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This event is co-organised by FASS Cities Research Cluster, Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA), ARI Asian Urbanisms Cluster, and the Future Cities Lab 

The CityPossible Film Festival is back for the second time in Singapore! We continue to ask the question: What is the possible city? Current urban development trajectories encourage commercialisation to extract profit from various layers of the increasingly urban society. Meaningful communities are challenged to find space, time, and resources when they are diverted to focus on lifestyle and consumption within placeless architectures. Unfettered capitalism pushes cities to become engines of growth rather than theatres of social life. The CityPossible Film Festival brings together the stories of people who have joined together to resist the loss of their life-spaces and to remake the city through their own visions of what could be. From the street corner to the metropolis, these films inspire us as we celebrate the human spirit through cinema.

This is held in conjunction with the Workshop on “Asian Urbanisms in Theory and Practice: The Future of the Vernacular City” on 1-2 July 2013.

REGISTRATION

Admission is free, please register your interest with Ms Rachel Devi Amtzis (fasrda@nus.edu.sg）, if you’d like to attend, and indicate your name, email, designation, organization and contact number.

Please note that seats are available on a first-come-first served basis and we will not be able to allow entry once the theatre is full.

CONTACT DETAILS

Workshop Convenors:

Prof Mike Douglass
Asia Research Institute and Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

Dr Rita Padawangi
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Secretariat:

Miss Rachel Devi AMTZIS (fasrda@nus.edu.sg)
Arts & Social Sciences Dean’s Office, National University of Singapore