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No Such Luck was accepted for the Asian Civilisation Museum SIGCHI Creativity and Cognition Conference & Exhibition 2017 at the Art Science Museum.

Papers, posters, demos, pictorials, workshops, artworks, and graduate student symposium submissions investigating how interactive computing systems and socio-technical processes affect creativity were showcased. Of particular interest are contributions that relate to this year’s conference theme: Lifelong Creativity, Learning, and Innovation. The theme reflects our belief that creativity is a lifelong pursuit rather than a transient goal. We cherish creativity as a wonderful aspect of human experience, transformation and potentially transcendental. Creativity is the partner of inspiration, of moments when we seem to go beyond ourselves to reach new heights.

Art Science Musuem
47 Malan Road, #01-26
27 - 30 June 2017

Hans Tan was invited to present his vision of Singapore in 2065 for the exhibition, Tomorrow: Design Stories of Our Future.  

Tomorrow: Design Stories of Our Future is an exhibition of graphic works from President’s Design Award winners as well as illustrators. 10 designers and 10 illustrators from Singapore present their visions of her future today. Responding to 10 speculative questions of how we will communicate, connect, dress, eat, learn, live, play, relax, travel and work, these creatives were paired up to discuss and create stories together on one assigned aspect of life in Singapore on its centennial.

A book compiling the stories were also released under the same name, Tomorrow: Design Stories of Our Future.  

F1 Pit Building
Singapore
7–12 March 2017

An exhibition featuring 15 talents from Singapore explore the magic in design through the looking glass of a new alchemy: a selection of tools and objects inspired by the alchemical process of transforming substances such as lead into gold. Curated by Stefan Casciani (italy) and Patrick Chia (singapore), and produced by Yoichi Nakamuta, the pieces on show at ‘the alchemists’ paid homage to the culture of the avant-garde in which various mediums were explored.

Pour (table) has been developed for this showcase, and will be exhibited alongside some pieces from the Spotted Nyonya Collection.

Singaplural
F1 Pit Building (Level 3)
7 - 12 March 2017

COPY-TIAM CHAIR was exhibited and distributed at the Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection exhibition.

M+’s debut design exhibition Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection - explores the many concepts and frameworks that have shaped and broadened our understanding of design.

Featuring dozens of key objects and works - from mid- twentieth century Japanese furniture, to familiar products from Hong Kong’s manufacturing heyday, to drones, ‘copied’ goods, and digitally-enabled and open-source practices - this groundbreaking show illustrates how design philosophies and practices have changed from the post-Second World War period until now. In so doing, Shifting Objectives outlines the growing contours of the M+ design collection, which is the first of its kind in Asia and a core pillar of M+.

M+ Museum
Hong Kong
30 November 2016 - 5 February 2017

For more information, visit: Shifting Objectives

Pieces from the Striped Ming and Spotted Nyonya Collection will be exhibited at San Jose Museum of Art.

San Jose Museum of Art will present the exhibition Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. The exhibition comprises 280 works by fifty-seven international, cutting-edge designers from twenty-seven countries, including Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Iran, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, and the United States. 

Projects range from experimental prototypes and interactive games to high-tech fashion and architecture made possible by new material technologies; from forms enabled by advanced digital systems to fantastical creatures imagined and handmade by a cottage industry of South African beadworkers. Imagine, for example, a couture jacket that turns color based on the air temperature. Across the board, this exhibition is about beauty—and its uplifting, surprising, and inspiring impact on our lives. This exhibition lets visitors experience the delight of unfettered creativity that is simultaneously functional and smart, yet equally human, elegant, and witty.

San Jose Museum of Art
110 S Market St, San Jose
CA 95113, USA
7 October 2016 - 19 February 2017

For more information, visit: San Jose Museum of Art

Singapore Blue is currently exhibited at the Porcelain Festival organised by Supermama.

Porcelain is a material that is familiar to Asians. With a rich history dating back to periods even before the various dynasties, it is one of the most timeless materials to have graced the archives of dignitaries in the form of decorative objects of art. Supermama Porcelain Festival is an independent ceramics fair organised by Singapore-based crafts store, Supermama. The purpose is to introduce porcelain as a possible typography in the design of giftware, homeware and objet d’art.

Inspired and influenced by the porcelain culture in Arita, Japan, the inaugural fair was held from 16th to 30th September 2016 and will take place at 2 locations – Supermama’s Flagship Store in Beach Road and at Supermama Gallery Shop in Gillman Barracks. The Supermama Porcelain Festival is held in conjunction with Gillman Barracks’ 4th Anniversary Celebration. 

Supermama Gillman Barracks
47 Malan Road, #01-26
Singapore 109444
16 - 30 September 2016

For more information, visit: Supermama

The Spotted Nyonya and Pour Table being Design of the Year for 2012 and 2015 respectively, were part of an exhibition celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the President’s Design Award featuring works by award recipients from the past decade.

The year 2015 marked the 10th year since the establishment of the President’s Design Award (PDA). To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of PDA, an exhibition that showcases the impact that the award recipients have made to everyday life has been produced.

It will inspire and engender pride in the design community to enhance their capabilities and professional practice so that they too may aspire towards this award. It will cultivate and nurture an appreciation of quality design and its impact on everyday lives in visitors.

National Design Centre, Atrium
Singapore
8 March - 8 April 2016

Pieces from the Striped Ming and Spotted Nyonya Collection will be exhibited at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for its Triennial.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial,” the fifth installment of the museum’s popular contemporary design exhibition series. With projects ranging from experimental prototypes and interactive games to fashion ensembles and architectural interventions, “Beauty” will fill most of two floors of the museum with more than 250 works by 62 designers from around the globe. 

“Featuring recent work from the most outstanding voices in the global design scene, ‘Beauty’ will expand the discourse around the transformative power of aesthetic innovation,” said Caroline Baumann, director of the museum. “The exhibition will celebrate design as a creative endeavor that engages the mind, body and senses with works of astonishing form and surprising function.”

Organized by Assistant Curator Andrea Lipps and Senior Curator of Contemporary Design Ellen Lupton, the exhibition explores beauty through seven lenses: extravagant, intricate, ethereal, transgressive, emergent, elemental and transformative.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
12 Febuary - 21 August 2016

For more information, visit: CooperHewitt.org

"Leo Cycloid Tessella Alcantara" was produced to represent Singapore in the Local Icons. East/West project held at MAXXI the Italian National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, curated by Giulio Cappellini and Domitilla Dardi.

With Local Icons. East/West the designers Studio Job, Constance Guisset, Poetic Lab, Mischer Traxler, Gam Fratesi, Neri&Hu, Hans Tan, Michael Young, Poetic Lab and Cosmas Gozali interpret 10 capitals belonging to two geopolitical macro-areas through an object that embodies their essence in an imaginary dialogue between East and West.

Through a direct and indirect dialogue with the designers, Alcantara and MAXXI have staged a fresh cultural debate, an exchange of views between two different ways of life in contemporary metropolises, channelling these reflections into prototypes that are asked to capture the essence of the places.

MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
Via Guido Reni, 4/A
00196 Rome
05 Febuary - 28 Febuary 2016

For more information, visit: www.fondazionemaxxi.it

An exhibition featuring 15 talents from Singapore explore the magic in design through the looking glass of a new alchemy: a selection of tools and objects inspired by the alchemical process of transforming substances such as lead into gold. Curated by Stefan Casciani (italy) and Patrick Chia (singapore), and produced by Yoichi Nakamuta, the pieces on show at ‘the alchemists’ paid homage to the culture of the avant-garde in which various mediums were explored.

Pour (table) has been developed for this showcase, and will be exhibited alongside some pieces from the Spotted Nyonya Collection.

Singapore Art Museum
15 - 31 January 2016