CapitaLand calls on citizens to design the future of Singapore’s sustainability

The Singapore property developer CapitaLand celebrate their 50th anniversary by launching a new website calling for ideas from the public on ways to make the city-state safe and green over the next 50 years.

The “Building Communities – setting the stage for Singapore 2015” enables citizens to submit images, texts and videos on their opinion of what they inspire Singapore to look like in 50 years.

Over the next eight weeks participants have an opportunity to send ideas relating to four key topics, which are ‘Go Green’, focusing on urban sustainability; ‘Smart Spaces’ which adopts ideas on maximising the use of limited land; ‘Space Age Kampungs’ which presents visual images of future technologies. Finally, there is the ‘Weatherproof World’ which investigates the subject of resilience to climate change.

Examples that have been put fourth throughout the initiation have been nightclubs that are powered by kinetic energy, underwater shopping malls, zero-gravity vertical playgrounds and buildings that float on the sea.

Approximately 80 ideas have been submitted, including installing solar energy panels on every block of flats on the island, developing food gardens in housing estates and self –driving cars which can avoid traffic jams.

CapitaLand’s President and Group Chief Executive Lim Ming Yan said that the platform, which is in partnership with the local newspaper The Strait Times, aspires to support “fellow Singaporeans to share ideas about how buildings, homes, and green spaces can help build a better future for us to live, work, and play in Singapore”.

On a weekly basis the top five ideas win cash vouchers. At the end of the campaign the top 50 ideas will be displayed at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum from July until September.