Dear Students and Colleagues
This month, we held our inaugural Appreciation Dinner to express our thanks to 160 alumni and partners who have shown support and dedication to giving back to the College and the University in various meaningful ways.
We recognise that after graduation, our students embark on their careers, prioritise family commitments, and pursue personal passions. Therefore, we truly appreciate that so many of them take the time to reconnect with the College, their alma mater, at different stages of their life journeys.
We are also grateful that CDE can count on others who share our mission to make a difference. These partners, too, wholeheartedly supported our students and staff.
As CDE grows in strength, we are empowered by the contributions of our alumni and partners and hope to welcome more as part of our community in the years ahead.
Teo Kie Leong
Acting Dean
HIGHLIGHTS
EVENTS
Social Design Lab (SoDL) Exhibition – Acts Of Caring, Nurturing, Repairing And Imagining
The exhibition brings together a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen socially-engaged projects. Ranging from art, design, architecture, education, and urban planning, the projects situate the social across multiple scales and sites. They present a mosaic of outputs that reflect how different fields and disciplines respond to the urgent eco-techno-social concerns of our time. To assemble is […]
Social Design Lab (SoDL) Inaugural Conference – Examining The Social In Architecture
Interrogating what “the social” constitutes in the field of architecture, Designing the Social explores its philosophical, material, spatial and pedagogical limits. For its inaugural conference, the Social Design Lab (SoDL) at the National University of Singapore looks at how the social is activated through design, specifically how the raw material of social life might be […]
DOA Symposium: Building / Community in the Tropics and Beyond
The principle of site specificity has long guided most works of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. Yet what the “site” means itself remains mutable and contested. Recent design scholarship and practice progressively turn to local, indigenous, and traditional ways of shaping environments as critiques of modernist legacies of uniformity and standardisation. Still, we must remain […]
DOA Guest Lecture Series: Lobbying for Architecture
This talk will cover the work of The Architecture Lobby, an activist organisation that “lobbies” for the value of architecture in the public and in the profession itself. Begun in 2013 in New York City, it has evolved into an organisation trying to transform, on many fronts, the valuation of architectural work. The hope is […]
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