Name: Anatomies of Care
Start: 2025-09-18T18:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-09-18T19:00:00+08:00
Location: Millenia Walk

Join us for the talk and fireside chat with our designers as they share about designing for care to address today's challenges.
About this Event

Join Douglas and Reynard from the NUS Division of Industrial Design, Class of 2025, as they share about designing with care to address today's challenges. Learn more about their inspirations and design process, and ask any burning questions during the fireside chat!

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How can we practice design that uplifts and addresses modern pressures? Douglas’ thesis innovates traditional workflows for efficiency with thoroughness in healthcare. Precicast is a novel, scalable system for creating topologically optimised 3D-printed spica casts through 3D scanning, to improve flexor tendon syndrome recovery. Through 3D scanning and printing, the Precicast system digitises the occupational therapist’s workflow and automates key steps, saving hours and boosting patient capacity.

Honesty in design is a philosophy Reynard practices in his work. Inspired by the turgidity of plants, Noda is a reinterpretation of the ball and socket joint that allows for adjustable, temporary connections in a system through the physical deformation of an elastic core. In its uniqueness and versatility, Noda allows for freeform building of complex structures with minimal assistance, hence inspiring potential applications from temporary adaptive shelters, play structures, to transformable frames and even furniture.

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National University of Singapore’s College of Design and Engineering, Division of Industrial Design, brings the most creative aspects of technology, engineering, artistry and business entrepreneurship together. It aligns these aspects with a deep understanding of how human beings perceive, adopt and use innovative solutions. It focuses on how the tangible and immaterial resources of this world can be harnessed to create new products, services, spaces, apps, user experiences, and businesses.