India 286. VASAVADA Ravindra CEPT University, Ahmedabad India 287. VAUX Aurélien Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette France 288. VENKATESH KUMAR, Krishnamoorthy Assoc. GM, Urban Development, EGIS India, Bengaluru India 289. VILLALÓN Augusto F. LaArt Ifla Heri Conv, Bd Directors, CulLad, Manila Philippines 290. WARDI I. Nyoman Human/ Cultural Ecology, Denpasar-Bali Indonesia 291. WATSON Julia Ass. Prof. REDE Studio Rensselaer Sch. Archt. NY U.S.A. 292. WEI Dongying Beijing Normal University, Geography, Beijing 100875 China


293. WERLEN Benno Geog F-S University, Jena Germany 294. WESCOAT Jr. James L. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA U.S.A. 295. WIDODO Johannes National Univ. of Singapore Singapore 296. WIDYALANKARA Anuththaradevi History, University of Colombo, PB Box 1490, Colombo 03 Sri Lanka 297. WIJESINGHE Thilak Kumara Archaeological Conservation Officer, MoC, Pilimatalawa Sri Lanka 298. WIJETUNGA Chandana Shrinath Lad-Arckt Seoul National Univ. Seoul/ Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 299. WIMALADHARMA Sanka Udayanthi Univ. Moratuwa, S-L Inst. of Ld. Architects, Kandy Sri Lanka 300. WINDIA Wayan Chinese Indonesian Assoc., Denpasar-Bali Indonesia 301. WINTERS Dennis A. Tales of the Earth: LA, 66 Millbrook Crescent, Toronto Canada 302. WOO Ji-Geun Seoul National University Korea 303. WOO Jeongbeom Landscape & Civic Design, Civil Eng., Uni- Tokyo Japan 304. WU Dongfan LaArcht, Tsinghua University, Beijing China 305. WU Jianguo Ecology LadScap, Arizona State Univ. Tempe AZ U.S.A. 306. WU Jun-fan Inst. His. Geog., Shanghai Normal University China 307. WUISANG Cynthia E.V. LA Fc. Technology, Unv. Sam Ratulangi, Sulawesi Utara Indonesia 308. XIAODONG Mu LA Tsinghua University, Beijing China 309. XU Feng Dept. LA, Colle Agri. China Agri. Uni. Haidian Dt., Beijing China 310. XU Haiyun Dept. LA, Colle Agri. China Agri. Uni. Haidian Dt., Beijing China 311. YAKOB Hamizah Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia Malaysia 312. YANG Gina Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 313. YANG Rui Chair LA, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing China 314. YEO Thian Seng Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia Malaysia 315. YOK Tan Puay LA National University of Singapore Singapore 316. YOU Han-Gun GS Engineering & Construction Korea 317. YUMOTO Takakazu Res. Institute Hum-Nt Kyoto Japan 318. YUNING Cheng La-Archt. Dept., South-East University, Nanjing China 319. ZAINI Mohammad Dahlan Bogor Agricultural University Indonesia 320. ZAKARIYA Khalilah International Islamic University Malaysia Malaysia 321. ZHAO Yongjun Globalisation Studies, Univ. Groningen, Groningen Netherlands 322. ZHOU Shangyi Cul. Geog., Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing China 323. ZHUANG Yau-Bo Tsinghua University, Beijing China 324. ZUEVA Daria RANEPA, Russian Presid’l Acd. National Economy, Moscow Russia

ACLA Members: by Countries; 2 June 2016 [40 countries, total members: 324]

Argentina 1 France 4 Korea 44 Sri Lanka 4 Australia 14 Georgia 1 Malaysia 32 Sweden 1 Austria 2 Germany 3 Nepal 1 Taiwan 4 Bangladesh 1 Hong Kong 6 Netherlands 2 Thailand 10 Belgium 1 India 40 New Zealand 1 Trinidad 1 Cambodia 1 Indonesia 27 Philippines 6 Turkey 1 Canada 2 Iran 14 Rumania 1 U.K. 6 Chile 2 Israel 5 Russia 1 U.S.A. 26 China 17 Italy 2 Singapore 8 Vietnam 3 Denmark 3 Japan 25 South Africa 1 UNESCO 2


Documents

01. ACLA (Asian Cultural Landscape Association), Newsletter 5.3, 2 June 2016