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keynote speakers

Professor Khoa Do
Adjunct Professor
Swinburne University of Technology

Professor Do is an accomplished executive leader with extensive experience and consummate achievements in multiple internationally recognised and awarded-winning global research and scholarship. The teaching programs and projects he leads have sustained a record of success in attracting local, state, federal and international backing through numerous funding sources. Award-winning senior-level professional and educator with experience as a director, executive and lead of public and private sectors in university-wide and professional communities for over 20 years. Professor Do, is a leader in design knowledge development, supporting the best practices with the approach of a scholarly in-practice design research methodology.

Ms Adeline Kueh

Senior Lecturer
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Adeline Kueh is a visual artist who makes installations and socially embodied works that reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Using drawing as a conceptual tool, Adeline looks to cartographies, craft and oral tradition to map out the historical trajectories across time and space with her use of found objects and new productions. She is currently a Senior Lecturer with the MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts.

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Mr Tung Ching Yew

Founder

Managing Director of SODA®

Tung is an international award winning spatial design firm with more than 350 completed projects in 8 countries. SODA is named as one of the Top 50 Finalist in Design Distinction Awards 2020 by IFI (International Federation of Interior Architects / Designers) and has won multiple design awards worldwide. Tung has more than 25 years of industrial experience in Design Consultancy and Project Management. His unique design methodologies has transformed corporate businesses to stay relevant in current and future markets. This proven track record includes international MNCs, government agencies and local SMEs. In addition, Tung has been contributing to design education for more than 15 years as an adjunct lecturer for Diploma and Degree programmes with local design institutions and polytechnics.

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Ms Chris Leong

Head, Production Planning
Inspidea

Coming from Broadcasting, Chris has always enjoyed watching anime and cartoon from her youth till now and could never tire of Dragon Ball and One Piece. She aspires to become a producer of animation projects one day. A car purist at heart, Inspidea's most crazy Mama-san also loves to watch and talk about classic movies especially Citizen Kane, which she has proudly watched 5 times. Chris is currently the Head of the Planning Department at Inspedia, a top animation production company in Malaysia.

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Professor Marcus White

Professor, Urban Design, School of Design and Architecture
Swinburne University of Technology

Professor Marcus White is an award-winning architect and urban designer, co-director of Harrison and White Pty Ltd, and Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Swinburne University of Technology. He leads the Spatio-Temporal Research Urban Design and Architecture Lab (STRUDAL) in the Centre for Design Innovation. Marcus has led numerous significant design projects working with practices in Melbourne and through his own studio of Harrison and White. He was a design architect working with Lyons Architects, MVS, Maddison Architects, and NMBW, on the RMIT ‘New Academic Street’ renovation project for buildings 8, 10, 12, 14, in Melbourne, which received the Victorian Architecture Medal, the Melbourne Prize, The Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, the Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture, the Interior Architecture Award, the Sustainable Architecture Award in 2018. 

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Dr Alison De Kruiff

Lecturer, School of Design and Architecture
Swinburne University of Technology

Alison de Kruiff is the Course Director for the Bachelor of Design and its associated double degrees and is the Research Ethics Adivsor for the School of Design and Architecture.  Alison's research focuses on user experience (UX), interaction design (IxD), information design and digital platforms such as extended reality (virtual reality and augmented reality) with a focus on cultural projects and health.

Dr Esther Wilding

Lecturer, Communication Design, School of Design and Architecture
Swinburne University of Technology

Esther Wilding was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg. She completed her PhD in Communication Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Gitte Lindgaard. In her thesis, she explored ways to improve wayfinding in hospitals for a wide range of hospital users by taking a human-centred approach. In Australia, she was involved in a research project on virtual reality training systems for disability support workers and worked as a research fellow in an interdisciplinary project for co-designing assistive technology. She has been a lecturer with the Design Factory Melbourne, an internationally affiliated Design collective that works at the intersection of university and industry to create the conditions for innovation, teaching co-creation and co-design for interdisciplinary innovation for several years. 

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Ar Seah Chee Huang

Chief Executive Officer
DP Architects 

Mr Seah Chee Huang has always been captivated by how architecture, when driven by clear purpose, can be a power vehicle to effect positive changes and enrich the everyday life of its community. He holds that architecture can be harnessed to synthesize and make sense of these varied dynamics to create more coherent environments and cohesive communities. With more than 20 years of experience under his belt, Chee Huang was one of the lead architects for the Singapore Sports Hub project, a large scale integrated sports, recreation and lifestyle development. He has also led two prominent community and sports projects: Our Tampines Hub and Bukit Canberra.

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Mr Christopher Higgs

Canadian Media Producer and 
Sarawak History Researcher

With a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology and Anthropology and diplomas in Music Production and Digital Applications, he has worked as a teacher, writer, researcher, producer and sound designer in various fields such as theatre, film & television. As an Art Department coordinator, he has worked on the historical movies Niihau (WW2 Japanese story based in Hawaii) and Rajah (James Brooke the 1st White Rajah of Sarawak) which was filmed recently in Sarawak in 2019. Currently, Chris is teaching Sound for Theatre at Taylor’s University, volunteering as a docent at Muzium Negara, as well as focusing on expanding and adapting his storytelling to a documentary series that will premiere on both Youtube & Podcast featuring first-hand accounts of events in Sarawak’s past.

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