MUSPP 2026 Graduation Soirée and Alumni Networking Dinner
On 5 August 2026, we welcomed the MUSPP Class of 2026, alumni and faculty to our annual Graduation Soirée and Alumni Networking Dinner at the Campus Centre — mere steps away from LKYCIC.
A highlight of the evening was, of course, the students’ research. Over the course of just one year, they took on an impressively diverse range of timely urban issues, answering thoughtful research questions with contemporary methods and approaches. From community gardens and recycling behaviour to AI adoption, environmental experience and the use of urban parks, the projects reflected both the breadth of urban challenges today and the many ways in which they can be studied.
Take a look at their posters below!
It was equally wonderful to welcome MUSPP alumni back to campus. The soirée has become more than a celebration for each graduating cohort: it is also an opportunity for alumni, students and faculty to reconnect and to see the MUSPP community continue to grow across cohorts.
And because no visit to LKYCIC is quite complete these days without seeing what everyone has been talking about, several guests ended the evening with a visit to our office to experience the Centre’s new “sound dome”!
Five featured presentations this year:
#1 Growing Together: Understanding Community Gardens as Social Infrastructure in Singapore’s Public Housing Estates
By Apoorva Madhusudan, Lim Shu Ling, Youvara David & Nidhishree N Kumar
#2 Returning to Recycle: Optimising Recycling Behaviour through a Socio-Spatial Analysis of Singapore’s Reverse Vending Machines (RVMs) during the Early Implementation of the Beverage Container Return Scheme (BCRS)
By Wong Jia Xue Clifton, Chua Hui Jin Tracey, Stefan Samuel Raja Pardede & Owen Chikoti
Voted Best Poster and Presentation by the audience.
#3 Understanding Urban Environmental Experience Through Audio–Visual Prediction and Perceptual Validation: The Case of Pasir Ris, Singapore
By Komila Mirzaeva Muratovna
#4 From Tools to Practice: Behaviour Gap and Organisational Dynamics in AI Tools Adoption among Urban Planning Practitioners and Researchers in Singapore
By Yakdehige Inodee Rusanja Fernando, Loh Yan Yi Stephanie & Pham Nguyen Trang Dai (Caroline)
#5 Multi-sensory Evaluation of Urban Park Users’ Stationary Behaviour
By Shin Inhwan, Tan Song Keat & Chris-Duncan Allaix
