Rebecca Shen

CAF awarded Rebecca Shen a grant for “Atlas Animalia,” a project that initially involved a series of critical, ethnographic maps that illustrate the past, present, and future of Singapore, specifically in regards to the evolution of urban wildlife, and which has now morphed into a series of podcasts to be released in October 2026. Rebecca writes:

Since the grant, the project has evolved meaningfully. I’ve been collaborating with Claudia Hirtenfelder from The Animal Turn Podcast to develop a series of podcast episodes focused on animals in Singapore. The series, Animals in Singapore, will be hosted on The Animal Highlight, the Animal Turn’s sister podcast for which I’ve been volunteering to create episode artwork. Claudia and I agreed that the Animal Highlight platform would be a great fit for sharing these animal stories through both visual and audio material. The episodes will credit CAF with supporting the original project.

Rebecca was a visiting scholar in 2022 at VINE Sanctuary, where she conducted a study mapping the terrain to understand the non-human residents’ use of the multispecies shared space. You can read CAF’s interview with Rebecca on her time at VINE here.