KUCHING: The Sarawak Heritage Society (SHS) is presenting a public talk entitled “Civil Society and Sustainable Heritage: Giving a Future to Your Past — Reflections on Heritage Conservation” at the Old Courthouse on Wednesday, April 11 at 6pm.
The special guest speakers are Dr Chua Ai Lin and Fauzy Ismail from the Singapore Heritage Society.
The talk is part of the Heritage Speakers series organised by the SHS.
Admission is free for SHS members and a donation of RM10 to SHS is suggested for non-members. Those wishing to attend are encouraged to inform the organisers by sending a Whatsapp/SMS to +60 18 988 23 43 or an email to sarawakheritagesociety@gmail.com.
Dr Chua will discuss the role of placemaking, the community and civil society in sustainable heritage conservation, with examples from the Singapore experience.
Placemaking is the process through which we work together to shape our public spaces, using community participation to plan, design, manage and programme the shared use of spaces.
Fauzi Ismail will present an educational programme, “Heartland Explorers: Intangible spaces of our neighbourhood”.
The speakers will introduce the approach used by the Singapore Heritage Society which combines cultural mapping research (a tool to collect and analyse cultural information from and by the community), policy recommendations, community development and socially-engaged art that aims to improve conditions of the community.
This approach hopes to create a future for heritage in living heritage sites, where communities and continuity of traditions and practices are linked.
Dr Chua Ai Lin is a well-known figure on the Singapore heritage protection scene. She is currently executive director and vice president of Singapore Heritage Society, having served as its president (2013-2017). She has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (UK), is a former Assistant Professor in the Department of History, National University of Singapore (NUS) and independent researcher and consultant on academia, public sector, private enterprise and civil society matters.
Fauzy Ismail, architect, tutor and researcher at NUS Department of Architecture, artist-in-residence at The Substation (a Singapore independent contemporary art centre) and Singapore Heritage Society volunteer.
