PDA Award Recipients Forum 2016

PDA Award Recipients' Forum 2016 will be held at the National Design Centre Auditorium on Friday, 16 December 2016. The Forum will comprise of 2 sessions with separate themes, where Award Recipients will share insights into their award-winning work.

About the Event:

Title	President’s Design Award 2016 Award Recipients’ Forum
Venue	National Design Centre, Auditorium
Date	Friday, 16 December 2016
Time	Session 1: 10.30am – 12.00pm Session 2: 3.30pm – 5pm
Session 1 Topic	Renew & Rejuvenate by Design How does design breathe new life into old ideas? Four President’s Design Award recipients will present projects that show how design can help us look at old problems with new eyes. Listen to how they have rebranded a fading craft to provide jobs for aging craftsmen, re-engineered medical equipment to save more lives, revamped an old building into a contemporary creative hub, and reinvented an everyday product to benefit the environment and business alike.
Session 2 Topic	People @ the Heart of the Design Process What does it mean to truly design for people? Four President’s Design Award recipients will share their journeys in harnessing user insights, ethnographic studies and extensive research to create outcomes that touch people’s lives. Hear how the designers behind complex engineering structures, a transformative community space, a mobile medical device and a powerful office printer have put their users at heart of the design process.