M.Arch 2 AR5806/5807 AY 2021/22 ARCHITECTURE’S BACK LOOP APPLICATIONS OPEN! Borrowed from the ecologist C.S. Holling, the back loop is the stage in the Anthropocene cycle where hitherto established structures come apart, and individual entities or small groups interact across divides to create something fundamentally original. What undergirds back loop innovation is a spirit of…
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M.Arch Options Studio AR5801 AY 2021/22 Semester 1ARCHITECTURE AS MEDIA APPLICATIONS OPEN! Media, as defined by Hertz and Parikka (2015, 146), “is approached through the concrete artifacts, design solutions, and various technological layers that range from hardware to software processes, each of which in its own way participates in the circulation of time and memory.”…
Read MoreExhibition: Singapore Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2021 | 22 May – 21 November 2021
We are glad to share that We Are Millennials, Mobilised! will be one of the 16 participants showing at the Singapore Pavilion for the 17th Interntational Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Part of to gather: The Architecture of Relationships, Millennial Nomad Space presents a speculative train of thought under the pavilion theme Imagining Relationships.…
Read MoreLiving in the Age of Convergences Affect, Affordance, Agency 2019
This interdisciplinary workshop critically considers how the technological and digital integration has transformed the way we now live, work, interact and think. Featuring scholars and practicioners from within Singapore and internationally, the workshop specifies a human-centred approach towards understanding the impact of this merging of technologies on our online and offline everyday practices. The event…
Read MoreExhibition : We Are Millennials, Mobilised | 5-10 December 2019
Through embracing the mindset of technologically-adept and multi-mobile millennials, the Master of Architecture student projects featured here explore the ways in which the current generation optimise digital affordance, social media connections and online resources to redraw a new everyday experience. At a time when hybrid reality is becoming the norm, where the virtual and digital…
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CONVENORS Simone Shu-Yeng CHUNG, Department of Architecture, NUSMary Ann NG, Department of Architecture, NUS MONDAY 09 DECEMBER – TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2019 NATIONAL LIBRARY SINGAPORE, 100 VICTORIA STREET This interdisciplinary academic workshop invites scholars and practitioners to critically consider how technological and digital integration has transformed the way we now live, work, interact and think. The…
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M.Arch 1 Options Studio AY 2019/20 Semester 1WE ARE MILLENNIALS, MOBILISED … imagine our digital connectedness in terms of bodies extending across space, but we might also suggest that the spaces between us have collapsed, that, in virtual terms, we’re crawling all over one another. Laurence Scott, The Four-Dimensional Human (2015) This mission, should you…
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M.Arch. Thesis Supervisor StatementLIFE IN THE FOURTH Can there be an “artificial culture” as there is an “artificial intelligence,” if in fact “culture” means the implicit and ambiguous – and also dream, art, feelings, meaning and value? Our robotic machines have acquired sight, hearing and touch, but…thought is not the same thing as calculation, nor…
Read More‘Engagements across a multiplicity of Millennial identities’ at Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age 2019
‘Engagements across a multiplicity of Millennial identities’ by Simone Shu-Yeng CHUNG and Mary Ann NG, was presented at Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age 2019, a three-day joint conference by the ‘Re-‘ Interdisciplinary Network (CRASSH) and the AI & Society Journal. The conference took place on the 26-28 June 2019 at CRASSH, the Alison Building,…
Read More‘Fourfold Living in the Age of Convergences’ at AHRA Architecture & Collective Life 2019
Our paper ‘Fourfold Living in the Age of Convergences’ by Dr Simone Shu-Yeng CHUNG and Mary Ann NG was presented at the conference on Architecture & Collective Life 2019, 16th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association. The paper presentation was part of Contemporary Imaginations: Media and Space. The conference took place on…
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