Design is not just a job - it's a way of thinking.
Education Minister Lawrence Wong speaking at the Design Education Summit PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
On Thursday of this week the DesignSingapore Council - Singapore's national agency that promotes design - and the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre hosted their second annual Design Education Summit. At the virtual conference Education Minister Lawrence Wong made a clear case that design thinking, an approach used primarily by the business community, is an effective strategic tool to help Singapore recover from the social and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a post-Covid world, the minister said, there is a need to prepare Singapore's young to be "adaptable, nimble and innovative problem solvers".
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