{"id":857,"date":"2019-03-31T10:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2019-09-02T18:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:41:43","slug":"some-haunted-spaces-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/some-haunted-spaces-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Together with Marcel J\u00e4ggi, OMNIBUS Principal Charlotte Malterre-Barthes has published “Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore” with Edition Patrick Frey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore<\/g><\/em> explores<\/g> the paradox of modern urban planning and spiritual beliefs in Singapore, proposing a parsing of the island\u2019s town and country planning based on abstract expressions of mysticism. An investigation of the collective imagination, this book examines elements of the built environment believed to be occupied by spirits: haunted spaces. Often dismissed as irrational, this mystical focus digs deeper than religious superstitions or teenage esotericism. In exploring the apparent contradiction between a city-state according to a rigid rationale of urban development and robust spiritual practices that endure to this day, this book reveals the resilience of interconnected spaces and memories, as well as forms of social resistance to the changes brought about by fast-paced urban growth and top-down national planning in Singapore<\/g>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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From the publishing house: The authors use their own and assembled photographs, technical drawings<\/g>, models and texts to document, scrutinize and reconstruct allegedly<\/g> haunted locations in Singapore, drawing on both contextual memory<\/g> and physical characteristics. Intrigued by Singapore\u2019s omnipresent ghost stories and fitted out with the tools of architecture and<\/g> scientific investigation, the authors set off on an obsessive expedition<\/g> across some of the island\u2019s silent hidden areas, along<\/g> the fine<\/g> line between scientific rationality and absurdity. This book, the product<\/g> of years of meticulous research, is a painstaking and yet casual attempt<\/g> to scratch beneath the city\u2019s surface and its physical realities<\/g> to uncover occult realms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n