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Sernhong on re:ACT at 7th mAAN Conference, New Delhi (23-25 Feb)
There were a total of about 80-100 people at the whole conference. Very interesting meeting eveyone.
France on re:ACT at 7th mAAN Conference, New Delhi (23-25 Feb)
Looks very interesting. How many people were there?
Design2050 Studios - Call for Studio Coordinators
Joshua Teo on Tue, June 30, 2009
The Icsid World Design Congress 2009 will be held from 23 to 25 November for the first time in Singapore. Theme “Design Difference – Designing Our World 2050", the Congress will directly address today’s global challenges in an attempt to deliver powerful propositions that will shape the world of 2050.
This year, the event will go beyond the conventional congress and reduce the one-too-many speaker effect, by approaching and engaging keynote speakers, design leaders and delegates to interact and collaborate before, during and after the Congress. In the months leading to the event, a group of renowned creative experts will head up seven highly interactive and participative “Design2050 Studios”, each of which consists of four to six individuals from multi-discipline backgrounds. They will create Design2050 propositions by imagining, conceptualizing and visualizing a desired future. Delegates will be invited to discuss and refine the propositions in partnership with the Design2050 Studios during the Congress.
As part of their commitment to to raise design capabilities and expand design capacities in Singapore-based designers and design firms, DesignSingapore is having an open call for Studio Co-ordinators to be matched with each Design 2050 Studio, under its Capability Development Programme. This is a rare opportunity for designers/design students to participate fully as members of cross-disciplinary design ‘dream’ teams and network, as well as enhance their project management skills.
The dateline for submission had been extended to 1 July 09, Wednesday and you can download the official public call in pdf format below. Find out more too about the designers involved in the DesignSingapore 2050 Studios at the Icsid website.
Download Design2050 Studios - Call for Studio Coordinators
Find out more about the Design2050 Studios
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The Time Is Now!
Joshua Teo on Thu, June 18, 2009
“It’s I, It’s You, It’s We, who build Community”, a song that we all used to sing in kindergarten and perhaps a mindset that has slipped off our mind as we have marched into a modernized world. Really Ar? 3 held at the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) Theatrette, brought together about 50 people to discuss how architects could play a bigger role in building community by actively engaging the public in the design and making of our built environment.
re:ACT invited 3 speakers with different backgrounds and diverse professional engagements to share their perspectives and details on some of the projects. The evening kicked off with Mr. Yong Teck Meng, National Director, Habitat for Humanity Singapore, sharing with the audience the “pass it on” spirit of having neighbourhoods in poor and disaster-stricken places being built up together by volunteers and the local community themselves. Ms. Ong Swee Hong, Lecturer, Temasek Polytechnic, and her students Damien and Noel, (participants at the recent CUBE workshop organised by URA and ran by re:ACT), shared their understanding of participatory design and how education is able to equip and empower the public to be more involved in the physical building and growing of their neighbourhoods. Mr. Khoo Peng Beng, Principal, Arc Studio revealed to the crowd his first-hand experience of permaculture during his field trips to the rural areas in Malaysia. Mr. Lee Siang, Director, DP Architects was the moderator for the evening and led the lively discussion after the three presentations.
To sum up re:ACT's third design sharing session, this first collaboration between re:ACT and SIA, has hopefully set the tone for future discussions and critical thinking regarding the role of architects in modern times. The open dialogue between the audience and presenters suggested that times are changing and that by creating more platforms to facilitate channels for the community's voices to be heard, we could truly look forward to designing spaces in a way that is interactive, participatory and impactful and meaningful to the larger community. That, together with the current openness and encouragement from the various government and private bodies, suggest that the time is NOW! All that is required, is the initiative and motivation of just a few active voices in the architecture field to rouse up an awareness and create small ripples of change. Would you be one to be counted for that? Like I said, the time is NOW.
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Really Ar? 3 - “It’s I, It’s You, It’s We, who build Community ”
Joshua Teo on Mon, June 8, 2009
Really Ar? 3 raises the awareness of humanitarian and community Projects which the larger architecture community are not commonly associated with. It aims to explore what these social/community projects are like and how architects go about doing them? It seeks to question the role that architecture plays, in all these.
We are pleased to announce that for the first time, Really Ar? is being organised as a collaboration between re:ACT and SIA. As a result, 3 CPD points will be accorded to all registered architects (i.e. SIA members and BOA members) who come for this session! We hope that gives you that little more incentive to come and be part of Really Ar? Cheers!
Venue: SIA Theatrette - Level 1 (Singapore Institute of Architects | 79, Neil Road)
Date: Thursday 11 June 09, 7.30pm - 9.30pm.
(Light refreshments and drinks will be provided.)
Presentation Line-up
1.The Good Earth
Speaker: Mr Khoo Peng Beng (Principal, Arc Studio Architecture + Urbanism)
2. Urban spaces and its community: is participatory design the new urban design direction?
Speaker: Ms Ong Swee Hong
3. Changing the world through community involvement
Speaker: Mr Yong Teck Meng (National Director, Habitat for Humanity Singapore)
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HOUSELIFe
Janita Han on Mon, June 8, 2009
For those who’s not seen this trailer of houselife, you are missing something! This film is on Rem’s Villa Bordeux. You can buy the DVD for 65 euros here.
BIGGER THAN ARCHITECTURE
Janita Han on Mon, June 8, 2009
I’m currently subscribed to WIRED UK and it’s now become my favourite magazine! I read almost every article in it, now that’s value for money.
The main reason for this post is not to brag about WIRED, but to tell you which architects made it into this techie magazine!
WIRED issue 1: FOA’s Oslo Opera house
WIRED issue 3: Zaha Hadid’s Manchester Art Gallery
cross reference to FAST COMPANY’s list of 100 most creative people, guess who goes on the list?
drumroll…
38: Norman Foster
43:Neri Oxman from MIT Media Lab (strictly speaking she’s not really an architect but she did graduate from the AA)
68: Zaha Hadid
You can check out the full list here.
This leads to a few observations:
- Rem didn’t make the list of 100 most creative people!
- Architects rank behind JJ Abrams (14) and Stella McCartney(13).
- To get into WIRED your building has to be of a certain type of form- it has to resemble a gadget, be flowy or folding in form.
- Zaha Hadid recently lost weight, and is into fashionable type shots of herself. She has one in profile with her hair blown back!
How is this post related to Architecture in Asia?
-Nada. Just for fun. Hope you have a nice day.
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