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Ms. Andrea Möller is the Director of Media Art Friesland Foundation, the organisation behind LUNA Festival in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. She leads the festival’s development across media art, interdisciplinary practices, public-space art, exhibitions, education, and dialogue, connecting artists, researchers, communities, and international partners.

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Track 02: Forum | Festival Futures Forwards

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Ms. Cecile Huang works in arts, culture, and interdisciplinary programme development at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB). She contributes to programmes connecting art, technology, research, and society. Through C-LAB’s experimental and research-driven platform, she supports collaboration among artists, researchers, cultural organisations, and cross-sector partners.

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Track 02: Forum | Festival Futures Forwards

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Mr. Gerfried Stocker is a media artist, media technology engineer, and Artistic Director & Co-CEO of Ars Electronica. Since 1995, he has helped shape Ars Electronica into a global platform connecting art, technology, science, and society, while leading its exhibitions, research, and festival programmes.

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Track 02: Forum | Festival Futures Forwards

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Ms. June Tan is an artist, arts producer, playwright, and social activist from Malaysia. She has extensive experience in performing arts and cultural programme development, connecting artistic practice with social issues. She previously served as Director at TPAM in Yokohama, an arts platform reflecting contemporary thinking in Asia and is currently Artistic Director of KL Festival.

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Track 02: Forum | Festival Futures Forwards

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Dr Kristefan Minski is an accomplished artist, producer, academic, and entrepreneur specialising in transdisciplinary collaboration and Art-Science lab culture. Complimenting a PhD in this field, he spent a decade at the world-renowned Ars Electronica Futurelab and became the organisation’s first official ambassador in 2019. Dr Minski has an extensive network across the EU, US, Latin America, and Asia, and his experience spans roles as a producer, academic, director and in senior management. As an artist, his internationally recognised work traverses music, theatre, film, hybrid and interactive art. He is the founder, advisor and former CEO of Art Thinking PTY LTD (Australia), and since 2024, serves as Manager of Research and Innovation Capabilities at RMIT Vietnam.

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Track 02: Forum | Festival Futures Forwards

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Ms. Uyen Ly Truong is a journalist, independent researcher, and media consultant in Vietnam’s arts, culture, and creative ecosystem. She previously worked as an arts and culture journalist and Director of Hanoi Grapevine. Since 2014, she has focused on independent research into cultural and creative hubs and network development.

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Track 02: Forum | Festival Futures Forwards

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Yap Sau Bin is an artist-curator and educator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He teaches at Multimedia University and is a guest lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He is also a member of the artist initiative Rumah Air Panas (RAP). His practice encompasses conceptual work, installation, performance, mapping projects and curatorial work.

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Track 02: Forum | Festival Futures Forwards

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Dr Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, SFHEA, holds a PhD in Film and Media from Jagiellonian University. Author of Japanese Cyberpunk and over fifty articles on Asian film, media art and digital culture, she develops VR and holographic projects at RMIT Vietnam exploring games, film and Vietnamese culture, focusing on the body, nature and perception in technology-driven environments.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Corinna Joyce is Interim Deputy Dean, Learning & Teaching and Programme Manager for the Bachelor of Business in Fashion Management at RMIT Vietnam. Her research explores preserving fashion and textile making and repair skills and their role in social resilience. She brings extensive industry, academic and project management experience across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Professor Daniel X. Harris (they/them, RMIT University) is known for creative scholarship in gender, diversity and autoethnography, and directs the Creative Agency lab. With 22 books, 150+ publications and $4m+ in funding, Dan’s transdisciplinary ethnographic work draws on 25 years in education and 35 years in creative industries (playwriting, performance, theatre management).

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Prof. Donna Cleveland is the Dean of the School of Communication & Design, overseeing learning quality, academic development, and scholarship. Her research focuses on sustainable design, systems thinking in fashion and textiles, and materiality, making, and resilience across art, design, and creative technologies.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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As a design researcher and project manager, Edward leads qualitative research and international initiatives in circular design and systemic transition. His practice spans program building, research, and facilitation for regenerative and place-based projects. He explores pluriversal thinking and OOO to reconfigure relationships between humans, things, and places.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Geomilie Tumamao-Guittap is an architecture and urban planning researcher advancing disaster resilience and spatial justice across Southeast Asia. Based in the Philippines, she connects academic research with community practice. Her RMIT doctoral project on floating architecture in the Mekong Delta treats flood-affected communities as co-creators of climate-adaptive futures. She formerly chaired the UAP Resilience Architects and is an Equity Initiative Fellow.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Kim Ha is a designer, educator and entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City. As a PhD candidate at RMIT, she researches circular design combining recycled plastic with traditional Vietnamese lacquerware. Her practice turns discarded materials into high-value products. Founder of UPGREEN Vietnam and YSEALI/APEC fellow, she holds a patent for a COVID-19 healthcare device.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Aiming to make fermentation microbes’ invisible work visible through design, he develops projects with brewers and researchers across Japan. After studying fermentation science at Tokyo University of Agriculture, he established a lab in Yamanashi’s mountains. In 2020 he opened Hakkō Department in Shimokitazawa. His books include Fermentation Cultural Anthropology and How We Live with Tradition; he also hosts a YBS Radio program and the podcast #Tadaima Hakkōchū.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Joyce Yee is Professor of Design and Social Innovation at Northumbria University and co-founder of the DESIAP network. Her critical praxis work decentres dominant design narratives by recognising diverse practices and knowledges. She collaborates with communities to nurture cultural practices and drive social change, including projects on creative districts in Thailand, youth programmes in England, and transcultural mentoring for women across Asia-Pacific.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Leonhard Bartolomeus (Barto) is a curator at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM). After studying at Jakarta Institute of the Arts, he joined ruangrupa and Gudskul Ekosistem, focusing on art, education and community. This informs his YCAM programs and Roppongi Crossing 2025. A generalist, he learns through workshops, exhibitions and projects worldwide.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kok Yoong Lim is Deputy Dean of Research & Innovation at RMIT Vietnam’s School of Communication & Design. With over 16 years in creative multimedia, his practice and research explore art, technology, and philosophy, focusing on technology, memory, spirituality, and the environment. His work has been exhibited across Asia and the UK.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Mai Huyền Chi is a Vietnamese writer-director focusing on the floating and stateless communities of the Mekong Delta. Her debut documentary Down the Stream (2015) was a Vimeo Best of the Year finalist, launching her “Stateless Series” and fiction feature The River Knows Our Names (Cannes 2026). She founded Cinema Con Nhà Nghèo and is a Prince Claus Fund Fellow.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Nhat Q. Vo is a cultural worker and multidisciplinary designer based in Ho Chi Minh City. With a BA in Architecture from California College of the Arts (2015), he creates education playgrounds and advances cultural development through events, production and curation. He collaborates across Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and manages the Nguyễn Art Foundation (formerly Sàn Art).

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Dr Nicola St John is an Australian co-designer and Senior Lecturer in communication design at RMIT. Her collaborative practice partners with First Nations creatives to promote respectful, relational design. She co-led the InterDesigning network and developed Solid Lines, Australia’s only First Nations-led illustration agency (2023 Good Design Award), plus the Solid Yarns podcast.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Dr Oliver Vodeb is a sociologist working at the intersection of design, activism and critical theory. He advances design for social change and justice through praxis-based research and Socially Responsive Communication. Founder of Memefest and author of books including “What is Post-Branding?”, he lectures worldwide and integrates design, sociology and media for the public good.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Steve is a senior textile R&D expert specialising in sustainable materials and circular economy. At Faslink he leads Product R&D and Marketing, integrating bio-fibers such as pineapple leaf, lotus and recycled polyester with WearTech into fashion. A regular speaker at SaigonTex and TexFuture, he mentors young designers through university CSR workshops on circular fashion.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Thao Vu is the founder and artistic visionary of KILOMET109, a leading Asian sustainable fashion brand helping establish Hanoi as a creative hub. She crafts fashion-forward pieces from home-grown fibers and natural dyes, handwoven with local artisans. Her practical garments support communities, preserve traditions, and explore Vietnamese culture through collections and fine art installations shown worldwide.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Toan is a Vietnamese Australian architect, linguist and researcher who approaches buildings and language as design problems. Trained at UNSW and Monash, he is completing a PhD at Western Sydney University on modularity and complex systems. Creative Director of VTAS, he works on prefabricated housing and urban planning, translates architectural books into Vietnamese, and studies traditional đình communal houses.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Yoko Akama is a design researcher and educator at RMIT University. She uses design to enhance inter-relating by respecting difference and diversity, collaborating across Australia and Asia on disaster readiness, Indigenous sovereignty, women’s creative mentorship and ethical gathering. She co-founds and co-leads the Designing Entangled Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific platform.

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Track 04: Circular Design Week 2026: Metabolic Abundance

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Mr. Ly Nhat Binh is Assistant Dean and Head of Graphic Design at Ton Duc Thang University. With over 10 years of experience, he specialises in advertising, editorial design and visual communication. As a former Creative Director and Art Director, he combines industry practice with teaching and professional judging to develop creative talent.

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Track 05: VNx Panel | Learning Beyond Classroom

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Phan Bao Chau (Jackie) is an Associate Lecturer at RMIT University Vietnam, animator, art practitioner, and educator specializing in 2D animation and motion graphics. Formerly Brand Director and Head of Digital Animation at FPT University, she has over a decade of teaching experience and has served as a jury member at international festivals.

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Track 05: VNx Panel | Learning Beyond Classroom

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Ms. Nguyen Thi Dinh is Deputy Head of the Education and Communication Department at the Vietnam National Museum of History. She oversees heritage education, museum communications and public engagement, developing programmes that make history accessible and meaningful. Her work explores museums as dynamic learning spaces connecting heritage, lifelong learning and communities.

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Track 05: VNx Panel | Learning Beyond Classroom

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Ms. Tran Thi Ngoc Ha is Project Manager of Co-Lab at RMIT Vietnam’s School of Communication and Design. She specialises in project management, partnership development and connecting education with creative industries. Her work promotes experiential learning, interdisciplinary collaboration and student projects addressing real-world social and environmental challenges through creative, applied approaches.

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Track 05: VNx Panel | Learning Beyond Classroom

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Ms. Nguyen Nguyen Nhu Trang is Founder and Director of LIFE Centre Vietnam, a non-profit organisation promoting health, well-being and social inclusion for vulnerable communities. With over 20 years of experience, she specialises in community development, public health, gender equality and social impact, working across community, government and international development partnerships.

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Track 05: VNx Panel | Learning Beyond Classroom