- Fellow, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, College of Architecture
- Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture
Dr. Rising has expertise in Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Social Sciences, and Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning. She investigates multi-hazard community resilience as community-initiated, self-organizing interactions between humans, disasters, and the built environment to mitigate and reduce the impacts of hazards; focusing on psychophysiological and socioenvironmental factors that contribute to consensus-based and individual decision-making to make the commons more sustainable and accessible.
She has won Best Paper Awards from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and the Environmental Design Research Association, the EDRA Research Award, the Young Investigator Research Award from the Association of European Schools of Planning. Her engagement-based educational program was selected for Landscape Architecture Foundation's Educational Grant and the Alaska Airlines' Imagine Tomorrow Award.
Dr. Rising founded the Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative, an integrated program of education, research, and outreach for adapting individuals and communities to the impacts of extreme weather and disruptive events. She co-leads the TAMU Space Governance and Habitability Research Group and the Space Habitat Challenge Innovation X Project, an applied multidisciplinary project. She was a Visiting Scholar at the U. of Venice, a Visiting Professor at Penn State, a Promising Scholar at the U. of Oregon, and a Barbour Scholar at the U. of Michigan where she conducted policy research on water security for the Urban Security Group and the Intelligent Transportation Systems for the Transportation Research Institute.
Hope previously provided studio-level design leadership for the HOK Planning Group in New York City and worked as a project manager and lead designer for EDAW's and AECOM's East Coast headquarters. She received over a dozen design awards, including three from the American Society of Landscape Architects and four from the American Institute of Architects.
- Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon - (Eugene, Oregon, United States) 2015
- M.U.P. in , University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) 2000
- M.L.A. in , University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) 2000
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, minor in Architecture and Planning, National Taiwan University - (Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan) 1996
Academic Articles7
- Rising, H. H. (2019). The role of salient canal structures in environmental adaptation. Landscape Research Record. 312.
- Rising, H. H. (2017). Aquaphilia: Water-Based Spatial Anchors as Loci of Attachment. Landscape Journal. 36(2), 73-89.
- Rising, H. H. (2017). The role of water-based imageability in climate adaptation: promoting upstream water retention through water-based place identity. Landscape Research Record. 6, 199-213.
Conference Papers2
- Rising, H. H. (2019). Multi-Level Design Games for Future-Proofing Post-Flood Cities: Houston as a test case. CELA 2019 ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP, CELA 2019 ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP. 1-1.
- Rising, H. H (2016). Water-based spatial anchor as the sixth element of imageability. Dilemma: Debate. CELA 2016, Dilemma: Debate (CELA 2016). 224-224.
Repository Documents / Preprints1
- Pace, Z., & Rising, H. H (2020). An Evidence-Based Approach to Community Planning and Design for Children in Care.
Principal Investigator7
- Arts and Humanities Fellowship awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2020 - 2023
- Outstanding Research Development Award conferred by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) - Workshop for Architectural Faculty in Environmental Sustainability 2019
- LAND311 Landscape Design Iii Instructor
- LAND312 Landscape Design Iv Instructor
- LAND620 Open Spa Land Use Plan I Instructor
- LAND645 Practice Diversity Instructor
- LAND661 Visual Quality Anaysi Instructor