People of Design Showcase Series – PLANT

ABOUT

PLANT sees industrial design students negotiate with the physical, philosophical, biological, behavioural, and ideological relationship between people and (house)plants.

The rise of decorative indoor planting has been phenomenal in recent years. Yet, the evolution of pot and planter design has largely remained stylistic, with the occasional technical novelty. What if a planter is not a pot? What if a planter is soft? What if a planter is obsessive? What if a planter is a sanctuary? Questions such as these are teased out in design propositions that reimagine the common household planter, challenging presumptions and provoking new sensibilities.

These projects were completed at the Division of Industrial Design, College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore, led by either Donn Koh or Hans Tan and Sheryl Teng.

PLANT is presented at the National Library Building in partnership with the National Library Board and is one in a ten-part People of Design Showcase Series presented across the Bras Basah.Bugis Design District.

ORGANISER

Hans Tan Studio

Hans is a designer maker, curator, and educator based in Singapore, whose work explores creativity through “deformative inquiry,” making use of utility as a pretext for provoking discourse. His work, infused with narratives and collective memory, examines design and its industry.

CO-ORGANISER

Division of Industrial Design, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore

CONTACT

Name: Sheryl Teng
Email Address: she.ryl@nus.edu.sg

Top image: Image by Matthew Wong

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