Build The Change With LEGO Here In Singapore

Sunday, November 24th, 2019 by Brickfinder

The LEGO Group’s social engagement event, “Build the Change” is putting a face to corporate responsibility.

The global campaign challenges the children of today to tackle real world problems with a healthy dose of imagination and the help of a few LEGO bricks.

Attendees were posed question: “How would you design a high-tech city of the future to help keep our environment clean and green?” and then given a host of LEGO elements to visualise their ideas.

Naturally, Adults were not allowed in the building area as it fostered an environment where the kids could be free to build without any external influences.

“You can see how real time creativity is being worked to solve very real problems” ~Lizum Mishra, Head of Government & Public Affairs APAC

Which resulted in some very interesting builds as well as parts usage like using the round tree elements to form a caterpillar.

Some of the captions by the children really does show a keen understanding of the world that these kids are living in.

The bigger purpose of this event is to equip the kids with the relevant skills necessary for the 21st century ~ Lucia Cioffi, Sr Vice President, Global Procurement, The LEGO Group (TLG)

“An appropriately priced LEGO set”

“This kid is woke”

So, If you are looking for something interesting to for your kids to this school holiday period in Singapore, this would be something that is pretty engaging for them.

It is completely free to participate and it is located at the National Design Center in Singapore.
The event details are as follows:

Location: National Design Center

Dates: 

From 21st – 28 November 2019

Time for Public: 

Weekdays – 2pm – 8pm

Weekends – 10am – 8pm

(Back L to R): Lizum Mishra, Head of Government & Public Affairs APAC; Lucia Cioffi, Sr Vice President, Global Procurement, The LEGO Group (TLG); Adrian Lim, Director of the Digital Literacy and Participation & Director of Innovation, Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA); Serene Bek, Deputy Director, Programming & Outreach, DesignSingapore (DSG); Larry Yeung, Assistant Director, Participate in Design (PID)

Here is the full press release:

What is Build the Change? 

It’s an event where we inspire children to use their imagination in a fun, social and environmental context, and where we foster their creativity and promote social interaction.

It’s a tool within a framework, but with open ended solutions in a hands-on, minds-on fun experience.

It’s a theme related event e.g. “Build your future school, neighborhood or city” and by doing this we give children a voice.

It’s all about creativity, imagination, collaboration and communication.

It enables children to use LEGO® bricks as a tool to communicate and express themselves and create enduring memories.

We give children a voice.

Purpose of this Launch: