From 18 - 20 January 2011, students from the Diploma in Design for Interactivity Final Year Project team 0065 (School of Technology for the Arts) produced an art installation to raise awareness of existing poverty in Singapore. This was a Service-Learning initiative in which the team transformed the space in The Republic Cultural Centre Practice Room 1C into a walk-through tour of a one-room flat, inspiring their audience to help alleviate the issue of poverty. Their goal was for the audience to reconsider modifying their own lifestyles and realise how their changes could help ease the problem of poverty locally.

As a team of interaction designers, they devised space-saving furniture designs which could improve the lives of low income families. They also opened up and allowed their audience to use the installation as an inspiration for ideas and to give design suggestions on how the families’ living conditions could be improved. Read more...

The Republic Cultural Centre Practice Room 1C

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