Nanyang Technological University
History
Imagining Waste in/and the City: How did urban imaginaries of a ”clean and green city” shape post-independent Singapore’s waste management system and subsequent imaginaries of waste and the city?
Koh Horn Ray is a final-year history major and music minor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). Horn Ray’s passion for history was forged in the forges of interdisciplinarity, discovered while specialising in music at the School of the Arts, drawing compelling links between historical concepts and musical knowledge. Fascinating personal accounts encountered during research and volunteering experiences sparked his hunger for stories excluded from our collective memory but intrinsic to our identities, tying into a newfound love for urban and spatial history to understand how space is socially constructed and imbued with meaning and memory.
A future educator, Horn Ray is passionate about engaging with children and youths, nurturing exploration and curiosity through history.