FIND – Design Fair Asia 2025: A Meeting of Minds, Materials, & Possibilities

What was FIND 2025 all about

FIND – Design Fair Asia, returning for its fourth edition, was held from 11 to 13 September 2025 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore, as part of Singapore Design Week.

This year’s fair was its biggest yet:

• Over 300 international brands from ~30 countries on display

• The EMERGE @ FIND platform grew significantly, with over 70 emerging Asian designers contributing more than 100 works, under the theme “Dialogue Through Design”.

• The FIND Global Summit brought together thought leaders across architecture, design, hospitality, technology, and more to engage with contemporary challenges: sustainability, urban transformation, material innovation, identity & cultural dialogue.

The fair also featured country pavilions (e.g. Singapore, Italy, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong) which allowed visitors to immerse themselves in diverse styles, craftsmanship, and narratives.

TASARRA + Architects at FIND: What It Meant

On 11-13 September, the Principal Architects of TASARRA + Architects attended FIND. Although they didn’t officially present or exhibit, their presence was deeply strategic and yielded several noteworthy insights:

• Trend-spotting & Material Innovation
  WALKING through the EMERGE installations and the country pavilions gave TASARRA’s principals exposure to new materials (recycled, hybrid / mixed media, local crafts) and techniques. Some pieces blended traditional craft with modern technologies—something that fits well with their architectural ethos of balancing context, culture, and innovation.

• Networking & Cross-disciplinary Dialogue
  The Global Summit and various panels allowed meeting peers—architects, product designers, manufacturers. For TASARRA, this offers potential collaboration or sourcing new suppliers, or being inspired by how design is being used beyond architecture (furniture, lighting, art installations).

• Reflection on Identity, Local vs Global
  One of the recurring themes at FIND 2025 was heritage, identity, and how local culture can be expressed in contemporary design. For TASARRA + Architects, whose works often engage with site, materials, and users in mindful ways, this would strengthen and perhaps enrich their design vocabulary.

• Business & Market Intelligence
  Beyond aesthetics, the fair is a marketplace. Observing what clients, brands, and buyers are seeking — sustainability, craftsmanship, modularity, wellness, well-being, etc. — helps TASARRA + Architect align future proposals, explore new product lines, or advise clients with sharper awareness of market directions.

Our Take off on this event. Tasarra + Architects will consider this onto its practice to..

• Integrate more material experiments in small-scale projects: furniture, light fittings, surfaces drawn from local craft, or even collaborations with designers / artisans.

• Emphasize sustainability not just as a checkbox, but as design driver: considering lifecycle, circular materials, reuse / reclamation.

• Embedding cultural narratives more explicitly in designs: whether via decorative detail, spatial organization, or material choice.

• Strategic partnerships: with manufacturers, furniture / lighting brands, or emerging designers met at FIND, to enrich supply chains or co-develop bespoke components.

With Seah Chee Huang CEO of DPA Architecture & Urban Planning

Seah Chee Huang CEO of DPA Architecture & Urban Planning,James Lu Regional Director Asia and Principal, Perkins & Will, Yichen Lu Principal Architect of Studio Link-Arc

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