DESIGN THINKING FOR STEM AND ARTS EDUCATORS WORKSHOP

Dr Daniel Loy has held various roles in his 20 years of experience, encompassing leadership in corporate and social innovation, STEM education, and strategic planning. His PhD is in free choice education, specialising in out-of-school learning. In recent years, he’s been actively working in the social innovation space, advocating for greater social equity and educational reform, and championing social enterprises. Currently, he is the Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Hub at Monash University Malaysia where he is also a Senior Lecturer (Practice) with the School of Business. Prior roles helmed include Director of the Centre of Learning & Innovation at Petrosains, and Vice President of Social Innovation with the National Innovation Agency.

Dr Andrew J. C. Chong is a former lecturer for foundation in science. He has a deep interest in amateur science projects in the hope to communicate science through its aesthetics. His current interest is to replicate high-profile experimental physics results of the early 20th century via “garage-style” methods.

Dr Roopesh Sitharan is an artist, curator, researcher and educator who specialises in New Media art and cultural studies. Since returning to Malaysia in 2018 after more than a decade in San Francisco and London, Roopesh has been based at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University. He has participated in several local and international projects, exhibitions and residencies that engage with the question of research, art practice and the possibilities of artist in critically encountering/questioning real world problems. He has also curated numerous projects, most recently a collaborative project between Malaysia and Indonesia called Lintas_Laut that was exhibited at Kapallorek Art Space.

Dr Tay Kheng Soo received his MSc and Ph.D degree in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Malaya. He joined the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya in 2012 as Senior Lecturer and was promoted to the position of Associate Professor in 2022. His research interest includes chemical oxidation in water treatment, advanced oxidation processes, environmental analysis, mass spectrometry and the Internet of Things (IoTs). He is an author or co-author of more than 40 papers in international refereed journals. He is the Associate Editor of HardwareX. Currently, he is appointed by the University of Malaya as the coordinator of Makerspace@UM.

CLOUD CHAMBER: VISUALISING BUILDING BLOCKS OF NATURE

by Dr Andrew Chong

Discover the paradigm-shifting observations made using the oldest nuclear particle tracking instrument in the world. After a brief introduction to the history of the cloud chamber, participants in small groups of 2 to 4 will be instructed to set up a chamber kit. The focus of the workshop is to observe and identify the cloud tracks left by nuclear particles. Finally, the grouped participants are required to clean up the chamber kit as part of being responsible users of a laboratory. The workshop will conclude with a debriefing of the observations made by the participants.

READING MY PRACTICE: REFLECTION ON HOW ART EXPLORE, INVENT, RESTAGE HUMANITIES IN TECHNOLOGY

by Roopesh Sitharan

The phrase "practice" refers to a range of applications that converge creation and human labour. Such an outlook suggests practice as an act that essentializes labour with a peculiar understanding of purpose, thereby fixing value for any labour with a mode of commodification. Reflecting on this, I would like to make an attempt to manoeuvre such a restrictive understanding of labour to illustrate my conviction and doubt about technology through art practice. In doing so, I am not seeking to make explicit something new about practice, or technology per se. But rather a modest effort to share my ‘embodied experiences’ of labouring in the world; that are enclosed in aesthetic experiences, enacted in creative practices and tested through artistic strategies over the years.

• Please make sure you arrive on time.

• We will only provide light lunch.

• Lunch does not come with beverages. Please bring your own drinks and water bottle. A water dispenser is available on the 4th floor.

• Though materials are provided, the supply is limited. Bringing your own stationeries such as scissors, penknife, glue, and tape would prevent having to wait around for your turn.

• Another stern reminder to not park your car in front of Bangunan Makmal Kimia.