Punggol Digital District

Shaping Hearts @ Punggol Digital District

This year, Shaping Hearts invites you to do more than just look at art. We’re inviting you to step into the world of artists with disabilities — to discover their stories, experience things from different perspectives, and be part of the journey.

Through art, play and hands-on experiences, audiences can get closer to the artists and explore what it means to see, hear, feel and move through the world differently.

Come curious. Come ready to play. Come as you are.

What to Expect

Explore 4 IMMERSIVE ZONES — Rhythm, Texture, Visual and Motion Playground — where fun, inclusive activities bring audiences closer to artists with disabilities through play, while offering a glimpse into different experiences of disability.

A playful space where art dances along with your every move. Get moving and interact with the Motion Garden, where your movements set colourful pinwheels spinning across the screen!

A hands-on space where art comes alive through touch and creativity. Come here and discover community-created cyanotype prints, join weekend art workshops, or get creative with building blocks and let your imagination run free.

A colourful space where art and imagination come together. Add your own touch to the community canvas, join weekend art workshops, and discover neighbourhood stories through the collaborative Visual Mapping Room!

A sensory space where sound, technology and creativity intertwine. Explore interactive sound stations, unwind in the calming Sensory Room, and experience how VR and AI can bring art to life in new and immersive ways.

Shaping Hearts First-Ever Audio Trail

For the first time, Shaping Hearts presents an Audio Trail with 12 stops across Punggol Digital District, featuring stories, experiences and perspectives from the artists and participants behind the festival, alongside stories about PDD and its spaces.

Spot the Audio Trail signage, scan the QR code, and press play to discover the stories as you explore!

Programme Highlights At A Glance

Discover the activities, performances and highlights happening across the festival weekends on 12 – 13, 19 – 20 and 26 – 27 September!

Shaping Hearts 2026 Launch Day

Guests of Honour pouring the red glitter to symbolise the launch of Shaping Hearts 2026

Participants trying out the activity and having a glimpse into how artist with colour deficiency show their creativity.

DPM Gan Kim Yong, Mayor Baey Yam Keng, and other Guests of Honour interacting with the participants at the Motion Zone activity.

Shaping Hearts 2026 has officially launched! Guests of Honour giving a heart shape hand gesture to commorate the launch!

13 September 2026 | Punggol Digital District

Shaping Hearts 2026 officially launched on 13 September at Punggol Digital District (PDD), bringing together art, performances and interactive experiences that celebrate inclusion and connection. Joined by Guest-of-Honour Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong and Mayor Baey Yam Keng of the North East District, the launch highlighted how art can spark connection, inspire understanding and bring people together.

Throughout the day, visitors explored a variety of hands-on art activities across four Playgrounds at the Shaping Hearts exhibition — Texture, Visual, Rhythm and Motion — each offering a different way to experience and engage with art.

At the Texture Playground, visitors could explore the possibilities of natural materials and different textures through hands-on activities. At Blue in Bloom, participants created cyanotype prints using leaves, flowers and other natural objects, while Coffee Painting by Vincent Seet invited visitors to create artworks using coffee grounds, acrylic and watercolours, inspired by flowers, birds and landscapes.

The Visual Playground offered opportunities for visitors to draw, design and create. At Shared Ground Between Us, participants sketched their favourite neighbourhood spots and added them to a shared map. Visitors could also create colourful magnets using a 3D pen at 3D Pen Doodling Magnet, arrange mosaic tiles to make their own coaster at Tile Your Mosaic Coaster, and personalise a piece of art with colourful tiles at Pocketful of Colours.

At the Rhythm Playground, visitors could experience art through sound and performance. The launch featured Let The Rhythm Unite by Drum Prodigy Inclusive Ensemble, bringing audiences together through rhythm and music.

The Motion Playground encouraged visitors to explore creativity through movement and technology at the Motion Garden. Participants could colour their own pinwheels and watch them come to life on screen. They could then use their movements to interact with the digital pinwheels, making them spin faster.

The celebrations continued with a line-up of inclusive performances. Drum Prodigy Inclusive Ensemble got the crowd moving with Let The Rhythm Unite, while Shoes Theatre Storytelling presented Everybody’s Book Club. The day ended with Finger Players’ See Hear Touch, bringing audiences together through an engaging performance.

Visitors could also discover the Shaping Hearts 2026 Audio Trail, featuring 12 audio stops located around Punggol Digital District by looking out for the Audio Trail signage and scanning the QR codes to listen to stories shared by Shaping Hearts artists and workshop participants.

PLAYDATE@PDD

Happening alongside Shaping Hearts on 13 September, PLAYDATE@PDD transformed Campus Boulevard into an inclusive space filled with 16 curated pop-up booths featuring hands-on activities by local creators, youth groups and community groups.

Visitors could get creative through a variety of activities, from live painting, pet and animal sketching and collaborative doodling to weaving colourful hearts and painting tiles for a shared art installation. There were also opportunities to create puppets using everyday materials, decorate paper rolls to build a growing fort, and explore different textures through hands-on crafts.

For those who enjoyed music and movement, visitors could make music together using claps, shakers and voices, create chalk paint by mixing crushed chalk with water, or take part in playful movement activities inspired by familiar childhood games like hopscotch.

Other booths invited visitors to slow down, connect and experience art in different ways. Participants could enjoy interacting with installations that responded to their movements, express their feelings through a playful character, or work together with others to complete a collaborative challenge.

Through these experiences, PLAYDATE@PDD gave visitors the opportunity to play, create and connect in their own ways, with activities designed to be enjoyed by people of different ages, abilities and experiences.

Can't make it to the exhibition? You can still support our artists and their work by exploring and purchasing their artworks online.