Inside the Mind of
David Ocón
David Ocón is currently a Senior Research Fellow jointly based at SMU's Urban Institute in Singapore and VinUni's College of Arts and Sciences in Hanoi. His research focuses on urban cultural heritage, digital heritage and AI, cultural diplomacy and cooperation in Asia, heritage economics, tourism and sustainability, and urban cultural anthropology.
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“In densely-populated cities like Singapore, but also in others like Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila or Hong Kong, cemeteries often sit at the centre because they can 2 be targets for redevelopment, repositories of family/community history and ritual practice, and offer pockets of mature trees, biodiversity and green infrastructure.“