MICHEL FOUCAULT - OF OTHER SPACES: UTOPIAS AND HETEROTOPIAS
作者：min theinkyaw
1. JUXTAPOSITIONS
2. AUTHORITY
3. TIME
4. Transitory
5. Accumulation Of Time
6. Pulau Ubin,one of the few remaining villages found in Singapore is going to be preserved due to it's rich culture and history. Kampung Houses are going to be rebuilt in order to help restore it's image and gain a sense of appreciation towards the last kampung island.
7. Due to the Pandemic Covid-19, Changi Airport is used as a testing lab for visitors, in hopes to restore the economical downfall by slowly opening Singapore's borders whilst keeping the pandemic under control.
8. Preserving History in Singapore
9. Orchard Towers was once a thriving office and retail hub, its dimly lit discos which have sprung up since the 1980s, now dot the Orchard Tower landscape.
10. Orchard Towers represents the juxtaposition of high status and shady businesses.
11. Orchard Towers has gained great infamy over the years. The place has also earned huge notoriety for playing host to vice, sleaze and various degrees of sketchiness. Much of this vice has been attributed to its tenant mix, which includes seedy bars, nightclubs and at least one massage parlour that doles out “special services”.
12. Temporal change in function
13. This is where the Illusion comes into play where the massage parlours and bars often portray themselves as legitimate businesses but behind curtains have hidden intentions
14. Control
15. Lucky Plaza represents the juxtaposition of a free street for pedestrians and the roads meant for cars
16. Explains how a heterotopic space is not freely accessible and one has to make certain gestures or courses of action that would enable them to enter it
17. Libraries are heterotopic in nature due to the need for visitors to stay silent or quiet, letting go of their rights to everyday conversations at a normal volume.
18. Bukit Brown cemetery represents the juxtaposition of culture/tradition and the advancement of technology
19. Pulau Ubin represents the juxtaposition of preserving nature and urbanism
20. There are many thoughtful, multi-year plans in the pipeline to transform Orchard Road into a “must-visit” lifestyle destination, as part of a complex cross-agency
21. Footage of what looked like the gruesome deed has been making its rounds online, sparking not just comments expressing outrage over the series of events, but also discussion over Orchard Towers, a place many of us would rather forget sits mere blocks away from where families just spent the weekend.
22. Changi airport represents the juxtaposition of travel and confinement (in the case of the Covid 19 situation)
23. With compensation in mind, there definitely needs to be one in order to restore the reputation of the fallen Orchard Towers
24. Exhuming of cemeteries for roads shows authority and control. Priority is given to the expansion of our road lines and networks instead of to the buried. This erodes our roots as some people have connections with the cemeteries, be it their family members or friends etc.
25. Though it is not known by the general public, not much can be done as they dont often publicize such services but mostly through word of mouth through one another, people are only aware of such services once engaged by these massage parlours or bars. Hence it is difficult to catch these people unless police raids are conducted
26. We have to give up our rights and exhume the graves to create more land for the better. So in order to 'step in' into this space (which are the roads) we have given away the spots that our ancestors or people we may know were taking while buried. Sacrifices must be made for us to enter or even, to create this space (the roads).
27. Sometimes, even with such raids, it is difficult to convict these parlors as the covering up is done well
28. Illusion
29. RELATIONSHIPS
30. ILLUSION/COMPENSATION
31. Hidden Connections
32. Explains how people are connected indirectly via hidden connections that cannot be literally seen, such as having a deceased family member in the cemetery while sharing the space with another family's family member. This creates a common trait between both families which translates to this 'hidden connection'
33. An example would be an Airport as people from all over the world would have been to the airport and this creates a common trait which metaphorically links us via 'hidden connections'
34. The once-mighty Orchard Towers has fallen from quite a height. In its prime, it was buzzing with activity that attracted many visitors, and even had a cinema to boot.
35. PLANS TO REVAMP ORCHARD ROAD
36. Pulau Ubin is a place that holds a rich history, and it is the last offshore village of Singapore. Being a modern city, villages are disappearing from Singapore as time passes and efforts are made to preserve it.
37. Pulau Ubin is thus a heterotopia as villages are where our ancestors lived in and were from, before Singapore became a modern city. This creates a relationship between us and Pulau Ubin as we have ancestors from there or rather, our ancestors were of that 'village generation'. There is a hidden connection from us to our ancestors and then to their village/older lifestyles, which links to the generation which then links back to Pulau Ubin as Ubin is currently still holding a village.
38. US
39. OUR ANCESTORS
40. 'VILLAGE GENERATION'
41. PULAU UBIN
42. HETEROTOPIA OF RELATIONSHIPS: HIDDEN CONNECTIONS
43. A history of violent episodes has rocked the establishment, including a 2002 double murder that captured the country’s imagination. and with the recent murder at Orchard Towers this does not help the overall image
44. Delightful pop-up markets, carnivals and fashion shows breathed Great-Singapore-Sale life into the streets. Many didn’t let the scorching heat get in the way of coming out from the malls to enjoy the tune of a busker or a mug of cold beer at the food truck fiesta at a carpark. The mood was unmistakably positive. Whatever those overseeing Orchard Road’s revamp were doing, it was working. These are methods of compensating the history it has by trying to overwrite its past, though it is just temporary, the hopes of changing the current overall image is the main focus
45. Going back to the video, stating compensation, though usually we use methods that are fairly straightforward in terms of compensating, in this case it will be difficult to do so as this is not a outcasted area but in fact a place where everyone visits, hence the type of compensation it needs to receive is one that will be able to last years if not decades in order to change the public view of the once great Orchard Towers that has fallen
46. Compensation
