[Key Programmes] Low Res: Design Pavilion

Project Title: Perspectives 

We often see the world through a single lens — shaped by our own experiences.
To truly understand another, we must look through theirs.
But perspective alone isn’t enough; conversation requires a spark — a point of connection.
This installation acts as that catalyst.
Only when we align our views can a fuller image emerge.
Through this, we hope to inspire dialogue, empathy, and a broadening of perspective.

This interactive kinetic sculpture is meant to promote dialogue, by having two people cooperate and align it into something recognizable.
Each rod will have a seemingly random array of dots of different sizes, by arranging them properly will something recognizable be formed.
The dots are representative of thought bubbles.
Just like how designers collaborate to form ideas, the users will collaborate to achieve a breakthrough in this seemingly ordinary sculpture.

Name of Designer(s): Kevin Teo, Reena Wong

Project Title: Rubble Garden

In response to the theme A Nation by Design, This Humid House presents a counterpoint: a garden by accident, resilience by necessity.

Set within the skeletons of the Design Pavilion, this installation conjures the site of a modern ruin. Construction debris fills the gaps between structural footings—concrete rubble that suggests something interrupted, dismantled, or left behind. From this fractured terrain, a garden begins to emerge.

Tough, tenacious species—grasses and cacti, selected for their ability to survive with little care—push through the rubble, growing in tight pockets of possibility. Their presence suggests regeneration not through control, but through adaptation.

The structure holds the space loosely, evoking both shelter and abandonment. It frames a moment in flux—a site that feels as if it has been stumbled upon rather than designed. In doing so, it invites us to consider the spaces between nation-building and un-building, between intention and improvisation.

Over the course of two weeks, exposed to sun, rain, and wind, the garden will persist. Not because it was perfectly planned, but because it was possible.

Name of Designer(s): This Humid House

This Humid House (THH), founded in Singapore in 2017, is an award-winning botanical design studio whose intention is to develop a language expressed through plants and flowers that is reflective of their climate, geography, and collective culture. THH creates in the realm of private, corporate and commissioned institutional projects, and most recently won the grand prize at Flora Festival 2024 in Spain, and was invited to showcase at Chelsea Flower Show 2025 in UK.

Website: https://humidhouse.com/