In collaboration with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the RIBA Singapore Chapter hosted a sharing session on the topic of the spaces of food as part of the 2021 Singapore Heritage Festival.
This is a recording of an online event held on 27 May 2021.
Food is an integral part of our culture. Mealtimes involve more than just the cursory act of eating. They bring people together in a shared ritual – where the sociable sharing of meals is as much about the human interactions that affirm our mutual connectedness, as it is about the culinary delight of taste and smell. Food brings us together in powerful ways that create bonds, community, and memories. This explains why in every city, the urban spaces that surround food – streetscapes or esplanades with lively restaurants and street stands, bustling market halls, or in Singapore’s context, our ubiquitous hawker centres – are the very spaces where public life thrives. Food has a way of pulling people together into an urban geniality, livening up the public spaces that we inhabit to affirm our sense of belonging.
At a city scale, the spaces for producing, storing, and distributing food offer another perspective to understand the city – where food is part of an infrastructural flow and network, with strategic implications for a city. The current technological re-imagining of how our food is produced, distributed, and consumed will be consequential to our cities’ future.
Speakers
Dr Lai Chee Kien – Vice-President of the Society of Architectural and Urban Historians of Asia, Advisory Council Member of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
Jason Wong – Co-Founder and Director of Sales, NETATECH Engineering PTE. Ltd.
Kenneth Ho – Senior Vice President, Senior Design Principal at The Jerde Partnership
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