PEOPLE OF DESIGN SHOWCASE SERIES – SHOP
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DATES
26 Sep - 06 Oct 2024
OPENING HOURS
10.00am – 10.00pm
ADMISSION
Free Admission
ORGANISED BY
DATES
26 Sep - 06 Oct 2024
OPENING HOURS
10.00am – 10.00pm
ADMISSION
Free Admission
ABOUT
SHOP explores the intricate dynamics between design and shopping, pushing our understanding beyond familiar notions of this relationship through three experience segments.
Given how much of design already propels consumption, can we use it to slow it down, change directions or even reverse it? Design is more commonly associated with planning and production, emphasising purposefulness, usability and beauty. Its significant role, however, is still to drive shopping and consumption — to make things for sale and to make things sell, thus playing a crucial role in enabling mass production and consumption since the Industrial Revolution.
Visitors will encounter the showcase in three sections, playfully disguised as retail stores. The first provides a shopping experience without any goods or services. The second challenges the notion of value, effort and the use of ready-mades in products. The third features goods that cannot be purchased, encouraging viewers to rethink the concept of shopping through window shopping.
Together, these shop-showcases bring to attention both the observable and subtle behaviours, practices and environments associated with shopping. This culminates in an open-ended exploration where shops, shopping, and shoppers themselves become subjects of continuous design and redesign.
SHOP is presented in partnership with Bugis+ and Bugis Street and is one in a ten-part People of Design Showcase Series presented across the Bras Basah.Bugis Design District.
ORGANISER
gideon-jamie
gideon-jamie is a design studio also involved in publishing and running a space for books. Founded in 2017 by Gideon Kong and Jamie Yeo, the studio develops critical responses through commissioned projects and independent work, in the form of writings, designs, and ad-hoc exhibitions and workshops.
CO-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.
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