Re-Route Festival
You will never look at Orchard Road the same way again after participating in more than 30 design collaborations and programmes held during Re-Route Festival. This festival is happening from 26 September to 6 October 2024 and most of the activities are free for all to join. There are some ticketed events which you can sign up for via their website. It is a key event of Singapore Design Week 2024.
What is Re-Route Festival all about?
Re-Route Festival is a placemaking festival that immerses visitors through storytelling and a collection of creative activations like interactive exhibits. The festival showcases installations that highlight the idea of adaptation, showing how design can change and respond to new changing needs, and behaviours. This change in turn influences the way we experience a place.
Where is this festival happening?
This festival is taking place from Thursday, 26 September to Sunday, 6 October 2024, from 9 am to 10 pm daily at the famed shopping belt in Singapore. You can look forward to curated experiences, installations, programmes, and other design activations across Orchard Road. They have created stops within the Orchard Road belt that will spark your curiosity as you explore the topic of adaptability.
You can start your journey at Design Orchard and walk down towards Orchard MRT station. You may also refer to the festival map available on their website.
Here are some of the event highlights.
There are several photo spots and exhibits dotted throughout Orchard Road. Uncover hidden gems as you drop by each station to collect stamps. Simply pick up a free stamp booklet and start stamping away! Once you collect stamps from all 8 different sites and follow, tag, share on social media, you can redeem an exclusive set of keychains of Charrdo.
Adaptations: Design in Motion
Venue: Cineleisure, B1 Atrium (Grange Road)
It offers new perspectives on how design can transform how we understand familiar objects, celebrating their potential for reinvention and renewed relevance.
Venue: The Centrepoint, L1 Atrium (176 Orchard Road)
Check out Chairs Reimagined and see classic red Kopitiam chairs transformed through creative modifications. This is more than just a chair for others to sit. It can be reused in several creative ways.
Venue: Orchard Road (Outside 313@Somerset and H&M)
Pocket Park: Pause & Play transforms Somerset – Orchard Fountain Corner from a simple thoroughfare into a cheery hangout spot. You could pause, play, and connect in the heart of Orchard.
Venue: Far East Plaza, L1 Atrium (14 Scotts Road)
Slide and see the colours that blend past and present. This whimsical playground allows both adults and children to connect with the nostalgic styles that shaped a generation.
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