Communication between Departments
Professor Sullivan and Professor Chang are both the affiliated professors of the other side. Prof. Sullivan comes to NTU every semester and give lectures and speeches during the stay; Prof. Chang have given lectures at UIUC for five weeks in the summer of 2015.
At Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, NTU
We invite Prof. Sullivan to give lectures in the class of “Advanced Landscape Design” for Fall semester and give lectures in the class of “Healthy Landscape Healthy People Studio” for Spring semester.
Both the classes are studio classes, Prof. Sullivan gives suggestions to the design works in the final review in end of the semester.
During the semester, in the classes of “Healthy Landscape Healthy People Studio” will read some articles about related research, professors anticipate that students can utilize the results from studies and take them as the base of their design works. Therefore, we also invite Prof. Sullivan sharing the research results of his team, which are mostly about the relationship between environments and human health, to inspire the students in both design and academic aspect.
At Department of Landscape Architecture, UIUC
Prof. Chang was invited to visit the Department of Landscape Architecture at UIUC in the early Fall in 2015, during the five-week-stay, Prof Chang gave lectures in “Built Environment and Human Health” class.
Prof. Chang and the instructor prof. Sullivan introduced the framework of the main concept of their research, and discussed with the class about the relationship between human and natural landscape elements, how to measure the benefits of natural environments, and how to measure the health influence that human have from environments.