FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH, MAY – DECEMBER 2017
SOME WORKSHOPS RUN FOR MULTIPLE SESSIONS
Workshop programmes equip citizens to better navigate the codes and rules of the city, either through authoring the city through interventions, or reclaiming their ability to design and actively shape the spaces that they live in. Collectively, these programmes question: how may the city be made more open, easily usable and adaptable?
FOOD.SPACE.DESIGN TAKEOVER
5 & 12 MAY 2017
Facilitator Ng Hui Ying
If eating is a communal activity, then food spaces – spaces where food is cultivated, transported, prepared, cooked and eaten – are common spaces. How do we think about such spaces and their design? How can we integrate food spaces better with our daily lives? In session 1, participants look at learnings from an urban farm set-up in the city. By visiting a selected site, participants will decide on some principles needed for building common food spaces. In session 2, participants work with these principles from session 1 to sketch ideas or prototypes that help them imagine how such spaces may function.Sketches from session 1 and 2 will be worked into material that can be used to inform future work in the area with on-the-ground stakeholders.This workshop is open to all.
SESSION ONE
Fieldtrip to an urban farm set-up
Date 5 May, Friday, 8pm – 10pm
Venue Meet at Aljunied MRT control station
SESSION TWO
Hands-on designing & prototyping
Date 12 May, Friday, 730pm – 930pm
Venue The Substation
WHAT WILL WE WEAR?
UNIFORMS FOR SINGAPORE IN 2065
2 JUNE 2017
Facilitator Justin Zhuang
From the school uniform to this season’s must have accessory, fashion embodies codes and cultures that discipline the bodies and communities that they adorn. What are the “uniforms" commonly worn (but not always recognised) in Singapore today, and how might values, norms and expectations be woven into their design? This workshop is no mere trend-spotting exercise, but ventures into the world of design fiction to speculate what uniforms we will need to live in Singapore come 2065.
This workshop is open to all.
Time 730pm – 10pm
Venue The Substation
SHIFTING CONCRETES
7, 9 & 22 JULY 2017
Facilitators Quek Jia Qi & Karen Lam
Orchard Road, as seen from recent news headlines, has lost its attraction. While it projects a glossy international image, it remains a place that people lack a sense of belonging to. How could one create an intervention that could help reconfigure Orchard Road as a space for greater social interactions to build a sense of belonging? This series of workshops leads participants through a participatory process to conceptualise an intervention that generates much-needed conversations and engagement with Orchard Road.These workshops are open to all aged 16—35 years old.
SESSION ONE
Orientation + Brainstorming
Date 7 Jul, Friday, 8pm – 10pm
Venue The Substation
SESSION TWO
Site-Visit
Date 9 Jul, Sunday, 2pm-5pm
Venue Orchard Road
SESSION THREE
Prototyping & Art-making
Date 22 Jul, Saturday, 2pm-5pm
Venue The Substation
SESSION FOUR
Intervention (TBC)
Date End Jul
Venue TBC
BODY POLITICS | BODIES IN SPACE
4, 7 & 14 AUGUST 2017
Facilitator Chan Sze-Wei
Our bodies are physical, but also social constructions. They carry relationships, norms, values, habits and questions. What are our relationships today, and what could they be in the future? This series of movement workshops offer a space where participants can sensitise themselves to concealed questions of their bodies, and start thinking about the politics of the bodies of the city. With contact improvisation and somatic dance practices as a basis, the workshops will work with touch and movement as relational practices, and explore ideas about group identity and exclusion, personal and societal space, privilege and power. The material for these workshops has been devised in dialogue with other practitioners of the international Radical Contact community.
No prior dance experience required. Bodies of all identities and all abilities are welcome.
SESSION ONE
The space of my body - personal space, consent and boundaries
Date 4 Aug, Friday, 730pm – 10pm
Venue Centre 42 Rehearsal Studio
SESSION TWO
The group body and the individual
Date 7 Aug, Monday, 730pm – 10pm
Venue The Substation Dance Studio
SESSION THREE
Equal but different - social relations and privilege
Date 14 Aug, Monday, 730pm – 10pm
Venue The Substation Dance Studio
MAPPING SPIRITUAL SPACES
5 & 8 SEPTEMBER 2017
Facilitator Terence Heng
Every year during the Hungry Ghost Festival, a spiritual city springs into being. In this 2-part walking workshop, participants will explore and examine the social and spiritual rites of Hungry Ghost Festival through the use of photography. In part 1, participants are led on an evening walking tour of an HDB estate during the Hungry Ghost Festival, understanding, analysing and photographing everyday spirituality. In part 2, participants will convene at the Substation to discuss and pin up their photographs, eventually developing a combined photographic essay of the spiritual city.
This workshop is open to participants of all ages willing to walk for 1-2 hours in an urban environment.
Requirements: Participants must bring a camera (smartphone, compact, DSLR, etc)
SESSION ONE
Walking tour of HDB estate
Date 5 Sep, Tuesday, 730pm – 930pm
Venue Field session, meeting point TBC
SESSION TWO
Mapping the spiritual city
Date 8 Sep, Friday, 730pm – 930pm
Venue The Substation
HOW SAFE ARE WE?
SECURITY AND TRESPASSING IN THE CITY
6 OCTOBER 2017
Facilitators Yvette Koh & LockpickSG
There is a materials surcharge of $15 which entitles each participant to a training lock and lock-pick set.
The more property and possessions people amass, the more there is the desire to secure and guard these against trespassing and theft. Yet how much confidence can people place in security mechanisms to keep themselves and their property safe? This workshop consists of two parts: the first examines how the fear of trespassing has influenced how we read, design, and inhabit our built environment; the second unpacks the role of the lock as the symbol and act of security.
This workshop is open to all. All participants will receive a training lock and lock-pick set.
Time 730pm – 930pm
Venue The Substation
LIVING WITH OUR DISABILITIES
3 NOVEMBER 2017
Facilitators Danielle Hong & Lim Jingjie
This workshop aims to challenge how the everyday can be better designed for those with disabilities. Participants will experience an accessibility discovery trail, after which they will discuss and brainstorm how the public can think about accessibility in urban space(s) for those with disabilities, and what constraints and opportunities exist within them. Participants will also be encouraged to find out what else they can do to initiate or collaborate on projects that could help improve accessibility.
This workshop is open to all.
Time 730pm – 930pm
Venue The Substation
SAVE YOUR STREETS: A WALKABILITY GAME
1 DECEMBER 2017
Facilitators Participate In Design
The liveability of our neighbourhoods starts from the design of our streets. Using the Save Your Streets Participatory Planning Toolkit, participants get to be the architect and planner of a neighbourhood for a day. Participants will understand how their streets are planned and, working in groups, use creative problem-solving skills to create better streets.
This workshop is open to all.
Time 730pm – 930pm
Venue The Substation