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4. The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies
《华人研究国际学报》
(4 issues published since 2009)
5. The Tan Lark Sye Professorship in Chinese Language and
Culture Public Lecture Series
“陈使中华语言文化教授基金公开演讲系列”
(1 collection of
the public lectures published in 2010)
6. Chinese Migration in Comparative Perspectives:
Adaptation and Development
《华人移民比较研究：适应与发展》
(1 edition in English, and
1 edition in Chinese. Both are jointly published by CCLC and
CHC, as the outcome of an international conference
held in October 2007)
Centre for Asian Art and Design (CAAD)
School of Art, Design and Media
Director: Professor Vibeke Sorensen
Advisors: Associate Professor Kwok Kian Woon, Professor T.
Kanaga Sabapathy, Visiting Professor Kirti Trivedi, Visiting
Professor Ishu Patel
Mission
The centre is devoted to researching and preserving historical
and contemporary Asian Art and Design; to producing new
knowledge through these studies and to leveraging and
transferring this knowledge to further the cause
About the Centre
An interdisciplinary research centre of the School of Art,
Design and Media (ADM), Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore, the Centre for Asian Art and Design (CAAD)
focuses on the study of the historical and related
contemporary issues in Asian Art and Design, with emphasis
on their influence on local, regional and international cultures.
This includes the way Asian cultures are encoded and
expressed through a range of art and design fields, as well as
the translation of international art and design knowledge into
practice in Asia. It involves the study of cosmology and human
relationships to nature and to traditional and contemporary
technologies. This includes not only the social, built, and
natural environments, but aesthetics, art and design concerns
and how they impact life and living conditions, with
ethnographic documentary and digital technologies playing a
central role.
They are closely connected to the folk and fine art traditions of
the region, and therefore a component of the center’s
activities involve fine artists as well as master craftspeople of
the past and present.
International design today must respond to a widening array
of cultures and around the world, and therefore, it is moving
away from the concept of European modernism as universal.
Not only is there a large Asian diaspora, including many Asian
artists and designers who have been educated around the
world and have through this process brought their cultures
into dialogue with international art and design schools, but the
largest demographic in the world today is Asian. It may be that
the future of international design will be an international form
of Asian Design.
Key Areas of Study
- Understanding and preserving Asian cultural
traditions, including fine art and craft
- Ecology, cosmology, art and design
- Visual and multimodal symbol systems for
encoding information in traditional physical media,
how it is being transformed by new media, and
exposure to other cultures
- Crossover and interrelationship of media traditions,
e.g. sand paintings/mandalas, architecture, world
music, dance and painting, with computer animation
- Asian and International Visual Music as a
contemporary expression of these interrelationships
- Asian and International Experience Design
- Film and video, including ethnography
Our Activities
Our centre activities include:
- Hosting of artists and designers-in-residence,
visiting professors and post-doctoral scholars
- Organising of research symposia, workshops and
conferences
- Pioneering projects in Asian art, design and cultural
preservation, such as the use of motion capture to
portray, preserve, and extend the movements of
Asian dancers, including Chinese and Balinese, into
new creative works.
Economic Growth Centre (EGC)
Director: Professor Lim Chong Yah
Deputy Director: Associate Professor Tan Khye Chong
Mission
The Economic Growth Centre was established by the Division
of Economics in 2004. The Centre has three research units:
the Econometric Modelling Unit, the Exchange Rate
Dynamics Unit, and the Survey and Social Research Unit. The
Econometric Modelling Unit aims to make regular forecasts on
the performance of the Singapore economy; the Exchange
Rate Dynamics Unit aims to make regular forecasts of the
exchange rates of selected countries such as China, Hong
Kong, Japan, USA, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and
Indonesia. The Survey and Social Research Unit aims to
conduct opinion and information surveys on interesting and
important policy and economic-related issues facing
Singapore and the region, such as the adequacy or otherwise
of the current CPF system to meet old-age requirements, and
the reasons for selecting Singapore as a regional base by
multinational corporations. The Centre also organises
conferences, workshops and public talks on key issues
relevant to Singapore and the region. It provides and designs
executive and professional workshops ‘tailor-made’ for
government
ministries,
statutory
boards,
private
organisations, foreign governments and international
agencies. Other activities of the Centre include joint research
workshops, research seminar series and research
collaborations with overseas and local universities.