Students at the Department of Architecture were invited to join us for an information session on a studio-seminar that will run next semester, collectively titled ‘Domestic Capital and Workaround: An experimental studio-seminar’, led by Associate Professor Lilian Chee, with assistance from research fellow Wong Zihao and research assistant Rachel Sim. The studio-seminar is part of Foundations for Home-based Work: A Singapore Study, led by Lilian Chee, and funded by the Ministry of Education, Social Science Research Thematic Grants. The studio-seminar will look at both historical and contemporary threads of remote and home-based work, speculating and projecting alternative present/future scenarios upon this emerging paradigm. Material from the studio-seminar will be published and exhibited as part of Foundations for Home-based Work.
The information session covered what it to be expected from the studio-seminar, including the rationale for the research project, the kinds of material we will be studying, and the mode(s) in which you can expect to work through for both the seminar and studio outputs. Administrative issues including modular credits and the clearing of module requirements were also addressed.
Students who are keen on either the seminar or studio option may register their interest at the session via this form.
For those who missed the information session, please check out the recording in this link below:
Email Rachel at racheljs@nus.edu.sg for any questions and information pertaining to the session.
Related readings:
Ahrentzen, Sherry. “Homeworkers as Architects: The Ideal Home.” In Blurring Boundaries: Socio-Spatial Consequences of Working at Home, 50–61. Milwaukee, WI: Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987.
Johanson, Mark. “The Small Cities and Towns Booming from Remote Work.” BBC. January 26, 2022. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220125-the-small-cities-and-towns-booming-from-remote-work.
Kahn, Matthew E. “Introduction: No Going Back.” In Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities, by Matthew E. Kahn, 1–22. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2022.
Penz, François. “Cinematic Typologies of Everyday Life and Architecture.” In Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture, by François Penz, 100–122, 1st ed. New York : Routledge, 2017.: Routledge, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315722993.