8th mASEANa International Conference Singapore 2019
SYNOPSIS
Modernist buildings and landscapes in South-East Asia stand as a tangible and concrete embodiment of the region’s heroic post-independence nation-building era. Built between a couple of decades in the mid-20th century, the best examples possess high urban, architectural, social and economic significance. However, unrecognised as heritage and faced with mounting redevelopment pressures, these modern complexes are at a watershed moment. What are the alternative models of urban regeneration without tabula-rasa renewal? The conference aims to uncover and showcase how innovative adaptive reuse of modernist buildings and sites - once seen as avant-garde and progressive - could imbue a new lease of life and recover their 'cutting edge' through creative planning, programming and design, tackling pressing global issues such as environmental sustainability and urban liveability.
31ST OCTOBER 2019: 2PM-6PM
OPENING KEYNOTE
Johannes Widodo | mASEANa Co-Founder, Docomomo Macau
Chua Ai Lin | Executive Director, Singapore Heritage Society
ASEAN PANEL #1 (Moderator: Prof Ho Puay Peng, NUS Architecture)
SINGAPORE - Eunice Seng | The University of Hong Kong
INDONESIA - Setiadi Sopandi | arsitekturindonesia.org
VIETNAM - Tran Mai Ahn & Cam Duong Ly Nguyen | Docomomo Vietnam
1ST NOVEMBER 2019: 9AM-1PM
ASEAN PANEL #2 (Moderator: A/Prof Johannes Widodo, NUS Architecture)
CAMBODIA -Hun Sokagna | Ron Kuong Project
MYANMAR - Beverly Salmon | Doh Eain
ASEAN PANEL #3 (Moderator: A/Prof Chang Jiat Hwee, NUS Architecture)
THAILAND - Pinai Sirikiatikul | Silpakorn University
MALAYSIA - Wong Chung Wan | MAEK Consulting
THE PHILIPPINES - Gerard Rey Lico | University of the Philippines Diliman
DOCOMOMO 2020
Yasuko Kamei & Kenji Watanabe | Docomomo Japan
1ST NOVEMBER 2019: 2PM-6PM
SPECIAL PLENARY SESSION: ‘Rejuvenating Modern Buildings: The Social and Economic Values of Heritage’
Opening Remarks by Mr Desmond Lee | Minister for Social & Family Affairs + Second Minister for National Development
SPEAKERS:
Donovan Rypkema | Heritage Strategies International | US
Elain Harwood | Historic England | UK
Mark Latham | Urban Splash | UK
Hossein Rezai Jorabi | Web Structures | Singapore
Malone Lee Lai Choo | NUS Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities | Singapore
Moderated by Sarah Ichioka | Desire Lines | Singapore
POST CONFERENCE TOURS / EXHIBITIONS / FILM SCREENINGS
After evening networking at the end of the conference, two building tours were conducted on Saturday 2 Nov. A tour of Pasir Panjang Power Station District was curated by Jerome Lim. A tour of Golden Mile Complex was curated by Tay Kheng Soon.
Date And Time
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 – Sat, 2 Nov 2019
Location
Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Function Hall
45 Maxwell Road, Singapore, 069118
ABOUT THE mASEANa PROJECT
mASEANa is series of conferences and workshops coordinated by Docomomo Japan and the University of Tokyo, and supported by Docomomo International and ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for 20th Century Heritage. The series receives funding from the Japan Foundation and Toyota Foundation. Previous conferences have been held in both Tokyo and Southeast Asian cities, such as Bangkok (2018), Jakarta (2018) and Hanoi (2017). This year, it will be held in Singapore before next year's final conference in Tokyo to coincide with Docomomo International Conference and Tokyo Olympics. The local organising committee consists of Docomomo-Sg working group-in progress, NUS-Dept of Architecture and Singapore Heritage Society.
This event was made possible by the support of
