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Notwithstanding a materializing Singapore cinema, research attention has not been paid to how animated cultural products can make an impact on the construction of a local identity. This can be …

Interdisciplinarity has allowed design education to expand beyond its traditional practises to integrate methodologies for understanding and addressing complexities, structuring and organising critical perspectives, externalising through visual representations, and reflecting …

Motivating students in creative media courses can be a challenge due to the demand for creativity which is hard to be taught. Hence, motivation needs to be re-identified and re-addressed …

As digital technology has profoundly changed the way people communicate and interact with each other, there is a need to also change the way in which advertising communicates with its …

Uncanny’ works by a number of contemporary artists are analysed in relation to the themes and insights of both cybernetics and existentialist philosophy. This reveals that central ideas from these …

This paper addresses the current challenges of using KPIs to measure the impacts of the arts, against a framework of what it means to do ‘performance measurement’ for arts organisations. …

The Report of the Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts (ACCA) released in 1989, is widely seen as the signature document which laid the path for Singapore’s arts development …

“Fashion content has in recent years become an open access for all to comment and contribute, becoming a language of ambiguity, fixed in rigid social and cultural roles. For many …

Social innovation involves the convergence of human involvement and contemporary society, positioning design practice as a co­creative trajectory towards implementing significant and meaningful change. The social innovation concept has expanded …

This exercise is part of a book on experiential approaches to the teaching of Human Resource Management. Specifically, in the teaching of performance appraisal, this activity fulfils three purposes: (i) …

Donald Norman (2010), in his article titled Why Design Education Must Change, advocated an interdisciplinary approach in design pedagogy that allows us to nurture “[…] new kinds of designers, people …

“If you do not deploy design thinking, you are working for yourself.” Neal Cross, Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer of DBS Bank, at Singapore DesignWeek 2017. In his keynote …

Art and design education continue to resonate with modernist and avant-gardist ideas of artwork and author. However, during the transition from modernism to post-modernism in the 1960s, art forms such …