Dear students and colleagues
Two events which bookended the month of September highlighted CDE's leadership in impactful research.
The first took place on 7 September, when the Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute (CFI) Singapore, was officially launched by Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Grace Fu. With climate change driving sea levels higher, Singapore, an island nation, faces unique threats. Thus a national initiative was launched to address this crisis, with CFI Singapore being the ‘crown jewel’ of national research efforts to meet the challenges that climate change poses.
CFI Singapore, led by faculty members from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will develop and lead innovative solutions to protect our coastlines and communities. It brings together experts from other national institutions, such as NTU, SUTD, SIT, and A*STAR, as well as local and international industry partners. That CFI Singapore was established here in our College, underscores the groundbreaking nature of our research and recognises the leadership roles our researchers have taken on at national and international levels.
CDE's Industry Day on 29 September brought together researchers, project teams, and start-ups from across our College's diverse spectrum of disciplines, showcasing solutions across themes of sustainability in logistics and operations, healthcare and living, smart manufacturing and collaborative robotics, and design in a tropical environment. The top three projects submitted for the first CDE Sustainable Design and Engineering Innovation Challenge were presented, featuring exciting research from Professor He Jianzhong, Dr Justin Yeoh, and Dr Du Hongjian. The Challenge was established to promote research contributing toward shaping a more sustainable future with clear application and impact potential.
The College's Industry Day aims to foster stronger connections between academics, researchers, and industry, working together towards common goals. Research cannot be done in isolation if it is to make a real impact. CFI Singapore shares the same ethos. I am excited for the continued growth and evolution of Industry Day, to catalyse groundbreaking collaborative research with like-minded partners.
Professor Teo Kie Leong
Acting Dean
College of Design and Engineering
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Reflections and Experiments in Contemporary Korean Housing
This talk examines collective housing in contemporary Korea against an ethical vacuum produced in the process of modernisation in East Asia. This condition arises from the destabilisation of family-based ethics and the incomplete formation of civic ethics. Within this condition, the talk reframes the prevalence of apartment housing in Korea—often developed as large, semi-gated communities—not […]
Unscripted Mask(ing) Tape
“Unscripted Mask(ing) Tape” is a collective performance experiment composed of text, voice, and body. This is not an open mic nor an individual presentation; it is a space for participants to anonymously share their feelings, repressions, observations, and unexpressed words with one another.
Guest lecture by Karla Saldaña Ochoa on AI + Digital Twins
Karla Saldaña Ochoa is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida and a faculty affiliate at the AI2 Centre, the Centre of Latin American Studies, and FIBER. She directs the AI in Architecture Graduate Certificate program and oversees the SHARE Lab, a research group focused on developing projects that […]
Running And Weaving: Social Design Education In Hong Kong
The talk will examine the Capstone course for final-year students in the Social Design programme at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. Over the past three years, Kam Fai and Charis Poon have designed, re-designed, and re-redesigned successive rounds of curricular changes in response to Hong Kong’s contemporary conditions. Informed by shifts in […]
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