Invited by Hong Kong Gardening Society, Tony Ip will be a guest speaker for a talk on the topic of “Experimental Interactions with Nature in the City”

Abstract:

The higher we live from the ground level, the more disconnected we feel from the natural world and even from each other within a community. There has been an increasing demand for a peaceful and natural environment in urban areas, which has led to the growing trend of various green building rating schemes advocating urban greenery and human-nature interaction. Experimental public engagement projects explored urban nature from the perspective of urban dwellers in Hong Kong with a view to identifying significant elements associated with nature and effective methods of promoting human-nature interactions in a high-density urban city.