IDEAS FESTIVAL 2024 | Visualising Home-Based Work (Workshop)

 ‘IDEAS FEST 2024 | Visualising Home-Based Work (Workshop)’ is co-organised by the Singapore Research Nexus at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and the Foundations for Home-Based Work project at NUS.

Date and Time: 12 April 2024, Friday, 9 am – 12.30 pm
Venue:  NUS Central Library, Level 4 Seminar Room, 12 Kent Ridge Crescent Singapore, 119275
Register: In-person

Light refreshments will be provided.

The workshop features the following presentations:
1. Introduction to IDEAS FEST 2024 | Visualising Home-Based Work by Dr Lilian Chee, Associate Professor, NUS Architecture, College of Design and Engineering

2. The Ecological Landscape of Home-Based Work by Dr Natalie Pang, Associate Professor, NUS Communications and New Media

3. Policies and Third Spaces by Dr Audrey Yue, Professor, NUS Communications and New Media

4. Making HBW Work in the Home by Dr Jane M Jacobs, Adjunct Professor, Monash University Indonesia

PROGRAMME

What does home-based work look like in neighbourhoods, and how do family dynamics, policies and neighbourhood amenities impact the ways people engage in work? This workshop is based on our interdisciplinary project which is concerned with the spatial, social and technological dimensions of home-based work (HBW) in Singapore. By HBW we mean paid employment done in the home, for non-domestic purposes. This includes home-based businesses (e.g. baking, dressmaking,) and piece-workers, gig economy workers (e.g. drivers and deliveries), and telecommuters (e.g. designers, data analysts). Our first project objective is to chart and theorise the social geographies of HBW: what is the policy framework surrounding this kind of work; who is involved in it; what kind of living do they make; in which housing types and neighbourhoods is this work happening? Next, we want to document local ecologies of resilience and adaptability in HBW: both at home and within the community/neighbourhood. Finally, we suggest pathways for accommodating HBW in our lives through design and policy recommendations.

If you have any queries, please email nexus@nus.edu.sg. We look forward to your attendance.