CITIES FOR PEOPLE is the pilot edition of the annual NTU CCA Ideas Fest, a platform to catalyse critical exchange of ideas and encourage thinking “out of the box”. It is a bottom-up approach linking the artistic and academic community with grassroots initiatives. This pilot edition expands artistic interventions and engages contemporary issues such as air, water, food, environment, and social interaction in connection to artistic and cultural fields, academic research, and design applications.
The 10-day programme, coinciding with Singapore Art Week 2017 and Art After Dark at Gillman Barracks, comprises a conglomerate of performances, public installations, participatory projects and social experiment, urban farming initiatives, public dialogues, and a variety of workshops. It cumulates in a three-day summit that brings together a prominent group of architects, theorists, researchers, curators, and community groups to discuss and exchange ideas about urbanism, modes of exchange, critical spatial practice, and to envision a future city. CITIES FOR PEOPLE offers a platform to contemplate the possibilities for our shared space, reformulate our demands accordingly, and project solutions and desires for the future.
CITIES FOR PEOPLE, borrowing the title from a book by eminent Singapore architect William S. W. Lim published in 1990, expands on some of the ideas Lim developed, particularly in relation to tropical environments and recycling, as well as his call for a humanistic architecture. Organised on the occasion of the exhibition Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts at Critical Spatial Practice, this event is an invitation to share and engage in cooperative projects and collective experiences that critically reflect on current challenges in urban and social development.
Festival
CITIES FOR PEOPLE NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/7
Image Gallery
Contributors
Curator, Founding Director
Ute Meta Bauer
Guest Curator
Khim Ong
Artist
Laura Anderson Barbata
Artist
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Collaborator
Lulu Lutfi Labibi
Marjetica Potrč
Artist
indieguerillas
Collaborator
Ari Wulu
Institutional Partner
Post-Museum
Artist
Michelle Lai
Collaborator
Edible Garden City
Collaborator
Foodscape Collective
Dan Susman
Collaborator
Misso Russell Keith
Collaborator
Victoria Marshall
Collaborator
Brooklyn Jumbies Inc.