Understanding Nature as no longer a pristine entity, human interference with the environment might perhaps be better framed as a mere redirection of a presupposed ‘natural’ course of ecosystems. Taking cue from Stephanie’s Wakefield Anthropocene Back Loop, our current period of great destabilization offers a potential for ‘experimentation, reorganization and transformation’. With a melding of natural occurrences with increasingly artificial interventions, how do we discern between the two? Have we instead long found ourselves accustomed to a nature of a hybrid ecosystem? Singapore’s long trajectory of commandeering nature for nationalistic goals, offers a case study in increasing human hubris of propping up the liveability of nature through technological interventions. Have we however, stopped to consider the unintended, non-designed impacts of these interventions? While it has only grown ever important to be cognizant of the state of Nature around us, we seem to be suffering a shifting baseline syndrome made ever difficult with a national practice of ‘making clean’ in a bid to create a single, homogenous story.

In anticipating the future of a Nature Park situated in Khatib Bongsu, this thesis seeks to uncover and tap on the disturbances in the landscape and manifest these changing conditions, making them visible. Employing the devices of Ghosts and Monsters as a research methodology; Ghosts uncover the spatial and temporal layers of a ‘thought-to-be’ vacant site, revealing a palimpsest of human disturbance over time. Monsters reveal the morphing and clashing of human and the non-human. Imagined through a series of technologies structures, each intervening and propagating the phenomena found on site. The emergence of this architecture creates a medium to accentuate otherwise overlooked processes and ultimately settling to form part of this ever-evolving, misunderstood landscape.