A Community Event of Singapore Design Week 2025
About Singapore Design Week
One of Asia’s premier design festivals, Singapore Design Week (SDW) celebrates Singapore’s distinctive brand of creativity, exploring design through three defining festival pillars: Design Futures (the design of the future and the future of design), Design Marketplace (lifestyle trends with a spotlight on Southeast Asia) and Design Impact (innovative solutions for a better world). Organised by DesignSingapore Council, SDW is a celebration of creativity and innovation, championing thought leadership and showcasing the best of design from Singapore and beyond.
Nation by Design
For 60 years, Singapore has transformed limitations into launch pads through design. 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙗𝙮𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 celebrates our creative courage and calls on every Singaporean to embrace design at the heart of our progress – because great design isn’t just decoration, it’s direction for our future.
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Empathy LAB
Empathy Lab: explores how inclusive design can transform public spaces through the lens of visual impairment. Set in the context of Singapore’s hawker centers, it uses sound, touch, and spatial memory to reveal unseen challenges. The experience includes:
Empathy game, where participants navigate a recreated hawker space using only non-visual senses, guided by soundscapes and task cards.
Empathy Workshops, where designers, students, and citizens co-create inclusive spatial ideas rooted in empathy, accessibility, and dignity.
Visionary Future
Visionary Future is a poster exhibition showcasing postgraduate student work in sustainability, technology, and inclusive innovation. It highlights how design thinking and design management strategies shape future-facing solutions.
Be part of a dynamic, hands-on experience where students, designers, and community members come together to co-create inclusive design solutions.
From tactile wayfinding and mindful furniture layouts to innovative assistive technologies, this workshop focuses on making public spaces more accessible and welcoming for everyone.
Secure your spot today—space is limited, and your voice matters in shaping more inclusive environments.
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Our multidisciplinary team brings together a wealth of expertise across design disciplines, united by a shared commitment to inclusive, human-centered design.
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We’d love to hear from you! Whether you’re interested in joining a workshop, collaborating on a project, or simply want to learn more about our work in inclusive and sustainable design, feel free to reach out.
DesignSingapore Council
The DesignSingapore Council’s (Dsg's) vision is for Singapore to be an innovation-driven economy and a loveable city by design.
As the national agency that promotes design, our mission is to develop the design sector, help Singapore use design for innovation and growth, and make life better in this UNESCO Creative City of Design.
Dsg is a subsidiary of the Singapore Economic Development Board.