Category: Lecture 6: Housing Stories

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“Moving House” reflection

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The film illustrates some “invisible” and “unclean” spaces such as cemeteries which usually tend to be situated in remote places in urban cities. This can be another kind of “housing” for those who died; these spaces have to be moved or even demolished to “make way” for residential areas or other redevelopment projects. Apart from revealing the density of Singapore, the film also inspires us to rethink these “invisible” and “unclean” spaces/ how we interpret them/ how they symbolize some “taboo” issues we used to not discuss in public such as death.

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Moving House Reflection

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For the Chinese, both the residence of the living ones and the burial of departed relatives and friends are extraordinarily important and have the requirement and hope for long-lasting stability. But when the compulsory expansion of living and the preservation of the grave conflict with each other, the helplessness of the living and the dead is so similar. The guardianship of loved ones and and the effort to protect estates from demolitions have the same willingness and powerlessness to protect their privacy and feelings.

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[Moving House Reflection]- Kan Nok Ming Valerie

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The local citizens’ societal demands and the idea of materiality (e.g. land for building house) triumph over the inherent cultural morality and piety (e.g people dig their ancestor’s cemetery). There is a conflict of interest and land use among stakeholders, in which there is excessive amount of recreational land uses for rich people (e.g. golf course) yet mark the absence of a permanent cemetery for ancestors to be buried and at rest.

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Moving House Reflection – Youyuan Lin

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The rapid land transformation for housing development seems to be an inevitable phase of urban renewal to address the growing demand in the densely populated setting of Singapore. The critical question arises when the developing process challenges the balance between the space for the live and the dead, requiring the “sacrifice” of  spiritual, traditional values for the satisfaction of more “practical” or “urgent” housing needs. Is there a more systematic or organized way that allows the moving of the “house” for the ancestors to be less abrupt and rushed?

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Moving House reflection

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Due to the problem of population growth, the Singapore government needs land, which leads to the relocation of the Zhou family’s grave.The Zhous complain that the country’s land is small, but it has built a large number of golf courses, which is a waste of land. The documentary expresses their deep attachment to their home and the struggle they face as they adjust to the inevitable changes. WangYi 3036268024  

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Moving House (2001)

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“After development comes redevelopment” as a way of life where the dead people are also affected to be moved is sad. Tradition cannot be maintained because of the government planning of lands; the dead parents “moving” from a larger “house” to a smaller “house” which is the columbarium. The exhumation exercises that are shown in the video is is uncanny and creepy, and let us know how a dense city means the cityscape and way of living is ever changing and full of uncertainty. -3036237831