SAF Yacht Club, Admiralty Road West, Singapore
What do disappearing kelongs teach us about the future of food security, ocean culture, and Singapore's relationship with the sea?
Offsite Location: SAF Yacht Club, Admiralty Road West, Singapore
Singapore has always had a relationship with the sea. Long before the container terminals and the financial district, there were kelongs: wooden fishing structures built over the water, and the communities whose lives and livelihoods revolved around them. Most are gone now. This learning journey goes looking for what remains.
Participants travel by boat to see Singapore's remaining kelongs, hear how traditional fishing once worked, and explore the pressures that have pushed these structures toward extinction. The journey opens into a wider question: what does food security actually look like for an island nation that has largely turned its back on the sea? What can a slower, more place-based way of fishing teaches us about how we might design food systems differently?
This is not a nostalgia trip. It is a live question about food, ocean culture, and what gets lost when a city forgets where it came from.
