Social Impact Hub

Six weeks. Six weeks was all BLOCK71 had to launch their flagship Social Impact Hub at JTC Launchpad.

Six weeks to find a contractor, design the space, source materials and execute a full fit-out. In Singapore’s construction market, that kind of timeline is usually dismissed outright. Every contractor they spoke to said the same thing: impossible. Every interior designer gave lead times that stretched far beyond their launch date. The conventional path closed before it even began.

So BLOCK71 did what startups do best. They rewrote the rules.

Instead of engaging an external firm, they turned inward to their own ecosystem. They commissioned us, one of their incubatees, to deliver what the industry said could not be delivered.

It was a challenge in every sense. No time for overseas shipping. No room for lengthy design cycles.

Everything had to be sourced locally or fabricated from scratch and it had to work on the first try. While basic painting and electrical work began, we were already designing, prototyping and building in parallel.

The outdoor signage became our first declaration of intent.

We 3D printed the entire structure in-house and embedded LED lighting throughout. Traditional signage suppliers quoted six to eight weeks. We delivered ours in days.

Inside, we built what became the heart of the space, the Impact Wall.

This was not a pegboard. It was a massive modular system that transformed an entire wall into a living showcase. Startups could hang prototypes, share their mission or display ongoing work. It functioned as both furniture and community art, shifting and evolving as the startups themselves grew.

The UN SDG Values Wheel became the space’s defining symbol.

This large circular magnetic installation allowed every startup to claim the Sustainable Development Goal they were tackling. It was more than decoration. It was a visual manifesto, a way for the community to place itself within a global narrative of impact.

In the end, we delivered a complete social impact incubator in under six weeks, on budget and without compromising vision or quality.

More importantly, the project proved that the startup ecosystem does not simply talk about innovation. It practices it. The BLOCK71 Social Impact Hub stands as evidence that when startup speed meets startup creativity, the impossible becomes inevitable.

Now, what is your "impossible?"