Ma On Shan Spirit: Conservation of the Ma On Shan Iron Mine Landscape

The presentation seeks to extend the scope of conservation beyond industrial historic buildings and their immediate environment in the former Ma On Shan Iron Mine to the whole site’s linkage to Hong Kong’s historic socio-economic and technological developments in the evolving regional and international contexts. This approach of valuating industrial heritage conservation provides an enriched understanding of the multi-layers of socio-economic, cultural and political histories of a site, offering unique insights for local actions and potentially valuable experience for other parts of the world.

The event will be conducted in Cantonese, with simultaneous interpretation from Cantonese to English available.

Speaker:
Professor Ng Mee Kam

Professor Mee Kam Ng is the Director of the Urban Studies Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP). She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in UK. She has published widely on planning and sustainability issues in Asia. Her publications have earned her six HKIP Awards and the 2015 Association of European Schools of Planning Best Published Paper Award. She has been consultant to the UN and EU.

7:00pm – 8:00pm	Talk
8:00pm – 8:30pm	Q&A