Associate Professor
Doctor of Engineering in Urban Planning and Design
Master Supervisor, College of Design and Innovation
National Registered Urban Planner (No. GH20053100497)
Brief Introduction
YAO Xueyan is the associate professor of Design Science at College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. Her teaching and research address issues of urban residential landscape design, innovative strategies and methodologies on urban public space, as well as Green and Sustainable Environmental Design. She has been in charge of or participating in research projects on Residential Landscape architecture, Public Art, Innovative Design & Innovation City, and has completed research subjects and projects as Awareness of Green Development Concept, Biodiversity and Biophilic Planning and Design, Strategies on Ecological Civilization, Urban Flood-Prevention Research" etc. As an urban planner and landscape architect, she has been engaged in many Design Research Practices, ranging from large research projects as Specific study on Ecological strategies in urban planning and design, to small-scaled ones as Sustainable Workshops. In the past few years, her research interests have gradually evolved more in Rural Revitalization, Art Intervening in Rural Areas, as well as urban-rural interaction.
Research
Sustainable environmental planning and design
Urban-rural interaction
Space innovation
Teaching
Undergraduate: Sustainability Consciousness，Environmental Design，Visual Morphology Creation，Design Foundation，Design Thinking and Expression，etc.
Academic and social Post
Member of Green Campus Committee, China Green Building Council (2013-present)
Education Background
2003-2007 Doctor in Urban Planning and Design，Tongji University
1997-2000 Master in Urban Planning and Design，Tongji University
1993-1997 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in Urban Planning，Tongji University
Work Experience
2011-present Associate Professor and Lecturer in College of Design and Innovation，Tongji University
2000-2011 Lecturer and Teaching Assistant in Tongji University Higher Technical College
Design
[1] 2020-present Service-driven Environmental Design Consulting Project in Longnan rural area (Project Leader)
[2] 2019 Participatory Art Creation Experiment in Yanping village commissioned by the People's Government of Yanping District, Nanping City and Shanghai Ruanyisan Urban Heritage Foundation (Project Leader)
[3] 2018-2019 Park City Connotation Research of the Park City Special Study of Chengdu Urban Planning Administration (Participant)
[4] 2018 the International Joint Laboratory Open Fund Project of the Special Research Fund of Shanghai International Innovation Design Institute and Shanghai Type IV Peak Plateau Disciplines of Design, Research on Modern Urban Public Environment Design (Project Leader)
[5] 2017-2020 Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning Fund Project of Research on the Public Construction Strategy of Shanghai Urban Community Ecological Environment oriented by the Awareness of Green Development Concept (Project Leader)
[6] 2015-2018 Sub-topic 1 of Domestic and international urban flood disaster prevention and control experiences and problems (Main Writer), the Major Consulting Project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering of Research on Strategies and Measurements for Chinese Urban Flood Disasters Prevention and Control
[7] 2015-2016 project of Beautiful Countryside in Qianmaliangou Village, Gongmushi Village, Aoshanwei Town (Project Leader)
[8] 2014-2016 the Central University Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund Project of Research on the History of Urban Open Space Environmental Art Innovation-Taking Shanghai as an Example (Project Leader)
[9] 2013 Haiyang Sunshine Coast Residential District Planning and Design Consulting Project (Project Leader)
[10] 2011-2017 Compilation of Architectural Design Information Collection (Third Edition) published by China Architecture & Building Press (Editor)
[11] 2001-2005 Compilation of Guide Rule for Design of Residential District Environmental Landscape published by Ministry of Housing and Rural Construction of Residential Industrialization Promotion Center (Main Author)
Publications
Treatises:
[1] Beatley, T. (2018) Handbook of Biophilic City:Planning and Design(Gan, J., Yao, X. Y., &Ding, Y. X., Trans.).Shanghai:Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers.(2017).
Papers:
[1] Yao, X. Y. (2020). Research on Development History & Innovation Strategy of International Horticultural Expositions. Art and Design (Theory)(03),77-80. doi:10.16824/j.cnki.issn10082832.2020.03.020.
[2] Gan, J., Guo G. P., & Yao, X. Y. (2019). Biodiversity Supporting Services of Urban Roadside Green Spaces and the Built Environment Influences——A Case Study of Birds Along Shanghai Century Avenue. Landscape Architecture (01),47-52. doi:10.14085/j.fjyl.2019.01.0047.06.
[3] Yao, X. Y., & Ji, L. Y. (2018). Flood risk management of transnational river basins management in China——A case study of the Danube & the Rhine River Basins. China Flood & Drought Management (05),53-59+63. doi:10.16867/j.issn.1673-9264.2017258.
[4] Ji, L. Y., Wu, Z. Q., & Yao, X. Y. (2017). The urbanization background and evolutionary trend of urban flood risk——an empirical analysis based on the impact of floods in the world. (eds.) Reshaping the Green and Sustainable Urban Water Environment——2017 (The third session) International Forum on Urban Flood Control and Drainage and China-UK Symposium on Urban Flood Prevention and Control Proceedings (pp.4-11).
[5] Yao, X. Y., & Xu, M. (2017).Research on Innovative Approaches and Guidance for Urban Public Space Design. Landscape Architecture Frontiers(03),18-31. doi:CNKI:SUN:JGSJ.0.2017-03-003.
[6] Yao, X. Y. (2016). Application and Research of Constructive Art Works on Innovation Design of City Parks in Shanghai. Art and Design (Theory)(Z1),49-51. doi:10.16824/j.cnki.issn10082832.2016.z1.008.
Exhibitions:
[1] 2019 Participatory art creation experiment in Yanping Village
Honors and Awards
[1] 2016 Hongda Award of Tongji University
Contact
Email：yaoxy@tongji.edu.cn
