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Euronews
15-05-2025
- Science
- Euronews
Uzbekistan showcases modernist Tashkent at Venice Biennale 2025
At the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, Uzbekistan's pavilion celebrates the Sun Institute of Material Science, a 1987 solar furnace built for military and aerospace research. Designed by Grace Studio, the exhibition explores the site's scientific and architectural legacy through fragmented displays. Artists like Ester Sheynfeld highlight the everyday life of researchers at the Tashkent complex. The pavilion also reflects Uzbekistan's broader effort to document and protect 21 modernist buildings. The solar facility is now listed for UNESCO heritage status and seen as a symbol of sustainable relevance in a changing world.
Korea Herald
13-05-2025
- General
- Korea Herald
Architects across globe urge climate action at Venice Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 brings together like-minded architects, engineers, artists proposing indigenous, nature-friendly solutions VENICE, Italy — Visitors confront darkness in a room filled with suspended air conditioners and water pools; the uncomfortable, stuffy and humid environment alerts people to the issues at stake without saying a word. The installation 'The Third Paradise Perspective' at the Venice Biennale 2025 calls for collective responsibility and action. 'Architecture has always been a response to climate — an act of shelter, survival and optimism. From the first primitive huts to the submerged foundations of Venice, human design has evolved in dialogue with nature. Today, that evolution is no longer a choice but a necessity: climate change is not a future scenario, but a present reality,' the text introducing the exhibition states Venice Biennale's 19th international architecture exhibition kicked off Thursday across Venice with the overarching theme of 'Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective,' led by curator Carlo Ratti. The biennale's main exhibition at the Arsenale was joined by more than 750 architects, engineers, artists and climate scientists, marking the largest number of participants ever for a main exhibition. Curating on such a large scale was possible through the curatorial team's open call for participants who share similar concerns, according to the organizer. The Golden Lion award for the best national participation went to the Kingdom of Bahrain, one of the 66 national pavilions presented at the biennale. The national pavilion offered a viable proposal for extreme heat conditions, using the traditional passive cooling methods typical of the region and reminiscent of wind towers used in hot climates such as the Kingdom of Bahrain. 'Architecture must address the dual challenges of environmental resilience and sustainability. The indigenous solution can be deployed in public spaces and in locations where people must live and work outdoors in conditions of extreme heat,' the designers of the pavilion, led by curator Andrea Faraguna, explained. The South Korean exhibition "Little Toad Little Toad: Unbuilding Pavilion," curated by the Curating Architecture Collective, took its inspiration from the architecture of the space itself — how it was built, preserving the trees around the space and even their roots. South Korea's pavilion was constructed in the Giardini in 1995 and is the last permanent national pavilion built. 'The balcony tree was here in the corner of the space, designated for preservation during the design of the Korean Pavilion. The archival records of the pavilion show that the architects had to come up with a design to embrace the tree, which has since died and been removed," curator Chung Da-young told the press. The Spain Pavilion introduced projects by 16 studios that emphasize local, regenerative and low-carbon materials, naming the presentation "Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium." "Every time we construct a space, we deconstruct another elsewhere. Building and territory are thus intimately connected through a material bond. It is the responsibility of architects to ensure that this bond is a positive one," the text on the wall at the national pavilion reads. Qatar Museums showcased a two-part exhibition at the Giardini on the site of the future Qatar Pavilion and the ACP-Palazzo Franchetti located near the Accademia Bridge, exploring the architecture of the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia from the mid-20th century to today. 'As we continue to shape a cultural landscape of dialogue and exchange, this exhibition serves as a testament to Qatar's role in fostering a deeper understanding of our diverse architectural heritage,' said Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who serves as chair of Qatar Museums and is the daughter of Qatar's former ruling emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Along with the main exhibition and national pavilions, various exhibitions coincide with the biennale, bringing together renowned architects from around the world. The exhibition 'For All That Breathes on Earth: Jung Youngsun and Collaborators' at the SMAC San Marco Art Center marked one of the inaugural shows at the newly opened arts center at the heart of the Piazza San Marco. The exhibition centers on the projects by Jung Young-sun, a first-generation contemporary landscape architect and the first woman licensed as a land development engineer in Korea. It shows how the 84-year-old landscape architect advocated for resilience and sustainability in landscape design in collaboration with architects, biologists and urban planners. 'A lot of designers and landscape architects, they are trying to show their design a lot, but Jung's design is somehow quiet and natural,' said Pritzker Prize-winning British architect David Chipperfield, who appeared at the exhibition and collaborated with Jung in the Amorepacific Headquarters project in Seoul. The British architect restored the Procuratie, three connected buildings along the perimeter of the plaza, which now leases the space to the SMAC, and comprises 16 galleries. The design of another Pritzker laureate, French architect Jean Nouvel, for the new Foundation Cartier was also unveiled in Venice. It is expected to open in fall 2025.
Business Mayor
11-05-2025
- Science
- Business Mayor
robots and AI help humans exist in future cities at the venice architecture biennale 2025
At the Arsenale of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 , robots and AI exist for and with humans, a glimpse at everyday life in future cities. These humanoids and robotics at the international exhibition , which runs until November 23rd, display their growing role in reshaping how structures and wearables are designed, built, and used, both on Earth and in space. They support human exploration and survival out of Earth, form part of construction tasks, and bear systems that allow them to adapt to the environment and collaborate with humans to perform different tasks. Take the BioSuit by Dava Newman and Guillermo Trotti. It's a 3D textile framework built with computational design and fiber integration, tailored to everyone's body dimensions. It has wearable sensors and actuators, thermal protection, radiation shielding, and active materials for compression. The suit is designed to support astronaut activity on the Moon and Mars. It even comes with real-time mission planning and metabolic monitoring to combine astronaut data with environmental inputs and guide the astronauts with their exploration. Positioned next to this suit at the Arsenale, visitors see the Lunar Ark by IVAAIU City. Another application of robotics in space development, it depicts a data center on the Moon using robotic systems. The goal is to mitigate risks related to climate change on Earth by storing critical data off-planet. The robots come in by assembling the archive infrastructure and carry out the system updates using optical laser communication. For the exhibition, the design team places a robot arm on top of Boston Dynamics' robot dog, Spot. BioSuit by Dava Newman and Guillermo Trotti | image © designboom Machines 'help' humans, not replace them Robots and AI only take up a part of the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, but it's enough to announce and remind people of their growing presence in people's lives and the architecture industry. Bjarke Ingels Group, Laurian Ghinitolu, and Arata Mori, for example, present an installation where traditional Bhutanese woodworking is helped by a robotic arm. This six-meter, diamond-shaped wooden beam is partially carved by a human and partially by a robot using AI. The case isn't to show that robots will replace humans. Instead, the installation demonstrates how we can fire up the robots for help, shouldering some of our workload. There's another pair of robots and AI at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 that exhibits how machines and humans can work together. That's CO-POIESIS by Philip F. Yuan and Bin He. Here, the duo built a temporary pavilion for the two robots, made from salvaged timber and with robotic fabrication. The large structure hosts two wired robots with sensors: the one at the front plays the steelpan drum, while the one behind dances. Outside the installation, there's another steelpan drum that visitors play. Once they do, the robot hits the same drum that the visitors strike, and soon enough, the second robot begins to dance. Lunar Ark by IVAAIU City | image courtesy of IVAAIU City Humanoids can gain self-awareness over time Can robots and AI gain self-awareness? During the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, the installation Am I A Strange Loop? by Takashi Ikegami and Luc Steels attempts to answer the question. It features a humanoid robot called Alter3. It doesn't have skin around its body, but the machine has a face and two hands, sculpted from clay-like material. The design team installs systems for perception, motion control, memory, and language processing. Read More Paint by Blēo among six new products on Dezeen Showroom This means that Alter3 can converse with visitors and move its hands and head as it talks using language models. There's also Machine Mosaic by Daniela Rus, demonstrating the use of a humanoid robot in bricklaying and mosaic assembly. It has a computer vision system that enables the robot to sense and interpret its surroundings. Because of this, it can translate what it sees into action, mimicking it even. During the exhibition, the robot repeatedly assembles and dismantles components, showing how robotics can perform structured building tasks. the installation significantly depicts a data center on the Moon using robotic systems | image © designboom The experiment looks into robotic self-awareness. Researchers believe can develop when feedback loops connect a robot's outputs to its inputs, creating a recursive cycle. These robots and AI at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 still mirror the already growing sphere of the machinery in space, architecture, Earth, and human lives. Whether helping astronaut performance, constructing lunar facilities, assisting with craftsmanship, or testing theories of consciousness, robotics, and the people behind them, try to expand the boundaries of design, construction, and space exploration. These machines take on more functions in both land and extraterrestrial environments, and the international exhibition, which runs until November 23rd, 2025, spotlights the relationship between human activity and robotic support that's becoming interdependent. Ancient Future: Bridging Bhutan's Tradition and Innovation by Bjarke Ingels Group, Laurian Ghinitolu, and Arata Mori | image courtesy of BIG traditional Bhutanese woodworking evidently helped by a robotic arm | image © designboom CO-POIESIS by Philip F. Yuan and Bin He | image © designboom
Zawya
06-05-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Singapore Celebrates 60 Years of Independence with an Enticing Multisensory Pavilion ‘RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA' at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
Celebrate Singapore's Superdiversity by experiencing a thousand worlds in one Singapore RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA brings superdiversity to the table, through a dynamic exhibition that reimagines city-making through food, culture, and collective design SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 6 May 2025 - In celebration of Singapore's 60th year of independence (SG60), the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 invites visitors to take a seat at the Table of Superdiversity—an enticing reimagination of city-making and nation-building through the universal act of dining. Titled RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA, the Pavilion reinterprets the Latin notion of tabula rasa (a blank slate) as a multisensory experience. Here, RASA (taste in Malay), TABULA (table in Latin), and SINGAPURA (Lion City in Sanskrit) converge as a metaphor for Singapore's distinctive identity, shaped by centuries of movement, exchange, and reinvention. Commissioned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA) and the DesignSingapore Council (Dsg), the Singapore Pavilion is organised by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and is curated by a multidisciplinary team from SUTD: Prof. Tai Lee Siang, Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Prof. Dr. Erwin Viray, Dr. Jason Lim, Asst. Prof. Dr. Immanuel Koh, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sam Conrad Joyce. The Pavilion uses dining—one of Singapore's beloved national pastimes—as a curatorial lens to explore how architecture, policy, and participatory design intersect in the everyday lives of Singaporeans. Through a curated menu of architectural and urban planning projects, RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA offers visitors a 'taste' of Singapore, by engaging with the key ingredients that shape its built environment. 'Main courses' highlight key developments and districts such as Pinnacle@Duxton, an iconic public housing development in Singapore, that reflects Singapore's innovative approach to urban growth and transformation; while 'side dishes' showcase innovations in design, policy, and community-building, which contribute to Singapore's strength as a multicultural society. The Pavilion's tablescape reflects and applies the theme of Biennale curator Carlo Ratti— Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective. —to Singapore's context. Building on the word 'intelligence' and the Latin word 'gens', which means 'people', the Pavilion seeks to express Singapore's superdiversity by illustrating how the convergence of global and local influences, complex data, as well as myriad flows of people, goods, ideas and innovations, collectively shapes Singapore's unique identity and the way we rethink the built environment. "Illustrating Singapore's superdiversity, we are highlighting seven 'main courses' at RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA —each offering a taste of how Singapore plans for life at every scale. At Pinnacle@Duxton, we explored vertical living as a framework for superdiversity—where density, design, and innovation come together in the sky. Moving from single developments to district-scale planning, projects like Tengah and Changi Airport demonstrate how Singapore applies the same design sensibility to shaping entire ecosystems of liveability and movement. These ideas continue through our research and teaching at SUTD, where planning for the future means designing for complexity. It's one expression of a city always planning ahead, always becoming," said Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Co-Curator for the Singapore Pavilion, head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar at SUTD and a recipient of the President's Design Award. Another key example on display on the dining table is CapitaSpring, a 280-metre-tall tropical high-rise in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District that exemplifies the city's progressive planning. The biophilic spectacle is a showcase of Singapore's Landscaping for Urban Spaces and High-Rises (LUSH) policy—requiring developers to replace greenery lost on the ground with vertical landscapes. Over 80,000 plants are woven into the tower's fabric, including a soaring four-storey Green Oasis 100 metres above ground, one of Singapore's highest that is publicly accessible in commercial buildings. Through the exhibition's interactive installations and vibrant dining-inspired setting, RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA brings this urban feast to life, inviting visitors to consider how collective views on natural, artificial, and social aspects can shape spaces that reflect shared needs, values, and aspirations. The Pavilion becomes a living forum where visitors can discover how design, data, and diversity converge to craft Singapore's evolving cityscape and its underpinning interconnected systems. "Through thoughtful urban planning and design, we create environments that inspire and support how we live, work, play, and connect. In a land-scarce city like Singapore, we need to balance density, diversity, and design. Planning policies, cultural values, environmental priorities, and community needs are considered and integrated to create and shape spaces that are inclusive, resilient and adaptable. RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA offers a sensory map of that approach, inviting visitors to experience the thoughtful processes that have shaped our nation's transformation in the last 60 years. It is not just a showcase of what we have built, but also a reflection of how we imagine—and continue to reimagine—our future," said Yap Lay Bee, Co-Commissioner of the Singapore Pavilion and Group Director (Architecture & Urban Design) of URA. "As a nation by design, Singapore's socio-economic needs, demographics, policies, and spatial negotiations have guided our urban planning. Such intelligence not only reflects our design-led development for the last 60 years, but will continue to chart the course for our future. Centring on the concept of superdiversity, this year's Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcases how the convergence of unique multicultural differences, collective histories, design and new technology offers opportunities for more inclusive, adaptive urban futures," said Dawn Lim, Co-Commissioner of the Singapore Pavilion and Executive Director of Dsg. The Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 will be held from 9 May 2025 to 23 November 2025. Visit for more information. Hashtag: #SingaporePavilion #RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. About Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore's land use planning and conservation agency. Our mission is "to make Singapore a great city to live, work and play". We strive to create an endearing home and a vibrant city through long-term planning and innovation, in partnership with the community. We have transformed Singapore into one of the most liveable cities in Asia through judicious land use planning and good urban design. Adopting a long-term and comprehensive planning approach, we formulate strategic plans such as the Long-Term Plan and the Master Plan to guide the physical development of Singapore in a sustainable manner. Developed to support economic growth, our plans and policies are focused on achieving a quality living environment for Singapore. We take on a multi-faceted role to turn plans and visions into reality. As the main government land sales agent, we attract and channel private capital investments to develop sites that support planning, economic and social objectives. Through our regulatory function, we ensure that development works are aligned with our plans. As the conservation authority, we have an internationally recognised conservation programme, and have successfully conserved not just single buildings, but entire districts. We also partner the community to enliven our public spaces to create a car-lite, people-friendly and liveable city for all to enjoy. In shaping a distinctive city, we promote architecture and urban design excellence, and innovate to build a resilient city of opportunity that fulfils the aspirations of our people. Visit for more information. About DesignSingapore Council (Dsg) 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. Our work focuses on three areas: First, we help organisations and enterprises use design as a strategy for business growth, and for excellent delivery of public services. Second, we nurture industry-ready talents skilled in design and innovation, and engender a design-minded workforce for the future economy. Third, we advance the Singapore brand through raising design appreciation on home-ground, helping local design talents and firms go international, and making emotional connections with people across the world. Dsg is a subsidiary of the Singapore Economic Development Board. Singapore was designated a UNESCO Creative City of Design in December 2015. The designation supports Singapore's development of a creative culture and ecosystem that integrates design and creativity with everyday life. It also expands Singapore's opportunity to collaborate with cities from the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN). The City of Design Office is sited with Dsg, which coordinates and implements programmes that respond to UCCN's mission. Visit for more information About Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is the world's first Design AI university. With Design AI, artificial intelligence is treated as a partner and a member of the team – not just a tool. As a result of this unique SUTD treatment, AI and humans brainstorm, spar and prototype together, resulting in solutions that are elevated several-fold. This human-AI team concept has been made possible because of SUTD's unique cohort-based interdisciplinary pedagogy – which has been in place since the University's formation in 2009. As a trailblazer in the field of design and technology education and research, SUTD has been pioneering innovative programmes and initiatives since our inception – including launching the world's first Design and AI degree in 2020 – well before AI was even a buzzword. The success of that pioneering degree has set the stage for a new growth strategy called SUTD Leap, which was launched in March 2024. Here, SUTD aims to redesign higher education with an even greater focus on design and AI, whilst nurturing the next generation of human-centric design x tech innovators and innovator leaders. Singapore Pavilion
Malay Mail
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Malay Mail
Singapore Celebrates 60 Years of Independence with an Enticing Multisensory Pavilion ‘RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA' at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
Celebrate Singapore's Superdiversity by experiencing a thousand worlds in one Singapore RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA brings superdiversity to the table, through a dynamic exhibition that reimagines city-making through food, culture, and collective design SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 6 May 2025 - In celebration of Singapore's 60th year of independence (SG60), the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 invites visitors to take a seat at the Table of Superdiversity—an enticing reimagination of city-making and nation-building through the universal act of the Pavilion reinterprets the Latin notion of(a blank slate) as a multisensory experience. Here, RASA (taste in Malay), TABULA (table in Latin), and SINGAPURA (Lion City in Sanskrit) converge as a metaphor for Singapore's distinctive identity, shaped by centuries of movement, exchange, and reinvention. Commissioned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA) and the DesignSingapore Council (Dsg), the Singapore Pavilion is organised by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and is curated by a multidisciplinary team from SUTD: Prof. Tai Lee Siang, Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Prof. Dr. Erwin Viray, Dr. Jason Lim, Asst. Prof. Dr. Immanuel Koh, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sam Conrad Pavilion uses dining—one of Singapore's beloved national pastimes—as a curatorial lens to explore how architecture, policy, and participatory design intersect in the everyday lives of Singaporeans. Through a curated menu of architectural and urban planning projects,offers visitors a 'taste' of Singapore, by engaging with the key ingredients that shape its built environment. 'Main courses' highlight key developments and districts such as Pinnacle@Duxton, an iconic public housing development in Singapore, that reflects Singapore's innovative approach to urban growth and transformation; while 'side dishes' showcase innovations in design, policy, and community-building, which contribute to Singapore's strength as a multicultural Pavilion's tablescape reflects and applies the theme of Biennale curator Carlo Ratti——to Singapore's context. Building on the word 'intelligence' and the Latin word 'gens', which means 'people', the Pavilion seeks to express Singapore's superdiversity by illustrating how the convergence of global and local influences, complex data, as well as myriad flows of people, goods, ideas and innovations, collectively shapes Singapore's unique identity and the way we rethink the built environment."Illustrating Singapore's superdiversity, we are highlighting seven 'main courses' at—each offering a taste of how Singapore plans for life at every scale. At Pinnacle@Duxton, we explored vertical living as a framework for superdiversity—where density, design, and innovation come together in the sky. Moving from single developments to district-scale planning, projects like Tengah and Changi Airport demonstrate how Singapore applies the same design sensibility to shaping entire ecosystems of liveability and movement. These ideas continue through our research and teaching at SUTD, where planning for the future means designing for complexity. It's one expression of a city always planning ahead, always becoming," said, Co-Curator for the Singapore Pavilion, head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar at SUTD and a recipient of the President's Design key example on display on the dining table is CapitaSpring, a 280-metre-tall tropical high-rise in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District that exemplifies the city's progressive planning. The biophilic spectacle is a showcase of Singapore's Landscaping for Urban Spaces and High-Rises (LUSH) policy—requiring developers to replace greenery lost on the ground with vertical landscapes. Over 80,000 plants are woven into the tower's fabric, including a soaring four-storey Green Oasis 100 metres above ground, one of Singapore's highest that is publicly accessible in commercial the exhibition's interactive installations and vibrant dining-inspired setting,brings this urban feast to life, inviting visitors to consider how collective views on natural, artificial, and social aspects can shape spaces that reflect shared needs, values, and aspirations. The Pavilion becomes a living forum where visitors can discover how design, data, and diversity converge to craft Singapore's evolving cityscape and its underpinning interconnected systems."Through thoughtful urban planning and design, we create environments that inspire and support how we live, work, play, and connect. In a land-scarce city like Singapore, we need to balance density, diversity, and design. Planning policies, cultural values, environmental priorities, and community needs are considered and integrated to create and shape spaces that are inclusive, resilient and a sensory map of that approach, inviting visitors to experience the thoughtful processes that have shaped our nation's transformation in the last 60 years. It is not just a showcase of what we have built, but also a reflection of how we imagine—and continue to reimagine—our future," said, Co-Commissioner of the Singapore Pavilion and Group Director (Architecture & Urban Design) of URA."As a nation by design, Singapore's socio-economic needs, demographics, policies, and spatial negotiations have guided our urban planning. Such intelligence not only reflects our design-led development for the last 60 years, but will continue to chart the course for our future. Centring on the concept of superdiversity, this year's Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcases how the convergence of unique multicultural differences, collective histories, design and new technology offers opportunities for more inclusive, adaptive urban futures," said, Co-Commissioner of the Singapore Pavilion and Executive Director of Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 will be held from 9 May 2025 to 23 November for more #SingaporePavilion #RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. About Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore's land use planning and conservation agency. Our mission is "to make Singapore a great city to live, work and play". We strive to create an endearing home and a vibrant city through long-term planning and innovation, in partnership with the community. We have transformed Singapore into one of the most liveable cities in Asia through judicious land use planning and good urban design. Adopting a long-term and comprehensive planning approach, we formulate strategic plans such as the Long-Term Plan and the Master Plan to guide the physical development of Singapore in a sustainable manner. Developed to support economic growth, our plans and policies are focused on achieving a quality living environment for Singapore. We take on a multi-faceted role to turn plans and visions into reality. As the main government land sales agent, we attract and channel private capital investments to develop sites that support planning, economic and social objectives. Through our regulatory function, we ensure that development works are aligned with our plans. As the conservation authority, we have an internationally recognised conservation programme, and have successfully conserved not just single buildings, but entire districts. We also partner the community to enliven our public spaces to create a car-lite, people-friendly and liveable city for all to enjoy. In shaping a distinctive city, we promote architecture and urban design excellence, and innovate to build a resilient city of opportunity that fulfils the aspirations of our people. Visit for more information. About DesignSingapore Council (Dsg) 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. Our work focuses on three areas: First, we help organisations and enterprises use design as a strategy for business growth, and for excellent delivery of public services. Second, we nurture industry-ready talents skilled in design and innovation, and engender a design-minded workforce for the future economy. Third, we advance the Singapore brand through raising design appreciation on home-ground, helping local design talents and firms go international, and making emotional connections with people across the world. Dsg is a subsidiary of the Singapore Economic Development Board. Singapore was designated a UNESCO Creative City of Design in December 2015. The designation supports Singapore's development of a creative culture and ecosystem that integrates design and creativity with everyday life. It also expands Singapore's opportunity to collaborate with cities from the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN). The City of Design Office is sited with Dsg, which coordinates and implements programmes that respond to UCCN's mission. Visit for more information About Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is the world's first Design AI university. With Design AI, artificial intelligence is treated as a partner and a member of the team – not just a tool. As a result of this unique SUTD treatment, AI and humans brainstorm, spar and prototype together, resulting in solutions that are elevated several-fold. This human-AI team concept has been made possible because of SUTD's unique cohort-based interdisciplinary pedagogy – which has been in place since the University's formation in 2009. As a trailblazer in the field of design and technology education and research, SUTD has been pioneering innovative programmes and initiatives since our inception – including launching the world's first Design and AI degree in 2020 – well before AI was even a buzzword. The success of that pioneering degree has set the stage for a new growth strategy called SUTD Leap, which was launched in March 2024. Here, SUTD aims to redesign higher education with an even greater focus on design and AI, whilst nurturing the next generation of human-centric design x tech innovators and innovator leaders.
