Planting Heritage is a project that aims to increase the appreciation of plants amongst young Singaporeans. Through incorporating local plant heritage and storytelling, the project focuses on introducing native plants and their relevance in our culture to the target audience.
As a migrant country with a melting pot of cultures, Singapore has a rich reserve of plant customs from its diverse communities that could be capitalised on to relate to people from different ethnic backgrounds.
The project explores the role plants play in our culture and highlights the important value of plants in order to connect young Singaporeans to nature and the conservation of the environment.
Inspired by personal experiences of family and individual disharmony, 和MONY seeks to resonate with young Singaporeans by highlighting the richness of diversity within harmony. Through visual explorations, historical analysis of Confucianist notions of harmony, as well as interviews and surveys, this project aims to uncover contemporary perceptions and definitions of harmony among youth, while acknowledging and celebrating the unique differences that contribute to its essence.
Fuelled by the need for social support and self-understanding in the navigation of young adult existentialism, Project Little Light hopes to encourage vulnerability and human connection through a four-part illustrated book series. By using design and visual metaphors as a medium of communication and connection, these books follow a semi-non-linear narrative and speak from a personal voice of vulnerability – with the aim of highlighting the process of unpacking and understanding the emotions of the past from childhood and teenage-hood.
This project, Moving Past Disgust, is created to help volunteers with higher levels of disgust sensitivity overcome their disgust in order to volunteer for events that deal with “disgusting” things. For example, cleaning dirty houses or sorting between edible and mushy vegetables. The aim is to help nonprofits retain volunteers. This can be done via methods like habituation, like when nurses get used to dealing with bodily fluids, or using empathy to combat disgust.
In this contemporary age of dating, there is no longer a ‘normal’ way of meeting someone; from apps to arranged marriages and night clubs to BTOs, the realities of dating in Singapore have never been so frustratingly convoluted and diverse. Informed by interviews of Singaporean youth and their real dating experiences, You Are Loveable seeks to showcase the lesser-known yet common dating stories happening right under your noses through a collection of comic short-story format. By doing so, it hopes to show that no matter your dating struggles, silly or severe, you will always be loveable.
