What happens when we stop designing activities for seniors and start designing meaningful roles with them? Open Village shows how user research helped reframe an underused nursing home garden into an ecosystem of contribution, purpose and community participation.

How can an ordinary school corridor support students with different sensory needs? We look at how sensory trails can provide proprioceptive, vestibular and movement experiences while giving schools a low-maintenance, space-efficient way to support inclusive participation.

What happens when children face long waits or hospital stays with limited access to play? By listening to patients and parents, we reframed the challenge and created a 24/7 vending solution for safe, individual toys and parent-child activity kits.

How can Design Thinking make an anti-shop theft poster more impactful?In this SPF and NCPC project for college and university students, we started with real experiences and emotions before moving into core messages, visual metaphors and our See, Think, Feel, Do framework. The result was a design process rooted in human insight, not just aesthetics.

Meet Mdm Henrietta, the senior maker behind Mama Beezy Wrap. Her handmade beeswax wraps reflect skill, sustainability and purposeful ageing, with workshops, gifts and custom sizes available.

In many nursing homes, seniors are well cared for, but daily life can still become passive. Open Village was created to change that. It is a community-based model that helps seniors take on meaningful mini jobs with progression, while opening the nursing home to schools, volunteers, families, and partners through purposeful community engagement.

Launched in Feb 2025, our flagship Qi Qi Boom (QQB) has reached 1,000+ people across communities and was showcased at raiSE’s 10th Anniversary. Here’s our 2025 impact and what’s next.

A behind-the-scenes look at how museum education shaped our empathy-led, research-rooted approach to designing community programmes.

A mentor asked for three moments that would keep me going. From disability advocacy to dementia-friendly design, these experiences shaped The Little Changemakers.

Win grants with a 3-sentence pitch, pilot with mini-grants, then scale wider or deeper. Use grants to test and to grow into a business.