A/Prof Jawn Lim
Deputy Cluster Director
Business, Communication and Design Cluster
Singapore Institute of Technology
Biography
Associate Professor Jawn Lim is a design futurist and an innovation consultant.
He consulted for companies in property development, hospitality, healthcare, F&B, technology, and finance.
He frequently serves as a judge for awards in branding,
design, and technology. At the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT),
he is the
Deputy Cluster Director of the Business, Communication, and Design Cluster.
Simultaneously, he is the program leader of the university-wide Design Innovation
module that trains 3,000 non-design students
in Design Thinking and
Design Your Life principles.
In the futurists’ circles, Jawn is contributing as the Co-founder of the Teach
The Future Singapore Hub,
Founder of the Speculative Futures Singapore Chapter,
and the Program Director of the Emerging Fellows Program
at the Association of
Professional Futurists. Currently, he is the Chief Design Officer at the Singapore
Productivity Centre and Board Advisor at the Singapore Polytechnic’s
Media, Art, and Design School.
Previously, Jawn was an architectural designer with Arquitectonica, Marmol Radziner,
Hetzel Design and Pritzker Laureate, Frank Gehry. Some of the notable projects he
worked on are the Columbia Space Center
in Downey, California with Arquitectonica
and the Opus Luxury Condominiums in Hong Kong with Frank Gehry.
Prior to SIT,
Jawn taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard Graduate
School of Design.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Architecture) from NUS, a Master of Architecture from
the Southern California Institute of Architecture,
an Advanced Certificate for Executives
Management, Innovation, and Technology from MIT and a Doctor of Design from Harvard.