Playful Living

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(Invisible) Puzzle

By Edmund Zhang

A puzzle that has to be solved through touch rather than sight, challenging our assumptions about how jigsaw puzzles are typically experienced, and who they are made for.

Designed in collaboration with Amanda Yip, a visually-impaired artist and co-founder of Rebirth Ensemble, an accessible fine arts consultancy in Singapore, the work reimagines her artwork as an immersive tactile puzzle, expanding how we experience and interpret visual art.

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YOU PLAY WHERE ONE?

By Edwind Tan

A gachapon machine that dispenses miniatures of Singapore’s iconic playgrounds, each featuring coordinates to their real locations. Once beloved communal spaces, these playgrounds now linger like endangered species. 

This project encourages us to rediscover and preserve them before they disappear entirely from the ever-evolving landscape of Singapore.


This project is supported by NParks Garden City Fund.

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Curious Mushrooms

By Esther Ng

The collection, Curious Mushrooms, showcases wild mushrooms found in Singapore. Made in stoneware and porcelain ceramic, the mushroom bells invite touch — tap its cap and a gentle chime rings, like spores drifting in the wind. Blurring product and nature, it grows from its environment, offering a quiet moment of interaction. An invitation to pause, to play, to connect — in sounds. Come, ring the mushroom.

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Take a Breather

By Lee Hsiao Fong

A series of tactile pinwheels designed to combine childlike joy, breath work, and mesmerizing visual patterns to create micro-moments of release, reset or just pure playful joy.

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QRious Giving

By Ang You Shan and Kevin Chiam

A flip-dot interface playfully reimagines and enriches the act of digital donation in a world of cashless payments and where scanning QR codes become second nature.

This project is supported by Samaritans of Singapore.

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Hue Blocks

By Li Xue Lim

Hue Blocks reimagines the familiar Post-it into unique, colour-rich forms, quietly inviting subtle play through idle stacking, balancing, or colour arranging — guided by intuition and what simply feels good. It transforms moments of pause or distraction into gentle opportunities for grounded play. Designed to blend effortlessly into the everyday, it offers sensory grounding that is at once understated and welcoming.

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5,4,3,2,1

By Maggie Seah

5,4,3,2,1 are rolling stamps inspired by key sensory grounding techniques used in clinical psychotherapy for anxiety. Designed as tactile, portable aids, they invite playful journaling as an exercise and gentle reminder of these techniques.

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A Dreaming Apparatus

By Roger Ng

A Dreaming Apparatus is an interactive installation that transforms elements of the teahouse into playful, generative worlds. It invites visitors to step into dreamlike realms where imagination itself is an act of care — tending to our inner landscapes, sparking joy and wonder, softening the routines of everyday life.

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Pinch Notifications

By Shawn Ng

Pinch Notifications is a whimsical and decidedly annoying reminder to be mindful of our phone usage — playfully calling out our digital consumption habits.

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And What Knots Series

By Winnie Lim

And What Knots Series transforms humble fabric squares into playful prints of classic games — Aeroplane Chess, Checkers and Snakes & Ladders. Wrapped, each piece carries a gift. Unfolded, it invites play and social connection. Designed to shift with purpose, the fabric can become a wrapper, carrier, board game and what(k)nots.

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