COMMONING

Welcome/ Jeff Hou & Xue Xuan

SESSION 1: Perforating in Between

From the Private to the Public: The Case of the Market Museum Project in Guangzhou, China/ Xue Xuan (National University of Singapore)

Commoning at the Threshold: KIC Garden and the Negotiation of Urban Public Life in Shanghai/ Chun (Pure) Zheng (Suzhou City University)

The Commoning Initiative of Old Klang Road: A Perspective from A Design Practice/ Tey Tat Sing & Wong Wei Ping (Tetawowe Atelier)

Discussant: Tan Beng Kiang (National University of Singapore)

LUNCH

SESSION 2: Perforating in Precarity

Innovation through Children's Cafeterias/ Rie Mishima (MUSUBIE)

Should I Give That Homeless Person Some Change? One Way to Drive Social Change with People Experiencing Poverty/ Chu A-Yong (DYAF)

Performing Urban Commons for Reclaiming Vie: Revisiting Freeter Movement in Tokyo/ Didi Kyoung-Ae Han  (Seoul National University)

Discussant: Shaun Teo (National University of Singapore)

SESSION 3: Perforating in Continuity

Old Commons, New Commons/ Vincci Mak (University of Hong Kong)
Worlding Precariousness into the Urban Commons for Freedom: Labor 
Experiences of Tokyo's Homeless as Earth laborers/ Koichiro Mukai (Wako University)
Ibasho: Empowering Older Persons and Enhancing Social Capital through Place/ Emi Kiyota (National University of Singapore)
Discussant: Chong Keng Hua (NAFA-University of the Arts Singapore)

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Welcome Reception

Day 2  Site Visit & Discussion

Field Visit (for Workshop Participants only)

08:50

09:00

09:30

11:00

12:30

13:30

14:30

Meet: Lobby of Park Avenue Rochester

Leave from Park Avenue Rochester

Transient Workers Count 2 (TWC2) -- https://twc2.org.sg/

Project Dignity Singapore -- https://www.projectdignity.sg/ 

Lunch (at Project Dignity)

Free time in Joo Chiat heritage neighborhood

Joo Chiat Social Club -- https://www.joochiatsocial.club/

Wrap-up Discussion

16:15 to 18:00