Hawker Culture, Food & Space

This personal project accentuates Singapore’s identity and culture by recording, studying and further developing it through a mobile installation, “The Hawker Centre”. The information gathered from the history, food, people and environment of hawker centres are translated into ideas in various forms and mediums that are reinserted into the installation. Using this mobile installation as the showcase platform, exhibit the idea of living food museum — celebrating Singapore’s dynamic and rich multi-faceted culture.

The Hawker Centre installed on a truck’s container.

The truck’s container transformed into a two-story high exhibition space.

The visual mappings are applied on the plates, utensils and take-away packaging used at The Hawker Centre.

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Culture Mapping: Mapping of the evolution of the evolution of Singapore hawker setting

Culture Mapping: Pictograms depicting the different methods of eating.

Culture Mapping: The dietary patterns of Singaporeans are taken from the statistics in the Report of The National Nutrition Survey, 2004, Health Promotion Board.

Food Mapping: The information is then translated into grids and replaced with images of the respective food. The principle colours of the food are selected after reducing the images into pixels of colours.