Our lab has invited Huiying Ng to deliver a lecture on community gardening in Singapore. The lecture is a part of Theory of Urban and Local Culture and Community Development Seminar courses.
우리 연구실은 Huiying Ng 연구원을 초빙해 싱가포르의 커뮤니티 가드닝 가꾸기 대한 강의를 듣고자 합니다. 이 강의는 도시·지역문화론과 커뮤니티개발세미나 수업의 일부로서 기획된 것입니다.
Huiying is a doctoral researcher at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich, Germany, and associate faculty at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. She writes, teaches and explores knowledge co-production with approaches from action research and visual methodologies. Huiying is a founding member of the Foodscape Collective and TANAH, and collaborates with soft/WALL/studs. She is also engage in the Soil Regeneration Project, a community-led action research process in Singapore.
Her lecture ‘From ground to design: community gardens as a “time niche” for sustainable agriculture’ will take place online on Friday, June 16th, 2023 (16:00-18:00). Following is the lecture’s summary:
How can people in the city learn to share public spaces with one another—especially edible food spaces? How can urban space be an “active moment” that shocks, surprises or introduces people to different relations with the human and more-than-human world? And how can urban spaces also be “time niches” that scaffold learning, and expand opportunities for care time, to enable socio-technical transitions towards more sustainable futures? This talk looks at two groups’ works in Singapore between 2015-2020: the Foodscape Collective’s work in Singapore from 2015-2020, as it began following community gardens and building a learning network around, and with them, and the community bonding and energy that grew from this activity of learning, researching, writing and sharing about gardens and their fruits. It also looks at TANAH, an urban spatial intervention group, between 2016/2017-2020/2021. Learnings from international groups (Hong Kong, Latin America, Italy, Taiwan) will be discussed.
