Design My Place 2 - Search for Facilitators!
Workshop for Youths
November 2008
Calling out for passionate, fun-loving individuals who love interacting with and inspiring youths through a series of creative design workshops which are planned for this year November period. We are searching for facilitators who have outgoing personalities as well as a love for architectural explorations.
This series of workshops are built upon the one held in Nov 2007. Please visit http://designmyplace.blogspot.com/search/label/DMP to see the fun everyone had. A recent article report on the event was published in the Singapore Architect magazine Issue 243.
If interested or know someone who’s an ideal fit, feel free to contact Project Coordinator, Chong Kenghua at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Really Ar? Again?- Call for Speakers!!
Theme: Masterplanning
date to be determined
Hot on the heels (well, if you’re looking at time in the more drawn-out scale of things) of the first Really Ar?, a pecha-kucha inspired showcase of thematically-relevant projects, comes the second session.
Held in an informal setting, in which we invite a few people with interesting ideas to present to an audience of young architects, the objective of the Really Ar? sessions is to promote exchange of good ideas.
This will be our second such event. (The first Really Ar was held at the end of January this year, and attracted about 40-50 people.)
Our format is to have three speakers present for 15 minutes each, after which there will a Q&A session. Each presentation is hoped to be presented in a succinct manner - a single project, or a single idea, with an emphasis on the thought processes behind the product.
Theme and Call for Speakers
We are looking for speakers to present interesting designs, built and unbuilt. We are looking for ideas that are intelligent, fresh and distinctive. The projects need not be large in scale, but hopefully groundbreaking and radical in some way.
The theme for Really Ar? Again? is ‘Masterplanning’. We chose this theme as many Singaporean and Singapore-based firms have been invited to do grand masterplans for other countries, but ironically, aren’t given the same autonomy to plan their own home country. As such, few people really see the fruit of their labour.
If you would like to share your firm’s work, or your personal ideas, work and research, or simply nominate someone, do contact us. Suggestions on other topics are much welcome for future Really Ar? sessions.
One more thing - fancy poster coming soon.
Young Urbanist Programme (YUP)
Workshop for Radin Mas and River Valley Primary School Students
10 March 2008
Fun, great, cool, creative, interesting, crazy, scary, brain wrecking, spectacular, challenging, the best, excellent, shiok, record breaking, oh my gosh… This was how the primary 5 students had described the pilot YUP workshop yesterday. Held at URA Centre, the workshop was attended by 31 participants from Radin Mas and River Valley Primary School. The programme was really packed – it was like the 3-day Design My Place workshop (for JC students) compressed into 1 day! But somehow, it was still magically manageable.
For more info, please visit http://designmyplace.blogspot.com or
our blog
Really Ar . 01
Design Sharing Session
31 Jan 2008 @ Night and Day Bar
“Really Ar?” Local, contextual and also a play on the words, Really Architecture! It’s inquisitive, dynamic, and has an addictive ring to it. For those of you who need a crash course on the nuances of the Singlish language, the word “ar” normally spelled “arh” is commomly uttered at the end of a question to express enlightenment, as in
“This building was built by Foster.”
.................................................................“Really arh?”
When exclaimed out loud, it can also be taken to express astonishment or disbelief, as in
“The new national stadium is going to look like tissue paper.”
...............................................................“Really arh?!”
(Of course we now know that it will be a bald headed dome instead.)
And so our first session of Really Ar? came and went. In all, I must say we were quite pleased at the turn out, though it is still a constant struggle trying to get some serious discussion about issues started. I guess it’s just the mood that people are in after a long day’s work. Still, it is a start! The next time we do this, we will probably have a more specific theme and find speakers accordingly. That would help steer the discussion a lot more.
Thanks to all the people who came to share with us your projects - Adib, Wai Hon, Ker How and Lin Hao. It was most enjoyable. Our gratitude goes especially to Randy who allowed us the use of his place and for supporting us in such an initiative. You have our heartiest appreciations! Of course, also to all who turned up, we hope it was at least remotely meaningful for you. Do let us know how we can improve in the coming sessions!
Enjoy the rest of the photos!
Design My Place (DMP)
Workshop for Youth
9-11 Nov 2007@ Hwa Chong Institution.
Design My Place is a workshop for students, organised by ReallyArchitecture, to induct the youth into the mysteries of architecture and urban design. The students will be studying a neighbourhood area in Singapore and come up with designs that will help improve the area. These suggestions could form a resource and become an ideas-bank from which the authorities might consider translating into actual projects, empowering the youths to take initiatives, making positive changes for the community.
For more please visit http://designmyplace.blogspot.com/search/label/DMP