PAZAAR@319 ft- Our Hood Yuhua

Our Hood: Yuhua Mural Project is a collaborative effort between youth creatives and the residents of Yuhua to prototype the possibility of turning an interest in mural painting into something that could be offered as a public good to different communities.

The ideas was first birthed as a passion project by by Wang Yiming and Tan Yi Hong who wanted to test their interest in tapping on their skill sets in arts- activation to transform common spaces around us.

With support from Bold At Work and some experience in murals, they set off conducting a survey for ideas that to visually represent the Yuhua community. They received feedback that the void deck at the Senior Citizens’ Corner feels dark, crammed and uninviting, while the wall at the mailbox area was called plain and boring. Armed with the residents’ ideas and blessings, the team realised that the murals are a platform for the residents’ voices and used the feedback as a guide in designing the murals. The mural at the Senior Citizens’ Corner was designed and painted by students of Tembusu College from NUS, to encourage youths to engage with seniors. For the mailbox area mural, residents were invited to experience something unexpected in Singapore: to actually paint on a HDB wall in public.