{"id":445,"date":"2021-06-20T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/?p=445"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T03:04:41","slug":"sim-jing-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/sim-jing-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Sim Jing Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This project functions as an inquiry into the possible negotiation of the ruling majority\u2019s communitarian ideology, through a study of the Opposition\u2019s spatial practices. It examines how an ideological consensus with the citizenry produces - and is in turn reproduced by - the built infrastructure the state has set up in the name of community life. The universality of \u201cHeartland\u201d community infrastructure, for instance, allows the ruling party to exert a virtual monopoly over grassroots activities and many other aspects of everyday life, engendering further ideological consensus among the governed.<\/p>\r\n

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The Opposition employ different tactics; they walk, appropriating HDB flats via transient void deck consultations, setting up time-based systems through which they conduct their weekly welfare events and distributions. In a bid to express their own brand of community outreach, they fluidly traverse multiple flats within their constituencies to reach out to their constituents. Then, given a political terrain with marginal spatial allowance for Opposition political outreach, how more can alternative political voices negotiate dominant ideologies through space? And more importantly, how can the everyday citizen resist and potentially play a role in enriching Singapore\u2019s \u2013 or any similar \u2013 political landscape?<\/p>\r\n

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Design Exploration<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Months of research have culminated in the decision to use aesthetic architectural imagery to further the impact of the Opposition\u2019s political outreach. Think Hong Kong\u2019s umbrellas or Thailand\u2019s rubber duckies when visualizing the convergence of real space and virtual space; the construction of Instagram images and Tik Tok videos.<\/p>\r\n

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If we were to re-evaluate the Opposition\u2019s existing strategies, we would see an attempt to capitalize on everyday spaces - HDB void decks in particular - and everyday objects such as foldable chairs and tables, and transient partitions. What if we could enhance this attempt, much like the way Hong Kong protesters revolutionized the way the world viewed an object as simple as the umbrella, through an artful and aesthetic agglomeration of everyday objects? What if we could proliferate imagery of their agglomeration over social media, much as media outlets had sensationalized that of existing social movements? At the same time, what if we could also circumvent political regulations and make the assembly and disassembly of the objects as transient as the Opposition\u2019s welfare programs and Meet-the-People's sessions?<\/p>\r\n

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Future Outcome<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

It is my hope that my exploration acts as a springboard for future experimentation related to the use of media and imagery in furthering political causes.<\/p>","grid_spacer":"0","grid_spacer_topbottom":"0","grid_spacer_width":"200","grid_spacer_height":"5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Assets-Rach_0014_Layer-14-scaled.jpg","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Assets-Rach_0014_Layer-14-scaled.jpg",2560,1811,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Assets-Rach_0014_Layer-14-400x283.jpg",400,283,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Assets-Rach_0014_Layer-14-1024x724.jpg",1024,724,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Assets-Rach_0014_Layer-14-768x543.jpg",640,453,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Assets-Rach_0014_Layer-14-1920x1358.jpg",640,453,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Assets-Rach_0014_Layer-14-1536x1086.jpg",1536,1086,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Assets-Rach_0014_Layer-14-2048x1448.jpg",2048,1448,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Nus MArch Gradshow","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/author\/nus-march-gradshow\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"[...]Read More...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"supervisor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusmarchgradshow.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supervisor?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}