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Singapore’s highest honour for designers and designs across all disciplines
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National Design Centre

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111 Middle Road
Singapore 188969

Opening hours
Everyday 9am to 9pm

Design For Students, Educators, Parents and Industry Professionals

Learning By Design Open Calls

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Join our Learning by Design community and nurture the next generation of changemakers! The Design Thinking in Schools Call for Proposal has been extended to 29 September 2023, 5pm.

Design Thinking in Schools – Call for Proposals

The Design Thinking in Schools programme supports school-based adoption of design thinking into programmes like the Applied Learning Programme, or through other school improvement efforts like school re-envisioning.

Educators can look forward to work with any of our 19 Programme Partners on the newly appointed Learning by Design Panel (RSVP to receive the full details on the Panel) to co-create design thinking projects for your schools. Selected school projects will receive sponsorship from Dsg for implementation in 2024.

List of 20 Programme Partners:

  1. Arkki SG
  2. BEEP Lab
  3. Bold@Work
  4. Creativeans
  5. Crater
  6. The Common Bench
  7. Design for Change
  8. Design Sojourn
  9. Design Exchange
  10. EYEYAH!
  11. Edm8ker
  12. EnHyphen
  13. Forest & Whale
  14. Orcadesign
  15. SIT
  16. STUCK
  17. SUTD
  18. Thinkroom
  19. VIVITA
  20. School of X – activation pending further notice

Key Milestones:

Calling all educators with an interest in design thinking!

For full details on the requirements and submission process for this Call for Proposals, please download our application kit below.  All applications are to be submitted by email to learningbydesign@designsingapore.org through Programme Partners by 29 September 2023, 5pm.

Real World Co-Design Platform – Call for Challenge Sponsors

The Real World Co-Design Platform is a programme that brings together students, educators and parents to engage in real world problem-solving through a design-led creative thinking experience, guided by design facilitators.

Dsg is calling for interested organisations who can be Challenge Sponsors with a real world problem that our students (7 to 18 year olds), educators and parents can co-design solutions for:

  • Who can indicate interest: Any public or private organisation in Singapore with a challenge statement related to social good. If you do not have a specific challenge statement in mind, you may indicate a problem area too.

Calling industry partners with an interest in General Education!

For full details on the requirements and submission process for this Call for Challenge Sponsors, please download our information kit below. All indication of interest is to be submitted online through FormSG.

Contact Us

For any questions regarding Learning by Design or these Open Calls, please contact:

Ben Tan

Email: ben_tan@designsingapore.org

Chen Junhua

Email: chen_junhua@designsingapore.org

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VISIT
Singapore’s highest honour for designers and designs across all disciplines
One of Asia’s premier design festivals that champions design thought leadership
National Design Centre