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About the Speakers
Senior Lecturer, Department of Malay Studies and Department of Architecture, NUS
Dr Imran bin Tajudeen researches cultural encounters through architecture across the longue durée and examines the vernacular city and its heritage tropes. His doctoral dissertation on this topic (NUS, 2009) won the ICAS Book Prize in 2011. He is co-editor of Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture (2018) and was postdoctoral fellow at MIT's Aga Khan Program (2009–10) and the IIAS in Leiden (2010–11). He was also Mutawa Visiting Fellow at OXCIS (Oxford, 2019-2020; 2022). Dr Imran teaches topics on identity and representation through the arts, urban history, and built cultural heritage in maritime Southeast Asia, focusing on Singapore and maritime Southeast Asia. He has published on Southeast Asia’s mosques in transregional and vernacular-Indic translations and is currently working on a monograph on this subject.
Manager, Development Projects, National Heritage Board
Farzan Aziz is a Manager (Development Projects) at the National Heritage Board. He oversees museum development and conservation works, including projects housed in historic buildings. Trained in interior design at the Singapore Institute of Technology and the Glasgow School of Art, he has experience in architectural planning, asset management and adaptive reuse.
Assistant Director, Collections & Exhibitions, Heritage Institutions, National Heritage Board
Muhammad Noor Aliff is Assistant Director (Collections & Exhibitions) at the National Heritage Board, overseeing exhibition development, collections management, and project delivery. His work spans curatorial coordination, design development, fabrication, installation, and stakeholder management across national museums and heritage institutions.
Moderator
Assistant Curator, MHC
Dr. Hadi Osni is Assistant Curator at the Malay Heritage Centre, National Heritage Board. Trained as an architectural historian, he holds a PhD in Architecture from the National University of Singapore. His work focuses on Malay material culture, memory, diasporic narratives, and the built environment.