College of Design and Engineering

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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