Infusing design into high-cost Singapore

ON March 10, 2016, Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Communications and Information, unveiled Design 2025 - outlining the recommendations of the Design Masterplan Committee - at the launch of the Singapore Design Week.

Design 2025 - Singapore by Design hopes to infuse design into everyone's skillset to turn high-cost Singapore into a thriving, innovation-driven economy and a "lovable city by design" in the next 10 years. Singapore was recently recognised as a Unesco Creative City of Design.

How can this old vision be achieved? And what can the upcoming Singapore Budget offer to make this vision more attainable?

Leaders from two top design-focused organisations - Tai Lee Siang, president of Design Business Chamber Singapore, and Mark Yong, chairman of SingaPlural, share their views with The Business Times. The panel was moderated by Kristin L Wood, professor, engineering and product development pillar head & co-director of…