Exhibition: Project Lorong Buangkok

From 30 June to 14 July, Kong Chian Library hosted Project Lorong Buangkok, a multimedia exhibition created by a group of HCI students in conjunction with the National Heritage Board in order to create awareness of Singapore’s last remaining kampung and to discuss how the country’s heritage should be preserved.

Bryan Ow Yong and five other members of the MediaTech Club (mentored by Mr Lee Teck Kong) investigated Kampung Lorong Buangkok, and found out “first-hand from kampung residents about a way of life that is fast disappearing. Armed with digital SLR and video cameras, the team started gathering information and taking photographs at the location” (“Record of the rustic“, Straits Times, 18 Nov 2010).

Although the exhibition is now over, there are plans to make it a travelling exhibition. In addition, the group’s Facebook page and Wix website contain many more photographs both of the kampung itself and of the HCI exhibition opening ceremony.