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Updates to re:ACT’s Youtube Channel!
Daniel Lee on Fri, July 3, 2009
Videos from June's Really Ar? 3 - "It's I, It's You, It's We, who build Community" have all been uploaded to re:ACT's Youtube Channel. So if you did not manage to catch the last edition of Really Ar?, here is your chance! With engaging and inspiring presentations by our three speakers, Mr Yong Teck Meng, Ms Ong Swee Hong and Mr Khoo Peng Beng, as well as an exciting discussion session at the end, this is something that surely you would not want to miss.
Also, we have updated 2 more videos into re:ACT's Youtube Channel. First, the "Singapore Research Film", written and produced by Yu Sern Hong and Janita Han, seeks to explore what really makes a Singaporean. Do we as Singaporeans really have our own culture? Do we have our own Singaporean identity? As they explore the streets of Singapore and speak to members of the public on this issue, interesting ideals and opinions surface from people of all walks of life. To view this video, please click here.
Secondly, ''Seletar Airbase - Singapore's Secret Garden", a film written and produced by Li Xiuqi, speaks about the little known North-Eastern Airbase. With the area surrounding the base slated to be turned into an Aerospace Hub, Li ventures into this area of Singapore and discovers a hidden sanctuary tucked away in a corner of the country. With the peace and calm of the area only broken by the sound of children laughing and playing, Li brings us on an unforgettable journey away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. Click here to watch this video.
To view all of the videos on re:ACT's Youtube Channel, please click this link.
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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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Introducing Our Networks- NoDE, Beijing, London
Daniel Lee on Fri, May 8, 2009
NoDE is a group of young architects and engineers interesting in applying cutting edge digital design techniques and knowedge to improve efficiency in construction industry innovationally.
NoDE provides a design platform dealing with architectural emergence with the up-to-date digital technique and applications in association with social dynamic and environmental factors as design force.
NoDE pushes the architectural design boundary by implementing parametric design technique to resolve complex geometry.
NoDE focuses on optimizing geometry in line with economic efficiency, structural performance, environmental impact, and programmatic progress.
NoDE aims to create an adaptable artificial environment by hyper-linking among information as input variables to generate more possibilities for future.
NoDE integrates architecture, landscape, infrastructure and urban planning into one coherent artificial system with specific registration and differentiation.
NoDE is co-founded by Qiang Chang, Ning Duo, Alvin Huang, Yan Gao and Feng Xu.
You can find more detailed information about us on nodedesign.blogspot.com
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Introducing Our Networks- Expeditio, Montenegro
Daniel Lee on Fri, May 8, 2009
EXPEDITIO - Centre for Sustainable Spatial Development is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation seated in Kotor, Montenegro. EXPEDITIO was founded in 1997 by six students at their final year at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade with the view of enhancing architectural and visual surroundings in our region.
Today, the organization has about 350 members and has conducted numerous projects addressing different problems of sustainable spatial development. Since 2005, the organization has been represented in the Montenegrin National Council of Sustainable Development. EXPEDITIO is a member of EUROPA NOSTRA, the biggest Pan-European Federation for Heritage and one of the founders of SEE (South East European) Heritage network.
The vision of EXPEDITIO is arranged space for a better life and our mission is to encourage sustainable spatial development and enhance urban and rural areas in Montenegro through activity in the fields of cultural heritage, green architecture, urban planning and public advocacy.
Activities: Our initial activities focused on cultural heritage, with projects conducted in a small town Perast in the Bay of Boka Kotorska, where we organized summer schools of architecture and volunteer restoration camps. However, gradually our activities extended and today we deal with a wide range of topics related to spatial planning, sustainable architecture, energy efficiency in building, etc. We are especially concerned about space and its protection and management. This concern resulted in conducting several large campaigns aimed at raising public awareness of the values of space and introducing the principles of sustainable and energy efficient building. Bearing in mind our vision and mission, we try to be an active agent of the overall development of our country and we often react to urban plans or instances of construction that we see as harmful both to nature and cultural heritage and inconsistent with the principles of sustainable development. We are also very active in the publishing field. So far, we have produced 20 publications (in Montenegrin and English), 5 of which are translations of EU documents in the field of spatial development. We have cooperated in numerous projects in our region and EU countries.
Additional information on the organization can be found on www.expeditio.org .
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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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