The Society of Interior Designers, Singapore (SIDS), the industry body representing Singapore’s interior design fraternity, has announced its new Council for term 2020 to 2022. Members were elected to form the 19-member SIDS Council for a two-year term from 2020 to 2022.
Prof. Keat Ong was elected to serve a new two-year term as the President along with other key figures from Singapore’s ID industry. An architect by training and multidisciplinary designer by profession, Prof. Keat Ong is an awards-winning, celebrated designer in Asia. He is the founder of Nota Design Group and Keat Ong Design. Keat has been named one of Asia’s Top Designers in Singapore Design Awards 2014 and as Designers of the year 2016/2017 from the famed INTERIOR DESIGN Magazine. He was also honored the title of “The Most Influential Designer” by China’s national body for Interior design, China Building Decoration Association in 2017. He is also a Visiting Professor to numerous universities in Asia and a judge to many prestigious awards internationally.
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- Prof. Keat Ong, SIDS President
“With this newly elected council, which consist of old guards and new blood, I believe we have the elite team of industry leaders ready to take on the arduous tasks and challenges that lies ahead for the interior design fraternity in Singapore,” said Prof. Keat Ong.
There are four new additions to the Council, namely Peter Tay from Peter Tay Studio, Dennis Cheok from Upstairs, Carlos Sim from Free Space Intent, and Brandon Fee.
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- Mr. Tung Ching Yew, SIDS Vice President
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- Ms. Kat Tan, SIDS Hon. Secretary
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- Mr. Fann Zhi Jie, SIDS, Hon. Treasurer
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- Council Members Term 2020 – 2022 – (Top, left to right) Brandon Fee, Carlos Sim, Cindy Ang, Cris Cheng, Daniel Yen, Dennis Cheok, Eric Ong. (Bottom, left to right) Jackie Lai, James Pilande, Kelly Chin, Lai Yee Ling, Lau Chun Hoong, Mark Mah, Ng Hwee Li, Peter Tay.
SIDS conferred its first ever Honorary Member of the Society to Ar. Larry Ng, who is also on the Registrar of Board of Architects (BOA). Dr. Goh Chong Chia, one of SIDS’ Honorary Patrons, received his Patron Medal.
Announced by SIDS’s Honorary Patron, Ms. Indranee Rajah, Minister in Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Finance and National Development on 3 December 2020 at the Singapore Interior Design Awards Dinner, SIDS will launch a nation-wide Singapore Interior Design Accreditation Framework by mid 2021. The accreditation programme will be one of SIDS’s major activities which the society’s new council will place as its priority to help level up the ID profession in the country.
