EDEN Series: “Without Architecture, we cannot remember”

“Without Architecture, We Cannot Remember” — John Ruskin

Singapore is in a constant state of dementia. For a relatively young city state, we have seen the demise of many architecturally and culturally significant national landmarks. They come and they go in the name of “progress”, “market forces”, or the building of key “highways and infrastructures”..

With each demise, people mourn and then gradually forget.. 

The preservation of buildings serve as powerful reminders of a common  past, a memory of where we came as a nation and a foundation from which we look to the future.

Eden is a collaborative Ground-up Activation organised by Zarch Collaboratives. It brings together passionate and like-minded individuals who, in their own capacity and milieu play a role in the narrative of preserving and safeguarding the urban landscape. Through a series of various media-photography, videography, installation, drawing, research documentation and discussion--Eden is the aesthetic and material crystalisation of grassroots sentiments on loss, erasure and forgetting.

16 May - 30 October 2018 | Zarch Collaboratives Space