November 14, 2025

As part of our ‘Celebrating Singapore Studies: Sixty Years of Nationhood’ campaign for SG60, we present the ‘Looking Back, Moving Forward’ video series — inviting reflection on how Singapore’s past shapes its future.

Through the work of NUS FASS researchers, the series uncovers the complexities behind the nation’s celebrated ‘success story’, bringing to light the inequalities, contradictions, and costs often overlooked.

The fifth video, ‘Innovation at the intersections’, shows that studying Singapore helps us understand how innovation emerges at the intersections of technology, culture, and everyday life.

Research by FASS faculty and students illustrates how AI, digital culture, public health, and youth sports are transforming urban life, with this video showing how technology and society are shaping Singapore today and tomorrow.

Looking closely at Singapore today is, in this way, also a way of anticipating the Singapore we want to build for the next generation.

Read more about the four publications featured in this episode on the Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) website using the link above each publication.

1. https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2024/11/21/understanding-user-interactions-and-perceptions-of-ai-risk-in-singapore-3/

• Neyazi, T. A., Ng, S. W. T., Hobbs, M., & Yue, A. (2023). Understanding user interactions and perceptions of AI risk in Singapore. Big Data & Society, 10(2), 20539517231213823. https://tinyurl.com/yfmfn87t

2. https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2025/07/09/excavating-amnesia-a-media-archaeology-of-early-internet-art-from-singapore/

• Yamin, J., & Mitchell, A. (2023). Excavating Amnesia: A Media Archaeology of Early Internet Art from Singapore. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 7(2), 47–78. https://tinyurl.com/b2fdzjwn

3. https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2024/08/06/integrating-local-and-neighbouring-area-influences-into-vulnerability-modelling-of-infectious-diseases-in-singapore/

• Chin, W. C. B., Feng, C.-C., Leong, C.-H., Pang, J., Clapham, H. E., Nara, A., Tsou, M.-H., & Wang, Y.-C. (2023). Integrating local and neighboring area influences into vulnerability modeling of infectious diseases in Singapore. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 121, 103376.https://tinyurl.com/3f9nnnya

4. https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2024/08/13/skateboarding-in-singapore-youth-masculinity-and-urban-sports-culture/

• Chan, Y. (2023). Skateboarding in Singapore: Youth, Masculinity and Urban Sports Culture. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 40(14), 1272–1286. https://tinyurl.com/2w2bup63