RECOGNISE · NURTURE · LEAD

Recognition is a Beginning,
Not a Finish Line.

The Seed Award recognises emerging talent. Fieldwork is what continues after, helping recipients turn that recognition into lasting growth.

1

Recognise

The Seed Award recognises students who demonstrate the 5 Designer Qualities, across disciplines and beyond grades.

2

Nurture

Fieldwork helps recipients keep growing, through workshops, exchanges and sessions with industry, throughout the year.

3

Lead

Recipients connect across schools and industry, building the relationships and confidence to help shape design in the years ahead.

Why it matters

The Award is Recognition.
Fieldwork is What Comes Next.

For students

Keep growing, long after the award.

  • Learn from experienced practitioners and design leaders about real-world practice.
  • Connect with a cross-school community of emerging designers from across Singapore.
  • Help shape the agenda in peer-led sessions built around what matters to you.
  • Grow your voice, your work and your leadership through ongoing involvement.
For institutions

Support your students well beyond graduation.

  • Extend your students’ growth with industry exposure and a community beyond the classroom.
  • Work alongside DBCS and industry to keep developing your talent after they graduate.
  • Connect your students with peers and practitioners
    from across Singapore’s design community.
  • Be recognised as a school that helps nurture the next generation of design leaders.

What happens at fieldwork

Many Formats, One Purpose :
to Keep Growing.

Industry sharing

Hear from experienced practitioners and design leaders on real-world practice.

Peer exchange

Sessions led by recipients themselves, where the agenda is theirs to set.

Workshops

Hands-on, practical sessions that build skills you can use right away.

Networking

Connect across schools, disciplines and industry, and keep those ties.

Voices from the community

What recipients say about
Seed Award and Fieldwork.

Nicholas

Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Olivia

Nanyang Polytechnic

Kevin

Nanyang Polytechnic

Fieldwork so far

What's Coming, and
What We've Done.

Upcoming 0

Coming Soon

More Fieldwork sessions are being planned.

New dates and details will be announced here. Seed Award recipients receive sign-up information directly in each event's post.

Past 1

30 May 2026

Inaugural DBCS Seed Award Fieldwork

Raffles College of Higher Education

The inaugural Fieldwork brought Seed Award recipients from across schools together for the first time, a celebration of the community these students represent.

The morning opened with an industry sharing, moved into a peer-led exchange where participants set the agenda themselves, and closed with time to connect across schools.

  • Industry sharing
  • Peer-led exchange
  • Cross-school networking

FEATURING

Hubert Loi

Strategic Design Lead, EY

Partner with DBCS

Help Nurture Singapore's
Next Generation Of Design Leaders.

Seed Award Fieldwork brings together a growing community of emerging designers from across Singapore’s schools. We welcome partners and sponsors who share our commitment to shaping what comes next.

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