Constructing Edible Worlds?
Climate Transformation: Sustainable Societies Lecture Series

Anne Lochoff is the Programme Director of the Singapore Agri-Food Innovation Lab (SAIL), a national platform managed by NTU that seeds partnerships between SAIL’s corporate partners, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), start-ups, research institutes and institutes of higher learning (IHLs) to drive agri-food innovations. She was previously the senior advisor partnerships at the United Nations Development Programme Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development in Singapore. Her background spans government, academia, NGOs, and private-sector businesses.  

Leong Tatt Man is an architect and Director of Projects at Tierra Design Studio Pte Ltd; a design studio focused on principles of landscape urbanism and ecologically sustainable practice. His current projects include the Singapore Agriport proposal, which includes the conceptualisation of food forest integration, including restorative aquaculture and multi trophic aquaculture farming, into Singapore’s landscapes. His previous projects include the 4th Desalination Plant which is PUB Gold Certified. The project also won the International Water Association Grand Innovation in 2022. He previously worked at OD 205 Planning Studio and Architects 61 and obtained his Master of Architecture (NUS) in 2001. 

Ute Meta Bauer is a Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU). She is currently the Acting Director and Principal Research Fellow at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore); and is the Chair of the Masters in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices (MA MSCP) programme. Having served as the Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore for over a decade, her work as educator and curator over the past years has focused on Climates. Habitats. Environments. At the Centre, she curated and co-curated The Oceanic (2017/2018), Trees of Life. Knowledge in Material (2018), and The Posthuman City (2020). In 2022, she served as curator for the Singapore Pavilion at the 59th Biennale di Venezia, featuring artist Shubigi Rao. Her recent large scale projects include the 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022), co-curated alongside David Teh and Amar Kanwar, and the artistic direction of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024. She is a Trustee of the Art Foundation TBA21 and a member of the Governing Council of n.b.k. Berlin. Bauer was recently conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Art and Design by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.

Madeleine Collie is visiting researcher under the Climate Transformation Programme (2024–2027). Collie is a curator, writer, and researcher who creates platforms for the circulation of creative knowledges engaging with the politics and poetics of plants in contemporary art. She initiated the Food Art Research Network in 2020 as a platform for peer learning and slow, curatorial research. She is co-editor of Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices (Monash University Publishing, 2025), lead editor of a forthcoming volume based on the long-term research exchange Follow the Plants (2023–25), and co-editor of Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food in Asia and Australia (Routledge, 2026). She was awarded a PhD in Art History, Theory and Curatorial Practice from Monash University in 2025 and holds an MRes in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London.