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re-cap.org is a bunch of budget travelers who love getting involved in community building projects while they notoriously saddle their dusty backpacks!
Cambodia here we COME!
Become a BACK-PACKER: Destination: Cambodia 8 January 2010
Looking for the light in Sapa, Vietnam. Was cloudy day so no sun.
re-cap believes in budget-travel for ALL!! You're reading this because you love to TRAVEL. And not just ANY travel; it's the worst kind you can find! Alternative travel cannot be any cooler and here's YOUR chance to join us on a road trip from Thailand-Cambodia. It develops your
intuition, street-smarts and people skills. Geared to expose you to the
rugged and `no-plan' plan for budget travel. SO you'll always be on
your toes!
A must for the ALMOST adventure-seekers. Just need one small push over the edge. re-cap will gladly do that for you!
IT IS: Personal development, Self-Discovery, Alternative-travel, Team-building.
It's NOT!! a Budget tour. For the faint-hearted. A holiday with mum & dad. Details of trip here...
Thinklab Design Conference/ The Local Design Culture December 4 2009
Thank you Thinklab for organizing a great event. More to come from you guys, we're sure!!
Read on our updates and photos post-conference here...
For more information about the conference:
http://think-lab.blogspot.com/2009/11/thinklab-design-conference-local-design.html
Community Cafes
November 1 2009  Realizing that coffee-shops are the hang-out places for any neighborhood,re-cap.org experimented on the coffee shop's roles as a place forcommunity-centered learning, discuss and share knowledge related tocurrent issues. Our pilot project with TREATS cafe (Taman Tun Dr.Ismail) attempts to establish this `teaching’ ...methodology. To ensure the objectives were met, we started with children; re-cap introduced environmental awareness by making art from recycled materials.Details of trip here...
I’m up; now what?:Post-Bangun 23 September 2009 
Naima & Liz (from re-cap) during their interactive art session with the Chew jetty kids.
Multi-media arts festival held within the vicinity of the Chew jettiesin Penang. The aim of the project is toencourage the local communities in the festivals’ conception and delivery.Selected artists from the fields of photography, theater, visual arts andmusic; were invited to be a part of the project. The Bangun project hopes to bean annual project where `preservation’ of the clan jetties would take form inthe adoption and adaptation of a new art-based community. re-cap was a part of this; volunteering for a good cause...read more The BangunProject…read more  Getting the signage ready for the opening.
(No rabbits were harmed during the creation of this work)
New member announcement!
10 October 2009
re-cap would like to WELCOME Ms. Sarah Rahman of Surbana architects to join us. She is currently employed as an architect associate at a Singaporean architecture firm. But best of all, she has worked with `Architecture for Humanity' as she was involved with re-building homes that were effected by hurricane Katrina in the US.
If you are interested to join this wacky band oftravelers/ social activists/ adventurers please email meat suzysulaiman@re-cap.org Here’s alook at those who’s already part of the re-cap team…more
44th Central Glass International Design: competition entry by re-cap
August 3, 2009 Monday
After weeks of busting our chops over the design of the transport hub; we finally printed out the work. The idea was a very simple approach on a new type of community gathering place. The major challenge, however; was not the design, but `designing’ the idea board. These people don’t understand English and we don’t understand Japanese; so pictograms it was. Not an easy feat because we went through 3 composition drafts. 
ABOVE: re-cap's design entry. The team many late mornings (i.e 3 a.m) to get this ready before deadline and here it is. Much gratitude to the dedicated team members; Frankie, Cat, Iwaz, Elvin and Suzy (and Milk).
The board explained....more
Documentation of the design process...more
Toyota Responds...
July 13, 2009 Monday
Desperate to get the research going, re-cap submitted an application to the Toyota Foundation for a research grant that amounted to RM150, 000. This year-long research would be based in Bayan Baru, Penang It will actively involve non-government organizations such as Bus User Group (BUG), Citizens for Efficient Public Transport (Cepat) and Rapid Penang. Everything was a dream on a piece of paper titled: ‘Reinventing public transport towards the creation of a sustainable city: case-study: Bayan Baru, Penang.’; until one day; when Suzy opened her gmail box…… Dear Mr/Ms. Suzy Sulaiman, (a contact person for Mr. Loh, Laurence Kwong Yu's project) Hello. This is Shiki NISHIDA, an assistant program officer for the research grant program of the Toyota Foundation. Thank you for your application for the 2009 research grant program. Now, we are on the process of the selection. For that process, we would like to know some points more on your project.It would be great if you would response to our questions as much as possible by 12th July……. Suzy nearly fell off her chair. This was an exciting response. As oppose to last year’s `Thank you for submitting to us; but NO THANKS’ After Suzy recovered from her short panic attack; given a 48 hour deadline by Toyota; she furiously typed away to Mr/Ms.Nishida…
PS. Mr/Ms Nishida, will I get extra points if I told you that Laurence drives a TOYOTA Camry? (I wrote that in too, btw)
Click here to read the re-cap’s detail response…  Easy does it...Suzy demonstrating the wheelchair ramp on a brand new RapidPenang bus at the depot.
Design Workshop : AA + RGU 13th & 14th July 2009 2pm-5pm
The 2-day workshop that brought together Mr. Warith and Mr. SIt Heng Yeen received a warm welcome from the participants. The 1st day started off with a task that was completed through means of drawings and photography. The next day was an open table presentation of Mr. Sit's student work at the AA.
The cozy crowd of 25 people gave off a cool and intellectual ambience to the workshop. Mr. Sharonee and Mr. Fadzil; lecturers from Limkokwing University made a suprise visit!
Thank you for all who came:-)....more
The donation box strikes a pose...and oh..the participants...
More photos here!!!!
re-cap became the new buzz word at the 14th international conference on thinking held recently at the KL Convention Center organized by UPM (22-26 June 2009). Great thinkers such as Edward de Bono (lateral thinking & 6 hats),Howard Gardner (multiple intelligences)Tony Buzan (mind-map) and our very own Tun Mahathir were present at this world-renowned event. It was great that re-cap.org shared the same limelight as prolific thinkers.
Click here to know what Suzy talked about.
De Bono used an overhead projector for his talk where he diagrammed and sketched spontaneously. I was truly amazed at how he simplified complex ideas through simple 2-second drawings. Old school!
De Bono shows how pros do it!
re-cap’s projects were presented to an international crowd through Suzy’s paper,`Grab your backpack & hit the road: Creating the thinking traveler’.
Suzy shows she's a pro!:-p
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