sustainable living lab, nurturing purposeful makers
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Sustainable Living Lab (SL2) is a social innova$on lab that harnesses the energy of the maker movement to build a Sustainable Future.
We build & maintain posi$ve social capital, work to protect & restore the natural environment and create economic ac$vity that is conducive to
sustainable human development.
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About SL2
We view Sustainability as being comprised of 3 related components – environment, society and economy. This is also known as the “3 pillars model” of Sustainability.
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Moving to a Sustainable Future
Economy
Society
Environment
Economy
Environment
Society
Long-‐term thinking • At the heart of the work that we do is long-‐term thinking. • To achieve a Sustainable Future, we need to get into thinking
long-‐term. • We work with many young people and it is hard for them to
picture why sustainability is important. • That is why we engage with students in workshops and
programmes that allow them to exercise empathy, cri$cal thinking, planning and organiza$onal skills.
The Maker Culture is a global culture of hands-‐on innova$on powered by the Internet, commodi$za$on of technology, and a deep curiosity about the world.
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Harnessing the Maker Movement
Growth Mindset
A maker is someone who believes that he/she can learn to do anything.
Cra0smanship
A maker is someone who has excellent work ethic and maintains the highest
standards for themselves even when no one is looking.
Open Sharing
A maker is someone who is willing to share their ideas and build upon the work of others to achieve collec4ve
brilliance.
Here are some of the youth makers that we have worked with over the years.
They possess a maker mindset that drives them to con$nuously beZer themselves and strive to
beZer humanity.
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Ashprit Singh
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• Worked with SL2 for his NUS Engineering Final Year Project in community-‐level water purifica$on and distribu$on system back in 2012.
• Has since started his own company, TinyMOS, a camera development company that has designed the world’s first portable commercial astronomy camera.
Anuar Hassan
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• Has been involved with SL2 since 2013 through a startup programme, #startable. • A young entrepreneur who started Scalar Concept, a startup that designs and
develops safety and signal gloves for cyclists. • Check out his story on: hZps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ngLKahP8
Ken Chua
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• A fresh graduate of SUTD who started (these)abili$es, a startup that aims to ‘Disable Disabili$es’ through technology and design, crea$ng products meant for all to use.
• Develop solu$ons WITH Persons with Disabili$es, not developing FOR them, in order to create products that truly benefit the community.
• SL2 works with Ken as a mentor organisa$on.
Sam Bloch
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• Sam runs Communi$ere, a disaster relief organisa$on that operates makerspaces to help vic$ms of disasters literally rebuild their lives.
• SL2 was involved in the build-‐up of their space in Tacloban City in the Philippines, where Typhoon Haiyan had struck.
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SL2 Humanitarian Engineering Prac$cum
• The Humanitarian Engineering Prac$cum started in 2012. • Students go through disaster simula$on to empathize and discover the needs and
gaps in opera$ons and recovery during disasters. • Over 8 sessions students will design, build and improve upon humanitarian
innova$ons. • It is a great opportunity for students to empathize through experience and learn
through making.
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Repair Kopi$am
• Repair Kopi$am is an ini$a$ve to combat the buy-‐and-‐throw away culture. • We do this by bringing the community together to learn and share how to repair at
public venues such as community centres and void decks. • Such a programme has garnered the interest of many people of various backgrounds;
parents with children, re$rees and semi-‐re$rees, young execu$ves who seek more tangible experiences outside of work etc.
• It is a great learning experience for anyone and everyone.
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• SL2 brings the Repair Kopi$am experience to schools through our Repair@School programmes.
• Not ony do students learn technical and problem-‐solving skills in repair, they also learn and exercise communica$on skills as the programme open culminates in a sharing or teaching of skills at public Repair Kopi$am events.
As our organiza$on name suggests, we are a ‘lab’ and thus our work is experimental in nature. We seek to push the boundaries in
coming up with new and exci$ng programmes that would drive our youths towards a
Sustainable Future.
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