Don’t be a Stickler!

Don’t be a Stickler! is a project that delves into the importance of mobility and how walking sticks have become a crucial tool for maintaining independence and quality of life for individuals with mobility impairments. The project explores the rich history of walking sticks, examining their various forms and functions throughout history.

It also discusses the different types of walking sticks available today. Thus providing people with knowledge and guidance on how to choose the right walking stick.

Whether you already use a walking stick, or you are interested in learning more about this indispensable mobility aid, Don’t be a Stickler! offers a wealth of information, insights, and perspectives on this humble mobility aid.

Safe Food, Save Lives

Reactions caused by food allergies can have a significant impact on a person’s lifestyle. A reaction can range from mild to severe, including life-threatening anaphylaxis. Despite the existing food safety rules and guidelines, many Singapore hawker centres continue to provide inadequate food options for people with food allergies. Therefore restricting their access to affordable and safe food. As food allergies continue to become more prevalent, this poses physical, emotional, and economic concerns that must be addressed (Cummings et al., 2010).

The project Safe Food, Save Lives aims to provide creative strategy, solutions and insights into the stakeholder ecosystem along the food allergy journey. While there is currently no way to completely eliminate the risk of food allergies, there are steps that can be taken to mitigate the risk of allergic reactions occurring in hawker centres.

Cummings, A. J., Knibb, R. C., King, R. M., & Lucas, J. S. (2010). The psychosocial impact of food allergy and food hypersensitivity in children, adolescents and their families: a review. Allergy, 65(8), 933–945. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1398-9995.2010.02342.x

We, The Creatives of Singapore

Information about Singapore’s creative industries are, in general, not readily accessible. While it differs from industry to industry, most of the creative industries are not well-documented, researched or even publicised. This often leads to misconceptions about these industries and what a career in these fields entails. Thus, the idea behind ‘We, the Creatives of Singapore’ is to “demystify” the creative industries in Singapore and to allow the wider public to have a better understanding of a career in a creative industry.

Volume one of the series focuses on Singapore’s graphic design industry, taking note of the present state of the industry and serving as a reflection of how far the design scene, as well as how society’s perception of design has progressed over the decade.

Deconstruction–Reconstruction: The Experiential Catalogue of Time Passes

In line with the recent pandemic, physical visual art exhibitions have been translated online for the sake of social distancing and the prevention of intermingling. Due to time constraints from the urgency of the matter,  many translations of physical to digital exhibitions are completed in haste, resulting in the loss of physical experience when viewing an exhibition.

Deconstruction Reconstruction is a project that investigates the conditions that are considered when making a physical exhibition digital; comparing it to the considerations of creating a digital exhibition that was conceived as fully digital. In line with this process, the project aims to analyse the loopholes when exhibitions are shifting digitally and explore the significance of this phenomena. This inquiry also looks at the exhibition catalogue – also known as the exhibition’s legacy, and what happens when digitalisation changes the use and preservation of the exhibition catalogue.

The project also differentiates the virtual exhibition and the use of a catalogue. It reads into literature that looks at the various forms of virtual exhibitions and the use of the exhibition catalogue. Conclusively, it aims to integrate and understand the use of digitisation and the exhibition catalogue and finds contemporary case studies of virtual exhibitions and catalogues that hold true to these writings.

Adulting Follies

In the journey of education, every student is presented with an opportunity to broaden their knowledge through an overseas exchange program. Besides circularly, the program provides networking and cultural insights not found locally.

Though it is all fun and games in the picture, the journey is fueled with challenges and uncertainties as far as life-changing experiences go. Built on individual adaptation, one must overcome the difficulties and adjust to cultural differences. Past that, the perception of the World changes significantly as you rediscover knowledge and the personal direction in life.

This project aims to produce an editorial publication that would inspire students who are planning to go on an exchange programme. “Adulting Follies” is a soul searching and stress-inducing piece that features personal documentation of an individual’s self-reflection of the exchange program to Canada. It seeks to help students have a deeper understanding and an easier way to concoct their unique exchange program experience.