Earth Telling

Field Forum is a series curated by curated by Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan that centres the interconnectedness embedded in the built environment, attuning our senses to material flows, planetary scales, intergenerational times and all the life entangled in these processes.

Lindsay Bremner is a research architect and educator at the University of Westminster in London where she is Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Architecture + Cities. Between 2016 and 2021 she led the European Research Council funded project, Monsoon Assemblages, and since then a British Academy funded grant titled Reimagining the Good City from Ennore Creek, and an ERC/ UKRI Proof of Concept grant titled Climate Cartographics. Lindsay began her academic and professional life in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she published, lectured and exhibited widely on the transformation of Johannesburg after apartheid. She taught architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, at Temple University in Philadelphia, and at MIT as a Visiting Professor, before taking up her current post.

Dorothy Tang is a landscape architect and assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. Her work is concerned with the intersections of infrastructure and everyday life, especially in communities confronting large-scale environmental change. Her current research explores the histories of water, infrastructure, and urbanization in East Asia, the infrastructural landscapes of foreign investments in Southeast Asia and Africa, and the geopolitics of transnational watershed management. Dorothy is an award-winning educator and was formerly the programme director of the Master of Landscape Architecture programme at NUS from 2022-2024. Her design work and research has been exhibited internationally, including the Venice Biennale and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bicity Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture.

Image: Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, “Reef in the Mekong River,” 2024, Laos-Thailand Border.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London, United Kingdom