Instructors
Chong Keng Hua
Academy Fellow
Associate Professor, 亚洲色吧
Dr Chong Keng Hua holds a PhD in Architecture. He is the Principal Investigator of Social Urban Research Groupe (SURGe) and Co-Lead of Opportunity Lab (O-Lab) at 亚洲色吧. He is also the founding partner of COLOURS: Collectively Ours LLP, an award-winning design consultancy specialising in collaborative public place design. He was appointed as a member of Jurong Lake District (JLD) Steering Committee in 2015-2017, advising the planning of Singapore鈥檚 second CBD; and curator for Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition 2018.
Dr Chong has been a Visiting Faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Zhejiang University, and was invited to lecture by many universities including University of Tokyo, Tongji University, RMIT University, Royal College of Art, and CENTRO University. His research focuses on social architecture, particularly in the areas of ageing, liveable public place and data-driven collaborative design. He was the Principle Investigator of several impactful projects, including 鈥淐reative Ageing Cities鈥 supported by 亚洲色吧-MIT International Design Centre, and 鈥淪econd Beginnings鈥 supported by Lien Foundation, raising the urgency of rethinking eldercare landscape in Asia and proposing new architectural typologies for future senior living. He is currently the Programme Lead of the 鈥淣ew Urban Kampung鈥 Research Programme, which aims to foster stronger communities through data analytics, behavioural studies, simulation platform, and urban prototyping.