Patana News Volume 25 Issue 19

PATANA NEWS

Friday 27th January 2023

Volume 25 Issue 19

Asking Better Questions

By Matt Seddon

Also in this issue...

Lunar New Year in Year 7

SEASAC Season 2

Expedition Kaeng Krachan

Upcoming University Visits

Primary Patana Tiger Talks Podcast

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Transport During Primary Residentials

Chamber Recital: 1st February

Home Language Book Club

Save the Date - PTG Fun Day!

www.patana.ac.th

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Bangkok Patana is a not-for-profit IB World School accredited by CIS

Asking Better Questions

Matt Seddon, Secondary Principal

Overthe recent Christmas break, I was fascinated by the explosion of interest and discussion about a new online tool that was released to the public on 30th November 2022.

This tool, named ChatGPT, is a language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text. It can be used for a wide range of tasks such as language translation, question answering, text summarisation and more. The release of ChatGPT generated great debate amongst educators, many of whom were excited about its potential, whilst others were concerned about the implications it could have on academic integrity.

As a school community, it is important that we stay informed and educated about new technologies, and this is no exception. Recently, I had the pleasure of leading a staff meeting where we discussed the potential of this technology (AI writing in general) to significantly change education in a positive way. Instead of being worried about the challenges that this technology may bring to academic integrity, we encouraged our staff to explore and embrace the potential benefits for our students.

One of the most significant potential benefits of this technology is its ability to function as a personal tutor for our students. Imagine a student who is struggling to understand a particular concept or piece of literature. With this tool, they can input their question and receive a personalised response that is tailored to their individual needs and learning style **. This can be especially beneficial for students who may not have access to additional resources or one-on-one tutoring.

At Bangkok Patana School, we aim to provide a challenging and inclusive education that develops inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people. I believe that this technology has the potential to enhance our mission and values by providing our students with a powerful tool that can help to achieve this. By providing them with personalised support, they can develop a deeper understanding of the subjects they are studying, which in turn can lead to greater engagement and interest in their learning.

I also believe that the use of this technology can help us to ask "better questions." As teachers, we must set better tasks for our students which allow positive use of new technologies, and as students, we must learn to ask better questions in order to maximise output whilst using this tool. This technology can foster critical thinking and

deeper understanding of subjects. By encouraging students to ask more thoughtful and inquisitive questions, it can lead to greater engagement and learning.

It is important to recognise that this technology is still in its infancy and it will be a privilege to learn alongside it as it grows and develops. As educators, it is our responsibility to ensure that our students are learning how to use this technology responsibly, and that they are aware of the implications of using it to cheat or plagiarise.

I would like to encourage our community to embrace the potential of this technology. By approaching it with an open mind and a willingness to learn, we can leverage its capabilities to further our mission and values. This is an exciting journey, and I personally look forward to discovering the full potential of this technology, and how it can support the education of our students.

By Matt Seddon*

*Or was it….The above article was generated by the website https://chat.openai.com/ with the following commands:

“You are the Secondary Principal of Bangkok Patana School. Empathy and community are important to you. You are writing a magazine article, for the audience of our community (Parents, Staff and Students). Please write an article between 800 and 1000 words, introducing them to ChatGPT and AI writing. Please focus on Patana's values and aims and use the following key points:

- Concern around academic integrity.

- A recent staff meeting led by myself encouraged staff to be excited by it's potential.

- It’s potential to significantly change education in a positive way.

- It can be a personal tutor

- It can enhance our mission and values.

- The importance of us asking "better questions". This is relevant both to how we use the tool, and as teachers to students - we must set better tasks.”

** Learning Styles – “Students may have preferences about how to learn, but no evidence suggests that catering to those preferences will lead to better learning”.

Cedar Riener and Daniel Willingham. The Myth of Learning Styles, 2010

Updated research in this area questions the importance that has previously been placed on this area. Could its inclusion in this article be a signature of a maturing platform..?

My message to the Bangkok Patana community - whichever way we react to this new technology; it is not going away. The technology is only going to get better. If you like, Pandora’s box has been opened. I am genuinely excited to work with our students, parents and staff, to discover how we can “ask better questions” so that this technology can benefit us all.

You may be interested to browse the page that has been set up by Glenn Malcolm for the Bangkok Patana community - Technology for Learning: Artificial IntelligenceBangkok Patana School (fireflycloud.asia)

Artwork on both the cover and this page were generated using various online AI Art Tools. Try them here!

outdoor Education CPL

Lastweek Paul Hurrell, an expert in adventurous activities in the UK, came to Bangkok Patana school to offer training in kayaking and rock climbing for our Secondary PE team. Paul was thoroughly impressed by the school’s facilities and the dedication of our brilliant PE team to drive outdoor adventurous activities (OAA) such as kayaking, mountain biking and rock climbing to name but a few to compliment our already incredible ‘traditional’ PE sports curriculum.

Paul is also experienced in risk management in adventurous settings and was able to provide some expert guidance and feedback on our Trips and Excursions programme, which will serve to further strengthen our commitment to health and safety.

LunAr new YeAr in YEar 7

Incelebration of the Lunar New Year, the Modern Foreign Language (MFL) classes in Year 7 had opportunities to learn about this event in their respective languages. It was really fun and interesting to go around and interview students on their opinions of what they were doing.

In German MFL 1, students were exploring Chinese Zodiac signs in German. They were also looking at characteristics according to their Zodiac signs in German. Finally, students made cards with German text to celebrate Lunar New Year. In the Spanish classes, they were colouring dragon cutouts and thinking about what dragons symbolise in the Lunar New Year celebration. Some classes were doing fun quizzes to help them test how much they remembered.

In French MFL 1, multiple classes made red envelopes (hóng bāo) with money inside them for the main activity. They also watched videos such as a Chinese New Year parade in Paris in 2019. For educational purposes, most students participated in a live Quizlet relating to Lunar New Year. In the Chinese class, the main task was to make a Chinese New Year card and they learned the story of the Jade Emperor’s race (this decided the order of the zodiac animals). They also made cut-out paper rabbits in honour of this year’s zodiac animal, the rabbit,

Overall, the majority of students interviewed seemed happy with their tasks and enjoyed their lesson. Lots of students didn’t find it difficult to learn about another country’s celebration within another language.

Kieran Clarke, Outdoor Education / Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Leader

Raman Paramasivam, 7S and Noah Artpradid, 7S

goLF inVitAtionAL

Injuries and examinations limited the Bangkok Patana Golf team at the Bromsgrove Invitational at Siam Country Club to a select few committed and enthusiastic golfers. On a crisp, clear winter’s day the Bangkok Patana students enjoyed playing with colleagues from other international schools on fast greens and firm fairways. Neil Kumar played particularly well, scoring an impressive 78 and finishing first in the Boys Under 16 net score competition. A great time was had by all and we look forward to the next event, the Regent’s Invitational at Subhapruek on Sunday 29th January.

FootBALL ACAdeMY

The Battle of Bangkok will take place on 7th February 2023, an unprecedented opportunity for our Varsity teams to compete at Muangthong United’s Thunderdome Stadium. This is a chance for our senior players to compete in a professional environment under floodlights. We will be competing against NIST, our main footballing rivals in Bangkok, playing 11v11 football, which was introduced for the first time this year. We will also be playing with an accumulative score from the Boys’ and Girls’ fixtures, giving a total score between the teams. I am incredibly pleased to continue our great relationship with Muangthong United who have been a great supporter of the Bangkok Patana Football Academy.

On Friday 3rd through Sunday 5th February, we will see the return of a SEASAC event to Bangkok Patana for the first time since 2019. Season 2 sports include Rugby, Touch, Basketball and Tennis, all of which this year are being hosted right here in Bangkok. Our Basketball and Touch teams will travel to NIST to compete, whilst over at the Sports Complex, we play host to Rugby and Tennis! SEASAC has 16 member schools across Southeast Asia and provides students with the opportunity to compete against other top international schools. This most often involves our senior students who hold the competition in high regard, at the top level of our sporting calendar! Spectators are welcome at our Sports Complex throughout the weekend to support our students. Best of luck to all competing – Let’s go Tigers!

Andrew Haughton, Careers and Universities Counsellor

Mark Potter, Cross Campus Head Football Coach

tennis ACAdeMY

Dan Ahl, Cross Campus Head Tennis Coach

Last Saturday saw the Varsity tennis teams in action at the BMAC championship.

With SEASAC tennis happening for the first time since 2019, it is a perfect lead-in event, giving players excellent matchplay and coaches a great opportunity to look at post-Christmas form, as well as Doubles permutations and Singles strength.

The Girls’ event was a straightforward Round Robin group of four and saw, due to the way the draw worked out, opposition get stronger throughout the day.

RIS were easily dispatched in the opening match, followed by a close, but in the end comfortable, win against NIST to set up a final match with ISB who had also won both their matches.

Although matches were tight, the ISB Girls were better on the day and defeated our team to claim the title, leaving us as runners up.

The Boys’ team were also joined by our JV team, who had taken the place of STA - a late withdrawal. This event featured six teams in a knockout format.

The JV Boys opened proceedings with a narrow win against RIS to set up a semi-final with a very strong ISB team. The Varsity team had a later start as were drawn in their first match to play the winners of NIST and BKK Prep.

Both semi-finals were very one-sided, with the Varsity Boys defeating NIST 5-0 and ISB beating the JV Boys by the same score line.

The final was no different as ISB showed their class and although our Boys battled hard, they were no real match and also took home the runners up trophy.

The JV Boys, however, battled back really well to take down NIST 3-2 in the 3rd/4th play off to finish off in 3rd, which really was a fantastic result.

FEBRUARY HALF TERM - DANCE CAMP

Sign ups are now open for the Dance Academy’s February Half Term Dance Camp. Please find the details below and fill out the sign-up form as soon as you can to reserve a spot for your child! This camp is designed to boost learning in a fun-filled environment with coaches offering a diverse range of styles and training in Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, Latin, Street Jazz and some Afro Groove!

FEBRUARY HALF TERM – DANCE CAMP 2023

Primary Students: The camp will be held over three days, from Tuesday 21st February until Thursday 23rd February at the Dance Academy with the option to sign up for either two days or all three days.

Secondary Students: The camp is one day only, held on Thursday 23rd February, and is taught by four of our Dance Academy Coaches – Coach Aum, Nanzie, Mux and Boat.

There are 22 spots available for each Key Stage to ensure quality learning. We will close the form early if spots are filled up. Cancellations after 15th February will be charged in full.

Please note that for this to go ahead, we require a minimum number of students to attend. Confirmation will be provided by Wednesday 8th February.

Deadline: Friday 3rd February

gYMnAstiCs ACAdeMY

Our Primary WAG gymnasts performed at the wonderful Lunar New Year assembly last week, treating the audience to a beautiful display. The display consisted of different sections separated by the gymnasts’ levels, as well as a group ensemble to display the talents of all 39 gymnasts who took part. A huge well done to all our fabulous student-athletes!

Rebecca Maw-Dzatkowski, Cross Campus Head Gymnastics Coach

expedition kAeng krAChAn

Coke Smith, Curriculum Leader Environmental Science

Ithinkmost teachers would agree that there is no better education that hands-on experiential learning to make our courses real to students. In particular, in a class like Environmental Systems and Societies (ESS), only so much learning can happen in classrooms and with textbooks. There needs to be plenty of outside time studying the actual environment!

Thank goodness we seem to be past the COVID era and we are able to do multi-day overnight trips once again. Although we have the awesome Outdoor Classroom, which we consider to be an essential tool for training our students in necessary skills, there is no replacement for actual field time in a truly wild environment, such as Kaeng Krachan National Park.

Bangkok Patana School has a long-standing relationship with Kaeng Krachan, which allows our students to spend several days in various habitats exploring and learning about the subtropical ecosystems of this World Heritage Site. For five days, students from Caroline Ferguson and Coke Smith’s ESS classes explored this amazing place.

For two full days, ESS students learned field techniques for measuring various abiotic features of the aquatic stream ecosystem such as dissolved oxygen, pH, total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, stream velocity and many other quantitative factors. Students also spent hours performing biotic indeces of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, counting and identifying invertebrates and then attempting to make connections between the biotic and abiotic factors.

The trip then culminates in a day and a half of student-directed research where our students devise their own research questions and protocols. After detailed discussions, students conduct actual field studies, collecting and processing their own data and writing reports presenting their findings in class in the coming days.

While in such an amazing place as Kaeng Krachan, of course we all spent a lot of time simply viewing wildlife and experiencing the nature around us. We enjoyed the near constant company of the ever-curious Dusky Langurs and Giant Black Squirrels, as well as countless species of birds. We even had a lunch-time visit by one of the rarest Ursids on earth – the Sun Bear, a threatened species that is nearly impossible to see in the wild.

I am constantly impressed with how our young people conduct themselves on these field expeditions. This group in particular was such a pleasure to be with in the field. Their enthusiasm and curiosity was truly spontaneous and genuine. As a teacher with nearly four decades of experience, seeing such bright young minds in action always inspires me. These students give me hope for our future!

Student photos provided by Turbo Ubonrat, Secondary Science Technician

PrimAry PAtAnA tiger tAlks

Year5 students have been demonstrating how they are fully embracing Bangkok Patana’s values of Learning and Global Citizenship by being ‘active students of the environment and our communities’ and ‘collaborative and confident communicators’. They tasked themselves with raising awareness and understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), choosing one they were passionate about to present in a podcast.

To be successful, they researched their chosen goal and become ‘experts’. They also listened to a number of podcasts to learn about the different styles in which podcasts can be presented. Working together, Year 5 students wrote and improved their podcasts, making them interesting and informative, but also engaging and entertaining. One group actually composed their own musical introduction and worked on the post-production of the podcast!

Check out the Primary Patana Tiger Talks Podcast on Spotify!

Tanya Peake-Hutchins, Assistant Leader of Support for Learning (Primary)

NURSE

Our nursing team is available from 7:30am to 4:00pm. Requests received after this time will be addressed the following day. If you are aware that your child will require a wheelchair, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can prepare a designated wheelchair for your child at a convenient location. For any other questions, please contact our nurse at nurse@patana.ac.th

SECURITY

For the safety of all students and community members, do not pick up and drop off students at the taxi rank outside True Coffee. This not only violates traffic laws, but also poses a danger to individuals using taxis as they have to step into oncoming traffic in the second lane to enter their taxis. Additionally, please avoid parking or picking up/dropping off students in front of Soi 39 or 39/1 as it blocks the entry and can cause traffic congestion.

TRANSPORT CORNER

With Primary Residential weeks approaching, we kindly remind parents to plan in advance for transportation arrangements on both the departure and return dates. If there are any changes, please inform us via email at transport@paptana.ac.th in advance.

Primary Residential Weeks 1 and 2:

During the Primary Residential Trips (30th January – 3rd February and 6th – 10th February), the following ECA activities will take place:

• Dutch Group Key Stage 2 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

• Tigersharks Swim Academy (Year 3 and above)

• Gymnastics Academy Team Training

• Tennis Academy – Key Stage 2

• Football Academy – Key Stage 2 Thursdays and Tuesdays

• Golf Team Training, Key Stage 2 Wednesday

Please note that all other ECA activities will be suspended.

Reminder for Non-Residential Students:

From 30th January to 3rd February and 6th – 10th February, students who are not on the Residential Trip and are in school will travel home on a 2.30pm bus, unless they have one of the ECAs mentioned above. Please note that the composition and routes of the buses may vary during this week. You will be informed via email or SMS if there are any changes to your child’s normal pick-up time in the morning.

Year 4 Residential Transport

Monday of Residential Week: School transportation will operate as usual. No ECAs are scheduled. Students will be provided with a bus home at 2:30pm.

Tuesday of Residential Week: Buses will be provided to school as

normal, but parents who prefer to bring their child to school using their own transportation must cancel the bus in advance to avoid delays for other users.

Friday of Residential Week: All school transportation for students returning from a Residential is cancelled. Parents who wish for their child to take the 2:30pm bus home must contact transportation to book a seat.

Year 5 Residential Transport

Monday Morning: School transportation will be provided as normal, but parents who will be bringing their child to school must cancel the bus in advance to avoid unnecessary delays for other users.

Thursday of Residential Week: All school transportation for students returning from a Residential is cancelled. Parents who wish for their child to take the 2:30pm bus home must contact transportation to book a seat.

Friday of Residential Week: School transportation will operate as usual. No ECAs are scheduled. Students will be provided with a bus home at 2:30pm.

Year 6 Residential Transport

Monday Morning: School transportation will be provided as normal. Parents who will be bringing their child to school must cancel the bus in advance to avoid unnecessary delays to other users.

Friday of Residential Week: All school transportation home for students returning from a Residential is cancelled. Parents who wish for their child to take the 2:30pm bus home must contact transportation to book a seat.

Foundation Stage Students

Transportation to and from school will operate as normal.

Year 1 and Year 2 Students:

Transportation to and from school will operate as normal. All students will be on their default bus home at 2:30pm, as ECA Block B has finished.

Year 3 Students

Transportation to and from school will operate as normal. All students will be on their default bus home at 2:30pm, as ECA Block B has finished. However, the following exceptions apply:

• Dutch Group Key Stage 2 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

• Tigersharks Swim Academy Year 3 and above.

• Gymnastics Academy Team training.

• Football Academy – Key Stage 2 Thursdays and Tuesdays

• Golf Team Training, Key Stage 2 Wednesday

Secondary Students

ECAs will continue as normal until Friday 3rd February.

HOME LANGUAGE BOOK

Stephen Murgatroyd, Cross Campus Head of Libraries

CLUB: Save the Date!

8th March 2023

This club was established as a way for our school community to share their favourite stories from their home countries, cultures and languages. Usually, we do this by bringing our favourite stories in, coming together over a cup of tea or coffee, some fruit and a few lovely biscuits and sharing books that our children (of all ages) have loved to read. These can be picture books, non-fiction books, graphic novels, or stories … anything that has enthralled and entertained your children in their home language.

Not only have our parents loved sharing their favourite stories, but the opportunity also provides Mr M and the Library staff the chance to see the books, grab important details such as ISBN numbers and author names and then buy the books to help grow the Home Languages section of the Primary and Secondary libraries with books that are relevant, popular and recommended by our community members.

We have enjoyed hosting a wonderful group of parents in the past, who came along and have helped us to develop our Home Language resources meaningfully, and now we’d love to invite you back. If you’d like to share any Home Language reading recommendations for our library and larger community, please put Wednesday 8th March at 08:00 in your calendars and come along to LIB 207 (the Library Green Room) for our next ‘Books and Biscuit’ Club meeting.

If you are planning on coming along, then please complete your details in this Google Form so we can cater accordingly. In the meantime, it would be great if you would add any new books that you’d like to share here. Simply click on the pink circle with the ‘+’ sign in the right-hand corner and add your information. Please remember to include a picture of the book too! Many thanks and see you later.

Please complete the customer survey for users of the Bangkok Patana School Libraries, linked below. The Libraries are considering all possible improvements to their services and would like your opinion.

All responses are anonymous, so if you would like to discuss a specific question please email dapa@patana.ac.th or stmu@patana.ac.th

Only the first question is required, all following questions are optional. If you do not wish to answer, or have no response, please move to the next question. Many thanks for your time in helping the Libraries to be the best they can be!

Chainsaws and Fires

by Hope McClenaghan, 5C

CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY

Men’s noisy machinery grinding in my ears, Where I live now, that is the sound that everybody fears. What once was quiet, full of plants No greenery now, not a chance. But what is clear, is their belief, That there’s no such thing as rainforest grief. They’ve cut down our homes, replaced them with bones, Of creatures that long ago lived here. Where once we had plenty, now seems quite empty, A loud yet lonely place.

Although we shall die, there’s no tears left to cry, Thanks to chainsaws and fires and men.

Thanks to chainsaws and fires and men. Thanks to chainsaws and fires and men.

Desert Island Discs

With Alice Curwood, Cross Campus Assistant Principal, Extra-Curricular Activities and Sports

Thiscolumn follows in the style of the famed BBC podcast which features a celebrity every week – here we feature our own Bangkok Patana celebrities! What eight songs, one luxury item and one book would you take with you if you were stuck on a desert island?

Today Cross Campus Assistant Principal, ECAs and Sports, Alice Curwood, is stuck on a desert island.

MS ALICE, IF YOU WERE STUCK ON A DESERT ISLAND WHAT EIGHT PIECES OF MUSIC WOULD YOU WANT TO HAVE WITH YOU?

Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader

Yellow - Coldplay

Little Lion Man - Mumford and Sons

Wake Me Up - Avicii

This Will Be - Natalie Cole

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

You’ve Got the Love - Florence + The Machine

Pompeii - Bastille

PICK ONE LUXURY ITEM YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE WITH YOU. THIS ITEM MUST BE INANIMATE AND OF NO USE IN ESCAPING THE ISLAND OR ALLOWING COMMUNICATION FROM OUTSIDE.

Dairy Milk Chocolate

WHICH ONE BOOK WOULD YOU WANT TO HAVE WITH YOU?

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Catch the real Desert Island Discs on BBC. What are you listening to? Have a list of your own?

Let us know! Contact STML with your favourites.

PAtAnA ParticiPatEs! Achievements from Our Community

Khun Pornpavee Trangcotchasan, Piano Teacher

Dalila

Tung, 4W performed in the Singapore International Piano Competition (SIPC) Thailand Preliminary Round 2023. She earned the second highest score and received a gold medal. As a gold medalist, she was selected to perform in the SIPC 2023 Final Round, representing Thailand in the category of Piano Examination Grades 4 - 6. Her renditions of “Starry Dome” by George Nevada and “Mister Trumpet Man” by William Gillock resulted in the 6th place prize for Asia overall. The Final Round featured performers from Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Vietnam and New Zealand. It was a great experience for Dalila to represent Thailand in this prestigious piano competition on the international stage! Enjoy her performance here: https://youtu.be/isc91zv_Li0

Click to listen to Ms Alice’s playlist

#237: toP tiPs for Building cYBEr rEsiliEncE at HomE

In the last couple of decades, the volume of online traffic has increased exponentially –but, by and large, people’s awareness of the accompanying risks hasn’t grown along with it. To illustrate the scale of the issue, consider this: a report by the Internet Crime Complaint Centre found that, in the US during 2020, there was a successful cyber-attack every second. Yes: every second.

Criminals continue to find new and devious ways to attempt to hijack our online transactions and harvest our private information. To them, the smart devices that many of us now use as standard at home are simply a convenient back door into our lives – and our networks. In the guide you’ll find tips on a number of potential risks such as how to use a password manger, how to back up your data and how to check for breaches.

Our next PTG Tech Talk event will focus on Video Gaming and will take place on Tuesday 7th February at 8.00 am in the Secondary Library Green Room (LIB 207). Sign up here, hope to see you there.

Have a great weekend.

Brian Taylor Assistant Principal, Campus Curriculum Technology Integration

CY-2023-009

LECTURE

The Association of Siamese Architects under the Royal Patronage In Collaboration with the Siam Society Under Royal Patronage Presents

Beyond Net-Zero: Local Wisdom and Sustainable Architecture of NUS SDE4 NZEB

A Talk by Johannes Widodo

Making a modern contemporary building which is not only sustainable and green but also netzero aimed at human wellness is not rocket science. Sustainability, liveability, and resilience depend not on smart technology but cultural wisdom, like the principles of tropical vernacular architecture, human-centred design, and common sense.

The talk is about the architecture of NUS SDE4, the first Zero-Energy Certified building in Singapore and Southeast Asia, the first university building in the world and the first building in Singapore that received the International WELL Building Institute 2019- WELL Certified Gold (1st). It will reveal the innovative design of one of the World’s 6 Most Beautiful Buildings That Redefine Sustainable Architecture (according to the Architecture Digest, 2022), based on our tropical Southeast Asian local vernacular wisdom. The building, completed in 2020, is actually an energy-positive building with a low maintenance cost, part of the national water resilience endeavour, promoting natural biophilia, providing better human health, and advocating change in mindset.

After the talk, a discussion with Dr Johannes Widodo, Dr Winyu Ardrugsa from the Architecture Department, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University and Prof Dr Atch Sreshthaputra from the Department of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University will be conducted.

Dr Johannes Widodo

Dr Johannes WIDODO is the director of Graduate Programs in Architectural Conservation at the National University of Singapore. He is an Associate Member of the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA), the founder of mAAN (modern Asian Architecture Network), an Executive Committee member of the Asian Academy for Heritage Management, a jury member for the UNESCO Asia Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation, member of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee, a founding member and director of ICOMOS National Committee of Singapore and Indonesia, a founding member of DoCoMoMo Macau and Singapore, the founder and executive director of iNTA (International Network of Tropical Architecture) and a member of TCHS (The Circle of Human Sustainability (Singapore). He is an advisory board member of SEACHA (South-East Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance).

DATE & TIME: Saturday, 18 February 2023 at 14:00

ADMISSION: Member and Students Free of charge

VENUE: Lecture Room, 4/Floor, The Siam Society Non-Members THB 200

TO BOOK: Khun Pinthip at 02 661 6470-3 ext 203 or e-mail pinthip@thesiamsociety.org

Please book your seat(s) in advance by emailing or phoning your booking to the Society.

The Siam Society is deeply grateful to James H.W. Thompson Foundation for its generous support of the 2022–2023 Lecture Series