Adj. Prof. architect Tay Kheng Soon is from the first locally trained architects graduating in 1963 from the Singapore Polytechnic School of Building and Architecture. The architecture school was later relocated to NUS. As such, he is acutely concerned that architecture and living environment must be rooted in climate, culture while modernising and humanising people and place. He was founding Chairman of the Substation, the Experimental centre of the Arts community. He was Chairman of SPUR, Singapore Planning and Urban Research Group in the70’s and later president of SIA receiving its Gold Medal in 2010. His design research extends beyond architectural scale to urban planning and finally to the global scale. His YouTube Videos include: The Maximally Deployable Modular City of the 21st Century, Singapore Version 2.0, and Singapore Version 2.0 Aging in Place. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a member of the World Ekistics Society. He was invited to be a member of ADS, the Asian Dialogue Society of Asian Intellectuals for his contribution in conceptualising Rubanisation. Currently he is convenor of FOSG, the Future of Singapore Group’s year-long (2017) series of forums to culminate in The People’s Plan for Singapore. In the large resource panel of experts, he moderates discussion on the spatial planning of Singapore.