Design got personal at an event organized by Asia Design Forum (ADF) at Singapore’s National Design Centre in November. A diverse group of speakers looked at how architecture and design can affect people—changing the way residents engage with their environment or altering the emotional condition of the designer herself. Participants, who ranged from a former government official to an art gallery owner, focused on different scales, looking at that of the community or a single brick. But all of them talked about strengthening people’s connections to place.
Part of ADF’s series of “Design Roulettes,” which has traveled to cities around the region, the event brought together participants from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United States, who made short presentations and interviewed each other. Each person looked at how design can save a different notion, value, or condition.
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