CCFS Awarded Projects

Rural Urban Lab and Division of Landscape Architecture are among the 10 winners of this year’s Countryside Conservation Funding Scheme (CCFS), launched by the HKSAR Government to promote the sustainable conservation and revitalisation of the remote countryside. In addition to two other CCFS projects awarded in 2020-21, by Centre for Chinese Architecture and Urbanism and Social Infrastructure for Equity and Wellbeing Lab respectively, FoA has received close to HK$9M funding from the government scheme:

2021-22

• • ‘Balancing Ecological Sensitivity and Enhancing Experience: Experiments for the Deep Bay Outer Ramsar Site’, by Joshua Bolchover of Rural Urban Lab, focuses on revitalising wetlands within Deep Bay but lie outside of the Ramsar protected area, developing innovative strategies to maintain a balance between ecology and public activities.

    

• • ‘Village Commoning: Developing a Community-led Model in Countryside Revitalisation’, by Vincci Mak (Principal Investigator), together with Dr Cecilia Chu and Maxime Decaudin of Division of Landscape Architecture, proposes village revitalisation that attends to the needs and aspirations of local villagers and engages them throughout the process.

    

2020-21

• • ‘Conservation and Revitalisation Strategies for Architecture and Landscape of Hakka Village Spaces in Sha Tau Kok’, by Professor Weijen Wang, Andrew Zhu Xu and Su Chang of Centre for Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, explores methods of restoring, conserving and revitalising the traditional architecture, landscape environment and social culture of the four Hakka villages in Sha Tau Kok.

    

• • ‘Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Conservation and Revitalisation in Hing Chun Yeuk Seven Villages, Kuk Po and Fung Hang, Hong Kong’, by Professor Shenjing He (Principal Investigator), together with Dr Kenneth Tang and Dr Jin Zhu of Social Infrastructure for Equity and Wellbeing Lab, proposes comprehensive revitalisation plans and feasible implementation strategies for the target villages in North East New Territories through baseline analyses and public engagement.

    

Established under the Countryside Conservation Office in 2019, the CCFS supports non-profit-making organisations with funding on projects about nature conservation management, restoration of built heritage, cultural rehabilitation/revitalisation, and countryside conservation and revitalisation in Hong Kong’s rural hinterland.

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