Singapore
AF Forum
Research in Practice, Re:Searches for New Knowledge in Design
Smells Like Research
17 May 2024
3.45pm—4.00pm
Marina Bay Sands, Hall 1, Heliconia Ballroom
Ticketed admission
Smells like Research. Gap between Translation of Research and Production of Space
While we operate across different design disciplines, FARM remains grounded as a spatial studio. This is because we fundamentally believe in the importance of space and how space can be a driver for change. To improve quality of life by changing mindsets and behaviour.
This talk will focus on some of the challenges we face, operating between different modalities of thinking and working, different sequences for procurement and production, and different expectations for academic rigour and realities of practice. We will also explore if there are ways for practices to build deep domain knowledge over time, while working horizontally across different projects and scale.
Speakers
FARM
15 May 2024
FARM
FARM
Nan Chyuan graduated from the National University of Singapore and the Architectural Association in London on a scholarship from Urban Redevelopment Authority.
He is a Director at FARM, a cross disciplinary design practice that won the President’s Design Award Design of the Year in 2010 and was featured in Wallpaper’s Architects’ Directory 2018. In 2017, Nan Chyuan was also recognised as one of Singapore’s emerging architects in URA’s third edition of “20 Under 45” exhibition.
Beyond practice, Nan Chyuan is an active design advocate, having served as Co-curator of iLight Marina Bay 2012, Jury Member for Pasir Panjang Ideas Competition by URA as well as Speaker at Singapore Contemporary Architecture Conversations SUTD and Ted X NUS. He currently sits on the URA Design Advisor Panel (Conservation) and is also a Member on the Preservation of Sites and Monuments Advisory Board, NHB.
Having a deep passion for education, Nan Chyuan is concurrently an Adjunct Assistant Professor and has been teaching at the Department of Architecture in NUS since 2009. He is also an Advisory Committee Member of School of Design, Singapore Polytechnic since 2013 and was an External Examiner for Temasek Polytechnic in 2016. He is currently serving in the Education Thrust of the Singapore Institute of Architects, where he has been a Council Member since 2019
FARM has grown from a society organising community events like ROJAK in 2005, to a cross disciplinary design practice that is working across different territories, domains and typologies.
In 2018, FARM started a new Research and Experience Design arm called FARMACY. It was a response to emerging complexities and opportunities in practice. There was a need to find a new way of thinking and working. Seeking better ways to connect the different verticals expertise within FARM to tackle new questions and wicked problems for projects that have no clear precedents or solutions. Imagined as both a repository of knowledge and platform to generate new possibilities, the aim was for FARMACY to become the landing place for ideas and people to come together, to broaden the way we think today and transform the way we live tomorrow.