

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: DOA Symposium: Building / Community in the Tropics and Beyond
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 27 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 am – Tue, 27 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The principle of site specificity has long guided most works of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. Yet what the “site” means itself remains mutable and contested. Recent design scholarship and practice progressively turn to local, indigenous, and traditional ways of shaping environments as critiques of modernist legacies of uniformity and standardisation. Still, we must remain attentive to how tropical contexts have been shaped by colonialism, resistance, and cultural hybridity. How, then, should the design professions engage with historical conditions that inhabit the present? Who are the communities we work with? For whom do we design? Who constitutes our own communities of practice?

This symposium, entitled ‘Building Communities in the Tropics and Beyond’, probes such questions. It brings together artists, academics, and practitioners to examine how design engages questions of identity, place, and indigeneity. It examines who designers work with and for, how we address displacement and erasure, how we might integrate traditional knowledge without extractive logics within institutional constraints, and who ultimately holds authorship.

Date: 27 January 2026
Time: 8:00 AM–6:00 PM
Venue: SDE3 Exhibition Space
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/singapore/doa-symposium-building-community-in-the-tropics-and-beyond/200029464988355
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/arch/news_and_events/events_ay2526_doa_symposium_270126/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=singapore-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Singapore
- **state**: SG
- **country**: Singapore
- **location**: NUS Department of Architecture
- **lat**: 1.29751
- **long**: 103.77069
- **full address**: NUS Department of Architecture, The School of Architecture - Nus, Architecture Dr, Singapore 117566, Singapore

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: NUS Department of Architecture (https://allevents.in/org/nus-department-of-architecture/24747869)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 27 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** NUS Department of Architecture, The School of Architecture - Nus, Architecture Dr, Singapore 117566, Singapore
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** NUS Department of Architecture
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, exhibitions
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about DOA Symposium: Building / Community in the Tropics and Beyond ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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