Running concurrently with the events during the two-week festival, a range of fringe activities will be held at City Hall.
ROJAK is a series of sharing parties to celebrate and share local independent works in art, architecture, words, music, fashion, food, film and anything creative really. Organized by FARM, a non-profit society initiated by a group of creatives to help local creatives in Singapore flaunt, share, understand and possibly collaborate with one another.
In conjunction with Singapore ArchiFest and Design Festival, FARM presents ROJAK 10: The Collaborative Edition. 5 groups of artists/designers are invited to present their works and processes that stems from collaboration at the session.
For more information, please visit www.farm.sg
“Asian Alterity” a new architecture book by William SW Lim is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values. The book argues for the need for an alternate perspective to be introduced so as to understand the diversity of Asia’s cultural differences and to meet the complex challenges of the explosive urban expansion and disruptive changes in traditional cultures and lifestyles.
This one-day conference shall discuss and explore the notion of “Signature Singapore”. What makes Singapore unique from other world cities? What is Singapore’s signature urbanscape? How best could planners and the development industry contribute to strengthening Signature Singapore?
From its conservation heritage buildings, the national theatre which has since been demolished to the new-built iconic buildings like the Esplanade, much debate has focused on the life and death of these buildings. Despite the public sector having a firm decision-making control, the private sector driven by market demands has been demolishing buildings that are relatively new with the advent of the En Bloc phenomenon. The tensions and tug-of-war between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ shall be discussed in this conference.
In addition, this conference shall attempt to offer, with the knowledge and expertise of the speakers, the future signature urbanscape of Singapore. Central here is the urban form that we can anticipate that would create new landmarks and places that are uniquely Singapore. Moving forward, what new options do we have to enhance our city?
