> brief

The combination of digital design tools and advanced production modes increases the ability of rapid prototyping, and creates new relations between conception and production.

Dealing with a subject that we have been investigating through our teaching and research at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, our workshop will offer an intense creative experience to illustrate these contemporary trends. We will question how a design process can be informed by pre-defined production and assembly means.
What are the economies of effort and material achieved? How can the excess material be used? How is 3-dimensionality assembled from 1 surface? And more...

Using automated manufacturing techniques, in this case laser-cutting, we will conceive urban furniture designs emerging from flatness into three-dimensionality. Digital modelling will enable rapid testing of our prototypes through models.These designs will be embedded into the urban condition of Singapore, and will respond to the needs of particular sites. To achieve this we will to collaborate with various local agents ranging from public bodies, furniture manufacturers, and local designers. We aspire to imbed the workshop into the broader spectrum of Singapore’s dynamic urbanity.

As we strongly believe that the design process is as interesting as the final product, we will illustrate the progress of our work during the workshop as well as its results.


The workshop will be held at the innovative IDEA Centre- an ideal setting for collective brainstorming and production - and is aimed at design students from various related fields (architecture, industrial design, graphics, etc.) but also at the greater general public interested in experiencing what this design process is about.