Design Thinking & Innovation:
Towards a Global/Asian Perspective


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Asia and Asian Design is gaining a foothold in the international design arena. With the rise of India, China and Asia as a region, the implications to design from a 'new' emergence viewpoint of the enormity of mega-sized consumer markets and low cost production capabilities are something that all designers cannot and must not ignore.

Diversity, or "cognitive variety," is essential to innovation. Design in todays' terms must be at once global, yet regionally specific. A world view must include Asia. This conference will offer insights and design perspectives on how an awaking growing giant thinks and innovates.

The main theme for the conference is entitled: 'Design Thinking & Innovation: Towards an Asian Perspective'. Within this main theme, there are sub-themes and are garnered from current pertinent issues that are obfuscating the design landscape.

This conference was organised in collaboration with Cumulus, the European Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. Members of Cumulus are welcomed among all others to this conference in Singapore. The conference was aimed at practitioners, designers, scholars, researchers and young researchers in the field of design theory, practice, critics and others in related areas of design research.

Participants were from the international design community, design academic institutions, universities and colleges.