ACLA-APELA

With the aim of revitalizing the APELA Forum, we intend to organize the APELA Forum membership as well as the ACLA membership.   Since this year, 2020, each ACLA member can become a member of the APELA Forum, if he/she had participated in one or more APELA activities, namely the APELA Forum 2015, or the 2016 APELA Forum, or the 2017 ACLA-APELA Workshop, or has participated a series of ACLA-APELA 2020 online lectures (minimum of 3 lectures).  You can see the List of APELA Forum events participants . For those who are not yet (officially registered) members of the ACLA, can follow the steps as follows: 1.       Download “2019 ACLA Membership Appl. Form” from here ; 2.       Fill in the latest data into the form then send it with your latest CV by email to aclasec01@naver.com and sung@snu.ac.kr, cc to ranapbs@gmail.com ; 3.       We will reply the email and attach an invoice for the payment of ACLA...

The next lecture, “ Indian Cultural Landscape: Locality-Globality-Cosmality ” will be held on July 15, lectured by Prof. Dr.  Rana P.B. Singh , PhD. In accordance with the background and objectives of the 2020 ACLA-APELA Online Lecture Series , this second lecture, as well as the first lecture,  Pedestrian-oriented Streetscape Design in Seoul , is promoting cultural landscape, the creative products of people that uphold the harmonious relationship between humans and nature, one of the sustainable answers to the problem of environmental degradation on the Earth.  Completely, Prof. Dr. Rana P.B. Singh, PhD. wrote it in his paper: Indian Cultural Landscape vis-à-vis Ecological Cosmology: A Vision for the 21st Century. Annals, National Association of Geographers of India, Annals- NAGI (ISSN: 0970-972X, NAGI New Delhi), vol. 33 (2): pp. 36-62. Ref. 416.13, https://banaras.academia,edu/RanaPBSINGH.  The abstract is as follows: In Indian tradition, cultural landscape d...

This Online Lecture of ACLA-APELA collaboration with SPA (School of Planning and Architecture) Bhopal, India was the first part of 2020 Online ACLA-APELA Lecture Series with Zoom. This lecture was moderated by Prof. Sonal Pandey Tiwari, and was hosted by Prof. Sung-Kyun Kim who gave the lecture from his office at CALS, SNU, Seoul at 2 pm local time. In accordance with the background and objectives of the 2020 Online ACLA-APELA Lecture Series with Zoom,  2020 ACLA-APELA Online Lecture Series , t his first lecture promoted sustainable public landscape, natural environment and social environment friendly. Completely, Prof. Kim had written his paper: Regeneration of Historic Urban Landscape with Pedestrian-oriented Streetscape Design in Seoul: The Case of Deoksugung-gil in Seoul, Korea, published on: Kapila D. Silva (ed.) The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes of the Asia -Pacific. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN ISBN: 9781138598256. eBk ISBN: 9780429486470. http...

WHY Because of the global issue of climate change and its consequences, the Earth needs more ecological landscape management, which has the effect of reducing global warming. These include the arrangement of public spaces that reduce the use of fossil fuels, public spaces that provide additional oxygen supply, and support the hydrological cycle. The ACLA and APELA Forum together promote the maintenance of cultural landscapes and the arrangement of eco-friendly landscapes, primarily in the Asia Pacific and also in rest parts of the Earth. Cultural landscapes, the creative products of people that uphold the harmonious relationship between humans and nature, are one of the sustainable answers to the problem of environmental degradation on the Earth. There are plenty of evidences that the cultural landscape in Asia can last for thousands of years; one such example is the Korean landscape garden, Nujeongwon . We need to promote mass awakening, conserve, preserve and revitali...