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Mark on Operation Void Deck
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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?
Dinner with Alexander Tzonis
sernhong on Mon, May 4, 2009
Last Sunday evening (26 Apr 09) was an exciting one for re:ACT as Jerry, Ngai Keong and I managed to share about re:ACT to Alexander Tzonis, a reknowned Greek architect, researcher and author whom some of us at NUS (National University of Singapore) are familiar with when he was visiting professor between 2006 to 2007. Jerry is currently doing an Architecture Masters programme at Tsinghua University and is also one of the earliest members of re:ACT. He had managed to arrange for a casual dinner comprising a few young Singaporean architects (mainly from DP Architects) with Alexander Tzonis who is now professor of Architectural Theory at Tsinghua University.Thanks to Jerry who had already promoted well the works & goals of re:ACT in Tsinghua University to Tzonis and some of the Singaporean architects in Beijing, the dinner conversation pretty much revolved around the architectural situation in Singapore and also how re:ACT as an organisation was a good emergence. As we made a copy of re:ACT’s annual report available to Tzonis, we were pleasantly surprised when he picked it up and read through it before even touching his food! He went through every page and project and was excited that such a flexible, initiative-driven organisation existed in Singapore.
We were secretly beaming when Prof Tzonis expressed interest to arrange his time schedule so that he could avail himself to attend the mAAN worKonference 2010 in Singapore next year and possibly sit in for one of the DMP workshops. Although July-Sept is usually a bad time for him, (they are the months that he usually sets aside for his personal retreat to gather his thoughts for writing), he mentioned that he could try to make an exception.
Alexander Tzonis is a speaker who has lots of insights about Singapore planning and the Asian movement. It would be great if we could have him at the worKonference as a keynote speaker and also to seek his help in shaping the themes and briefs for the conference. If you do read this, Prof Tzonis, thanks for your vote of confidence in this young organisation and your enthusiastic support!
Sern Hong