Our Heritage, Our Neighbourhood

Every story shared becomes part of a living, connected heritage record.

Activated back into the neighbourhoods, spaces and communities it came from. Start with a story, or explore what is already around you.

Home architecture / future state
Internal: the featured story call can focus on a place in transition, such as Yishun 10, so the portal demonstrates how stories can be collected before a place changes and carried forward afterwards.
Explore stories across SingaporeMapbox · live prototype
Community stories Neighbourhood / heritage asset
Happening now
PLACE IN TRANSITION · YISHUN 10
YISHUN 10 | A PLACE IN TRANSITION

What do you remember about Yishun 10?

As this familiar place enters its next chapter, add a memory, photograph or story about the cinema, restaurants and everyday moments that made Yishun 10 part of your life.

MEMORIESYISHUN 10COMMUNITY STORIES
MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL · CELEBRATED IN EVERY NEIGHBOURHOOD
Lanterns, mooncakes & neighbourhood memories.

Share how your neighbourhood celebrates: lantern walks, family gatherings, mooncakes and riddles.

LanternsFoodFamilyNeighbourhoods
Featured stories

Stories from people and places across Singapore — connected to neighbourhoods, everyday interests and verified heritage information.

Latest Collaborations

Heritage can be activated through the places, programmes and partnerships people already encounter in everyday life, using the same storytelling and participation infrastructure.

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HERITAGE × NATURE × WELLNESS

Nature holds memories too.

Connect parks, plants and neighbourhood green spaces with reminiscence, intergenerational storytelling and community participation.

NParksCommunity / ageing partnersStories + Missions + Volunteering
Explore concept →
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HERITAGE TRAILS × HEALTHY 365

Walk. Rediscover. Share.

Use existing heritage trails as active discovery journeys: walk, check in, encounter stories at landmarks and contribute a memory.

NHB TrailsHPB / Healthy 365Potential rewards subject to partnership
Explore concept →
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Private partner
HERITAGE STORIES × MALL BINGO

Collect facts, share stories, earn rewards.

A physical bingo card across mall tenants — mostly quick heritage facts, a couple of "share a memory" stops — redeemable for vouchers via the mall's own loyalty app.

Mall landlordsTenant-agnosticRewards via mall loyalty app
Explore concept →
🎯 KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

Think you know your neighbourhood?

Today's question: When was the iconic Toa Payoh Dragon Playground built?

5 questionsHeritage Knowledge XPRoots.sg-linked
Browse by neighbourhood
Browse by theme
Three ways to take part
A · REDISCOVER

Explore a neighbourhood

Use the map to explore community stories, heritage places, existing NHB trails and connected heritage information.

MapboxStoriesPlaces & trailsOpen Rediscover →
B · SHARE

Share a community memory

Contribute a memory, photograph, oral history or video. OHON can help organise and connect the story to places and verified heritage information.

StoriesPhotos / audio / videoAI organisationShare a Story →
C · CONTRIBUTE

Take on a task, mission or volunteer role

Make a short contribution, join a deeper project, or help other people and communities participate.

TasksMissionsVolunteeringOpen Contribute →
ShareContribute memories, photos, oral histories or video tied to a place.
ConnectAI can help organise stories and link them to people, places, time, themes and verified sources.
RediscoverMapbox provides the place-based interface for neighbourhood stories, heritage places and existing trails.
ContributeTasks, missions and volunteering create deeper ways to participate and support others.
Heritage Trails

Walk the trail. Discover the place. Add your story.

Use the existing NHB heritage trail as the route and content backbone. HFEE adds a participatory layer on the map — landmark check-ins, community stories, and new memories linked to specific stops.

Healthpoints integration shown as a concept — subject to HPB confirmation
1 · WalkFollow an existing heritage trail.
2 · DiscoverFind heritage sites and community stories.
3 · ShareAdd a memory, photo or oral history.
4 · EarnEarn additional Healthpoints on top of your steps when a story is captured.

Why Healthy 365? Healthy 365 already supports goal tracking, challenges and health rewards. The prototype therefore treats heritage-trail participation as a potential challenge / rewards integration, rather than claiming that this partnership is already live. Source: HealthHub / Healthy 365.

Prototype logic / future state
Internal: Contribute is organised around two participation modes: Heritage Tasks and Volunteering. Heritage Tasks provide quick, low-barrier ways to contribute. Volunteering involves taking on a Project Mission — a defined brief with a clear output — through either the general track or, for ages 15–35, the Youth Track signature programmes. Larger-scale community initiatives can progress towards the Heritage Grants pathway under My Heritage Journey.
Heritage trail network

The trail names below are drawn from NHB heritage-trail materials. HFEE community-story activity is a proposed layer on top; not every trail is presented as a live integration.

Contribute

Contribute to Our Heritage

There are different ways to contribute — from heritage tasks to deeper volunteering through Project Missions.

Participation architecture
Internal: Contribute has two levels: Heritage Tasks for low-barrier public participation, and Project Missions for deeper volunteering. Existing WOG platforms can power selected tasks; the digital heritage layer provides the pathway into deeper missions.
HERITAGE TASKS · SHORT + STRUCTURED

Quick ways to contribute.

Small activities that anyone can complete, such as confirming information, answering a heritage question or sharing views about a place or project. Where appropriate, these can be delivered through existing platforms such as CrowdTaskSG.

Confirm informationShare views on a place or projectAnswer a heritage questionHelp us understand how a place is used
Existing WOG platform
CrowdTaskSG · where appropriate
VOLUNTEERING · GENERAL & YOUTH MISSIONS

Volunteer through a Mission.

Choose a defined heritage activity where you can contribute your time, interests or skills towards a meaningful outcome.

GENERAL MISSIONS · OPEN TO EVERYONE
GENERAL MISSION FORMATS

Contribute through your interests and skills.

🎙 DocumentationCapture a new story — interview, photograph or record a person, business or place.
🎥 CreativeTurn stories already collected into a heritage film, photo story or digital exhibition.
YOUTH TRACK · AGED 15–35
TWO SIGNATURE PROGRAMMES

Connect generations. Create digitally.

A focused youth stream designed around intergenerational storytelling and digital creation.

🤝 Stories Across GenerationsIntergenerational projects where youths work with seniors to listen, record and turn lived memories into shareable heritage stories.
💻 Heritage Hackathons / ChallengesTeam-based digital challenges where youths prototype new ways to discover, interpret or activate heritage.
More Project Mission examples

General-track projects, open to everyone.

More Youth Track examples

One worked example per signature programme.

Something bigger than a Mission brief?
Internal: a Project Mission is bounded — a clear brief, a single output, verified by what's submitted. Ideas that involve an ongoing role, a broader community partnership, or funding beyond a single deliverable should be redirected to the Heritage Grants pathway rather than stretched into a Mission. This is also why Community was dropped as a Mission format — it described a scale of work a Mission brief can't cleanly hold. Mapping was folded into Documentation for a simpler reason: geotagging already happens automatically once a story is shared, so it wasn't a distinct deliverable — just Documentation with extra framing.
ANOTHER WAY TO GO FURTHER

Have a heritage idea of your own?

Develop an idea further and explore the relevant Heritage Grants pathway.

SKILLS & TRAINING · OPTIONAL SUPPORT

Need to build a skill?

Training supports participation; it is not a prerequisite for getting started.

MY SKILLSFUTURE

Find relevant training on MySkillsFuture.

Explore training related to storytelling, photography, digital media, design, coding and other skills that may help you take on a mission or volunteer role.

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Rediscover

Discover the stories, places and heritage around you.

Start with a neighbourhood on the map, then explore community stories, heritage places and existing trails. Browse by what interests you or by official ICH themes.

HERITAGE REDISCOVER LAYER

Community stories across Singapore

Mapbox basemap · HFEE story layer
Community story Heritage trail Heritage place
Concept: OHON adds its community-story layer on top of a Mapbox basemap. The story layer remains owned and managed by OHON.
Explore heritage trails

Walk an existing trail. Discover the stories around it.

NHB heritage trails are an existing heritage asset within Discover. Open a trail to explore its landmarks and the proposed OHON community-story layer.

Browse by what interests you

A public-facing browse structure inspired by Chris Khoo's Singapore Memory research — topics people may naturally use to explore heritage.

Browse by ICH theme

Official ICH categories remain available as a second, heritage-specific way to navigate.

Stories to rediscover
For now, stories are shown without a ranked order. In future, discovery could be personalised by browsing history, interests, current location or the area being explored — while also surfacing relevant heritage collections and museum content.
All stories
Learn & discover

Know Your Neighbourhood

Play a 5-question round, discover something unexpected, and build your Heritage Knowledge XP. Choose your neighbourhood or try an all-Singapore round.

5 questions per round · Roots.sg-linked
Prototype logic / future state
Future question engine: AI could generate candidate questions from structured Roots.sg / National Collection content and the knowledge graph, with editorial validation before publication. This allows neighbourhood-specific and Singapore-wide question banks to grow without treating AI-generated text itself as the authoritative source.
Heritage Knowledge Ranking
Illustrative demo ranking
My Heritage Journey

Build your own Heritage Journey.

Contribute through stories, tasks, missions and volunteering. Your journey reflects the different ways you take part and the experience you build over time.

🌱STORYTELLING

Heritage Storyteller

I share.

For people who build a sustained record of sharing stories. The storytelling track can have more detailed levels because stories are easy to count and build over time.

Level 1 · Story StarterShare 1 story.
Level 2 · StorytellerShare 3 stories.
Level 3 · Regular StorytellerShare 5 stories.
Level 4 · Neighbourhood VoiceShare 10 stories.
Level 5 · Neighbourhood StorytellerShare 15 stories across at least 2 places.
Level 6 · Story CollectorShare 25 stories across at least 3 places.
Level 7 · Community StorytellerShare 40 stories across at least 4 places.
Level 8 · Heritage StorytellerShare 60 stories across at least 5 places.
Level 9 · Story AmbassadorShare 80 stories across at least 6 places.
Level 10 · Master StorytellerShare 100 stories across at least 7 places, sustained over at least 1 year.
✦CONTRIBUTION

Heritage Contributor

I contribute.

Build experience across two ways to contribute. Volunteering means taking on a defined Project Mission — general-track or, for ages 15–35, the Youth Track — you can take part in any combination.

🔎 TasksComplete short, structured contributions.
🤝 VolunteeringA defined Project Mission, general or Youth Track.
Level 1 · ParticipantComplete 1 contribution in any mode.
Level 2 · Active ContributorComplete 3 contributions, including at least 1 Project Mission (general or Youth Track).
Level 3 · Experienced ContributorComplete at least 8 contributions, including at least 2 Project Missions.
Level 4 · Established ContributorComplete at least 15 contributions, including at least 4 Project Missions across both general and Youth Track formats.
Level 5 · Contributor of DistinctionComplete at least 25 contributions, sustained over at least 1 year.
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RECOGNISED ROLE · BY NOMINATION / INVITATION

Heritage Mentor

I help others lead. Experienced contributors, volunteers and existing community heritage advocates can be nominated or invited to guide people, teams and neighbourhood projects.

Mentor youth / project teamsBe part of an advisory panelGuide neighbourhood activations, e.g. community exhibitions
ANOTHER WAY TO GO FURTHER

Have a heritage idea of your own?

Develop an idea further and explore the relevant Heritage Grants pathway.

Conversational search, prototype

Ask about a place's heritage.

Grounded in verified heritage sources and shared community stories.

Simulated for this demo, not a live AI model
Heritage Assistant Rule-based demo
Hi! Ask me about a neighbourhood, heritage place, person, practice, object, trail or community memory. I can connect verified heritage information with stories people have shared.

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Phyllis K. Posted 18 Aug 2026 · 8:42 PM
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Connected heritage
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HFEE · Participation ecosystem

Design principle: use existing programme mechanics where they already exist, while keeping the heritage story itself in the HFEE layer. Reward integrations shown in the prototype are proposals unless stated otherwise.

Possible progression — complete a mission → build a portfolio → join / lead a Heritage Story Champion project → develop a youth-led heritage project → explore an existing NHB/NYC grant pathway.
Roots.sg · Intangible Cultural Heritage

Add your own story — connect a memory, experience, photo or oral history to this theme, choose the relevant place in Singapore, and link it to one of the verified ICH entries above.

HFEE · Walk & Share

Walk. Discover. Share. Earn.

Follow an existing NHB heritage trail, discover place-based stories, share a memory from a location you visit, and earn Healthpoints as part of the heritage trail challenge.

🚶 WalkFollow the existing trail.
📍 DiscoverExplore heritage stops.
💬 ShareAdd a memory or story.
🏅 EarnExplore proposed health rewards.

Healthpoints concept: Healthy 365 already supports challenges, badges and health rewards. HFEE can explore a heritage challenge integration with Healthy 365, subject to HPB confirmation and exact eligibility mechanics. Another route is to use CrowdTaskSG for selected structured heritage tasks, using its existing Coins / XP / rewards mechanics. Neither integration is presented as confirmed here.

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