Care is a fundamental component that catalyses the richness of relationships and mutual interdependence that blossom from within a community. Leading care ethicist Joan Tronto concretises care-work as legitimate work through her framework of five levels of care, which is re-appropriated as a methodology to spatalise and analyse the selected case study of one of the most controversial self-organised communities in the world: Burning Man.

The Rogue Burn of 2021, which was a protest against the corporatist Burning Man, demonstrated how the breakdown of central care-work activated community members to organically assume care roles in ways that further reinforced long-term relationships between members. This thesis then espouses the designing of community space that seeds care as opposed to a top-down delegation of care-work; an experiment in stewarding care ownership.

With an ongoing roadmap of extending the Park Connector Network and a slated opening of a highly-anticipated 14,000 sqm fitness SAFRA building, Choa Chu Kang Park is selected as a ripe testbed for the speculation of both ephemeral and permanent communal spaces. Existing communities on-site as well as a proposed outdoor climbing collective are key drivers that utilise the five re-interpreted strategies of spatial care autonomy that give the option of participating, stepping away or branching off from within communities, manifesting in a pilot space of caring and decentralised communities. The resultant anchor-seeding mobile typology seeks to represent decentralised care stewardship in an organic and burgeoning way, exemplifying how individuals can be self-organising custodians of care within a given park setting.