When discussing sustainability, we often think about recycling. However, people and businesses today are increasingly looking towards upcycling waste instead of just reusing it. This alternative approach involves transforming waste into products that are more valuable in the end.

In this workshop, we will create large, folded sculptures out of discarded and recyclable sheet material. You will learn more about origami, which beyond being simply a fun hobby, embodies deeper geometric and physical principles that are applicable to Architecture and Engineering. Participants will also be introduced to origami software and learn how to fold flat patterns into interesting forms. 

In collaboration with South Beach, this guided workshop by faculty and students from our Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) programme will give you a a glimpse of how an education is like at SUTD, where learning takes place through fun and hands-on experiences enabled by technology. 

What’s more - participants will get an opportunity to collaborate with other like-minded peers to create folded sculptures that will be displayed publicly at South Beach!