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A few days ago, I went to the United Nations Headquarters for the first time, specifically to check out an exhibition Design with the other 90%: Cities, that featured design-based solutions for urban issues in cities of the developing world. … Continue reading
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For those you who work in museums, you would have heard this from your bosses or patrons: how can we make museum-going more experiential? Last weekend, I had a taste of just how experiential museum-going could be, at the spectacular … Continue reading
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The second part of my 2-part post, and the 4th in the Art & the City series, takes me back to Suzhou, China – known traditionally throughout Chinese history as the city of culture and the literati. The Suzhou Museum … Continue reading
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I meant for this blogpost to be a comparative analysis between the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, and its sister museum, the Suzhou Museum, both designed by the American architect, I.M. Pei (who most famously plonked an inverted pyramid … Continue reading
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Had a couple of deadlines this week but I’m back with a vengeance. Ah Venice! There’s something about being there, knowing that hundreds of years ago, it looked almost exactly the same as it does now. It’s the ultimate time-bubble, … Continue reading
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Liverpool is the textbook case of an entire city rejuvenated through culture. Once a bustling and affluent port and manufacturing centre in Britain, the city went into sharp decline from the mid-1970s due to the advent of containerization and neo-liberalism … Continue reading
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I love art, and I love cities. As a cultural policy-maker in a past life, my role was to examine how art could be used to transform cities, and to apply what I uncovered to Singapore. I loved my job. … Continue reading
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Over the holiday weekend, I had the opportunity to reflect upon time, upon travel, and on my journeying this past year. What I discovered was that I am often struck by places of instability and ambiguity, in which the past … Continue reading
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It would be painfully apparent by now that I live in Williamsburg, New York. A place more commonly known as hipster nirvana. For those of you who don’t know what a “hipster” is (or for those of who are “hipster” … Continue reading
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Dreaming is a kind of spectral journeying. In the past year, I have dreamed of more than a dozen cities, strange and familiar. These dreams were (ghostly) re-visitations. Like a phantom presence, I re-meandered unnoticed along familiar pathways, water bodies … Continue reading
Dream Of A City 