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re:ACT features on Commonpeople.sg!
Daniel Lee on Fri, July 3, 2009
Commonpeople.sg, a platform that seeks to re-look and re-think what creative expression means in Singapore today recently held an interview with members of re:ACT! Sernhong and Joshua gave insights into how re:ACT was run, our vision and gave details into some of the prominent projects that re:ACT has been involved with in the past. It certainly was a little daunting at first, with video cameras and microphones watching your every move, but once they got into the groove of things, Sernhong and Joshua provided viewers with stimulating ideas and thoughts, as well the direction that re:ACT is going to take in the future to continue to impact the architecture community in Singapore.
We are thankful to the team at Commonpeople.sg for this opportunity to be on their website. Great stuff guys!
Click here to view the interview.
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Collaboration of TRYBE and re:ACT
Daniel Lee on Mon, May 4, 2009
Collaboration between Trybe and re:ACT began in the red and cosy setting of a cafe located within the heritage-rich Red Dot Traffic building. It was also the place where I first encountered re:act when I volunteered for an event named CUBE, which was part of their Design My Place workshop.
CUBE stands for the Challenge for the Urban and Built Environment, where students from ten different institutions came together to redesign the master planning of Chinatown. For the students, maybe, excitement stemmed from the cash prize for the winning entry, but personally, excitement came from getting these youths, who believe that architects just draw buildings, excited about urban design and architecture. I believe that the workshop left most of the students with a new found interest in our built environment and probably a few aspiring architects, but most importantly the workshop was successful because it had created in the students an awareness and appreciation for good urban design and the potential it brings.
Trybe is a charity which delivers youth development programmes to the schools around Singapore. They believe that every youth are in their own right, a success story. I strongly believe in their cause and it is one that deserves special mention and definitely should not go unnoticed.
Having facilitated for both Trybe and re:ACT, I’ve realised how well both complement one another. And that the opportunities for collaboration could harness so much potential, both in the field of youth development and the built environment. Architecture today is more important than before, because gone is the era of procrastination, we are now living in an age of consequences, and we need our youth of today to be aware of the potential that good urban design brings. This will make sure that in the future, our culture, our identity and environmental sustainability will remain an important agenda of Singapore’s built environment. With Trybe and re:ACT, we can be ensured of this future.
All big ideas start off small. On the 3rd of April 2009, re:ACT was involved with the facilitation of Trybe’s inter-cultural program with Greendale Secondary School. The objective was to provide a group of foreign students with an overview of Singapore and also to allow them to discover the ‘real’ Singapore in a very hands-on and interactive way. The activities conducted by re:act involved a tour of the URA city gallery and an amazing urban race around Chinatown.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore building was where the students began their journey of discovering Singapore. And through its city gallery, the students were introduced to our little red dot nation lying one north of the equator, by the interactive storyboards and models which included one of the entire Singapore.
Similar to the ear to ground exercise in the CUBE workshop, the race that followed required the students to explore Chinatown, on foot. This allowed them to carry out hands-on activities through interaction with the community, engagement with the culture and the experience of the place with their senses. Through interviews, sketches, photo-taking, poems and food tasting, the Singapore story is slowly but surely revealed to the students. This provided an important background for a presentation required, in front of their peers and school in a week to come.
At the end of the day, as the students headed back to school in their buses, I had a feeling, that I had witness the beginning of something special- a collaboration that would one day lead on to something larger and more significant.
This post is dedicated to the beautiful people of the Ngee Ann Poly team for CUBE.
Cai Bing Yu
Facilitator at CUBE
Key volunteer with re:ACT for the TRYBE Collaboration
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