Let’s have an open dialogue.
Open Design Dialogue (ODD) presents a series of curated programmes across the Orchard + Somerset Design District, running from 11–21 Sep as part of Singapore Design Week 2025.
Key Programmes
Low Res: Design Pavilion
A collaboration between Nous Nous, Melissa Tsang, and Studio Grain, the pavilion is a porous, adaptable site contrasting Orchard’s spectacle, embracing raw necessity and reuse as an evolving architectural condition.
A reflection on adaptation and emergence, as hardy plants root in fractured ground—signalling resilience and regeneration in the spaces between intention and chance.
The Accidental Garden
A kinetic installation showing how diverse viewpoints merge into a unified artwork through teamwork and communication.
Perspectives Kinetic Installation
New Orchard Exhibition
Five design collectives reimagine Orchard to be less a shopping street, and more a living, soulful commons—open to belonging, and to renewal.
Brands and designers co-create engaging, experimental in-store experiences, transforming retail spaces into laboratories for fresh ideas and thoughtful dialogue.
Hoop Bench
Hoop Bench is a meeting point that suggests a convergence of interaction through its simplicity of geometry.
Four creatives examine how different disciplines interpret with and respond to space, offering distinct yet complementary ways of seeing.
A Dialogue with Space: Panel Discussion
OFFSITE Creators Market
Retrograde Runway Remix
Planting the Grovve: Talk Series
Circular Design as a Solution
Roving Art Studio
Somerset Threads: Out With The Researcher!
Reimagining Oriental Fashion in a Modern World
Industrial Design x Creative Tech: New Thinking in Design Solutions
Saturday Spotlight
Open Dialogue Pods
Made in Singapore: The Design Stories
Upmade in Estonia: Exhibition & Pop-up Shop
Somerset Threads Murals Showcase
Turn Plastic Bags to Keychain Keepsakes