Open Design Dialogue

𝗗𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗘𝗜 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗦 [Keynote] 🎟️ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁. Purchase ticket via the link in our bio. Join us for the closing special of ODD with a keynote by Keisuke Nakamura, founder of the Tokyo-based design practice 𝗗𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗘𝗜 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗦—marking his first presentation in Singapore. Through his practice, Nakamura engages in diverse projects ranging from commercial spaces to public facilities, always exploring the relationship between people and space. His design approach earnestly confronts the existing conditions of a site while imagining its future potential, creating spaces that can only emerge from their specific location and context. In 2020, DAIKEI MILLS launched SKWAT, a movement that temporarily occupies “VOIDs” (idle facilities and social gaps) in the city and reopens them to the public. This experimental initiative rethinks how vacant urban spaces can be reactivated, fostering new forms of community engagement and shared experience. This keynote offers a rare opportunity to hear first-hand from one of Tokyo’s most thought-provoking designers about his practice, philosophy, and projects shaping contemporary design and urban culture. 📍The keynote will take place at *SCAPE Trampoline, Level 5.

ODD LIFESTYLE TRAIL [Lucky Draw] 🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️ The 𝗢𝗗𝗗 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹 follows the natural rhythm of a day—from creating and expressing ourselves, to moving, playing, pausing and living fully. ODD brings together 10 local and international brands that recognise the immense value design brings to our daily lives. Each of the participating brand embodies a lifestyle keyword—an everyday activity that reflects how design shapes its philosophy. These unique forms capture a quality closely tied to the brand and have been transformed into Collectible Tokens for you to gather along the trail. → 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝘄 to win goodies from the participating brands! Checkpoints: 📍*SCAPE: Commune L1 📍Design Orchard: DORS 📍 ION Orchard: Aesop, In Good Company, and The 1872 Clippers Tea Co. 📍 Nike Orchard Road (till 20 Sep) 📍 Ngee Ann City: Beyond The Vines 📍 Liat Towers: Castlery 📍 Tanglin Mall: Moleskine 📍Plaza Singapura: MUJI

Go o̶u̶t̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘. ODD presents 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 A weekend ✨night🌙 pop-up gathering some of the most exciting independent makers, designers, and studios. From design objects and everyday goods to playful experiments and one-of-a-kind craftworks—this is where design meets community. 📅 19-20 Sep 2025 (Fri-Sat), 5.30-10.30pm 📍 Low Res Pavilion, *SCAPE Playspace, L1 📍 Orchard + Somerset Belt Design District Come wander offsite, meet the creators, and take home a little piece of ODD. #ODD2025 #ODDOffsite #creatorsmarket

Low-Resolution Pavilion for Singapore Design Week 25’ Orchard Scape district curated by @studio___grain @odd____odd @scapesg @designsingapore

Congratulations to all our ODD Lifestyle Trail Lucky Draw Winners! 🎉 A big thank you to everyone who joined us on the trail—we hope you enjoyed exploring Orchard Design District and discovering the many ways design shapes our everyday lives. Winners will be contacted via DM, so keep an eye on your inbox! 👀 #ODD2025 #OrchardDesignDistrict #OpenDesignDialogue #SGDesignWeek #oddlifestyletrail

Good night, @odd____odd Five months of planning, 49 group chats created, weeks of four-hour sleep, and 11 days of ±40 programmes later—Orchard + Somerset Design District comes to a close. It’s been draining, daunting, but also exciting. Every day another bullet to bite. We learnt a lot, and slept very little. We have so many people to thank—the community really rallied together to pull this off. So much good will around if you just ask. I’m bloody proud of team @studio___grain @guo___yao @angelgeevee @droneytan @kkerriss @stephpeh @charlenechanps , grateful for the unwavering support from @scapesg @designsingapore and our brand partners and sponsors, and deeply thankful to all the creatives who gave their best and put on such an incredible show. We built this together—and that spirit of dialogue, of openness, of community, and of lifting each other up is what we carry forward. More than anything, that is the most meaningful part.

Today’s the last day to show us what you built with the Tokens from the ODD Lifestyle Trail! Share your sculpture with us by tagging us, and enter the lucky draw to win something from the participating brands! Good luck!🍀

The pavilion operates as a low-resolution structure—a spatial proposal defined not by precision or polish, but by adaptability, necessity, and intent. It resists over-articulation, allowing its form and function to emerge through constraint: material availability, fabrication logic, and collaborative decision-making. In contrast to the high-definition environment of Orchard Road—built on spectacle and consumption—this structure offers a temporary space for pause. Its porosity is deliberate: air, light, and people move through freely. Its rawness is not aestheticized, but accepted—the result of choosing not to disguise the means of its making. Designed to be disassembled, redistributed, or reconfigured, the shelter exists not as an object but as an ongoing condition—a moment in a larger sequence of reuse, discussion, and reconsideration of what architecture needs to be, here and now. Shaped through dialogue and collaboration between @nousnous.work , @tmelissak , and @studio___grain 📸 @khoogj_ 📍*SCAPE Playspace L1

Keynote: Daikei Mills

This Humid House presents The Accidental Garden—an installation that explores what takes root in the space between intention and improvisation. The Accidental Garden reflects resilience and regeneration, as hardy plants take root in fractured ground—thriving between intention and chance. Set within the open grid of the Design Pavilion, the work conjures a site in transition. Fill materials—reminiscent of construction debris—are laid between concrete footings, forming a fractured terrain that feels both active and abandoned, unfinished yet fertile. It is here, in this tenuous in-between, that a garden begins to take hold. The planting is sparse yet deliberate. Hardy, drought-tolerant species—grasses, cacti, and other tough survivors—emerge in compact pockets where conditions allow. Selected for their ability to withstand Singapore’s climate with little intervention, they speak not of abundance, but of persistence. Their ornamental qualities are present but unperformed: this is a garden that insists quietly, through texture, resilience, and restraint. As a whole, the installation meditates on how landscapes form—and reform—through necessity. It suggests that design is not always a matter of control, but sometimes of recognising what is already taking shape, and creating the conditions for it to endure. Exposed to sun, wind, and rain, The Accidental Garden remains open to change: not a sealed exhibit, but a living fragment of possibility. In its endurance, it proposes resilience not as triumph, but as something steady, adaptive, and deeply rooted. 📸 @jovian.lim 📍 *SCAPE Playspace L1

Many views, one vision. 👀 Perspectives is a kinetic installation that shifts with every angle—showing how diverse viewpoints can merge into a unified artwork through teamwork and dialogue. Brought to life by Insert Coin. Step in, move around, and see from a new perspective. 📍 *SCAPE Playspace L1 📅 11-21 Sep, 10am-10.30pm

Sometimes the simplest geometry is enough to conjure a genuine emotion. Hoop Bench by Studio Juju creates a meeting point that suggests a convergence of interaction. 📍 *SCAPE Open Plaza L2