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 in the late 20th century. It can also be seen as a logical offshoot of the Singapore government’s economic strategy which had undergone a serious review in the wake of the recession of 1985. Consequently, the “services sector” (which included the arts) was identified as a potential future growth engine for Singapore.

"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 years now, it has been described by many theorists, sociologists as a complex language.

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 the scope of design’s role in society by means of fostering transparency and community involvement to produce contributions extending beyond the individual designer to impact culture and society.

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.

This book chapter investigates the multifarious ways that film, video and digital projections are used in theatrical stage productions, and the vast range of ideas, meanings and effects they create. Case studies of practitioners including Katie Mitchell, Robert Lepage, the Wooster Group and The Builders Association illustrate the myriad ways in which theatre thinks through, investigates and experiments with the potent conjunction of live performance and recorded media.

Singapore celebrated 50 years of independence in 2015. The nation state has been repeatedly criticized as “a cultural desert” by scholars due to the cosmopolitan nature of the society. However, animated short films from Singapore are increasingly engaging national identity and culture as their premise.