Home@Centrestage: Inquiring into our Built Heritage & the Memories that make up our Home
Programme and other details now available for Home@Centrestage Seminar: Inquiring into our Built Heritage & the Memories that make up our Home
The Singapore Heritage Society and the Singapore Association for Social Studies Education, along with support from the Urban Redevelopment Authority, proudly present Home@Centrestage: Inquiring into our Built Heritage & the Memories that make up our Home, a seminar by educators and students.
There are four panels discussing a multitude of issues addressing the central question – what is the relationship between heritage and making Singapore a home.
The full programme can be downloaded Here
A handout for Ian Tan’s talk, Evoking Our Shared Memories: Preserving our Heritage through Singaporean Poetry, scheduled for Panel 4: ‘How Do We Create a Sense of Home?’ can be found Here
Date: 14 September 2013 (Saturday) / 9.00 am to 2.30 pm
Venue: Function Hall, 5th Storey, URA Centre, 45 Maxwell Road
Admission is free and open to all but registration is required due to limited seating. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/6629277347
We hope to see you there!

Session notes from the event.
Panel 1
- The Disappearing “mama shops”, by Adrian Wang Xinting, Chan Zhi Wei Jeremy, Raffles Institution (Secondary)
- Learning Journeys for our Heartlands, by Lee Jun Jie, Fuchun Secondary School
- Playgrounds: The Heritage of the Heartlands, by Quek Jun Hui, Desiree Tan, Samantha B. S. M., Greendale Secondary School – Presentation
- Playgrounds: The Heritage of the Heartlands, by Quek Jun Hui, Desiree Tan, Samantha B. S. M., Greendale Secondary School – Video
Panel 2
Panel 3
- Heritage Conservation in Schools, by Chong Ee Hsiun, Leong Weng Yin Issac, Sean Ong Zhi Han, Martin Lim, Ernest Goh, Joshua Wong, Brian Yen, Raffles Institution (Secondary)
- Recovering memories from Our Built Heritage, by Goh Jin Han, NUS
- Owners and Audiences – How Does Heritage Interact As a Space In Our Lives?, by Wong Shao Wei Keith, NUS
- StateofBuildings.sg, by Kelly Koh Qian-Wen, NUS Architecture Graduate, Co-founder of StateofBuildings.sg
Panel 4
- From Polytechnic to University: Inculcating the Sense of the Built Heritage in our Youths, by Abdul Rahim bin Abdul Hamid, School of Design and Environment, NUS
- Geographical field inquiry in heritage areas: unpacking contested landscapes through landuse surveys, by Tricia Seow, NIE, NTU
- Evoking Our Shared Memories: Preserving our Heritage through Singaporean Poetry, by Tan Xing Long Ian, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School (Secondary) – Presentation
- Evoking Our Shared Memories: Preserving our Heritage through Singaporean Poetry, by Tan Xing Long Ian, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School (Secondary) – Handout
- Caught on Camera: Using Camtasia Studio and the Flipped Classroom Model to Augment Lessons Beyond the Classroom, by Omar Basri, NUS High School of Math & Science (Secondary/Pre-U) – ‘Live’ Prezi
- Caught on Camera: Using Camtasia Studio and the Flipped Classroom Model to Augment Lessons Beyond the Classroom, by Omar Basri, NUS High School of Math & Science (Secondary/Pre-U) – Pdf Version