Alvin Ho and Clara Koh are designers and artists, but also researchers who study the increasing disengagement between people, objects, and space in Atelier HOKO. The duo – who are both business and life partners – have worked on projects all around the world. From having their wearable “INDEX RING” enter the permanent collection of Stedelijk Museum’s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, to exhibiting “Café CUP”, a drinking laboratory which serves cups rather than drinks at Singapore:InsideOut Bank Gallery in Tokyo, to having their ongoing research publication “Science of the Secondary” join the DESIGN LAB collection at the MAK Museum, Vienna, their projects seek to defamiliarise common phenomena, helping people view them in a new and more curious light. Apart from engaging in projects, Alvin and Clara are also active part-time teachers, giving back to society by developing workshops and curriculum for Singaporean design and art schools like LASALLE, NAFA, and Nanyang Polytechnic. We dive deeper into the motivations behind Atelier HOKO’s unique projects, and also get to know their founders a little better.