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

• HeritAGE Keepers, by Heng Yi Ming Jonah, Heng Yi Xin, Khaw Faye, Ma Ruolin, Hwa Chong Institution (College Section)
• “No One Icon”: Secondary Students’ Judgments ofSignificant Representations of Singapore, by Syazwani Binte Amrun, Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary)

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