NHB HAN@Katong-Joo Chiat Community Engagement and Programming
Context and problems
This project aims to provide students with hands-on experience in designing, developing, and implementing a project in collaboration with the National Heritage Board (NHB). The project challenges students to come up with innovative solutions that can enhance the organizational development of NHB by addressing existing problems. To empower the community and celebrate heritage, a series of Heritage Activation Nodes (HAN) will be launched in various precincts in 2024.
The challenge is to engage the local community to create HAN projects and programmes that cater to their needs and wishes, encouraging quality interaction, conversation, and shared appreciation of heritage between different generations. The exploration involves engaging the local community in HAN@Katong-Joo Chiat and ideating beyond the usual heritage-related initiatives like heritage trails, heritage murals, or exhibitions of 'the past'. The goal is to propose initiatives that promote 'living heritage', 'heritage for everyone', and 'heritage for well-being' while creating a meaningful impact.
Team Members and Roles
Redha Nurrita Binte Abdul Samad
Kwan I-Jing
Koo Daeun
Muhammad Afiq Danial Bin Azman
Alger Law En Kai
Key Goals and Objectives
Project Goal:
Develop a replicable and sustainable program that uncovers the 'present' and past heritage and culture of KJC through quality engagement and conversation amongst audiences in the community.
Project Objectives:
- Utilize conversation and meaningful engagement as key elements of the programme and make it accessible to the wider community
- Involving community members as co-creators and empowering them to not only be active participants but contributors
- Cultivating a shared appreciation of heritage across different generations of audiences
Project Timeline
- Week of January 8: Preliminary site visit of students to the NHB determined site
- Week of January 15: Project commencement
- Week of January 22: Drafting the Project Proposal
- Week of January 29: Clinic with the Module Coordinator
- Week of February 5: Discussion of the Proposal with the NHB Coordinator
- Week of February 12: Clinic with the Module Coordinator
- Week of February 19: Working on the Project
- Week of March 4: Working on the Project
- Week of March 11: Clinic with the Module Coordinator
- Week of March 18: Check-up meeting with the NHB Coordinator
- Week of March 25: Clinic with the Module Coordinator
- Week of April 1: Finalising and submitting project deliverables
- Week of April 8: Project Launch featuring presentation of students and the NHB Coordinator
Project Deliverables and Outputs
The LASALLE Arts Management students will develop one (1) heritage programme for HAN@Katong-Joo Chiat that encourages quality interaction, conversation, and shared appreciation of heritage between different generations. The students will engage with the local community to explore creative programming that caters to their needs. Additionally, at least one pilot run of the proposed programme will be conducted to test the feasibility of the project.