MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN!
Dear students, alumni, colleagues, and partners of CDE,
This past month, you might have seen articles and posts about the 2024 Singapore winner of the James Dyson Award—Luke Goh, Industrial Design (Class of 2024). Luke’s thesis project, Mammosense, is a first-of-its-kind tool that analyses individuals’ breasts to determine the optimal compression force required during screenings for greater patient comfort and encourage increased participation in cancer screenings. This is the 3rd consecutive win for the Division of Industrial Design – certainly a high point!
His work is intriguing because this young man had no qualms about embarking on this project—addressing a problem that would seem remote to the male population! Instead, his observations from his mother’s own experience drove his research, and intent in understanding the real problem underwent a mammogram himself. That is the spirit I often see in our College—the inquiring mind coupled with the drive to improve the lot of others.
The month was capped by another top achievement – former Head of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Liu Bin was awarded one of the nation’s highest honours – the President’s Science Award. Among her scientific achievements, she was also recognised for her creative and entrepreneurial mindset.
The inquiring mind, the interest in learning new things, and the love of exploring and experimentation – should always be encouraged here at CDE.
Professor Teo Kie Leong
Dean
College of Design and Engineering (CDE)
HIGHLIGHTS
EVENTS
Social Design Lab (SoDL) Exhibition – Acts Of Caring, Nurturing, Repairing And Imagining
The exhibition brings together a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen socially-engaged projects. Ranging from art, design, architecture, education, and urban planning, the projects situate the social across multiple scales and sites. They present a mosaic of outputs that reflect how different fields and disciplines respond to the urgent eco-techno-social concerns of our time. To assemble is […]
Social Design Lab (SoDL) Inaugural Conference – Examining The Social In Architecture
Interrogating what “the social” constitutes in the field of architecture, Designing the Social explores its philosophical, material, spatial and pedagogical limits. For its inaugural conference, the Social Design Lab (SoDL) at the National University of Singapore looks at how the social is activated through design, specifically how the raw material of social life might be […]
DOA Symposium: Building / Community in the Tropics and Beyond
The principle of site specificity has long guided most works of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. Yet what the “site” means itself remains mutable and contested. Recent design scholarship and practice progressively turn to local, indigenous, and traditional ways of shaping environments as critiques of modernist legacies of uniformity and standardisation. Still, we must remain […]
DOA Guest Lecture Series: Lobbying for Architecture
This talk will cover the work of The Architecture Lobby, an activist organisation that “lobbies” for the value of architecture in the public and in the profession itself. Begun in 2013 in New York City, it has evolved into an organisation trying to transform, on many fronts, the valuation of architectural work. The hope is […]
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