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A 2018 Forbes article reported that the fashion industry generates 92 million tons or 4% of the world’s waste each year, a lot of which comes from offcuts from the production process. It also highlighted that retail downsizing will continue…

Driven by the desire to advance current construction methods using renewable sources, PRODUCE aims to further reduce material wastage, shorten production lead time, and minimise manhours on construction sites, thereby creating a more efficient, greener, and safer building system. Our built environment…

As more people eat from home, the plastic waste generated by single-use food containers aggravates plastic pollution in our ocean, harms the planetary health and stresses our waste management systems. How can we transform the convenience mindset ingrained in a…

More than 13,000 trees will be felled in Singapore over the next 13 years, yet these logs are not used by local designers and craftsmen due to the high costs associated with Singapore wood. Sustainable woodworking methods in Singapore are…

COVID-19 has added to the financial, social and mental stress for many of us, but not everyone has the same access to resources to weather the challenges. Through their Good Design Research project, Common Ground plans to map human systems, uncover shifting…

Ms Serene Yap Shu Mei is a DesignSingapore Scholar 2020, and soon she will be pursuing a Master of Arts in Service Design at the Royal College of Art. She aspires to be a service designer as she wants to spread the…

Mr Orion Dai Yuhui is a DesignSingapore Scholar 2020, and soon he will be pursuing the Master of Arts/Master of Science in Global Innovation Design at the Royal College of Art. He enjoys exploring the integration of design and engineering…

Material waste is a prevalent issue in the manufacturing industry. Many material offcuts that are produced during manufacturing are inevitably left abandoned as industrial waste. However, many of these offcuts have a beauty of their own and need not be…