| Date | 2024-10-24 |
| Event start | 19:00 PM |
| Duration | 1 hrs 30 min ( from 7:00pm to 8:30pm ) |
| Venue | SIA Lounge |
| Contact | 1.5 |
Synopsis
In practice, we constantly create. How can we harness our creative practice as a site of research, in order to produce new knowledge? And can research in practice produce outcomes and impacts that may otherwise not be achievable in the normative design process of an architectural commission?
Join Goy Zhenru, Pan Yicheng, Calvin Chua, Tiah Nan Chyuan and Ong Ker-Shing as they explore, in conversation, how they bring research into their practices and how this contributes to the innovation in their work. During this event, the participants will be talking about their research interests in areas ranging from materials, production, urban ethnography, and digital twins, to social design, respectively. SIA welcomes those who engage in any form of design research, as well as all interested members, to join in this informal sharing.
Speakers
Goy Zhenru
Passionate about regional sensibility and materiality, Goy Zhenru is dedicated to supporting regional crafts and makers. She is deeply intrigued by manufacturing and crafting processes and has a soft spot for regional historical buildings, imbuing a sense of memory and place into her work. She leads a team of regional architects and designers from Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia, focusing on design works for residential and hospitality architecture, interiors, and objects. In 2020, Goy Zhenru won the INDE Awards 'Best of the Best' for her project Sukasantai Farmstay, a 12-room family-run organic vegetable farm stay at the foot of Mt Gede in Sukabumi, Indonesia. This year, she was recognised by both Prestige and Tatler's “40 under 40” as one of the young change-makers shaping the future in unique ways. Her most prolific and current project involves the refurbishment of the Everest View Hotel, situated at an astounding height of 3880m above sea level within the Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nepal.
Calvin Chua
Calvin is the founder of Spatial Anatomy, a research-oriented practice that responses to the complex processes of urban adaptation and transformation. Through an ethnographic lens, the firm has developed built works, strategic research, publications, exhibitions and activations. These projects include facilities in the peripheral regions of Singapore, regeneration masterplans in Southeast Asia, publication on an adaptive reuse framework for ageing malls, precinct activation through an architectural festival and most recently, activation of underutilised retail spaces. Calvin In parallel, Calvin serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at SUTD and was formerly a Visiting Professor at K-Arts in Korea. Recognised for his unique approach towards design practice and social causes, Calvin is an Asia 21 Next Gen Leader (Class of 2022), finalist for the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Debut
Award (2022) and was longlisted for the Royal Academy of Arts Dorfman Award (2020). Prior to founding his own practice, Calvin worked with leading architecture and urban planning firms in Europe. A registered architect in the United Kingdom, Calvin graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Ong Ker-Shing
Ong Ker-Shing is a designer and educator, co-founder of Lekker Architects, and Associate Professor (Practice) at NUS Department of Architecture. She is a registered Architect, with Masters degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from Harvard GSD. Shing was granted the prestigious Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in 2002, included in the third edition of the “20 Under 45” series organised by URA, and at Lekker, won the President’s Design Award of the Year in 2015 for The Caterpillar’s Cove Childcare and Development Centre and again in 2023 for Hack Care: Tips and Tricks for a Dementia-Friendly Home. Lekker works to advance interdisciplinary approaches to inclusive design, and to establish Singapore as a leader in this emerging field. Shing sits on the Advisory Board of PSM, Singapore, and the Council of Singapore Institute of Architects.
Pan Yicheng
Pan Yi Cheng is the co-founder and design director of Produce.Workshop Pte Ltd and Superstructure SG, and recently founded Type0 Architecture after becoming a registered Architect in Singapore. His firms specialize in design, digital fabrication, and architecture, working together to enhance the built environment.
A graduate of the Architectural Association in London, Pan was recognized as one of the top UK graduates in 2006. With over a decade of experience at firms like Arup and UNStudio, he has also taught at various institutions.
After returning to Singapore in 2010, he started P.A.C Design Studio and co-founded Produce.Workshop in 2013. His notable projects include the Xtra & Herman Miller shop and Wild Rocket. Pan has received several awards and nominations, including the INDE.Awards and the President Design Award.
Tiah Nan Chyuan
Nan Chyuan graduated from the National University of Singapore and the Architectural Association in London on a scholarship from the Urban Redevelopment Authority. He is a Director at FARM, a design practice that won the President’s Design Award in 2010 and was featured in Wallpaper’s Architects’ Directory 2018. In 2017, he was recognized as one of Singapore’s emerging architects in URA’s “20 Under 45” exhibition.
A design advocate, Nan Chyuan has co-curated iLight Marina Bay 2012, served on juries, and spoken at various events, including TedX NUS. He has taught at NUS since 2009, is an Advisory Committee Member at Singapore Polytechnic, and was an External Examiner for Temasek Polytechnic. Since 2019, he has also served on the Education Thrust of the Singapore Institute of Architects.
Terms & Conditions
- For SIA Members whose registrations have been confirmed, attendance is compulsory. Cancellation for complimentary registration is only allowed 3 working days before the actual event.
- Any absentee will be charged at $22.00.
- Ticket is non-transferable under all circumstances.
- Group registration will be subjected to group admin fee of $1 per ticket per transaction. Replacement/Cancellation of participant will not be allowed under group registration.