Indonesia
Renewable Energy and Clean Technology at the University of Manchester
Aulia has been passionate about STEM since childhood, watching science fiction films and science documentaries. She believes that her MSc will serve as a bridge between her undergraduate background in geophysics, which focused on conventional energy, and the global shift toward renewables, equipping her with the tools to contribute to solving the energy crisis through sustainable innovations.
UK: Glasgow Short Film Festival
Indonesia: Yayasan Kino Media (Minikino)
Through short films and filmmaker residencies, workshops, and festivals, Minikino and GSFF hope to open a creative dialogue in Scotland and Indonesia around environmental sustainability, social change, and empowerment. This collaboration will seek to find common ground on each organisation’s community challenges in driving social change, facilitating greater inclusion, and developing plans for longer-term partnerships.
Boni is the Director for International Business Development at BEKRAF (Badan Ekonomi Kreatif) or the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency. The Indonesian Creative Economy Agency is a non-ministerial governmental institution with a mandate below the Indonesian President. Prior to Bekraf, Boni was the Deputy Director at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics.
Caglar Kimyoncu is a digital and video artist. His interest is in representations of excluded voices and voices perceived as “other”. His method involves extensive research and interviews. He is also intensely collaborative.
Caglar’s currently working on: Conscience, a multimedia installation. As the 2015 recipient of the Shape Arts Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, he was Artist in Residence at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, where he completed the first stage of research for Conscience.
DANI is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Her sound is inspired by the Irish traditional melodies she was raised with, her vocals blend bluesy coarseness with lullaby softness.
DANI spent 2016 delivering music workshops and performing in Europe and the Middle East, working in the field of global peace education. She has been researching and capturing new sounds to create a new piece of work that will be released in 2017.
Fellow at Birmingham Open Media and artist-in-residence at Nottingham University
In 2014, Miebi Sikoki and other colleagues founded Digital Nativ—a digital fabrication studio founded out of passion for creating compelling, disruptive, iconic brand building tools and experiences that connect with end-users, regardless of category or industry. Their projects center around the adoption of technology as part of their creative process.
Miebi Sikoki, is a graduate from the Pelita Harapan University’s School of Visual Communication Design in 2007. As a trained professional in computer graphics and software programming, Miebi aims to explore new possibilities in product designs and creative processes.