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Selected Works from Singapore

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Student Javas Tan
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Year 1
Tutors Thomas Kendall,  Michelle Young,  Henrietta Williams,  Sophie Read,  Ruth Bernatek and María Venegas Rabá

These research projects and films interrogate a series of different sites in Singapore, ranging from a mall, the street, to public parks. The performances in the films, made for the module Design and Creative Practice, are critiques of the fault lines within Singaporean society, as ossified in the built environment. The films have three locations: Bukit Brown Cemetery (included in this show), Orchard Road and The Botanic Gardens. Dance, music, and the sound of a metronome are used to propel and tie together the works. The movements made in the videos are intended to dramatize, heighten, and ultimately celebrate quotidian action. At the same time, they are informed to a large extent by the student’s personal experience of military service.

A personal vindication of VivoCity by Toyo Ito, from the architectural dregs in which the mall typology is typically situated.

History of Cities and Their Architecture

Walking Metronome 1, Bukit Brown Cemetery

Walking Metronome 1, Bukit Brown Cemetery

This work is a timed experiment of the relationship between body and space which draws on learnt military movements, semaphore signalling, the chosen site, walking, and dance,

Design and Creative Practice I

Photograph, Touring Henderson Waves

A performative architectural tour, including of the site of the tallest pedestrian bridge in Singapore, Henderson Waves.

Architectural Research I

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The Bartlett
Summer Show 2021
23 July – 07 August 2021
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