Nov

Urban Futuring in Contemporary Singapore

30 Nov, 2022 - 30 Nov, 2022
Seminar

English

Dear colleagues and students,

You are cordially invited to attend the LCS departmental seminar “Urban Futuring in Contemporary Singapore” organized by the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies in November 2022.

Details of the seminar are as follows:

Date	30 November 2022 (Wednesday)
Time	15:00 – 16:00
Format	Online (ZOOM) Meeting ID: 976 8421 0851, Passcode: 656682
Title	Urban Futuring in Contemporary Singapore
Speaker	Dr Jamie Wang
Registration	https://eduhk.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5bT0AK3yqQc30uG

Abstract

In this talk, I will draw on my current book project Re-imagining a More-Than-Human City that explores how biotic and abiotic, human and other-than-human, elements co-shape urban environments and their social-cultural and economic relations in the context of pursuing a sustainable and liveable city.

Grounded in the fieldwork in Singapore, I will specifically focus on the aspects of urban transportation and urban farming from a more-than-human perspective to explore the kind of sustainable futures we envision in the midst of the intensifying effects of climate change and intense urbanisation. What are the consequences, dangers and ethical implications of pursuing a singular version of future that enables ongoing unevenly distributed precarity among humans and nonhumans? And how might we imagine differently?

Speaker:

Jamie Wang is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer and poet. Her current research is at the intersections of environmental humanities, cultural and urban imaginaries, and more-than-human studies in the context of climate change, sustainable technological solutions, and environmental justice. Across her research and creative works, she is interested in sustainable story-making towards the opening of other kinds of possible futures.

For more information, please visit jamiewang.org.

For inquiry, please send email to lcs.notice@eduhk.hk.

Kind regards,

Department of Literature and Cultural Studies