Hello 🤚 I’m Gracia, a designer and researcher. I apply design-led methodology as an accessible, accountable and emergent process of change. Having worked in Singapore, New York and Cambodia, I enjoy learning and working with diverse groups of people; while centering the voices of those most impacted by design processes. 

Some of my projects include: 🏚️ NYC Community Land Initiative in advocating for Community Land Trusts, 📚 co-designed a flexible library-community space in Sunset Park, 👩‍👧 developed an award-winning transitional housing proposal for single parent-households and a ☁️ critical design project that explores the politicization of public spaces in Singapore 

My current research looks at urban horror and hauntings as forms of political action in Southeast Asia.

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Watch a video about me here and read this from DesignSingapore.

Experience

NextofKin Creatives: Design Intern (July - Aug 2023)
Chemistry: Communications Designer (July 2021 - Aug 2022)
Chemistry: Design Intern (Apr - Aug 2020)
Pickupp: Design Intern (May - Aug 2019)
Quantum Endorphine Concept Cambodia: Design Intern (Aug 2017 - Feb 2018)


Achievements
Featured on Panel Discussion at Women in Design Week 2023
Awarded the DesignSingapore Scholarship (2022)
Featured at 1M Exhibition, public exhibition at Raffles Place (2021)
Featured at OPEN STUDIOS, a first-ever partnership between Cineleisure and LASALLE College of the Arts (2021)
McNally Award for Excellence in the Arts (2021)
LASALLE Award for Academic Excellence (2021)
RSA Student Design Awards (2020) – CIM Award


Education
School of Visual Arts: Design Writing and Research (June 2023)
Parsons The New School: MS, Design and Urban Ecologies (2022 - Present)
LASALLE College of the Arts: BA(Hons) in Design Communication (2019 - 2021) – Valedictorian
Ngee Ann Polytechnic: Diploma in Mass Communication (2016 - 2018)


Skills
Art Direction, Graphic Design, Illustration, Branding, Videography, Cooking Kimchi Fried Rice +++