Singapore property developer CapitaLand on Sunday launched a new website calling for ideas on how to make the city-state a safer and greener one in the next 50 years.
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This digital platform, called Building Communities – Setting the Stage for Singapore2065, with the hashtag #BuildSG2065, enables citizens to submit images, video, and text on what they think Singapore could be like when it turns 100 years old.
The initiative was launched as part of CapitaLand’s year-long celebrations of the city state’s 50th birthday this year.
Over the next eight weeks, participants can send in ideas on four key topics related to how the city will look and work.
These are ‘Go Green’, which looks at urban sustainability; ‘Smart Spaces’, which fosters ideas on maximising the use of limited land; ‘Space-age Kampungs’, which visualizes innovative technologies for the future; and ‘ Weatherproof World’, which explores the theme of resilience to climate change.
A nightclub that is powered by the kinetic energy of party goers, underwater shopping malls, zero-gravity vertical playgrounds and buildings that float on the sea are some examples put forth by CapitaLand to get the ball rolling.
Close to 80 ideas have been submitted to date, including installing solar energy on every block of flats on the island, cultivating food gardens in housing estates, and developing self-driving cars that can avoid traffic jams.
Every week, the top five ideas with the most ‘likes’ win cash vouchers, while the top 50 ideas at the end of the campaign will be displayed at an exhibition at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum from July to September.
Lim Ming Yan, CapitaLand’s president and group chief executive, said that through this platform, which is developed in partnership with local newspaper The Straits Times, CapitaLand aims to encourage “fellow Singaporeans to share ideas about how buildings, homes, and green spaces can help build a better future for us to live, work, and play in Singapore”.
