Editorial Boards

Area Editors Advisory Group for South/East Asia for The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015 (editors Lori Brown, Syracuse University, and Karen Burns, University of Melbourne), UK

Editorial Board Member, Australian Feminist Studies, Australia

Editorial Board Member, Architectural Theory Review, University of Sydney, Australia

Regional Editor, The Journal of Architecture, Royal Institute of British Architects, UK

Academic Editor, Singapore Architect, Singapore

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Academic Reviewer for Journal Papers and New Book Proposals

Architecture and Culture, UK

Architectural Theory Review, Australia

Ashgate Architecture list for Asia/Asia Pacific, UK

Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and the Related Arts, New Zealand

Architectural Research Quarterly, UK

Gender Place Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, UK

Home Cultures, University College London, London

Transactions, Institute of British Geographers and the Royal Geographical Society, UK

Haecceity Papers, University of Sydney Press, Sydney

Berg, Oxford

   Initiated International Academic Network on Global Domesticity (supported by the HSS seed fund)

2017           Situating Domesticities, with scholars Anoma Pieris (UMelb), Barbara Penner (Bartlett), Catharina Gabrielsson, (KTH), Naomi Stead and Kelly Greenop (Monash), Jane M. Jacobs (Yale-NUS), Hilde Heynen (KU Leuven), Gulsum Baydar and Cansu Karakiz (Yasar), Julieanna Preston (Massey), Anooradha Siddiqi (Harvard), Nisha Mary Mathew (NUS), Teresita Cruz-del Rosario (NUS), Simone Chung (NUS), Jessica Cook (NUS), Mallika Bose (Pennsylvania), Lori A. Brown (Syracuse), Izumi Kuroishi (Aoyama), Eunice Seng (HKU), Mirjana Lozanovska (Deakin), Melany Sun-Min Park (Harvard).

                   Academic Research Associate/Affiliate

2018           Visiting Fellow, Future Cities Lab, Singapore-ETH Centre

2015-          Asia Research Institute (ARI) Asian Urbanism Cluster

2015-          Centre for Family and Population Research, FASS, NUS

                   Invited Speaker

2018           ‘Affect in architecture: 03-FLATS,’ Behind Closed Doors: The secret life of home in Singapore, ARI Asia Trends 2018, The National Library, 12 April 2018.

2017           ‘Chasing Inuka: Rambling through Singapore in Tan Pin Pin’s films,’ Discipline the City Salon Lectures, The Substation Singapore, 6 October 2017.

2016           ‘Affecting Architecture: Shifting Agencies and Arguments,’ Spaces of Transition: Globalisation, transnationalism and urban change in the Asia-Pacific, University of Melbourne, 5 July 2016.

2016           ‘In Media Res: Land, Ground and Landscape in Bukit Brown’, Urban Nature, Future Cities Lab-ETH, 23 June 2016.

2016           ‘03-FLATS: Screening and dialogue,’ Yale-NUS Urban Speaker Series, Yale-NUS, 10 March 2016.

2015           Asian Film Archive’s Fade in/Fade Out Public Film Programme 2015, film screening of 03-FLATS and dialogue, Marine Parade Public Library, Singapore, 17 October 2015.

2015           ‘Designing for the Other 99 Percent: Trajectories in Singapore Architecture,’ Cultural and Contextual Studies Design Seminars: Design in the Southeast Asian Context, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, Faculty of Design, LASALLE, 6 August 2015.

2015           03-FLATS: Screening and dialogue, Asia Research Institute-FASS Cities Cluster of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS, 4 May 2015.

2015           ‘Strange Conversations: Simryn Gill’s Art and its Affective Space,’ Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA-NTU) Public Programmes Detour Series in conjunction with Simryn Gill: Hugging the Shore exhibition, CCA-NTU, 24 April 2015.

2015           ‘Reimagining Domesticity: Film in Architectural Research,’ Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, 25 February 2015.

2015           ‘Making 03-FLATS: Architecture, Domesticity and Film,’ Berlage Institute, Delft University, Delft, The Good Life Public Lecture Series, 20 February 2015.

2014           ‘Performative Landings: Singapore, Land, its Past and the Future’, Spaces of Resistance Lecture Series, ETH Zurich, 24 September 2014.

2014           ‘Contrapunctal Alliances: Reconsidering Domesticity through Architecture and Film, Writing Lab 2014 talk series History and its Currency: Archives, Anecdotes, Contemporary Practice, NUS Museum and National Arts Council, 20 March 2014.

2013           ‘Letters from Home’, at Spaces of Change Lecture Series 2013, organized by Future Cities Lab, Singapore-ETH Centre, 28 March 2013.

2012           ‘I live alone’: 3 case studies in the Singapore public housing context, at ROJAK London, Pop-Up Singapore House, London season, 23 September 2012, Dorset Square, London, UK.

2012           ‘Curating architecture’, at Curating Lab Curatorial Roundtable 02, organized by NUS Museum in collaboration with National Arts Council of Singapore, Lorong 24A Geylang, 18 August 2012.

2012           ‘What's at stake in an architecture exhibition?’ at Curating the Nation lecture series (1 Jan - 1 May 2012), 16 February 2012, NUS Museum, Singapore.

2009           ‘I feel the earth move: Traversing Singapore Ground’ at The Bartlett Architecture and Interdisciplinary Seminars ‘Architecture & Travel: Perception, Attraction, Mobility’, 23 October 2009, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London.

2009           ‘Domesticity and Monumentality: Reconsidering the Peranakan House’ at the Museum Colloquium and Book Launch Performing the Peranakan organized by NUS Museum (March 2009).

2008           ‘The Evidence of Experience: The Billiard Room and its Animals’ at the Asia Research Institute Cultural Studies Cluster - Work in Progress Lectures, 4 Jun 2008, NUS Bukit Timah Campus, Singapore.

2004           ‘Architectural History and Psychoanalytic Theory’, at the Bartlett Architectural History Lecture Series, 20 October 2004, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK.

                   Conferences Convened

2018           ‘Making + Scholarship,’ Research by Design Symposium, National University of Singapore, 17 January 2018.

2017           “Women and Architecture: Conversations on the Discipline,” in ArchiFest 2017, Singapore of Institute of Architects, 12 October 2017.

2017           ‘Types’ in ‘Modernity’s Other: Disclosing Southeast Asia's Built Environment across the colonial and postcolonial world,’ at the 2nd Southeast Asia Architecture Research Collective (SEAARC) symposium, Department of Architecture, NUS, 5-6 January 2017.

2016           ‘Screen Sensibilities,’ at Hard State, Soft City: The Urban Imaginative Field in Singapore, Asia Research Institute, 17-18 March 2016.

2015           ‘The Only Way is Up,’ panel held in conjunction with SHELTERED exhibition at the National Library Singapore, Visitors Briefing Room, 6 November 2015.

2015           ‘Dwelling in Asia: Between Housing, Domesticity and Architecture,’ at the Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Chicago. Co-chaired with Dr Eunice Seng (Hong Kong University), April 2015.

2015           ‘Architecture and Constructs of Culture,’ at the inaugural 1st Southeast Asia Architecture Research Collective (SEAARC) symposium, Department of Architecture, NUS, 8-9 January 2015.       

                   Conference Committees

2018           ‘Displacement and Domesticity since 1945: Refugees, migrants and expats making homes,’ KU Leuven, Brussels, organized by Prof Hilde Heynen. Scientific committee member, 28-29 March 2019.

2017           ‘Situating Domesticities in Architecture,’ Department of Architecture, NUS. Co-chair and lead investigator, with Dr Jessica Cook and Dr Simone Chung, 7-8 December 2017.

2017           Panel reviewer for ‘Asia as Method,’ the Society of Architectural and Urban Historians Asia (SAUH Asia) 2nd annual meeting, organized by the Centre for Asian & Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Adelaide, July 2017.

2010           ‘Performing Space in Asian Film,’ Asia Research Institute International Roundtable. Co-chair for roundtable with Dr Edna Lim (NUS) and Dr Charles Leary (ARI), February 2010.

                   Invited Respondent

2014           Panel Respondent, Future Cities Lab Symposium Module VI, ETH Zurich, under Prof Marc Angélil, 25 September 2014.

2014           Panel Respondent, at Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation (Association of Asian Studies conference) for panel chaired by Dana Arnold, “Heritage and Transformation in Asian Cities: The Role of the Public Park, 1887-2014”, July 2014.

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2013           Respondent for keynote lecture by Edward Soja in “Spatial Justice in Singapore” organized by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in collaboration with Asian Urban Lab, January 2013.

2013           Advisor and respondent, “Public Space in Urban Asia” workshop organized by Asian Urban Lab, May 2013.