Slip Projects

Slip Projects Independent research platform investigating mobility, pedestrian geographies, and informal infrastructure systems across Southeast Asia.

// SLIP / Mulasemula @ UiTM Puncak AlamDay 01KTM overhead. Bus terminal. Concrete paths. Air-conditioned corridors. Exhi...
16/08/2026

// SLIP / Mulasemula @ UiTM Puncak Alam
Day 01

KTM overhead. Bus terminal. Concrete paths. Air-conditioned corridors. Exhibition halls. Grass. Timber. Bamboo. Rope. Fabric.

The first morning as an invited international observer and lecturer at the ###VII Architecture Student Workshop — a national gathering of architecture students, with some 2,000 students from across Malaysia.
Mulasemula
Literally: begin again

Outside, students are cutting, tying, lifting and testing materials with their hands. Inside, thankfully, it is not just the usual drawings and prototypes. Photography, painting, tiny stalls run by students, sweets, postcards, souvenirs — the work moves between representation, construction, fabrication, community and commerce.

A piece of wood becomes a joint. A sheet becomes a surface. A small stall of baked goods here, trinkets over there. Things that might normally sit outside the boundaries of architectural education become part of the workshop itself, displaying the energy of students moving across different creative realms.

Reset. Rethink. Rebuild.

The words are everywhere, but the interesting part is what happens between them — the messy territory between formal finished products and the process on display everywhere in the frantic and simultaneously controlled frenzy of student activity.

By evening, the traditional static notions of architecture give way to bodies, film, sound, light, chants, music and performance.
Perhaps beginning again is less about going backwards than getting close enough to the material, the site and each other to see what is actually there.

https://www.instagram.com/mulasemula.uitm?igsh=NGoycmJ3bm1jOGNn&igsi=NGoycmJ3bm1jOGNn

// SLIP / KL Rainy Day Combine One of the pleasures of arriving in a new city is discovering that ideas you've been carr...
03/08/2026

// SLIP / KL Rainy Day Combine

One of the pleasures of arriving in a new city is discovering that ideas you've been carrying for years suddenly begin to connect in unexpected ways.

Saturday afternoon I visited ILHAM Gallery to see “Robert Rauschenberg and Asia” and stayed for the talk “Malady & Remedy: Orang Asli Art Engaging with Ecological Crises”, presented by Wendy Sia of GERIMIS Art Project.

It was a remarkable pairing.

Rauschenberg's work has been part of my intellectual landscape for a long time. Growing up in Houston, his connection to the Menil Collection was impossible to ignore, and the Menil became an education in itself while I was studying at Rice. Later, through DiverseWorks (one of my first jobs in the arts) I was fortunate to work with Caroline Huber and to be around the extraordinary presence and legacy of Walter Hopps. And of course Black Mountain College has remained one of those pedagogical experiments I keep returning to.

So it was unexpectedly moving to encounter those histories again—this time in Kuala Lumpur, in an exhibition organised with M+ Hong Kong. The talk that followed opened another set of connections.

Listening to the discussion of Orang Asli artistic practice, ecological knowledge, and the ongoing questions around land, identity, and environmental change, I kept thinking back to fieldwork in Northern Thailand. The contexts are very different, rainforest and peninsula versus mountain highlands, but many of the underlying questions resonate — land rights, legal recognition, extractive industries, environmental degradation, and the ways communities maintain cultural knowledge under pressure.

Different landscapes. Different histories. Remarkably familiar questions.

Sometimes arriving somewhere new isn't about leaving old research behind. It's about finding that the conversations have been continuing all along—you've simply entered them from a different direction.

So a rainy Saturday afternoon in the shadows of the Petronas Towers became an unexpected reminder that intellectual journeys rarely follow straight lines. Instead, they assemble themselves over time.

ILHAM Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/ilhamgallerykl/
Gerimis Art Project: https://www.gerimisart.com | https://www.facebook.com/gerimisartproject/
M+ Museum: https://www.facebook.com/mplusmuseum/
The Menil Collection: https://www.menil.org/
DiverseWorks: https://www.diverseworks.org/

/KL Week TwoBetween rail lines, kopitiams, and construction sitesAhead of serving as an external reviewer for an upcomin...
29/07/2026

/KL Week Two
Between rail lines, kopitiams, and construction sites

Ahead of serving as an external reviewer for an upcoming studio this week and further acquainting myself with the city, I took the train from Pudu to Shah Alam to walk the site and better understand the landscape behind the brief.

In keeping with my long-standing research on post-colonial urbanism, what interested me most wasn't a single building but the journey itself, from the dense, utilitarian streets of Pudu through Kuala Lumpur's expanding rail network into Shah Alam's planned civic landscape of lakes, gardens, and monumental geometry, before returning through the intensity of Bukit Bintang and back to Pudu's electronics district at dusk before the rain.

Of course every city tells a different story through its transitions. One of the genuine pleasures of moving to Malaysia after Thailand and more significantly Hong Kong has been beginning to read and compare these spatial layers on foot—one walk, and one transit loop, at a time.

// SLIP / In the Press / Chang Moi & Lanna LanesIt's encouraging to see continued investment in the Chang Moi district a...
23/07/2026

// SLIP / In the Press / Chang Moi & Lanna Lanes

It's encouraging to see continued investment in the Chang Moi district and the public spaces along the Ping River.

These recent developments also provide an opportunity to look back at an earlier chapter of Lanna Lanes, where we worked alongside local residents to explore tactical urbanism, public space, and small-scale interventions in exactly this part of the city.

The images in our earliest posts documented recommendations developed with the community during the project. The images from Loy Krathong recorded how the area continued to evolve over time as broader public works were implemented.

Projects like this are rarely finished. They are part of a much longer urban conversation, where ideas are tested, adapted, expanded, and ultimately become part of the life of the city.

The seed we planted is still there. Cities evolve through many hands, and it is rewarding to see this part of Chang Moi continue to grow.

For those interested in the recent developments:

Chiang Mai CityLife:
https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/citynews/general/chiang-mai-municipality-turns-chang-moi-into-open-air-street-art-gallery/

Time Out Chiang Mai:
https://www.timeout.com/chiang-mai/news/chiang-mois-getting-a-street-art-makeover-and-youre-invited-to-join-072026

Chiang Mai Municipal Government News:
https://www.cmcity.go.th/News/34457-เทศบาลนครเชียงใหม่%20ลงพื้นที่ร่วมกับจังหวัดเชียงใหม่%20ในการสร้างพื้นที่สร้างสรรค์สำหรับศิลปะบนกำแพงบริเวณชุมชนช้างม่อย.html

For those interested in the original fieldwork, project documentation, and much, much more:

https://www.facebook.com/streborauhsoj/posts/pfbid0SCwB7UuQmrT3UPLNzMfHEhYh3Kw5D4d96idVjvRK96Z9JYYrzSQ9SBVvSfF4A9axl

SLIP // Field Notes‘Dedication Day’This was never a simple project.A new chapter begins. People begin to approach the wa...
22/06/2026

SLIP // Field Notes
‘Dedication Day’

This was never a simple project.

A new chapter begins. People begin to approach the wall. Perhaps it was always at the margins.

A dancer crosses the plaza. Meaning does not live in ceremony alone.

The facilities team watches from beneath the trees. When does a project stop being a project?

There are speeches. A place is not given belonging—it learns it.

// SLIP / Field Notes "A Place Before It Becomes a PlaceFrom Physical Space to Social Space"Rainwater collects on the pa...
18/06/2026

// SLIP / Field Notes

"A Place Before It Becomes a Place
From Physical Space to Social Space"

Rainwater collects on the paving.
The mural is still on the ground.

Someone watches. Someone waits.

For a few days the plaza exists this way — between construction and occupation.
Next week there will be speeches, photographs, and a crowd.

Today there is only the work.

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