After over a year of work, The City at Eye Level Asia launched their book on Asian Cities on October 27, 2020, with a short presentation of insights from the book. The book launch marked the successful conclusion of over a year of planning, which culminated in a placemaking conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2019. Between … Continue reading The City at Eye Level Asia Book Launch
Date: Friday 13 November 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre Chaired by: Prof Hyun Bang ShinProfessor of Geography and Urban Studies and Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, LSE One of the foci of the SEANNET Project are multiple research and pedagogical output created for use … Continue reading Masterclass: Research as Empowerment: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Understanding Cities of Southeast Asia
From 10 November to 15 December, SEANNET team member Assistant Professor Komson Teeraparbwong offers an online class on Northern-Lanna development in Chiang Mai city - the QR code lasts till 15 December for free registration in the course, so sign up early! TRACING THE PAST: An Introduction to Northern-Lanna and Chiang Mai Urban Development Course … Continue reading Announcing an online MOOC: An Introduction to Northern-Lanna and Chiang Mai Urban Development
by Eka Nurul Farida (ekanurulfarida@gmail.com) Facilitating the production of CNA’s INSIGHT: Poverty in Asia, to explore social-economic struggles against COVID-19 from the perspective of Surabaya’s ordinary citizens. At the end of August 2020, a production team from CNA (Channel NewsAsia)’s INSIGHT program came to Surabaya to cover two households for the Indonesia edition of Poverty … Continue reading SEANNET Surabaya in CNA’s INSIGHT: Poverty in Asia
By Komson Teeraparbwong Neighbourhoods' living condition became a priority as a crucial responsive reaction, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic that has hit every region around the world since the beginning of 2020. This has resulted in severe impacts to the Tourism Industry, particularly in Chiang Mai as a main tourism Hub of Northern Thailand. Wua-lai, … Continue reading Wua-Lai observation during COVID19
By Komson Teeraparbwong Team Wua-lai, Chiang Mai, Thailand Introduction Before Covid-19 struck earlier this year, the Wua-Lai team had organised a "match-making" academic workshop in December last year. We called it "match-making" because we were trying, for the first time, to set up the regular students' workshop (between FACMU-Chiang Mai & ENSA-Paris Bellville) to run … Continue reading “Workshop within workshop”: Silver-craft Neighbourhood Forum as a learning process
What does it mean to do globally-informed research, at the neighbourhood level, in Southeast Asia?
We are pleased to invite contributions to ‘COVID-19 and Southeast Asia’, a project intended to encourage reflection upon what the COVID-19 crisis means for Southeast Asia. This project is an initiative of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (click here for the project webpage). COVID-19 presents huge challenges to governments, … Continue reading COVID-19 and Southeast Asia Call for Contributions
Neighborhoods are not just the subject of academic tomes and treatises, but often play a prominent role in the lyrics of popular music. Anyone interested in understanding neighborhoods would do well to listen to the voices of artists, musicians, and poets. For a window into one such perspective, we post a translation of a popular … Continue reading Khu Tao sống Translation
by Rita Padawangi Peneleh Dalam Sketsa is a book of sketches on Kampung Peneleh, and is a collaboration between SEANNET and Urban Sketchers Surabaya. Starting with meetings in March and April 2019 to conceptualise the book, the collaboration continued with month-long sketching activities at various locations in Kampung Peneleh. Peneleh Dalam Sketsa portrays meaningful spaces … Continue reading “PENELEH DALAM SKETSA”: Kampung as the Heart of Indonesia’s Urban Life
Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network 