Biography
Sylvie Tram Nguyen is an urban designer with experience in multi-disciplinary practices of integrated projects across engineering, urbanism and landscape, in Hong Kong, China and Vietnam. As core faculty member, she lectured for Hong Kong university’s Master of Urban Design program. Her dissertation titled “Atlas Narratives of Anthropogenic Transformation across the Vietnamese Mekong Delta’s urban-rural Territories: Water Ecosystems as driver for the Social Ecological Transition,” was completed under the direction of Prof. Paola Viganò in the Laboratory of Urbanism at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She holds a Ph.D. Doctor of Science from EPF Lausanne, a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from Harvard University and a professional Bachelor of Architecture from Woodbury University.
Mission
As the designated water urbanization researcher under the Habitat Research Center's Landscape division, her mission is to bring awareness of the impact of climate change in urban water-related issues including sea-level rise, flooding, and erosion or sedimentation of deltaic territories and rivercourses. The HRC's Waters Seminar series serves as a platform for presenting and discussing these issues surrounding multi-disciplinary experts across project cases found around the world.