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<div><a href="https://sdw.designsingapore.org/events/designing-more-than-human-futures-panel-workshop/"><b><font size="4">Singapore Design Week 2025</font></b></a></div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="5"><b>Designing More-than-Human Futures: Panel & Workshop</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Thu 11 Sep 2025, 1 \u2013 5pm</b></font></div>
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<div>The Great Room, Raffles Arcade, Seah St, Level Level 02-20 Raffles Hotel Arcade, Singapore 188719</div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">A nation is far more than just its human population. We often overlook the perspectives of other species that are essential to our communities. Singapore, with its green mission and leadership in sustainable
development across ASEAN, is home to about 65 species of mammals, 390 species of birds, 110 species of reptiles, 30 species of amphibians, over 300 butterfly species, 127 dragonfly species, and more than 2,000 marine wildlife species.</font></div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Yet, Singapore\u2019s ambitious \u201830 by 30\u2019 strategy \u2013 aiming to produce 30% of its nutritional needs locally by 2030\u2014faces a critical challenge: the interdependence between biodiversity and urban agriculture.
As urban farming scales up, designing multispecies habitats that support pollination and ecosystem regeneration is vital.</font></div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">In this panel talk and immersive workshop led by Queensland University of Technology, DSG School of X, and ThinkPlace (Singapore), we will explore design strategies that move beyond human-centred approaches.
Through a cross-cultural panel discussion and an immersive workshop at Fort Canning Park, participants will collaborate with experts from Singapore and Australia to investigate the role of AI and Strategic Design in imagining post-anthropocentric futures for
multispecies justice and sustainability.</font></div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">The workshop will feature a citizen science experience using AI-powered bird song monitoring and photography to create non-human personas. A speculative design session will then reimagine urban spaces
that integrate human and non-human needs, addressing food resilience and ecological health for Singapore as a nation led by design.</font></div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>FORMAT & ACTIVITIES</b></font></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">The event consists of two parts: a panel discussion and a workshop.</span></div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">PANEL DISCUSSION</font></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Ms Tamsin Greulich-Smith, Director, DSG School of X, Singapore</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Dr Debbie Ng, Managing Director, ThinkPlace Singapore</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Mr Dickson Ng, Senior Research Executive, Temasek Polytechnic</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Seevinck, Visual Communication and Interaction Design, School of Design, QUT</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">MC: Prof. Lisa Scharoun, Head of School, QUT School of Design</span></li></ul>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Afternoon Break</font></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Participants will engage in citizen science, using AI-powered bird song monitoring (Birdweather app) and smartphone photography to document local biodiversity.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">The activity highlights how data collection can inform non-human personas, expanding conventional design thinking.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Led by Prof. Lisa Scharoun, Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Seevinck, Prof. Marcus Foth, School of Design, QUT</span></li></ul>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">SPECULATIVE DESIGN IDEATION</font></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Participants will apply speculative design methods to reimagine highly urbanised spaces as habitat-inclusive.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Using genAI tools, they will create utopian and dystopian future concepts, envisioning sustainable urban ecologies that support both human and non-human life.</span></li></ul>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">DE-BRIEF: Prof. Lisa Scharoun, Head of School, QUT School of Design</font></div>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>ADMISSION</b></font></div>
<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">SG$80 general; SG$40 students</font></div>
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<div><b><font size="4"><font face="HelveticaNeue">REGISTER NOW: </font><font face="HelveticaNeue"><a href="https://bit.ly/sdw25-qut">https://bit.ly/sdw25-qut</a> </font></font></b></div>
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<p style="font-size: 16px; color: #012A4C;"><strong>Professor Marcus Foth</strong> (he/him)<br>
<span style="font-size: 12px">PhD FACS CP FQA MACM Dist. MDIA JP (Qual.) Qld</span></p>
<p style="color: #0066b9; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 10px;">Course Coordinator, Master of Design (Strategic Design)<br>
School of Design<br>
<strong>Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice</strong><br>
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<td colspan="2"><span style="color: #012A4C; font-size: 12px;"><strong>Queensland University of Technology</strong><br>
+61 7 3138 8772 | <a href="mailto:m.foth@qut.edu.au">m.foth@qut.edu.au</a> | <a href="https://qut.edu.au/mdes/">
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GPO Box 2434, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia</span> </td>
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<p style="color: #616161; font-size: 8pt;"><em>I acknowledge the Turrbal and Yugara, as the First Nations owners of the lands where QUT now stands. I pay respect to their Elders, lores, customs and creation spirits. I recognise that these lands have always
been places of teaching, research and learning.</em> </p>
<p style="color: #616161; font-size: 8pt;">TEQSA PRV12079 | CRICOS 00213J</p>
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