mAAN*Y Singapore 2010 - “Let’s not talk about architecture”
COMPETITION | WORKSHOP | CONFERENCE
mAAN*Y Singapore 2010 comprises of an international competition, an interactive workshop, an industry conference and a public forum and exhibition. The first edition of mAAN*Y will be held in Singapore in 2010 with the theme “Let’s not talk about architecture” and is co-organized by re:ACT and mAAN,
A spin-off from Le Corbusier’s words, “I don’t want to talk about architecture”, this year’s theme seeks to explore modern asian architecture and the built environment by not talking about it. Not directly at least.
We believe that architecture is more than just the product of a singular vision by an architect or a planner. It is shaped by the society that uses it, the political and economic forces surrounding it, the media landscape in the country, its cultural influences, historical context and much more. The interplay of these various forces gives form to our built environment and this is the interest of mAAN*Y Singapore 2010.
We kick off with launch of international ideas competition focusing on implementable community engagement.
The architectural ideas competition, which is the first component of the series of events, runs from 8th March 2010 to 7th June 2010 and is open to participants, from any country or territory. To be judged by internationally recognized theoreticians and practitioners from across the world familiar with community-based built projects such as Sou Fujimoto, George Kunihiro and Edward Ng, the competition hopes to create new conversations that will contribute meaningfully to the dialogue about the Asian City and its future.
3 awards of USD$2000 each will be given to the following:
The Collaboration Award
The Implementability Award
The Conceptual Award
NEWS: Due to overwhelming responses and technical issues in registration, the competitions committee has decided to extend the registration deadline to 22 May and the submission deadline to 7 Jun. The announcement of the finalist will be on 18 Jun. Details on submission will be posted up soon.
Read all about the competition at http://letsnottalkaboutarchitecture.com/competition
or visit mAAN*Y website at http://letsnottalkaboutarchitecture.com
Really Ar? 4 - “Mixed-use Developments: How they Work, Adapt & Influence”
The Pod, National Library Building (100, Victoria Street, Singapore)
23 November 09 (Mon), 7.00pm - 9.30pm.
Really Ar? 4 is all about understanding Mixed-Use Developments! The forum topic this time has its relevance in the fast changing urbanscape of Singapore. Newer, bolder and creative concepts in property development, architecture and urban design are transforming the Singapore experience in a big way. We have invited leading creators of this change to discuss mixed-use developments from around the world, their influence on current cities and an insight into their future. Mixed-use developments can simply be defined as projects where different uses such as commercial, residential or institutional are design and built in an integrated manner. These are complex undertakings and involve large teams of architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, developers, city officials and other relevant professionals to come together and formulate a unique real estate product. Mixed-use developments are sometimes seen as ‘mini-cities’ in a big city and can impact the urban economy, transportation networks, people and their lifestyle and be catalyst to spur new development in their immediate environments.
The forum will be moderated by Mr. Khoo Peng Beng, Principal of Arc Studio and is supported by Singapore Institute of Architects. It is also a partner of the 2009 Singapore Design Festival and an Urban Land Institute, Young Leaders Group event.
PROGRAMME
7.00pm to 7.15pm Reception (public arrival and registration)
7.15pm to 7.30pm Introduction by moderator
7.30pm to 8.30pm Speakers’ presentations
8.30pm to 9.00pm Questions and discussion
9.00pm to 9.15pm Closing remarks and conclusion
SPEAKERS
1. Mr. Tim Magill
Design Partner, 5+design, Los Angeles
Presentation title: Mixed-Use Developments – Social, Economic and Environmental
As the world embraces green design, mixed-use developments offer compelling solutions to making our cities more sustainable. The best projects are not only environmentally sustainable, but integrate a vision that is also socially and economically sustainable. Mixed-use developments can repair a city, revitalize moribund neighborhoods, make industrial tracts livable, or reconnect cities to the waterfront. As mini cities, they are an expression of the many, rather than the individual. The best mixed-use projects are a physical manifestation of the community, a collaboration of many architects and designers, politicians, tenants, developers, artisans, educators and the general public.
2. Mr. Gaurang Khemka
Vice President (Asia), Populous (former HOK Sport), Singapore
Presentation title: Stadiums as Anchors for Mixed Use Development
3. Mr. Chng Kiong Huat
Executive Director, Development and Planning, Far East Organization, Singapore
Presentation title: Mixed-Used Development: A Building or a Precinct?
Mixed-use developments leverage on the expertise of multi-disciplinary teams to integrate lifestyle, business, entertainment, and connectivity to give rise to vibrant communities that breathe life into the way we live, work and play. Through case studies, Far East Organization will share its experience in integrating the diverse functions of real estate that contributes to the development of vibrant precincts.
4. Mr. Kevin Jose
Executive Principal, Aedas
Presentation title: (To be confirmed)
(Light refreshments and drinks will be provided.)
CPD Accreditation: To be confirmed!
(Please note that CPD points will be accorded to Architects (i.e. SIA members and BOA members)
Register at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or join the event at our facebook group
Really Ar? 3 - “It’s I, It’s You, It’s We, who build Community ”
SIA Theatrette - Level 1 (Singapore Institute of Architects | 79, Neil Road)
Thursday 11 June 09, 7.30pm - 9.30pm.
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.
In current times when the architecture scene worldwide is one of mass reduction of projects and retrenchment, we would like to ask the question of how relevant community/ humanity projects are at this moment? Are we just talking in the air, ignorant of what’s really going on? Or perhaps, this is best time to consider the role of an architect and to pioneer new and more sustainable ways of practicing architecture? If so, could a more people-centred, ground-up and open-platform approach be the answer?
Really Ar? 3 will create awareness of our living environment and how engagement with the community can influence design. The session will include a candid sharing of related projects, just to name a few: a masterplan that was designed through a participatory process or a small scale project, like the building of a school, bridges (in rural areas), or disaster-relief projects that involved the community in the re-building process, etc.
We are also very 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!
PRESENTATION LINE-UP
1.The Good Earth
Subject: Planning for the community of future with integrated benefits of rural lifestyle
Speaker: Mr Khoo Peng Beng (Principal, Arc Studio Architecture + Urbanism)
With more than 12 years of experience, Khoo Peng Beng is considered one of Singapore’s leading young architects in the region. His works have been exhibited in Kuala Lumpur, China and most recently in the exhibition “20 under 45”, curated by the Urban Renewal Authority. Peng Beng is Council Member of the Singapore Institute of Architects and recently led Singapore’s curatorial team in the prestigious Sao Paulo International Biennal of Architecture and Design in 2005. Peng Beng graduated from the National University of Singapore with the Board of Architects Award for “Best Final Year Thesis” in 1993. He is the founder of Arc Studio, a firm which has earned itself the reputation for its dynamic and innovative contributions to the architectural community.
2. Urban spaces and its community: is participatory design the new urban design direction?
Subject: Participatory design in urban design with reference to experiences from Design My Place, a design workshop series for students.
Speaker: Ms Ong Swee Hong
Swee Hong is a Lecturer of Environmental Design in Temasek Polytechnic where she inspires her students on good lighting design practices. Swee Hong graduated from the National University of Singapore, with a Master of Arts (Architecture) degree, majoring in studies on urban lighting, master planning and human visual perception of one’s environment, Prior to her Masters education, she was working in Lighting Planners Associates Inc (LPA), Singapore, where she was given the opportunity to work on several high-profile projects, like Urban Lighting Master planning of Singapore City Center, commissioned by Singapore’s Urban Renewal Authority. She is still trying to keep herself updated professionally and she aspires to increase local awareness on lighting design excellence through workshops and seminars collaborated with industry partners.
3. Changing the world through community involvement
Subject: Realizing international development projects with multi-level participatory processes from governments, to local professionals, aid agencies and community itself.
Speaker: Mr Yong Teck Meng (National Director, Habitat for Humanity Singapore)
Yong Teck Meng is the National Director for Habitat for Humanity, Singapore. Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, Christian housing organisation. It seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
(Light refreshments and drinks will be provided.)
CPD Accreditation: 3 points
(Please note that CPD points will be accorded to Architects (i.e. SIA members and BOA members)
Walk-in registration at SIA
Facilitators needed for Design My Place Workshop
May and June 2009
Be part of this exciting movement today!
A shout out to all passionate, fun-loving individuals who enjoy interacting with and inspiring youths through a series of creative design workshops which are planned for in May and June 2009. We are looking for 20 facilitators who have outgoing personalities as well as keen insights and a love for architectural explorations.
This series of workshops are built upon previous editions of Design My Place held in 2007 and 2008. Please visit http://designmyplace.blogspot.com/ to understand more about these workshops and see the fun everyone had! A recent article report on the event was published in the Singapore Architect magazine Issue 249.
In this latest edition of Design My Place, 2 workshops will be held in the months of May and June 2009. The first, DMP (Woodlands) will be held at Republic Polytechnic from the 29-31 May. The second, DMP(Bedok) will be held at Temasek Junior College from the 8-10 June.
If you are interested or know someone who might be, feel free to contact Project Coordinator, Joshua Teo at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Design My Place 3 (Woodlands)
Republic Polytechnic
29-31 May 2009
9am-6pm daily
Design My Place 4 (Bedok)
Temasek Junior College
8-10 June 2009
9am-6pm daily
Design My Place is sponsored by:
Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)
Architecture & Urban Design Excellence (A●UDE) Programme (URA)
worKonference @ SG2010 亚洲建筑研讨会2010
8th mAAN International Event, co-organised by mAAN & re:ACT
July 2010 (tentative)
EVENT TITLE: worKonference @SG2010 亚洲建筑研讨会2010
Asia Diversified l Modernity Modified l Possibilities Multiplied
Singapore is currently at the forefront of a fertile, transnational convergence of architects, urban designers, and global cultures emerging out of and working with Asia. At the same time, Singapore is home to many of the world’s largest and most diverse Asian heritage communities. The juxtaposition in the same urban environment of places with distinct cultural identities and of constructed, cosmopolitan cityscapes generates tensions between the built and the lived environments, between the design of iconic structures and the living vitality of public spaces.
worKonference@SG2010 seeks to explore different responses to the challenges inherent in the design, use of space and the construction, protection and preservation of identity in a global city such as Singapore.
It will feature an international competition, a public exhibition, an interactive workshop, conference and public forum attended by professionals, community leaders, and academics in the architecture/ urban-planning/ development field. There will also be an emphasis on creating real-world impact.
Schedule of Events 日程安排
[June- Aug 2009]
Finalize details and publicity of mAAN8 [2010 worKonference] > Venues, Programs, Budget, Sub-committee, Framework Setup, Sponsors, Partners
设定mAAN第8届[亚洲建筑论坛2010]的内容以及相关宣传的细节> 场所，节目，副委会，框架建设，赞助团体，合作伙伴
[Sep-Oct 2009]
1) Publicity – Website, Facebook, magazines, etc.
媒体与宣传- 网站，Facebook网址，杂志等
2) Launch!!! Call for Papers; Competition Launch; Workshop Participation
活动宣传启动！征求稿件，设计竞赛开始；征求工作坊活动的参与人员
[Jan-Jun 2010]
Coordination of Competition
协调设计竞赛的各个事项
2) Preparations for workshop, exhibition, conference & public forum
工作坊，展览会，研讨会和公共论坛的前期准备工作
[Jul 2010]
1) 9-day workshop 为期9天的工作坊
2) Opening Exhibition 开幕式的展览会
3) 3-day conference 为期3天的研讨会
4) Public Forum 公共论坛
[Aug-Sep 2010]
1) City Exhibition & Publications 市区的展览会和出版相关刊物
2) Follow ups on implementation proposals 对于各项计划实施进展的跟进
__ WORKONFERENCE DELIVERABLES _____________________________
- Public panel discussions and presentations
- Publications (articles, website)
- Exhibitions
- Video making
- Collaborations & real projects stemming from schemes developed during the workshop
__POTENTIAL SPONSORS & COLLABORATORS _______________________
- URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore)
- mAAN
- Singapore Tourism Board
- DesignSingapore Council
- National University of Singapore
- Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA)
- UNESCO
- National Heritage Board (Singapore)
- ReallyArchitecture (re:ACT)
- Singapore & regional design firms/groups
- Asian think-tanks groups
- Lee Foundation
- Ministry of National Development (Singapore0
- National Library Board (NLB) Singapore
- UIA
- Docomomo
- MUJI
- University of Tokyo
- Mr Teng Kun Yen, principal architect of Creative Shanghai
__EXISTING SUPPORTERS________________________________________
- Dr. Johannes Widodo (Associate Professor at NUS dept of Architecture & mAAN Executive)
- Dr. Shin Muramatsu (Professor at University of Tokyo, mAAN Executive)
- NODE (International design network based in London and China)
- Expeditio (Design Advocacy group based in Montenegro)
- mAAN (modern Asian Architecture Network)
- ReallyArchitecture (re:ACT)
- Alexander Tzonis (Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University)
We welcome all inquiries and applications of interest to be involved in the preparation of this event. More details will be updated over the next few months. Thank you.
To Contact:
Yu Sern Hong or Joshua Teo
worKonference 2010 Organizing Committee
mAAN l http://www.m-aan.org
ReallyArchitecture (re:ACT) l http://www.reallyarchitecture.org
Email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
* re:ACT is commissioned by mAAN to co-organise the worKonference event. Please see the bid proposal presentation writeup at the mAAN7 conference in New Delhi for more details.
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