Could Social Architectural Events boost Malaysian Student’s Motivation?
Everything was started since few days before they were qualified to become LAM part 2 Graduate Architect with master’s degree (Malaysian Board of Architect). A small social pocket society was co-founded and initiated by Amirul along with his good mates, Shuern and Hidayat in year 2016. They initiated first few social public engagements with names, ‘Mersing-Art’, JBcityEX’ and ‘PocketNest’.
JBcityEX, Exhibition and Forum 2016
Street Art Mersing, Johor 2016
Street Art Mersing, Johor 2016
‘Mersing-Art’ is a social collective street art making in the city of Mersing, Johor, Malaysia headed by several specific student as an artist. ‘JBcityEX’ is an art exhibition and urban forum focusing on Johor Bahru city development. ‘PocketNest’ is a habitable timber structure treehouse at Puteri Harbour, Johor collectively builds by Architectural Students in Johor Bahru. As their architectural education in continuous stagnant mode due to their national policy constraint and conservative thinking from its state public university patronisation, with hopes it certainly doesn’t stop them to explore. Thus, upon graduating in 2016, Amirul, Hidayat and Shuern decided to bring out small intimate architectural works to a downtown coffee house and expose it to publics. City Hall, Tourist, International Academia, Corporate started to give us fruitful feedbacks endlessly, and that’s how their life begin along with various public funding for Art Installation and Street Art. They are now Universiti Teknologi Malaysia architect’s alumni, but they are more than just a troupe of Architects.
Social collective art co-founder from Architech-UTM in year 2016. Creative co-founders were Amirul Hakim Jamil (Left), Noor Hidayat (Centre) & Chu Shu Ern (Right). (Pictures by Siti Athirah)
Important Committee in year 2016 (they had organized 2 out of 3 programs listed) - Qamarul Syafiq, Xin Lei, Sara Nawayai, Jhee Son, Sai Fong, Ahmad Syahir. Pictures and names arranged according; picture owned by respectful name listed.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM is the only biggest public University in Johor. However, it seems that the integration of its educational civilisation benefits seems difficult to be seen with the development of Johor Bahru city centre. Is it due to its configurational distance? Is it due to politics? Maybe our academia’s attitude in Johor needs to be reshaped and rethink again. Back to the tittle. Could Social Architectural Events boost Malaysian Student’s Motivation?
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architech
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@amirulhakimjamil/hi-there-im-amirul-i-m-an-architect-a-sociologist