A Toy Story
The first time we visited the Sunday toys flea market, one of our interviewees, a vendor, told us quite out-of-the-blue: “Every toy will find a home.” It stuck with us for a long time. Singapore might be a pragmatic society, but there are many who are passionate about what they do, even if it doe...
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| author | Tan, Adeline Pei Yi Pang, Ariel Linn Chong, Claudia Kar Mun Ang, Jolene Zhuoling |
| author2 | Duffy Andrew Michael |
| author_facet | Duffy Andrew Michael Tan, Adeline Pei Yi Pang, Ariel Linn Chong, Claudia Kar Mun Ang, Jolene Zhuoling |
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| description | The first time we visited the Sunday toys flea market, one of our interviewees, a vendor, told us quite out-of-the-blue: “Every toy will find a home.”
It stuck with us for a long time. Singapore might be a pragmatic society, but there are many who are passionate about what they do, even if it does not fit society’s prescribed mould. For these local toy collectors, their toys mean the world to them, but the rest of society think otherwise. These collectors just have one goal: to convince others that collecting toys is more than a frivolous hobby, and to find their toys both a physical and emotional place in Singapore.
A Toy Story is a final-year project on the local toy community. It charts the journey of these collectors and explores the following areas: the meaning they see in their toys, how they overcome resistance, and how they strive to build a future where both imagination and reality can co-exist. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/736622019-12-10T10:53:39Z A Toy Story Tan, Adeline Pei Yi Pang, Ariel Linn Chong, Claudia Kar Mun Ang, Jolene Zhuoling Duffy Andrew Michael Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::Reporting on community The first time we visited the Sunday toys flea market, one of our interviewees, a vendor, told us quite out-of-the-blue: “Every toy will find a home.” It stuck with us for a long time. Singapore might be a pragmatic society, but there are many who are passionate about what they do, even if it does not fit society’s prescribed mould. For these local toy collectors, their toys mean the world to them, but the rest of society think otherwise. These collectors just have one goal: to convince others that collecting toys is more than a frivolous hobby, and to find their toys both a physical and emotional place in Singapore. A Toy Story is a final-year project on the local toy community. It charts the journey of these collectors and explores the following areas: the meaning they see in their toys, how they overcome resistance, and how they strive to build a future where both imagination and reality can co-exist. Bachelor of Communication Studies 2018-04-03T01:37:48Z 2018-04-03T01:37:48Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73662 en Nanyang Technological University 29 p. application/pdf application/pdf |
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