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Integrating Interdisciplinary Fieldwork into Studio Teaching: Insights from a Teaching Exchange with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and KU Leuven

Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme TEFS

Event Details

Date : 1 Dec 2025 (Mon)

Time : 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Venue : Learning Lab (RRS 321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)

Speaker : Ms. Susanne Elisabeth Trumpf, Senior Lecturer, Division of Landscape Architecture, HKU

Facilitator : Professor Luke Fryer, Assistant Director, TALIC, HKU

Abstract

Drawing insights from a Teaching Exchange Fellowship with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and KU Leuven in Belgium, this session highlights collaborative efforts to advance interdisciplinary learning and institutional partnerships between HKU’s Landscape Architecture programs and leading institutions in Europe. By engaging in co-led workshops, immersive fieldwork, and faculty dialogues, the fellowship cultivated innovative strategies for hands-on studio pedagogy. Key outcomes included methodologies that bridge cultural and technical aspects of landscape education, demonstrated through NMBU’s experiential land lab and KU Leuven’s cross-cultural traveling studios. This seminar will discuss how these insights can enrich HKU’s curriculum and foster scholarly exchange.

About the Speaker

Ms. Susanne Elisabeth Trumpf is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, where she teaches design studios, landscape media and research seminars. Susanne’s teaching and research have adopted an interdisciplinary approach to address urban-environmental concerns, with courses reflecting a commitment to landscape and materials through an emphasis on experiential, hands-on learning. She has co-founded TAL-L, a database that focuses on landscape materials and material ecologies.

Before joining HKU, Susanne has taught at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the AA Visiting School (Hong Kong) and Hong Kong Design Institute. She has practiced in Berlin and Hong Kong and is founder of indialogue, a consultancy focused on conversations and experimentations in architectural design and practice. Susanne graduated from TU Berlin, Germany (BArch) and TU Delft, Netherlands (MArch) in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences.

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