Forming Cityscapes

Abstract

This chapter presents a photographic documentation project with a particular interest in everyday city life in Singapore. As a theoretical reflection on the project, we examine the interrelationships between the project and related ideas across urban studies, photography and design, while positioning it as a form of ‘artistic research’. Selected photographic findings from Forming Cityscapes are presented alongside a critical discussion on creative forms of appropriation that indirectly critique ‘top-down’ design implementations and suggest other micro-possibilities through actual use. With this, an imaginative representation of Singapore’s cityscape is represented through (1) our creative practice, and (2) photographic findings of creative practices found in the city.