Singapore Design Festival is BACK

The third Singapore Design Festival is taking place from 20-30 November this year. A lot of exciting design exhibitions, talks, seminars and screenings will be taking place. Expect to see some interesting design exhibits and installations in in the city area, especially if you go on one of these Design Trails: Brash Basah, Orchard, Singapore River, Tanjong Pagar, Arab Street and Chinatown.

The focus of the festival is to explore how design can make a difference to improve lives and create possibilities for tomorrow. Many great designs started with someone asking, "Why not?"

Below are some of the highlight events, book your calendar, folks...

A Design Film Festival

20 – 30 Nov 2009
Paid Entry, Tickets available from 1st Nov onwards
Old School, Sinema, 11 Mount Sophia
For timing details, please visit www.designfilmfestival.com or www.sinema.sg

The Design Film Festival will be premiering a selection of design and art related films that have never been screened in Southeast Asia. The films include:
— Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect
— Visual Acoustics
— Beautiful Losers
— Milton Glaser
— Herb & Dorothy

Design Ideas Worth Spreading

TEDxSingapore

Seminar & Talk
28 Nov 2009
9:00am–12:00pm
Free, registration required
Singapore Management University School of Accountancy, Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium

TED Talks on 'Design Ideas Worth Spreading' is an ideas event featuring some of the most amazing, thought-provoking TED speakers exploring ideas and questions that affect us all: How can we build a better world? Design great products? Live a greener existence? Be more creative? Lead happier lives? Create a future we can all believe in?

Design Thinking Workshop

Keio – NUS CUTE Center

25–26 Nov 2009
10:00am-5:00pm
Paid entry, registration required
Entrance fees: $100 (for students and people above 65 years) & $250 (for all other participants); includes lunch and tea/coffee

Design Thinking is defined by Tim Brown, from IDEO, as a creative approach to innovation. Well-known companies like Apple, Microsoft and JP Morgan have successfully applied Design Thinking techniques to create new futures for their businesses.

A group of research designers from Keio-NUS CUTE Center would like to engage with local designers, business strategists and others in a short-term Design Thinking workshop. The interactive session offers an opportunity for professionals from various sectors to learn new techniques for innovation, in order to design new strategies and develop new technologies.

Narrative Design Seminar

20 Nov 2009
2:30pm-5:00pm
Free admission, registration required
LASALLE College of the Arts F201

Storytelling is key in the process of making and living an experience. Cinema and film studies have explored ‘making’ and ‘telling’ for years, but this conference aims to connect design and cinema and to look at patterns and practices, history and stories.

Narrative Design encapsulates researches in navigation, interaction, visualisation, patterns, imageability, ambulation, way finding, saturation, frugality, zero and food. Alok Nandi translates these abstract concepts into concrete works within information design, media technologies, exhibition mise-en-scene, public speaking, media art and design.

Nature Borne Exhibition

3 Nov–27 Dec 2009
05:00am–12:00am daily
Free admission
Singapore Botanic Gardens

More than 25 sculptures and installations have been created by five Korean and five Singaporean designers and artists specially invited to take part in this unique exhibition. The exhibition, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, unites landscape design and public art.

The sculptures and installations are varied in medium and form, with each specifically sited to create a harmonious landscape.

Want to see more? Take a look at the full list of events from the Singapore Design Festival 2009.

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