SCOTT JENNINGS MELBOURNE, ASSOC HKILA Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture melbourne@hku.hk EDUCATION 2006 2008 : Cambridge, MA Master in Landscape Architecture with distinction Thesis: Constructed Realities: Landscape as Interface in the Network Age Advisor: Professor John R. Stilgoe 1997 2003 University of Washington: Seattle, WA Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Italian Landscape Studies, with Professor David Streatfield Berlin Study Abroad, with Professor Kristina Hill FULL-TIME ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD 2012.08 PRESENT Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Leading graduate design studios and research seminars, in addition to landscape technologies courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels PART-TIME RESEARCHER POSITIONS HELD 2007.06 2008.01 Research Assistant Project for Reclamation Excellence (P-REX) with Professor Alan Berger University of Washington 2003 WINTER Research Assistant Cross-cultural design studio with Professor Jeff Hou + Chiba University 2002 SPRING Research Apprentice UW Friday Harbor Labs PART-TIME TEACHING AND ASSISTANT POSITIONS HELD 2012 SPRING Visiting Assistant Professor Undergraduate landscape architecture studio, Shanghai Study Centre 2008 SPRING Teaching Associate Landscape Representation II with Will Martin Teaching Assistant 2008 SPRING Geographic Information Systems with Paul Cote 2007 AUTUMN Third Semester Core Studio with Professor Scheri Fultineer Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning with Professor Carl Steinitz Digital Landscape Modeling with Will Martin Geographic Information Systems with Paul Cote Half a Million Trees Options Studio with Professor Gary Hilderbrand " 1 of " 5
2006.09 2007.06 3d rapid prototyping in the GSD:CAD:CAM:LAB 2007 SPRING Fourth Semester Core Studio with Professor Alan Berger Landscape Representation II with Professors Alan Berger and Will Martin 2006 AUTUMN Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning with Professor Carl Steinitz University of Washington 2003 2006 Lecturer AutoCAD for Landscape Architects PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2008.09 2012.07 SWA Group: Laguna Beach, CA Shanghai, China Contributing landscape designer on large-scale international projects, from conceptual through full construction documentation phases. Projects included universities in the Middle East, resorts in Latin America, plus urban waterfront redevelopments and luxury lifestyle centers in China. Originally part of SWA's Laguna Beach team, was later based in Shanghai and helped grow the firm's new office there beginning February 2011. 2008.06 2008.09 Vanke: Shenzhen, China Visiting Designer Developed landscape assessment and recommendations as a special assistant to senior vice president of design in China s largest real estate development company. Also a primary contributor to master plan of 10- hectare research center in Shenzhen. 2005.02 2006.08 Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture: Seattle, WA Managed large-scale schematic design projects in China, including: the landscape and lighting design for a 16-hectare waterfront development in Qingdao; the planting design for a 50-hectare theme park in Dalian; and the circulation, open space and planting design for a 60-hectare mixed use development in Chongqing. Also contributed towards documentation of the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle. 2003.08 2005.02 Mithun: Seattle, WA Contributing landscape designer and site planner for US$70 million redevelopment of Shilshole Bay Marina (Port of Seattle). Also played key role in design of new public plaza in downtown Kirkland, WA. 2002.02 2003.08 Richard Haag Associates, Landscape Architects: Seattle, WA Assistant 2000 2001 Global CommerceZone: Seattle, Chicago, Jerusalem Web Programmer 1995 2000 Center for Multimedia Digital Interactive Group: Bellevue, WA Web Developer RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED 2016.01 PRESENT Seed Funding for Basic Research Yangon Ecologies: Identifying landscape systems in peri-urban regions undergoing change 2012.07 2015.05 Seed Funding for Basic Research Peter Walker s Legacy in Japan" " 2 of " 5
SWA Group 2011.07 2012.07 Patrick Curran Fellowship Mainland Quality: Meaning and Endurance in China's Contemporary Landscape" 2007 SPRING Penny White Fund Landscapes of Energy: Visual Impacts of Wind Power Generation in Gran Canaria, Spain ACADEMIC AWARDS AND PRIZES The 2017 Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award 2016 Teaching Innovation Award (Team Award) Studio Yangon: Engaging Urban Change Royal Town Planning Institute 2016 RTPI Awards for Research Excellence, Academic Award (Commended) Green=walkable?: Measuring the associations between green space, morphology and walking patterns among 20,000 residents of London 2008 Norman T. Newton Prize BOOKS Melbourne, SJ. Design Lessons: The Landscape Architecture of Peter Walker. (Manuscript in progress, under publishing agreement with Birkhäuser). 2014 Melbourne, SJ. Mainland Quality: Meaning and Endurance in China s Contemporary Landscape. Minmax Press. ISBN-13: 978-0692341629 JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED / IN PRESS (Peer reviewed) 2015 Webster C, Sarkar C, Melbourne SJ, Pryor M, Tang D, Kaffay N, Green equals healthy? Towards an evidence base for high density healthy city research. Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 3(1), 8-23. 2015 Sarkar C, Webster C, Pryor M, Tang D, Melbourne SJ, Zhang X, Jianzheng L, Exploring associations between urban green, street design and walking: Results from the Greater London boroughs. Landscape and Urban Planning, 143, 112-125. JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED / IN PRESS (Editor reviewed) 2017 Melbourne, SJ, Infrastructure appropriation at Yangon s Pazundaung Creek. [Cover photograph]. Landscape Research, 42(1). 2016 Webster, C. J., Chiaradia, A. J. F., Gallacher, J., Huang, J., Jiang, B., Kumari, S., Melbourne, S. J., & Sullivan, W. C.. Being more precise about the smart in Smart Cities. Planning and Development 規劃與拓展. 2015 Melbourne, SJ, Resort Urbanism: The Role of Landscape in Hong Kong s Discovery Bay. LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2, 96-101. 2015 Melbourne, SJ, Finding the Heart of Landscape in Eastern Tibet. Topos The International Review of Landscape Architecture, 92, 58-63. " 3 of " 5
JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PREPARATION / UNDER REVIEW Melbourne SJ, Sarkar C, Zhang X, Webster C, Does park size and size distribution matter in optimizing walking performance of cities? Melbourne SJ, Valin I, Engaging urban change: a model for design pedagogy in developing regions. Melbourne SJ, Streetscape as public space in a transitioning Yangon, Myanmar. COMMISSIONED REPORTS 2007 Steinitz C ed., Werthmann C ed., An Alternative Future for the Landscape of Castilla-La Mancha. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. ISBN: 0-9771224-6-8. INVITED LECTURES 2015.05 Landscape Architecture and Its Offering to a Changing Myanmar, Yangon Technological University 2014.04 Landscape in a Pressurized Region, University of Tokyo 2014.03 Landscape in a Pressurized Region, University of Washington 2012.11 Meaning and Endurance, China Academy of Art 2012.11 Meaning and Endurance, Zhejiang University 2011.10 Mainland Quality: Meaning and Endurance in China's Contemporary Landscape, 2011.04 International Praxis: Notes from the Field, 2010.11 International Praxis: Notes from the Field, University of Washington 2009.03 Digital Global, 2008.03 Evolving, University of Toronto CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION 2017.09 From Agriculture to New Urban Commons: Productive Landscapes and Infrastructural Ecologies, 2017 APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Conference, Association of Pacific Rim Universities 2017.05 Studio Yangon: Engaging Urban Change, CELA Annual Meeting 2017, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2017.04 Quantifying the green spaces absorbing urban growth in Yangon, Myanmar, Association of American Geographers' Annual Meeting 2017, Boston, USA 2016.06 Yangon Ecologies: Landscape infrastructures in Myanmar's commercial capital, Cracow Landscape Conference 2016, Jagiellonian University, Cracow University of Technology 2015.07 Urban Transitions: Streetscape as Expression of Change in Yangon, Myanmar, International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies, Chiang Mai University 2014.10 A Pedagogy of Engagement: Studio Yangon and the Role of Design Education in Dynamic Regions, co-authored with Melissa Cate Christ and Ivan Valin, Burma/Myanmar Research Forum, Cornell University 2014.10 Potential Futures: The Changing Cultural Landscape of Yangon s Waterfront, co-authored with Melissa Cate Christ and Ivan Valin, ACLA Asian Cultural Landscape Association, Seoul National University 2013.06 Mainland Quality: Meaning and Endurance in China's Contemporary Landscape, Traces - GLITS Conference 2013, Goldsmiths, University of London " 4 of " 5
2013.03 Mainland Quality: Meaning and Endurance in China's Contemporary Landscape, CELA Annual Meeting 2013, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture DESIGN CRITIC 2016.04 Chinese, Hong Kong 2015.11 Chinese, Hong Kong 2014.03 University of Washington, Seattle 2012.11 China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 2012.06 China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 2011.12, Hong Kong 2011.07 Tongji University, Shanghai, China 2011.05 China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 2011.04 Shanghai Study Centre, Shanghai, China 2011.03 Shanghai Study Centre, Shanghai, China 2003 2006 University of Washington, Seattle JURIES 2014.10 Landscape Awards, Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects COMMITTEES / ADMINISTRATION 2014 PRESENT Master in Landscape Architecture Admissions Tutor, Division of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, 2012 PRESENT Board Member, Faculty of Architecture, MEDIA APPEARANCES 2014.03.27 Interviewed on Monocle 24 Radio s The Urbanist, Episode 128. http:// monocle.com/radio/shows/the-urbanist/128/ " 5 of " 5