ADERA Inaugural Meeting and Symposium 2020
About Us
ADERA stands for Architecture Design Education and Research in ASEAN. It is a thematic network of the ASEAN Universities Network (AUN). Sanctioned as a group in 2018, it hosted its first inaugural virtual meeting and symposium on 27-28 July, hosted by the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. We are a loose collective of educators in architectural design education and research drawn from the core universities of AUN and like-minded associate universities in the region. Our main activities are undertaken in the following working groups established at the 2020 Meeting in Singapore, co-convened by The National University of Singapore
Our Vision
An ASEAN community of critical and creative scholars concerned with architectural design education and research of the built environment of Southeast Asia.
Our Objectives
To share the best knowledge of experiences and practices in innovative design pedagogy pertinent to ASEAN in particular, and Asia in general.
To create a milieu for the cultivation of architectural knowledge unique to ASEAN that has broad ramification to and dialogue with the best of humanistic education that improves the quality of life of people and communities.
To encourage and exchange research documentation, translation and publication of key texts and ideas special to the milieu of development architecture in ASEAN.
To foster an active discussion on the design futures of ASEAN and their implications on architectural education, research and practice in light of the rapid technological transformations in analysing, making and representing.
To promote a broader understanding of significant cultural and political connections among the member countries that have given forms to the ASEAN environment.
Assoc Prof (Dr) Wong Yunn Chii, Assoc Prof Cheah Kok Ming
Co-Convenors of AUN-ADERA, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Built Environment, National University of Singapore
With ASEAN in mind.