RESEARCH • LIVING SOIL • ASIA
What lives beneath the surface of Singapore’s soil?
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ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Community At The Heart Of Knowledge
Living Soil Asia emerged from a simple question: what does the ground beneath us hold? And what does it tell us about how we tend to land, to each other, and to life in a city?
This is what we have discovered, through community-driven research: co-created alongside gardeners, farmers, teachers, educators, retirees, policymakers, and friends.
One of the findings from the research was that the communities above the ground directly influence the communities below the ground. What happens to a space when the ones championing the cause are no longer there? The MGS garden was one such example, and the following letter was written by Han Jing and sent as an email to the management of MGS, in hopes of preserving the regenerative garden and bringing across the value of the space and the community above that tends to it.