Changi Point Ferry Terminal, Lorong Bekukong, Singapore
What would it mean for Singapore, a global maritime city that has almost entirely reclaimed its natural coastline, to redesign its relationship with the sea?
Offsite Location: Changi Point Ferry Terminal, Lorong Bekukong, Singapore
Pulau Ubin sits less than two kilometres from Singapore's northeastern tip, and it feels like a different world. No cars. No grid electricity. Mangroves that still reach the waterline. From its highest point, you can see the Singapore skyline: the container terminals, the reclaimed coastline, the density of a city that has largely paved over its own shoreline.
This journey takes participants by kayak through Ubin's mangroves, then on foot to that vantage point, where both landscapes come into view at once. It is a simple but striking experience: to move through a living coastal system while a global city sits on the horizon, and to hold those two realities: what was, and what became, in the same field of vision.
Southeast Asia holds the largest concentration of mangroves on Earth. Most are disappearing. This is one of the places where they are still here.
