
Engaged Critical Discourse and Arts Practice with Communities
Our work is focused on communities in Singapore and Asia.
Community Cultural Dimensions is a continuation of Community Cultural Development (Singapore), set up as a not for profit in 2012.
Community Cultural Dimensions aims to facilitate critical discourse around arts practices with communities in Singapore and Asia. There has been much development and recognition of arts practices and its significance in human development and social-cultural transformation. Agendas, approaches and outcomes bear intersectionalities that sometimes align, sometimes contradict each other, creating complexities that push against the boundaries of ethics and aesthetics. The CCD seeks to recognize and engage with complexities of the current times, without settling for quick answers nor social trends.
It does this in the following ways:
- Guide institutions in reflecting on their arts pedagogical approaches and method of programme design, to achieve their desired engagement outcomes.
- Present the Person-centered Pedagogical Framework as an intersectional mapping of the significance of community arts engagement across the personal, social, cognitive and cultural dimensions.
- Support the development of arts research and social practice with practitioners, as a means to document and present the significance of arts engagement with Asian communities. This serves as a form of knowledge production and contribution to global socially engaged arts practices with communities.

Our Collaborators
CCD has collaborated with many others to develop research, discourse and programmes that enhance arts practices with communities:
Arts & Educational Institutions: National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, the Esplanade, UNESCO-NIE CARE, Singapore Teacher’s Academy for the aRts (MOE), NAFA Centre for Lifelong Education.
Healthcare and Volunteer Welfare Organisations: Singapore General Hospital, Changi General Hospital, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NTUC SilverAce Senior Activity Centre (Taman Jurong) the Chen Su Lan Methodist Children’s Home, Dementia Singapore, Methodist Welfare Services.
Arts Groups and Arts Practitioners: The Necessary Stage, Drum Prodigy, Alvin Tan,Serena Ho, Rodney Oliveirio, Ellison Tan, Peggy Ferroa, Michele Lim.


