MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN!
Dear students, alumni, colleagues, and partners of CDE,
It’s a brand-new academic year, and as always, we start with a bang – with the NUS Rag and Flag.
The NUS Rag and Flag had its start in 1958 and has become one of our university’s most cherished annual traditions. It provides an opportunity for incoming and current students to bond at the start of the academic year. Such experiences awaken in our students the understanding that their time here can be enriched through such meaningful and fun activities.
Even more importantly, Rag and Flag is when we, as a community, reaffirm our commitment to give back to society. That commitment to giving back runs through all that we do in CDE and in our community.
This year, we also commemorate a remarkable milestone: the 70th anniversary of engineering education at NUS. We marked Engineering’s rich history and networks and thanked those who supported us along the way. This was made even more significant as in 2025, we are also celebrating SG60 and NUS120.
But Engineering is only one part of the rich tapestry of CDE. As a combined force together with the Department of Architecture, the Department of the Built Environment and the Division of Industrial Design, we have even greater potential to make a tremendous difference in the lives of others. So, I think we will have more to look forward to in the next 70 years!
Wishing all our students, staff and faculty a great academic year ahead.
Professor Teo Kie Leong
Dean
College of Design and Engineering (CDE)
HIGHLIGHTS
EVENTS
Reflections and Experiments in Contemporary Korean Housing
This talk examines collective housing in contemporary Korea against an ethical vacuum produced in the process of modernisation in East Asia. This condition arises from the destabilisation of family-based ethics and the incomplete formation of civic ethics. Within this condition, the talk reframes the prevalence of apartment housing in Korea—often developed as large, semi-gated communities—not […]
Unscripted Mask(ing) Tape
“Unscripted Mask(ing) Tape” is a collective performance experiment composed of text, voice, and body. This is not an open mic nor an individual presentation; it is a space for participants to anonymously share their feelings, repressions, observations, and unexpressed words with one another.
Guest lecture by Karla Saldaña Ochoa on AI + Digital Twins
Karla Saldaña Ochoa is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida and a faculty affiliate at the AI2 Centre, the Centre of Latin American Studies, and FIBER. She directs the AI in Architecture Graduate Certificate program and oversees the SHARE Lab, a research group focused on developing projects that […]
Running And Weaving: Social Design Education In Hong Kong
The talk will examine the Capstone course for final-year students in the Social Design programme at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. Over the past three years, Kam Fai and Charis Poon have designed, re-designed, and re-redesigned successive rounds of curricular changes in response to Hong Kong’s contemporary conditions. Informed by shifts in […]
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