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Sustainability is about ensuring that future generations inherit intact ecosystems
that would meet their needs as much as they are meeting our needs.
Regeneration takes sustainability further, by seeking to heal existing degradation
to nurture resilient ecosystems using interdisciplinary and frameworks
to address problems and foster intergenerational solutions.
Asian societies have gone down the path of rapid development
and urbanisation, leading to large-scale deterioration
of eco-systems and social resilience.
RAS aims to bring young people together in Singapore,
joined by thought leaders from around the world,
to exchange their ideas, deepen their skills and develop
inter-Asia networks to regenerate our world.
In 2025, the Asian
Undergraduate Symposium (AUS) will partner with the
inaugural RAS, providing AUS participants the opportunity to engage with 200
thought leaders globally. This partnership aims to introduce participants to the broader
concept of regeneration while fostering cultural exchange, networking, and capacity
development. Through this collaborative effort, AUS participants will be equipped to
transform academic discourse into practical solutions for real-world challenges.
The health of the planet is an existential challenge, requiring interdisciplinary approaches that go beyond sustainability towards regeneration as paradigm and practice. This course introduces the ecological and sociocultural dimensions of regeneration in three steps. First, to understand regeneration through systems thinking and complexity science, including the application of computational methods to ecological systems. Second, to forge intercultural connections among stakeholders and student leaders across generational divides. Third, to develop interdisciplinary projects using regenerative approaches and intercultural connections to tackle ecological problems in Asia, faced disproportionately by vulnerable communities.
Research and development of new technologies in Nature-Based for Urban and Natural Ecologies, Regenerative Agriculture for Indoor Urban (Controlled Environment Agriculture) and Outdoor Smart farms. Lecturer in various topics in Engineering Design and Innovation, IoT and Smart Ai systems, Regenerative Cities of the Future (NUS Cities), and Biological Sciences in Nature-based solutions for Conservation and Ecology. Leading in Masterplan Development of NUS Campus and other campus development projects.
I am a sociologist who uses ethnographic and comparative-historical methods to study state formation, urbanism, postcolonialism, race and multiculturalism, and religion in Asia. I work closely with anthropologists, geographers, historians, legal scholars, planning scholars and fellow sociologists on interdisciplinary research projects. I research and write to leave a legacy of knowledge. I love teaching and learning from undergraduate and graduate students.
A mission-driven research and innovation lab, Zeroth Labs uses the science of complex systems to tackle wicked problems. They support countries and cities at varying stages of development to make sense of the messy underlying dynamics that make their complex policy challenges the way they are.