Mapping the Megaproject Territories: A Public Lecture Series on Urban Transformation in Hong Kong

Lecture 1 Forgotten Infrastructure: the Water Supply of Kowloon

Date 22.5.2025

Time HKT 4 pm~5 pm

Location Room 603, YIA, CUHK

Speaker: Tymon Mellor

Tymon is a Civil Engineer with over 40 years of experience working on major infrastructure projects. He has been a key member of the teams responsible for the development and implementation of some of the mega-projects in the world, including the Channel Tunnel between England and France, the new Hong Kong International airport and the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link. He has been a resident of the Territory for over 30 years and enjoys exploring the outdoor environment which led him to start researching the industrial history of Hong Kong and collecting historic maps for his website www.hkmaps.org.

Lecture 2: Utopian Suburbia: Kowloon Tong in the Shadow of High Density Urbanism

Date 23.5.2025

Time HKT 1 pm~2 pm

Location Room 603, YIA, CUHK

Speaker: Junwei Li

Junwei LI is a PhD candidate in the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include colonial governance, development control law, high-density housing development and new town projects. In his recent research, he explores how the concept of “density” was identified and measured by the colonial government under neoliberalism, which connects to the contemporary planning practice and urban justice.

Lecture 3: The Megaregion-Megaprojects Interplay

Date 26.5.2025

Time HKT 4：30 pm~5：30 pm

Location Room 603, YIA, CUHK

Speaker: Dr. Henry Endemann

Dr. Henry Endemann is an urban strategist from Germany, currently based in the Netherlands. He works for Buck Consultants International, where he advises public and private sector clients on spatial economic strategies for innovation clusters, industrial areas and transportation corridors. Academically, Henry has specialized in “Mega”-development: his studies in Kassel (Germany) and Delft (The Netherlands) were followed by a PhD in Hong Kong, where he looked specifically into the links between Megaregions and Megaprojects, using scenarios to project and assess large-scale urban transformations in China.

Lecture 4: Morphology as Design

Date 26.5.2025

Time HKT 3 pm~4 pm

Location Room 603, YIA, CUHK

Speaker: Prof. Gerhard Bruyns

Prof. Gerhard Bruyns is an associate professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Design. He is the Associate Dean of Academic Programs, Director of the Research Postgraduate Program (PhD), and co-leader of the Urban Futures Lab.

He has conducted research in urban morphology, spatial planning, and strategic systems for regional design. His morphological study focuses on the relational patterns of urban morphology, spatial compression, and density in super-tall, super-dense situations, as well as innovatively linking volumetric and mega-scale concepts to morphological analysis.

For details of Professor Cai’s research lab, please visit: www.liquidterritories.com

Assistant Professor (Full-time)