COMMON GROUND STUDIO
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
year:
2017
Students:
Cindy Witono, Clara Calista Dong Bing Qiao,Hyosoo Lee, Ivan Daniel Deviano, Jai Atul Shah, Ng Qi Boon Amanda, Ong Mei Shi Rebecca, Tan Kuan Rong, Tan Yujie, Teo Yu En Dionne, Thia Shan Quan
Type:
Option Studio
The studio positions students as agents that negotiate, with playfully intuitive and spontaneous attitude, to transform conflict into opportunity for novel engagements. The context of this mediation lies within the potential recurring social demographic composition that manifest approximately in the mid-range of Singapore’s HDB estate’s 99 year lease. Within this observed time frame, the estate’s social demographic makeup shifts to encompass a widening of social demographic sampling of the nation state, prompting a sudden change in the diversity and density of social infrastructure needed within the estate. To rise above the discomfort of extreme adjacency, resource incompatibility, and diverging spatial priories, the Strategic Research group within Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore conducted a workshop to facilitate conversations between various social service vendors, URA, MSF, HDB, MOF, PA.
