Speaker
Speaker
Mr. Chris Law
Founding Director The Oval Partnership, Ltd.
Chris Law is an acknowledged leading expert and practitioner on sustainable urbanism and neighbourhood development. He is an ardent supporter of community participation and encourages this form of engagement across social, ecological, and economic capital aspects in the placemaking process.
Chris founded the Oval Partnership with Patrick Bruce in 1992, and is a director of its subsidiary, the sustainable and smart city action research group INTEGER that develops many ground-breaking initiatives in sustainable development, notably the world’s first in the use of structural laminated bamboo in multi-storey buildings. Under his leadership the Oval Partnership developed the Open City design principle and transmedia narrative methodology, manifested in the award-winning Sanlitun Taikoo Li Beijing and Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu projects. He is member of a number of public sector and third sector committees in Hong Kong . He is a director of the UNESCO award-winning heritage conservation and community participatory Viva Blue House development in Hong Kong, and chairman of the Community Development Committee of the St James' Settlement. He is the chief curator and founder of the public space organization Very Hong Kong and its community land place making initiative Collaborate Hong Kong. The Venice Biennale Hong Kong Pavilion 2012 on urban regeneration of Kowloon East, curated by Chris was selected as the top 5 globally by The Architects’ Journal. A graduate of Stonyhurst College and the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, Chris' projects have received awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hong Kong Institute of Architects, The Hong Kong Institute of Planners, The Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design, Urban Land Institute and World Architecture Festival. He was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects for his contribution to Architecture. He is a Justice of the Peace of the Hong Kong SAR.
Speaking at
Tue 30 May
10:15 AM — 12:15 PM (GMT+08:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia, North Pavilion, level 2
Placemaking Forum
The real estate industry faces a pivotal moment as we face new norms brought forth by exceptional circumstances over the past few years. With radical disruptions to the built environment, and to the ways we live, work, and play, how do policymakers in our industry embrace the old and new when building (or rebuilding) strong, healthy cities? What are the indispensable approaches that define green and healthy communities? How do placekeeping and placemaking create more value—financially, socially and environmentally? How does digitalisation transform the ways we create places? The Placemaking Forum will bring together all stakeholders – policymakers, investors, developers, architects, and urban designers – to share insights and explore new and workable solutions for holding and revitalising the social fibre of communities for generations to come.
Programme
10:15am Welcome remarks
Edwin Loo, Associate Director, Cistri
10:20am Panel Discussion: Business Improvement Districts — Regenerating Urban Spaces Through Public/Private Cooperation
Moderator: Tiffany Lau, Founder and Principal, A P A R T Companies
Panelists:
David Buffonge, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Lead8
Jason Chen, Director, Place Management, Urban Redevelopment Authority
Quaiser Parvez, Chief Executive Officer, Nucleus Office Parks
10:55am Case Study: Reimagining Spaces with Timber
Ray Lawler, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific, Hines
11:15am Case Study: Community-based Placemaking Initiatives
Chris Law, Founding Director, The Oval Partnership Ltd
11:35am Panel Discussion: Multi-Generational Spaces
Moderator: Teri Tsang, Director, Hong Kong Studio Lead, Benoy
Panelists:
Albert Chan, Director of Development Planning and Design and Chief Sustainability Officer, Shui On Land
Dr Emi Kiyota, Deputy Executive Director, Centre for Population Health & Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore
Seah Chee Huang, Chief Executive Officer, DP Architects
12:10pm Wrap up and closing remarks
Edwin Loo, Associate Director, Cistri
12:15pm Forum concludes
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