Staff Directory


Norhanis Diyana Binti Nizarudin

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D of Landscape Architecture - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

Norhanis Diyana Binti Nizarudin (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus

KULLIYYAH OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Other's position:

Head of Department, Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design

norhanisdiyana@iium.edu.my
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Professional Membership


  • 2018 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Corporate Member), Institute of Landscape Architects Malaysia
  • 2023 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (PROFESSIONAL MEMBER), INSTITUTE OF GEOSPATIAL AND REMOTE SENSING MALAYSIA


Teaching Responsibilities


COMMUNITY LANDSCAPE DESIGN 2024/2025 2023/2024 2018/2019
DESIGN THESIS PROJECT 2022/2023
DESIGN THESIS RESEARCH 2023/2024 2022/2023
GIS FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2018/2019 2017/2018
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING 2019/2020
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 4 2017/2018
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 5 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHIC AND DESIGN 2024/2025
LANDSCAPE HERITAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES 2024/2025 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018
LANDSCAPE RESOURCE PLANNING 2017/2018
LANDSCAPE RESOURSCE PLANNING 2021/2022 2020/2021
LANDSCAPE SEMINAR 2022/2023
PARKS AND RECREATIONAL PLANNING 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018
PLANTING DESIGN 2021/2022
URBAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN 2020/2021


Supervision


The Attribute Of Green Campus Concept For Sustainability Management Of Campus Environment.
Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor
A Study On Public Art Towards Sustainable Livelihood Framework In The Malaysian Context Through Community Engagement.
Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor
Factors Influencing Place Attachment In Revitalised Traditional Streets In George Town, Pulau Pinang.
Master Completed 2024 Main Supervisor
Metamorphosis Gray To Green (G2g) - A Flood-Friendly Insfrastructure (For Sustainable Urban Landscape Design).
Master In Progress Main Supervisor
Connecting Children With Nature Through Green Playscape Approach For Preschoolers In Klang Valley.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2024 - 2025 IIUM Digital Interactive Mapping Project (Gombak Campus)
2024 - 2025 Instilling Passion for the 4M Modules (Membaca, Menulis, Mengira & Melukis) among Primary School Students at PPR Gombak Setia, Kuala Lumpur
2024 - 2025 Ritma Alam Explorers: Nature Journaling Workshop for Community
2023 - 2023 CIMA 50th Anniversary Special Art Project: Honour Painting
2023 - 2025 Unravelling Microbial Communities in the Rhizosphere of Dipterocarpaceae through Metagenomic approach
2022 - 2023 Pameran Digitalisasi Warisan: Pemetaan Digital dan Visual Aset Warisan di Bandar Warisan Taiping, Perak Darul Ridzuan
2022 - 2022 CIMA 50th Anniversary Special Art Project: NADI Painting
2021 - 2022 Empowering Team Creativity for the Youth at PPR Gombak Setia
2021 - 2021 KURSUS PEMPROSESAN PELAN MENGGUNAKAN PERISIAN REVIT SECARA ATAS TALIAN UNTUK PEGAWAI KESELAMATAN KEBAKARAN JBPM (PULAU PINANG))
2021 - 2021 UEM Group Art Project: Special Commissioned Paintings for UEM Group Offices
2021 - 2021 KURSUS PEMPROSESAN PELAN MENGGUNAKAN PERISIAN AUTO CAD & REVIT UNTUK PEGAWAI KESELAMATAN KEBAKARAN JBPM NEGERI PAHANG
2021 - 2021 KURSUS PEMPROSESAN PELAN MENGGUNAKAN PERISIAN REVIT SECARA ATAS TALIAN UNTUK PEGAWAI KESELAMATAN KEBAKARAN JBPM PADA 21-23 SEPT 2021
2020 - 2020 Projek Prototaip Peningkatan Landskap Ruang Komunal Pangsapuri kos Rendah, Selangor
2020 - 2022 Kajian Meningkat Imej Serta Identiti Bandar Diraja Pekan, Pahang
2018 - 2018 PROGRAMMING DURING WORLD URBAN FORUM 9: ACTIVATING URBAN SPACES
2017 - 2017 Tree Mapping and Inventory for Tun Perak Pocket Park
2017 - 2018 Kajian Pelan Induk Pembangunan
On-Going
2025 - Present Voices of Lenggong: A Community-Driven Digital Storytelling of Lembah Lenggong Marvels, Perak Darul Ridzuan
2025 - Present Community-Led Tourism in Pasir Salak: Empowering Local Heritage through Knowledge Transfer
2024 - Present DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES IN KUALA LUMPUR URBAN AREAS
2024 - Present Mapping and Assessment of Biocultural Landscape Resources for Tourism in Seberang Perai, Pulau Pinang
2024 - Present Art for Nature: Preserving Sungai Congkak through Creative Expression.
2024 - Present Development of Interactive Water Quality Mapping for Sungai Gombak, Malaysia


Awards & Recognition


15 Sep, 2023 INSPIRE EDU EXCELLENCE AWARD (LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE) - KAED TAKRIM 2023 KCDIO
31 May, 2023 Professional Geospatialist (Gs.) - Institute of Geospatial and Remote Sensing Malaysia National
30 Oct, 2020 Gold Medal - Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) National
17 Feb, 2020 Fellow - Ministry of Higher Education National
25 May, 2018 CORPORATE MEMBER - INSTITUT LANDSKAP ARKITEK MALAYSIA National


Publications


Articles

2025 Community, culture and conservation: mapping the biocultural landscape resources of Sungai Tembus, Seberang Perai for tourism. Journal of the Malaysian Institute of Planners, 23 (1) pp. 273-287
2025 Retrofitting green infrastructure in Kuala Lumpur: a document analysis of policy gaps and climate resilience. PLANNING MALAYSIA: Journal of the Malaysian Institute of Planners, 23 (1) pp. 555-568
2024 Exclusive interview: Yossapon Boonsom. Land.Scape., 5 () pp. 18-29
2024 Knowledge creation influences the awareness attribute of sustainability campus management. Semarak International Journal of Applied Psychology, 2 (1) pp. 26-34
2024 Mapping functional attachment along traditional street at Lebuh Armenian, George Town, Pulau Pinang. Journal of Architecture, Planning & Construction Management, () pp.
2024 Nature as designer: the magic of nature-based solutions. Land.Scape., 5 () pp. 10-15
2024 The implications of epistemology on knowledge and awareness in green campus management. Semarak International Journal of Design, Built Environment and Sustainability 1, Issue 1 (2024) 20-28, 1 (1) pp. 20-28
2024 Transitioning from traditional to digital methods: Insights on documenting and exhibiting landscape heritage. Journal of Architecture, Planning and Construction Management, 14 (1) pp. 130-144
2023 Green infrastructure: a trend taking root in our nation. LAND.SCAPE, (4) pp. 11-15
2023 Potentials of interactive website in improving visitors’ awareness on landscape heritage. Asian People Journal, 6 (2) pp. 136-154
2023 Roles of education in creating awareness of sustainability campus management for green campus concept. International Journal of Advanced Research in Education and Society, 5 (4) pp. 267-274
2022 Rethinking heritage: smart public space for Historic World Cities in the World Heritage Sites. Land.Scape Magazine, 3 () pp.
2022 Web-based application for enhancing on-site and remote data collection process during pandemic: an exploratory study. Planning Malaysia, 20 (5) pp. 172-183
2021 Communal landscape design: implementation at low-cost flat in Selayang, Selangor. Design Ideals Journal, 3 (1) pp. 19-26
2021 You are the frontliners!. Land.Scape Magazine, 1 () pp.
2016 Spatial and sociocultural aspects of urban mosque open spaces in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a mixed-method approach. Environment -Behaviour Proceedings Journal, () pp. 43-52
Conference or Workshop Items

2023 Documentation and exhibition of landscape heritage: learnings from analogue to digital techniques. In: International Conference on Local Wisdom in the Malay Archipelago (COLLEGA 2023),
2023 Geospatial and socio-spatial mapping for landscape resource planning and cultural heritage preservation in Malaysia. In: International Conference on Local Wisdom of the Malay Archipelago (COLLEGA 2023),
2023 Place attachment for traditional streets in heritage town. In: UMRAN2022 National Landscape Seminar,
2023 Roles of education in creating awareness of sustainability campus management for green campus concept. In: 3rd ASNet Virtual Conference on Social Sciences, Education and Technology (AVSET2023),
2021 Web-based application for enhancing on-site and remote data collection process during pandemic: an exploratory study. In: International Conference on Integrated Urban Planning 2021,
2020 COMPOSTUDIO Model: an interactive method for immersive project-based learning in built environment studios. In: International Putra Innocreative Carnival In Teaching And Learning (PicTL 2020):International Putra InnoCreative Poster Competition 2020,
2019 Determinants of occupancies and patterns of the multicultural societies at the urban mosque open spaces in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In: International Graduate Conference of Built Environment and Surveying,
2019 Human interaction theory for sustainable city. In: International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology 2018,
2019 Human interaction theory for sustainable city. In: International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology 2018,
2014 Changing urban mosques in the city: the role of communal and intercultural spaces in Malaysia. In: International Conference on Masjid, Zakat and Waqf (IMAF 2014),
2013 Landscape design as part of green and sustainable building design. In: 3rd International Conference on Green Building Technology and Materials,
2013 The importance and involvement of landscape architecture in the Green Building Index (GBI) practice. In: International Conference on Materials, Architecture and Engineering Technology (ICMAET 2013),
2012 The importance and involvement of landscape architecture in the Green Building Index (GBI) practice. In: 1st International Conference on Islamic Built Environment (IBECONF) 2012,
2012 The importance and involvement of landscape architecture in the Green Building Index (GBI) practice. In: 1st International Conference on Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Built Environment 2012 (ICITSBE 2012),
2011 Landscape design as part of green and sustainable building design. In: International Conference on Universal Design in Built Environment (ICUDBE 2011),
2011 The Green Building Index (GBI) on landscape architecture scope of works. In: 10th Management in Construction Research Association Conference (MiCRA) 2011,
2011 The Green Building Index (GBI): an innovation in landscape architecture . In: 1st IFLA Asia Pacific Region Symposium on Landscape Architecture Education (SOLARE 2011),
2010 The application of the Green Building Index (GBI) on sustainable site planning and management for residential new construction: prospects and future benefits. In: Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Conference 2010 (SUSTED 2010),
Books

2024 Ruang sejahtera PPR Gombak Setia, Kuala Lumpur: cultivating topophilia through placemaking and community-oriented public space design. Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED), IIUM, ISBN:
2024 TERRAMULIA Communal Space@Selayang Mulia Low-cost Flat. Department of Landscape Architecture, Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN:
2023 The Edinburgh Old Town: Capturing the Lines of Heritage. National Art Gallery Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-0914-54-1
2022 Heritage Trees of Taiping Lake Garden. Department of Landscape Architecture, ISBN: 978-967-26339-1-4
2022 Narratives of wondrous Taiping. Department of Landscape Architecture, ISBN:
Book Sections

2023 Ruang Sejahtera, ruang komuniti. In: Penerbit Universiti Malaya, ISBN: 978-967-488-263-1, pp. 87-109
2023 Transformation of education in landscape architecture through digitalisation of Heritage. In: Institute of Landscape Architects Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-5849-10-7, pp. 244-244
2021 Spicy ke Ori?. In: Penerbit UTeM Press, ISBN: 978-967-2454-70-0, pp. 191-200
2021 Spicy ke Ori?. In: Penerbit UTeM Press, ISBN: 978-967-2454-70-0, pp. 191-200
2011 Landscape design as part of green and sustainable building design . In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674180393, pp. 43-51