Hosted by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation, the SMU Social Impact Festival 2017 is a week-long celebration of social innovation and impact in Singapore. The Festival will feature workshops, panels and activities by social enterprises, non-profit organisations, student groups and socially-minded consultants working on disability, social inclusion, technology, social-emotional leadership, photography, fashion, filmmaking […]
Events
Celebrate Singapore’s diverse abilities, hidden in the heart of Redhill. Enabling Village (EV) is a community space built to support the integration and inclusion of able-bodied and disabled persons in Singapore. Within EV, there are cafés and restaurants, an art gallery, preschool, a supermarket, and even barrier-free event spaces augmented with braille and hearing loop features! Participants of this […]
Interested in social enterprise and sustainable development? Be part of this three-week immersion programme that has participants as guests of a rural community – to become villagers, to participate in everyday life and to see, feel and impact their real needs. Drishtee Immersion employs a bottom-up approach that allows empathy-level understanding of real people on […]
Have you realised the power of narrative in your life? Often times we fail to harness the full force of our values and stories, because we have not learnt to actively integrate them into our choices and actions. Become clear about what you value and what makes you who you are, helps you become […]
Can good design make us healthier? Can it be leveraged to help us recover faster? Can it enable and empower everyone to lead healthy and active lives? Discover how good design can have a tangible impact on our health. Through a sharing by practitioners from various design disciplines, the variety of design methods and strategies […]