NUS staff & faculty

Shaping the Future of Human-Robot Collaboration

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Across leading research institutions, robotics research is increasingly focused on extending human capability through meaningful human–robot collaboration. At Stanford University, this work is particularly focused on environments that are hazardous, remote, or otherwise inaccessible to people; by physically distancing humans from danger while still enabling their skills, intuition, and experience to guide robotic systems, they […]

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Reflections and Experiments in Contemporary Korean Housing

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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

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Unscripted Mask(ing) Tape

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“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.

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Running And Weaving: Social Design Education In Hong Kong

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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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Constructive Conservation – Reimagining Iconic Monument: Jurong Town Hall

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This exhibition presents a series of design models produced within the Design for Adaptive Reuse (AC5009) studio of the Master of Arts in Architectural Conservation (MAArC) programme at the Department of Architecture. Led by Dr Nikhil Joshi and Ar Sri Saravanan, the studio explores alternative futures for Jurong Town Hall (1974), a National Monument and

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Social Design Lab (SoDL) Exhibition – Acts Of Caring, Nurturing, Repairing And Imagining

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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

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Social Design Lab (SoDL) Inaugural Conference – Examining The Social In Architecture

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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

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Poster for Department of Architecture's Building Community in the Tropics and Beyond event

DOA Symposium: Building / Community in the Tropics and Beyond

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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

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