Dorothy TANG (Dr)

Dorothy Tang, PhD, is a landscape architect and assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. Her work is concerned with the intersections of infrastructure and everyday life, especially in communities confronting large-scale environmental change. Her current research explores the histories of water, infrastructure, and urbanization in East Asia, the infrastructural landscapes of foreign investments in Southeast Asia and Africa, and the geopolitics of transnational watershed management.

Dorothy is an award-winning educator and was formerly the programme director of the Master of Landscape Architecture programme at NUS from 2022-2024. Prior to joining NUS, she was an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong where she also directed the undergraduate program. She has published widely on the relationship between infrastructure development, resource extraction, and urbanization processes in various book volumes and journals. Her design work and research has been exhibited internationally, including the Venice Biennale and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bicity Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture.