Past Projects

Providing our children with nurturing environments is more of a challenge in today's world than it has ever been. Many children do not live in homes with yards and gardens to explore or in neighborhoods where they can spend hours playing outside. Even the children who do live in such places often have so many scheduled activities that they have very little time to spend in their yards and gardens. Many children are spending more of their time inside buildings than outdoors at earlier and earlier ages. When children are in school, unless they participate in outdoor sports, they spend most of their time inside. Kuala Sepetang is a fishing village located in Perak, the town was formerly known as Port Weld. Kuala Sepetang also part of the heritage of mangrove ecosystem. The 40,000-hectare Matang Mangrove Forest was gazetted as a Permanent Forest Reserve in 1906. Today, it is recognized as the best managed sustainable mangrove ecosystem in the world and under care by Perak State Forestry Department. As children today lack of opportunity exploring the nature environment especially the Matang Mangroves forest, so I would like to propose a program “ Beat & Dance in Nature - Exploring Mangrove Forest ”. This program will bring Kuala Sepetang children for the Ecological education in conjunction Performing Arts. Arts education is an important part of quality education, especially for the Performing Arts, is a combination of physical education and aesthetic education in one, both of which are lacking in our formal educational system. In recent years, a group of artists in the country under the leadership of Director Soon Choon Mee under a project namely "Dan Dan Theatre Production” have organized several "Community Arts Carnival" activities in suburban communities around Selangor. She envisions fostering imaginative, creative and self-confident of our young generation through series of performing arts program; furthermore, her project also aims to build community resources, promote community solidarity, and shape a community rich in arts and humanities values. Performing arts is considered rare in Kuala Sepetang, in order to bring performing arts closer to Sepetang’s, and allow them to enjoy a pleasant atmosphere and content of art performing, we invite a group of passionate artists to share their creativity in this community. Finally, we will invite their parents and villagers to attend the kids performing Show. This is the most important sharing among kids and parents and also the community.

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A year ago, I had multiple stacks of old newspapers being stored in my house and ready to be sold. When I tried to sell the stacks, there were difficulties in locating an authority or scrap collectors that would buy the old newspapers around my residential area. This event brought me into realization that the number of scrap collectors today are significantly low. Consequently, this would result in improper disposal of the papers such as burning that would eventually lead to the emission of Greenhouse Gas (GHG).I figured the potential solution to this problem is by upcycling the paper wastes into seedballs (or also known as earth balls), in which the seed is added inside the small ball that is made from paper waste and thrown to the suitable area. Furthermore, seedballs could effectively restore the natural flora that had been destroyed when planted in rural or urban areas in an inexpensive way. 

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by Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA)

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Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA)

“Beat and Dance in Nature – Exploring the Mangrove Forest” was held in conjunction with the 6 days’ “I Love My Home” Students’ Art Camp. This program provided opportunity for children to exploring the nature environment especially the Matang Mangrove Forest where this place are so close to their living area. The project proposal submitted to apply the fund from Khind Starfish Foundation was a day camp, but after having few discussions with the artists, we had decided to extend the day camp to 6 days’ Arts camp, namely “I Love My Home” Students’ Art Camp. This is because the Arts education are lacking in our formal education system while this is also an important part of quality education. Throughout this camp, children can learn about Arts as well as to promote their understanding and caring on their own community.

by UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

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UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

Kampung Belemang is one of the less noticeable rural areas in Johor, located alongside Muar River. The exodus of the youngsters has caused the declination of population of the village to 600 (estimate 70 families). This issue does not just affect this village, but most villages along Muar rivers. Kampung Belemang as well as most riverside village has suffered from inappropriate disposal of garbage that leads to pollutions. Besides, like most marginalize village, the lack of public places has led to disconnection of villagers. Starting from the year 2019, some villagers of Kampung Belemang has decided to re-organise themselves to draw focus on environmental sustainability and community well-being to transform into a new ‘sustainable village’, with this they missionize to be an example and reference for the other neighbourhood villages that facing the same problems. Village leader with the joint effort of some villagers has led to few new projects, andthey hope to exploring more possibilities in terms of creating awareness to public on village’s social and environmental issues. Last but not least with the hope village’s youths to return to help the village with the knowledge they’ve gained through education abroad.From understanding the situation, we hope to contribute our knowledge in architecture (the understanding of relation of people and place) to ease some of the social, environmental and community work. To instil the importance of a community public space, we hope to innovate a participatory and sustainable play-scape that could be fun for the children, that could then lead to gathering of families. These play-scape shall be able to self-built, self-sustain (self-generated energy) hence it’s mobile in nature, and we will be assembling the piece with villagers in order to create gathering places from different sites of the village.

by UCSI University

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UCSI University

There are simply too many cats for the number of homes that want a pet, and we humans are not always the most responsible guardians even when we do accept these animals into our homes. Too frequently, cats end up lost or abandoned and revert to a feral lifestyle in order to survive. Animals shelters suffer under the weight of high demand for services and too few resources, and the result is a burgeoning population of unowned cats that urgently require attention and effective management. There are some organisations that claim to have compassion for animals and to stand up against cruelty to animals are not endowed financially nor have the capacity of house and care for the exploding stray population. Ending up, they still comes out with the same situation which is abandoning animals because of some reasons. Every year, thousands of cats suffer as strays and these high numbers are the result of unplanned litters.The population dynamics of stray cats make the problem particularly difficult to deal with, while the effects of predation by cats and the spread of disease affect all of us to some extent. Not only that, with the recent event of covid-19 pandemic have cause the government enforced Movement Control Order(MCO) to control the spread of covid-19. Under MCO, many people staying indoors and non-essential businesses including restaurant and roadside eateries were shut and closed. This make the situation of stray animals becoming hard as their usual food and water supply from these businesses and restaurants are suddenly cut off which causes them to face starvation and dehydration. Hence, to combat the problems caused by the cat overpopulation crisis, we as a society need to acknowledge the value of cats and raise the level of care and responsibility for these domestic animals. So, animal welfare is one of the most important thing to overcome this problem. In this aspects, we need to consider about animal care and its food during this pandemic.

by UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH (UMS),

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UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH (UMS),

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by Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA)

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Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA)

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by Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA)

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Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA)