SSRC Ideas Festival 2024: Visualising Home-Based Work

How does research in the social science and humanities impact our world? This is a question the inaugural ‘Ideas Festival 2024 — Insights from the Humanities and Social Sciences’ seeks to address as it delves into the intricate challenges confronting Singapore and the region amid a period of disruptive change by drawing on the works of the local Social Science and Humanities (SSH) research community. Launched on 20 March 2024, this festival was organised by five of the Autonomous Universities (AUs) in Singapore and supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), featuring 13 events over a month-long period.

NUS hosted two events from the festival. One of which—Foundations for Home-Based Work—took place from 12 April to 9 May 2024 and explored the spatial, social and technological dimensions of home-based work (HBW) in Singapore. Examining considerations such as the policy framework surrounding this type of work and the following questions: who is involved in it; what kind of living do they make; in which housing types and neighbourhoods is this work occurring; and the pathways for accommodating HBW in our lives through design and policy recommendations. Accompanying these home-based work case studies and design propositions were a selection of student projects from Domestic Capital, an Options M Arch I Options Design Studio at NUS Department of Architecture, led by A/P Dr Lilian Chee.

Find out more here: https://news.nus.edu.sg/remote-work-isnt-always-work-from-home/