As the needs of various communities come to light in recent years, people have begun to look for more ways to enact positive change around us. Problems ranging from climate change to inequality have become increasingly complex, often overlapping each other – thus, designing the solution to one concern often becomes more than just responding to a single problem.
That said, revisiting old issues through a new perspective may just be the key to unlocking the answers we seek. Seeing them under a new lens allows us to go beyond past viewpoints and is particularly important for those aiming to transform society for the better and solve crises.
Enter DESIGN FOR GOOD. Organised by Student Affairs Office and in collaboration with the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), Design For Good 2021 examines how art interacts with societal change and work towards alleviating the concerns of communities around the world, through curated workshops and exhibits.
A curated showcase of some of the best design concepts and artworks produced by the 14th graduating batch from NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM). Each of these students has imprinted their own distinct sensibility in solving a variety of design issues, in work that ranges from the social to the personal. Traditional and cutting-edge media and dorms are deployed to create designs that emerge from a rigorous period of research and discourse.
Shed in new light, the exhibition of these chosen Final Year Projects highlights the unique, innovative and creative exploratory projects to answer societal issues and enhance social good.
Stand to win one of 10 Starbucks gift cards (worth $10 each) when you vote for your favourite inspiring project and complete a feedback form.
Date: 16 – 27 August 2021
Venue: The Sky Deck @ North Spine Plaza
Cost: Free
Have you ever wondered how you could convert your household trash to treasures?
Conducted by NTU Alumni Audrey Ng, a Product Designer/Research Engineer working at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), come and attend this workshop where she will demonstrate the concept of upcycling and explain how it could benefit the environment.
Date: 24 August 2021, 12.00 pm – 1.30 pm
Venue: LHS-TR+53 (The Hive, Level 2)
Cost: Free (registration is required)
Limited to 20 participants only, on a first-come-first-served basis.
Registrations for this activity has closed.
Excited to be engaged in a multisensory experience through the interplay of visual art, music, movement and drama?
Conducted by a social enterprise for youth at risk, Acting Up Singapore, participants will have the opportunity to create a therapeutic work as they explore responses and reactions through pictures, sounds, explorations, and encounters with art processes during the workshop. These insights will allow individuals to acknowledge, understand and develop the awareness to their emotions as they arise. With these avenues for expression and self-realisation, one can learn to better articulate their struggles and difficulties.
While the hearts are engaged at the workshop, participants will get to further enrich their minds with the Founder, Marissa Teo, as she share her experiences of growing her social enterprise. Marissa is a former Child Protection Officer and has worked therapeutically with emotionally vulnerable youth in local institutions.
Through this art therapy session, participants will not only leave with a deeper understanding of organising workshops for social beneficiaries, but also methods to process their own emotions in a healthy and productive way.
Date: 26 August 2021, 12.00 pm – 1.30 pm
Venue: LHN-TR+06 (The Arc, Level B2)
Cost: Free (registration is required)
Limited to 25 participants only, on a first-come-first-served basis.
Registrations for this activity has closed.