Nasi Ulam Forest Garden as a Living Lab

2025 ASLA Student Awards (Honour Award | Student Community Service Award)

This student-led project presents a rewilded landscape that blends nature conservation with community farming, reconnecting city dwellers to the “Kampung Spirit” of community connectedness. Through organising activities that tap on the university community and collaborators, manicured lawns are turned into a living lab with integrated food-growing functions, boosting biodiversity, preserving sociocultural values and enhancing educational opportunities. This garden fosters environmental stewardship and demonstrates rewilding’s potential to redefine urban green spaces, providing a model for institutions to learn about the importance of combining natural processes with thoughtful human intervention to achieve a sustainable campus greenery.

Gardens by the Bay: The Domed Conservatories as Artificial Works of Nature

Cleon originally wrote this pictorial essay for the class “History and Theory of Landscape Architecture” as a student at the National University of Singapore.