"Architecture’s Communities" at Singapore Design Week 2025

We’re pleased to share that the Department’s exhibition team, “Architecture’s Communities,” will be featured at this year’s Singapore Design Week (SDWSG25) as part of REINVENTION presented by Singapore Science Park from 11 to 21 September 2025, held at the GENEO at Singapore Science Park, Shopee lobby.

Exhibition Abstract
What socio-material conditions of possibility do these various communities offer or impose on architects and the production of architecture? How might architects mediate between these diverse communities and their different socio-material affordances and dependencies? How might architects engage with these communities to forge and materialize forms, spaces, and practices of commoning? What design techniques and technologies might architects deploy to fulfil the full potential or overcome the intractable constraints of these engagements? What forms of agency might architects exercise in these engagements and what ethics of engagements should guide these architects? The projects in this showcase respond to these questions through research and design, presenting work from the Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning programmes at the Department.

The projects in this showcase respond to these questions through research and design, featuring work from the Department’s Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning programmes.

Project Highlights

1- Learning from the Crowd: The Power of Volunteered Geographical Information  – “Feel SG” / DEP5118 Community Data Gathering and Visualisation
Students: Chen Yubin, Pan Ruoming, Fu Huixin, He Xinyi, Gao Ziyu, Yang Siying, Yan Zixin, Zeng Qining, Yunfei Zhang, Jiaying Wang, Lee Xin Ze Zann

2- Fifth Nature: Co-Designing Singapore’s Future Urban Form – LA4701 / LAD4008 Landscape Architecture Core Studio
Students: Altoaimi Lina, Du Xinyang, Wu Qingyi, Zhou Qinying, and the students of LA4701 & LAD4008

3- Reclaiming the Alleyways & Roots of Community, Routes of Connection – Design 5: Zero-Drift: Primitive Technologies and (Tropical) Tectonics of Slowness
Students: Tan Yan & Bunag Ramela Joey Delen

4- Made in Singapore – AR5959B Topics in Design Technology 2
Students: Lin Ziling, Li Ruoxi, Liu Xinyi, Xue Feiyue, Li Peilin, Xin Weilin, Alakesh Dutta, Leong Sheu Wen, Aries Yang Yingbo

Set within the newly-launched GENEO precinct, this inaugural edition explores the theme of REINVENTION not as a singular moment, but as an ongoing journey of collaboration across disciplines, industries, and communities. Be part of the festivities: https://reinvention.sciencepark.com.sg/festival-details/exhibitions

Singapore Design Week (SDW) is back—bigger, bolder, and bursting with creativity. This year’s theme, Nation by Design, celebrates how design has shaped Singapore into a liveable, loveable city, from housing and healthcare to sustainability and community. Experience the power of design in transforming everyday life, and reimagine what’s next: https://sdw.designsingapore.org/all-events/