Past and present - A relook at electrical appliances

Tracing Latencies Workshop: Past and present - A relook at electrical appliances

Have you ever wanted to open an appliance and take them apart to see their inner workings?

Now's the chance! Through hands-on dismantling and inspection of common household appliances of different decades, learn the difference between present and past appliances and our relationship with them.

Date : Saturday, 12 March 2022
Time : 10am - 12pm
Venue : Kreta Ayer CC, Exhibition Hall
Free with Registration. Sign up here !

This workshop is organized by Repair Kopitiam , a community initiative by Sustainable Living Lab, in collaboration with Culture | smart city It is one of several workshops on Tracing Latencies.

About Repair Kopitiam

Repair Kopitiam is an initiative to bring the community together through repair so as to combat the throw away culture for a sustainable world. Their movement coaches you to repair your items so as to spread the culture of repair first, recycle last.

About Sustainable Living Lab

Sustainable Living Lab (SL2) is a sustainability consultancy and innovation lab, founded in Singapore in 2011. They develop impactful, sustainable solutions in line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Their clients include several governments, international development organisations, leading MNCs and SMEs.Their expertise is in utilizing technology as a lever for sustainability and following a community-driven approach to implementation. They have a strong presence in Asia and teams in Singapore, Indonesia, India and the US.

About Tracing Latencies

Tracing Latencies is a hybrid group exhibition as part of the Culture | Smart City  project, held from 3 March to 3 April 2022 at 136 GOETHE LAB. This mixed-media, multi-sensory exhibition radically (re)imagines the conditional ways we relate to our increasingly digitized urban environments and each other.Tracing and unfolding the cloaked systems, illegible structures, and dislocated anxieties that constitute our algorithmic environment, the audience is invited to walk/click through, pause, and embrace these peripheral encounters.