At last Thursday’s Creative Mixer, the fourth in what has been an outstanding series of events for creatives, entrepreneurs and hackers, seven speakers shared about their work and its relevancy to the future. Themes that emerged include how we might be underestimating or overestimating the impact of current and changing technologies on our reality and that of others.
Nikki Shaw, a senior water engineer from Arup, shared with us how sanitation is one of the biggest issues we have to face in the future. A simple flush and all our shit disappears — that’s something we take for granted. The ubiquitous flush toilet that most of us in the developed and developing world are so complacent about is an old technology and an inefficient one that results in water wastage and damage to the environment.
Not only that, there is an estimated 2.5 billion people in the world who do not have the ‘proper’ sanitation most of us in Singapore take for granted. This is an important issue because safe and sustainable sanitation is paramount to our well being and survival. Read more
What?
Creative Mixer brings together creatives, hackers, entrepreneurs into a single space to redefine creativity.
Eight speakers enlighten us with bite-sized presentations on creativity across diverse fields. Who knows what will happen after, when creatives, entrepreneurs and hackers get together?
Why?
We believe in collaboration between entrepreneurs, developers and creatives in design, photography, film, architecture, animation/illustration and writing. Come to be inspired, inspire others, and find the strange common denominators!
Who?
100 opinion leaders and professionals in these industries. This thurd edition of Creative Mixer will feature sharings by:
Andreas Schlegel, Coordinator of Media Lab at Lasalle College of the Arts
Andy Croll, CTO at ImpulseFlyer
Lim Si Ping, Illustrator at Pixel-pastry.com and Artistic Director at Tribal DDB
Mike Ng, Penhaligons Singapore Creativity in Luxury
Tan Suehli, Type Designer, Kuala Lumpur
Cherry Thian, Asian Civilisations Museum Augmented Reality
Jasper Yu, Fine Art Photographer
Programme
6.00 / 6:30PM Patterns of Trade Exhibition Tour
7:00 – 7:15PM Welcome & Registration
7:15 – 8:15PM Dinner & Networking
8:15 – 9:00PM Sharing Sessions
9:00 – 10:00PM Mix the night awaay!
SPONSORS: Asian Civilisations Museum (Venue Partner), Spizza (Food Sponsor)
SUPPORTED BY: Girls-in-Tech Singapore & SGEntrepreneurs.com
When: 7 June 2012 (Thu), 7pm-10pm
Where: Asian Civilisations Museum Auditorium
Who: 100 Hackers, Entrepreneurs and Creatives from Design, Photography, Film, Architecture, Animation, Illustration
How: RSVP at http://creativemixer3.eventbrite.com
Registration Fee: $25 + $2 (ticketing) including food, a glass of wine & complimentary museum tour
Website: www.creativemixer.co
Over the past couple of months, in the Singapore entrepreneurship and tech startup space, there have been activities and buzz around Big Data, Cross Pollination among different groups of creatives and hackathons. UP Singapore is an event trying to bring all three movements together.
This June, over a two-week period, UP Singapore, through a unique series of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and ‘Urban Prototyping’ hackathons, aims to bring together the brightest thinkers, entrepreneurs, researchers, government employees, and engaged citizens in Singapore. Together, with a selection of global innovators, the goal is to collaborate and create innovative solutions that will make our cities smarter, more efficient and simply better places to call home.
If you are an individual interested in Big Data, this would be the perfect chance to get access to previously unavailable datasets that will be shared by data partners from both the public and private sectors into the UP Singapore “data sandbox”.
This would also be the perfect chance to meet like-minded individuals across a range of disciplines and put your collective skills together to create interesting solutions in the following areas of interest:
- Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS)
- Tourism
- Creative Arts
- Education
- Community Engagement
UP Singapore is looking to engage with data analysts, programmers, artists, graphic designers, financiers, academics, students, CEOs, NGOs, urbanists, architects, doctors, entrepreneurs, social workers and anyone else who has the ideas, vision or desire to improve our cities.
UP Singapore will culminate at the 2012 World Cities Summit in Singapore. Leading projects from the weekends will be selected through “crowd voting” and showcased in partnership with Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) and the “Data-Centric City for the Future” Pavilion. These projects will also be candidates for further development and fundraising of up to S$250,000.
Spaces in this event are limited, so do pre-register for the event on the UP Singapore website.
UP Singapore: 15th June – 4th July 2012.
City Camp:
15-16 June at
NUS University Town, Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
8 College Avenue West
Singapore, 138608
Urban Prototyping Weekend:
22-24 June at
NUS University Town, Education Resource Centre
8 College Avenue West
Singapore, 138608
WHAT?
Creative Mixer brings together creatives, hackers, entrepreneurs into a single space to redefine creativity. Eight speakers enlighten us with bite-sized presentations on creativity across diverse fields. Who knows what will happen after, when creatives, entrepreneurs and hackers get together?
WHY?
To increase collaboration between entrepreneurs, developers and creatives. Come to be inspired, inspire others, and find the strange common denominators!
WHO?
50 Entrepreneurs, Developers & Creatives from Design, Photography, Film, Architecture, Animation/Illustration and Writing.
This second edition of Creative Mixer will feature sharings by:
Janice Wong, 2amLab, Chef-owner of 2am dessert bar
Aen Tan, Singapore’s leading UI/UX Designer
Francis Chu, inventor & co-founder of ISUDA (bike sharing scheme)
Lara Kanga (UK), Publicist
Travis Ho, Game Designer of Autumn Dynasty (Touch Dimensions)
Oh York Bing, Architect
Veerapan Swaminathan, Sustainable Living Lab
Sean Lee, Photographer, Winner of the ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu 2011
… and a surprise presentation by a Visual Artist.
HOW? Register here!
Seats are LIMITED, so register to secure your place. Registration is $15 (includes food + a glass of wine) + $3.18 processing/paypal fee
PROGRAMME
7:00 – 7:15PM Welcome & Registration
7:15 – 8:15PM Dinner & Networking
8:15 – 9:00PM Sharing Sessions
9:00 – 10:00PM Mix the night awaay!
For more information, visit www.creativemixer.co :)
Quick Facts about Creative Mixer 2.0: Temporary / Permanent
When: 28 March 2012, 7pm-10pm
Where: Sinema Old School, 11B Mt Sophia
Who: 50 Hackers, Entrepreneurs and Creatives from Design, Photography, Film, Architecture, Animation, Illustration
How: Register by 24 March 2012 to www.flickevents.com/creativemixer
Registration: $15 (includes a glass of wine!) + $3 processing/paypal fee
Website/More Info: www.creativemixer.co
Partners: Relay Room, Spizza, Sinema, SGE, FeverAvenue, Girls in Tech, Underground Wines
As someone with a creative background but interacting on a daily basis with local entrepreneurs and startups, I’ve found an interesting dialogue that often repeats itself: creatives looking to connect with entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs who have a lack of creative talent within their businesses.
Why should these communities connect more?
Here’s 5 reasons:
1. At the bottom of it, both creative professionals and entrepreneurs value idea-creation and execution. Having this common denominator guarantees a meeting of minds.
2. Entrepreneurs often have the ideas but not necessarily the ability to execute them. Creatives do what they do because they have great execution skills. What better match could be made?
3. It’s not just about creating business opportunities. It’s also about collaboration, cross-pollination, prototyping and making better products together. What’s stopping the Singaporean startup scene from growing, is the creative thinking and processes that are tacit in the day-to-day practice of creatives,
4. At the end of the day, creatives and entrepreneurs are in the same business ecosystem. It is in the enlightened self-interest of both sides to ensure that the other succeeds. With great creative contributions to businesses, businesses can take their products and services to a higher level. And when businesses do that, they’ll call on the creatives to help realize more product offerings, and the cycle continues.
5. Because we can have more fun together. Who knows what will happen when creatives, hackers and entrepreneurs get together in a meaningful and engaged way?
At Relay Room, we’ve come up with a concept help increase interaction between the creative and entrepreneur scenes:Creative Mixer.
Creative Mixer brings together creatives, hackers, entrepreneurs into a single space to redefine creativity. The first event, held on 15 Dec 2011 at Smartspace, saw a whopping 88 people attending. At each event, we invite eight speakers to enlighten us with bite-sized presentations on creativity across their diverse fields.
Because we believe in collaboration between entrepreneurs, developers and creatives in design, photography, film, architecture, animation/illustration and writing, we would love to have you join us, to create a new, synergistic community of “creative entrepreneurs”.
Creative Mixer 2.0 is happening on 28th March 2012 at Sinema Old School. Registration can be made at www.flickevents.com/creativemixer. More details at www.creativemixer.co.
About the author
Sarah Cheng-De Winne is a media & performing arts professional. She is also the Business Development Manager of creative agency Relay Room.
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