Athath Fellowship

Athath Fellowship, a 15-week intensive professional furniture design and prototyping programme for aspiring entrepreneurs, will present its fellows' market-ready prototypes at Downtown Design 2025.

Delivered in three phases, the programme consists of two primary modules: Furniture Design & Prototyping and Commercial Strategy. Additionally, a series of seminars is integrated throughout the programme, featuring guest speakers.  

Fellows are introduced to a range of topics from design thinking, fabrication techniques, detailing, and material selection, to material sourcing strategies, cost analysis, marketing and sales, target audience analysis, and pricing. The final outcome of the programme includes a full-scale, commercially viable furniture prototype—designed and built by the fellow—along with the foundational knowledge to develop preliminary commercial plans for their design.