Urban Life
The Urban Life pillar explores the question of what makes cities liveable or unliveable places. It also explores how specific cultures of urban place-making might contribute to urban diversity and the vibrancy of the city, whilst simultaneously causing patterns of socio-spatial segregation to perpetuate.
Urban Life is about how people sense, experience, and live in their cities, begging the question of why and how residents of the same city might live vastly different urban lives.
ORLANDO WOODS
Pillar Lead, Urban Life
Director, SMU Urban Institute
Associate Professor of Geography
Urban Life Projects
Education Infrastructures and Migrant Un/Belonging: Indian Students in Singapore
This project seeks to understand the role of “education infrastructures” in shaping the terms and extent of belonging amongst Indian migrants in Singapore.
Longitudinal Study to Quantify and Qualify the Impact of the EPR Framework for E-Waste in Singapore
The proposed longitudinal study aims to quantify and qualify the impact of the EPR framework for e-waste in Singapore.
New Religious Pluralisms in Singapore: Migration, Integration and Difference
This project seeks to understand the extent to which religion can enable or disenable the integration of migrant and nonmigrant communities from different religious traditions in Singapore.