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BA(HONS) LEVEL 3 DESIGN COMMUNICATION 2024
COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL FUTURES ATELIER
LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS  | UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS SINGAPORE

Seeing Glass Children

Veanne Tan

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COMMUNITY

GRAPHIC DESIGN

PRINT

Seeing Glass Children is orientated to uncover and understand the lives of children with disabled siblings. Much of today’s awareness and support are proactively extended to people with disabilities themselves and their primary caregivers, but siblings of disabled children tend to be overshadowed, despite their growing-up experience being unique too. This project aims to stand in the shoes of glass children in Singapore through empathic design to gather insights about their specific contexts and ultimately shape design ideas that supports them in their adolescence — ideas that hone self-empathy and self-understanding, bridge communication gaps within families and foster greater sensitivity from everyone else.

What Happened Today?

An Activity Journal

KIT

PUBLICATION

Meant to be short-term and easy to complete, approachable and non-intimidating, thought-provoking and reflective for adolescence with disabled siblings. The contents are designed to be an emotional outlet, a documentation of interactions at home, a place for inner thoughts to exist safely.

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The Fridge Magnets Are Talking

At-home Communicative Tool 

INTERVENTION

PRODUCT

A non-verbal communicative toolkit meant to help parents and children approach difficult subjects and conversations especially when emotions and tensions run high at home, to be a stand-in mediator, probe and messenger. It is a kit to kickstart conversation and encourages further exchange beyond itself. This kit will consist of an activity sheet and magnets that can be used every day, to be changed and customised to express feelings and emotional state.

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Web-Sight

A Digital Repository

DIGITAL

WEBSITE

RESOURCES

This is for everyone — for glass children to find a safe space and source of support, for families to get their hands on the kits and tools, for everyone else to learn how to be better friends, sensitive and non-presumptuous of families with disabled children. This outcome aims to be a growing, convenient and one-stop location for this topic and subject in Singapore.

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