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) for students to critique the effectiveness of an existing appraisal system; (ii) for students to suggest a set of criteria for performance evaluation; and (iii) for students to construct measurable performance indicators.

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 who can work across disciplines […].” In order for designers to function effectively in the increasingly complex society we live in, it is imperative that they operate in interdisciplinary teams, to collaborate and coordinate with experts from different fields. This implies that designers will need to be equipped with project management and teamwork skills.

“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.

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 as happenings, intermedia and participatory arts established evidence that cybernetic and system-theoretical approaches to art and design education as well as artistic practices provided valid avenues for the realisation of collective art forms.

Compassion is at the core of art(s) therapy community work, and passion is the stimulus that excites and ignites such projects. Alongside the incredible drive, engagement, and transformative processes and gains from these noble and responsive efforts, integrity of the profession must be consciously adhered to and abided by. Ethics must consistently guide our profession, and the impact of social media and social interest on community arts therapy practice must be strategically attended to.

Published to accompany the group exhibition Dissolving margins, including Eng Kai Er, Camille Henrot, James T Hong, Tara Kelton and Darius Ou, at the ICA Singapore
Essay by Melanie Pocock
Afterword by Bala Starr
List of artists and works in the exhibition
Digital, 103 pages, 53 illus. (colour), ISBN 978-981-11-9983-7