Values are the guiding principles and beliefs that shape the behaviours, decisions, and actions of students, teachers, and staff. They play an important role in forming a school’s culture and in advancing a supportive, nurturing, and positive learning environment. The studio focuses on values driven design and is jointly organised with the Learning Environments Office of the Ministry of Education. Through co-visioning workshops and collaborative design, we will explore how values are interpreted by stakeholders and incorporated into the design of schools. Three main questions frame the studio investigation.
How are values spatialised?
How are values materialised?
What would the aesthetic be?
The studio will use dialogic thinking as an approach to understand and contextualise the values. It is a form of thinking that involves dialogue and a continuous exchange on a topic between different perspectives and frames of reference. It does not attempt to subsume one point of view over another or result in closure. Instead, dialogic thinking accepts the co-existence of multiple perspectives. A word like HARMONY does not have only one meaning. It means different thing to different people in different contexts.
Virtual Exhibition: https://chio.space/virtual-tour/nus-architecture-2024
How are values spatialised?
How are values materialised?
What would the aesthetic be?
The studio will use dialogic thinking as an approach to understand and contextualise the values. It is a form of thinking that involves dialogue and a continuous exchange on a topic between different perspectives and frames of reference. It does not attempt to subsume one point of view over another or result in closure. Instead, dialogic thinking accepts the co-existence of multiple perspectives. A word like HARMONY does not have only one meaning. It means different thing to different people in different contexts.
Virtual Exhibition: https://chio.space/virtual-tour/nus-architecture-2024
Selected Projects
School As Forest
Chen Fanqi and Chen Xiyun
Chen Fanqi and Chen Xiyun
Zero-Waste Journey
Seah Jia Jun and Jiang Jun
Seah Jia Jun and Jiang Jun
Harmony in Values Sensitive Design
Theodore Tan and Clarissa Ow
Theodore Tan and Clarissa Ow
Inter-Grid and Kindred Grid
Megan Mak and Ma Priyaatharsini
Megan Mak and Ma Priyaatharsini
Workshops at Pasir Ris Secondary School and Huamin Primary School
