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Dr. Shenglin Chang Associate Professor Email: shenglin@umd.edu Office: 2144 Plant Sciences Building Phone: 301.405.4369 Fax: 301.314.9308 AGNR Directory Page

Education Background

• Bachelor of Science in Horticulture, National Taiwan University. Emphasis in Landscape Architecture Design, 1986
• Master of Science in Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University. Emphasis in City and Regional Planning, 1989
• Master of Landscape Architecture. Cornell University. Emphasis in Sociocultural Factors in Landscape Design, 1994
• Ph.D. of Environmental Planning. University of California, Berkeley. Emphasis in Urban Landscape Design and Community Development, 2000

 

Area of Specialization:

Shenglin E. Chang received her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2000. She is currently an Associate Professor at University of Maryland's Landscape Architecture Program in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture. Born in Taiwan, she has developed and implemented innovative approaches to public involvement in environmental issues through civic arts, community design participation, and social-political activism. She received the 2004 CELA Award of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service in Landscape Architecture (CELA - Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture).

Dr. Chang's book, The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture, has recently been published by the Stanford University Press (2006). Her scholarship focuses on the transformations of Asian and Latino immigrants' lifestyles and identities in the Silicon Valley and the suburban DC-Maryland-Virginia region. Her recent essays include: "Seeing Landscape through Cross-cultural Eyes" in Landscape Journal 24-2: 05; "Home here, Home There" in Landscape Review 9(1); and, "Breaking Silicon Silence" in Challenging the Chip (Temple 2006). She has edited and co-authored two books (translated into Chinese) with Randy Hester: Living Landscape (1998) and A Theory for Building Community (1998).

Shenglin's teaching focuses on issues related to landscape and identity across world cultures. With the support from the Freeman Foundation, she established modules and courses in partnership with faculty and students in East Asia, including Taiwan, China, and Japan. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley in fall 2006, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University in spring 2008. Meanwhile, she taught the Sustainable Future Program in Montverde, Costa Rica, in summer 2008. The Department of Landscape Architecture in the Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan invites her as an adjutant professor to develop the international landscape architecture education program in fall 2008. In summer 2009, she will collaborate with faculty in the Institute of Natural and Environmental Science in the University of Hyogo in Japan to teach and research on issues related to new ruralism and eco-village.

Research Projects

• Transnational Landscape Identity in the Informational Age (1996 - present) http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=6964
  
• Global Landscape Architecture Education (Fall 1997 - present)
  http://view.megacitysite.com/
  
• Socio-environmental Impacts of Informational Technology in Hsinchu Taiwan (2000 - 2005) http://www.iepanet.org/campaign2.php?catid=28
  
• Asian and Latino Immigrant lifestyles and Smart Suburban Growth in the DC-MD-VA Region (2002 - 2006)
  New Ruralism and Eco-Village in Asia and Americas (Spring 2008 - present)
  
• Spirituality and Sustainability in Landscape Design (Fall 2008 - present)

 

Courses:

• LARC460/660: Landscape and Identity: Placemaking Across World Cultures (see syllabus) 
  
• LARC471: Community Design Studio 
  
• LARC640: Graduate Design Studio I (see syllabus) 

Representative Publications        

Publications:

• 2007
  Bob Yuan, Spencer Benson, Shenglin Chang, and Denny Gulick. "The Global University: The Restructuring of Undergraduate Science and Engineering Courses and the Development of International Partnerships," International Journal: Science Education and Civic Engagement 1 (2): 42 - 50 pp.
  
  
• 2006
  Shenglin Chang. The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes Within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Cultures. Stanford University Press.
  http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5215%20%20
  
  Shenglin Chang; Hua-mei Chiu; Wenling Tu."Breaking the Silicon Silence: Giving Voice to Health and Environmental Impacts Within Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park." In Challenging the Chips: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Edited by David N. Pellow, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Ted Smith. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1788_reg.html
  
  
• 2005
  Guest editor for a special issue in Landscape Journal:"Teaching with Cultures in Mind: Cross-cultural Landscape Architecture Education." I co-edited this issue with Margarita Hill. The special issue is in collaboration with Margarita Hill (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Jeff Hou (University of Washington, Seattle. USA), Isami Kinoshita (Chiba University), Laura Lawson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), David Myers (University of Maryland), Sawako Ono (Chiba University).
  
  Shenglin Chang."Seeing Landscape through Cross-cultural Eyes: Embracing a transcultural lens towards multi-lingual design approaches in the landscape studio." Landscape Journal 24:2-05: 140-156pp.

Selected International Presentations:

2008

• The Department of Landscape Architecture at the Chung Yuan Christian University in Tawain invited me and Prof. Jeff Hou to lead the Big Tree Classroom workshop 2008 from June 1 to June 9, 2008. I delivered one presentation during the period:
  "A Theory of Building a Global Community",  the Chung Yuan Christian University, June 4, 2008. Chungli, Taiwan.
• "At Home; Away from Home: Challenges and Concerns for Design Professionals in the Era of Globalization." In the Department of Architecture at Tankang University. May 27, 2008. Tanshui, Taiwan. 
• "Whose Catalyst? Whose Revitalization? The Legend of Treasure Hill Historical Village in Taipei" Co-presented with Mr. Jin-Yung Wu at the Macau Catalyst Space Workshop, invited by the Bureau of Cultural Affair in Macau, June 13, 2008. Macau, China.
• "Community Design: Outside the Box of Laws, Cross the Boundaries of Professions" in the Montverde Institute of Montverde, Costa Rica, July 22, 2008.

2007

• The Department of Regional Studies in Humanity and Social Science at National Hsinchu Education University invited me to lead the Dr. Shenglin Chang's International Workshop in Hsinchu Taiwan.  I delivered two presentation during the period:
  

1. "The Global Silicon Valley Landscape," at Dr. Shenglin Chang's International Workshop, National Hsinchu Education University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. December 26, 2007.
   
2. "Multi-cultural Public Space Design," at Dr. Shenglin Chang's International Workshop, National Hsinchu Education University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. December 27, 2007.
   
   

2006

• The Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University invited Dr. Elijah Mirochnik and me to lead the international innovative design workshop, "What Identity to do with Design?" During the workshop, I co-presented with Dr. Elijah Mirochnik:
  
  "Identity and Design in the Era of Globalization" in the Innovative Design Education Program, Collaborated with Dr. Elijah Mirochnik, Sponsored by Department of Education, Taiwan. (Taipei, Taiwan. May 27, 2006)

2005

• "Blue Eye Landscape, Brown Eye Landscape: Experimenting Transcultural Landscape Curriculum Embraces East and West," at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Environmental Science, Peiking University, Beijing, China. My lecture was part of a series titled"Community Design Beyond Culture, Language and Age," April 25 2005.
  

Others

Honors and Awards

The 2004 CELA Award of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service in Landscape Architecture (CELA - Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture)
2007-2008 Lilly Fellowship Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland.

Professional Service

Community Participatory Planning and Design for Neighborhood Design Center in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Professional Affiliations (Selected)

• National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education (UM)
• Center for East Asia Studies (UM)
• CELA - Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
  
• EDRA - Environmental Design Research Association
  
• The Pacific Rim Community Participatory Design Network

Competitively Awarded Grants

• University of Maryland, General Research Board, Summer Research Grant (2002) and Research Support Award (2005)
  Visiting Professor Research and Teaching Grant from the Institute of Natural and Environmental Science in the University of Hyogo in Japan (2009)