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Tel: +65 6516 8518

THE CENTRE


The Design Incubation Centre is a design research laboratory, which investigates and develops new tools of design, in order to find new possibilities for the practice of design.

As a design probe, the centre addresses and explores three spheres of research into human needs, emerging technology and social trends. It seeks to create new ideas and products that are intuitive and enriching without losing sight of the experience and encounter.

The centre’s distinct approach and emphasis into mining and discovering unmet needs enables it to redefine areas of human interaction with new technology and software that affects daily life and social behaviour. The Design Incubation Centre tries to find a new sensibility that allows it to create products that focus on the augmentation of human capability and to further examine the boundaries between physical and mental limitations.

Through projects that are self-initiated or developed in collaboration with industry, the centre aims to experiment with and develop new design methods. The centre also regularly conducts workshops as a platform for multidisciplinary collaboration and to allow for cross-pollination of ideas among participants from different disciplines.


WORKSHOPS


The workshops developed by the centre are framed around businesses and involve academic researchers, professionals from the industry, as well as policymakers and stakeholders from the government. These workshops take on a “phase zero” approach where it is structured to examine contexts without presumption – to make fresh observations and develop new insights so as to generate relevant, innovative concepts.

The Design Incubation Centre is part of the Division of Industrial Design. It was proposed by the School of Design and Environment as a result of a strategic initiative by the National University of Singapore for each school or faculty to develop its own centre of excellence.

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