教師動態 張聖琳 A. 個人相關資料 B. 個人經歷與近年從事活動

A. 個人相關資料

Shenglin Elijah Chang, Ph.D.
Position: Associate Professor
Primary institutional affiliation:
Graduate Institute of Building and Planning
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Association:
Director, New Ruralsim Research and Development Center


B. 個人經歷與近年從事活動

Shenglin Chang received her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2000. She is currently an Associate Professor at National Taiwan University’s Graduate Institute of Building and Planning and serves as the Director of the New Ruralism Research and Development Center. She was a tenured Associate Professor at University of Maryland before she was invited by the National Taiwan University to return to Taiwan. She also taught at different intuitions in Japan, China, and Costa Rica as a visiting professor and researcher.

Born in Taiwan and living in the Unite States 19 years, 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), and the 2007 Lily Scholar at University of Maryland. Her book, The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture, has been published by the Stanford University Press (2006).

Dr. Chang’s scholarship focuses on the transformations of Asian and Latino immigrants’ lifestyles and identities in the suburban DC-Maryland region. Her recent essays include: Asian and Latino Immigrants’ Preferences for Walkable Sub-Urban Neighborhoods,” in a theme issue on "Home, Migration and the City." Open House International Vol. 34, No. 3, 2009 “Breaking Silicon Silence” in Challenging the Chip (Temple 2006 in English, 2008 in Chinesem 2009 in Korean), “Home here, Home There” in Landscape Review 9(1) “Seeing Landscape through Cross-cultural Eyes” in Landscape Journal 24-2: 05; and,. She has edited and co-authored two books (translated into Chinese) with Randy Hester: Living Landscape and A Theory for Building Community. 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.

Since 2008, Dr. Chang’s new research and professional agenda is to establish the New Ruralism Research and Develop Center. The Center commits to search for socio-culturally and ecologically sustainable methods to revitalize rural areas, especially focusing on aging issues in the countryside of the East Asian region. Shenglin has studied rural development cases in America, Costa Rica, China and Japan. She will continue this mission and call for the dream of the Asian Rural Renaissance in the 21st Century.