Show Notes
We sat down with Alistair who gave us a glimpse of a story less told in Singapore - designing the living spaces of migrant workers. If they tirelessly help us build our homes, then someone ought to help them build theirs, even if it's temporal. That's where Alistair and Agency came in. It was such an eye-opening chat that we're super excited to share this with everyone else! Hope you enjoy this. 😌 ____ Timestamp: (00:00) Intro (01:20) About Alistair & Brief (not underwear) (05:49) How the project started and problem space (10:33) Reductive terms: "Dorms" and "Migrant Workers" (13:15) Running through the design process (15:17) Ali's observation of dormitories and eye-openers (24:49) Post-research: How the team synthesizes problems and observations (29:46) 3 big guiding design principles to harmonize solutions (36:54) More solutions that was prototyped (46:48) Post-project checkpoints (47:55) Dormitory managers, owners, and Google ratings?! (53:28) Summary & what's next (56:37) What's keeping Ali excited these days (59:20) Ali's GTMS (01:03:45) Adilah's GTMS (01:08:20) Hsuan's GTMS ____ Notes/references we made in this episode: Alistair's GTMS: Oasis@Outram Adilah's GTMS: Behavioural Sink Theory Hsuan's GTMS: 12 Favourite Problems ____ Behind the voices: Alistair - Brief | LinkedIn Adilah - Website | LinkedIn Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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