Co-Making in the City | 2018 Maker Faire Shenzhen Forum

Dr. Andrew Quitmeyer is a hacker / adventurer studying intersections between wild animals and computational devices. His academic research in “Digital Naturalism” at the National University of Singapore blends biological fieldwork and DIY digital crafting. This work has taken him through international wildernesses where he’s run workshops with diverse groups of scientists, artists, designers, and engineers.  He runs “Hiking Hacks” around the world where participants build technology entirely in the wild for interacting with nature. His research also inspired a ridiculous spin-off television series he hosted for Discovery Networks called “Hacking the Wild.” The Digital Naturalism Conference (www.dinacon.org) is his largest undertaking thus far, and is leading him to start his own permanent Art-Science Field Station Fab Lab.

Jiong Shi is an associate professor at the School of Computer and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang Wanli University, China. He has been a Microsoft MVP for ten years, and is interested in Windows 10 IoT Core, Windows Embedded, and Azure IoT. He is an author of the book “Windows 10 IoT Application Developer Guide”, a blogger, and speaker for Ignite China. Jiong is active in local developer community, speaking at technical conferences, writing articles on Hackster, contributing to Windows IoT Core open-source projects, and serving as a mentor and Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC). He is a productive project content constributor on one of the biggest project plateforms — Hackster.io, and serveral of his projects have won prizes for serveral international online contests.

Francois Grey manages the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative, the world’s first comprehensive education programme for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched in 2016 by University of Geneva in partnership with Tsinghua University Beijing and Shenzhen. In 2017, the Initiative established the SDG Solution Space, a maker space for collaboration between the hundreds of UN agencies, International Organizations and NGOs in Geneva, and students from around the world. The SDG Solution Space supports challenge-based learning for the SDGs in several formats : hackathons, online coaching, summer schools, certificate courses, Masters programmes. The mission of the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative is to nurture a new generation of social innovator who can tackle the SDGs, and make a better world.

Shih Wei Chieh is a media artist, e-textile prototype designer and a self-taught material researcher based in Taipei. His wearable works have shown at many global tech and maker events such as SXSW, E-textile Summer Camp, Adafruit, and CTM Festival. Since 2015 another project of his “Laser Dye” explores the UV photosensitive processing and ancient photography rephrasing, digital fabrication for fashion clothing. He’s also the founder of Tribe Against Machine, a socially engaging annual workshop event that invites e-textile artists to collaborate with traditional textile communities.

From Taiwan, Hsiang-yi is an architect, maker, and barista based in Shenzhen. Passionate about everything related to design and creativity, she believes that good designs originate from one’s imagination for everyday life. Her diverse background, from architecture to landscape and interior design to electronics and interactive installations, allows her to think in dimensions that lead to interdisciplinary collaborations. In 2018, Hsiang-yi helped to organize Transformable Space, a week-long workshop bringing together architects and makers with the intention of pushing the boundaries for design in search of possibilities between physical space and technology.

Dr. Mohammad Salah Uddin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the East West University, Bangladesh. Prior to this he was working as a Researcher (Tradr – European project) in Sapienza University of Rome. After completing his B.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering from East West University, Bangladesh in 2012, he joined as a Lecturer at Central Women’s University. In October 2013, he enrolled in Sapienza University of Rome, Italy to pursue his PhD Degree and received the PhD degree in Robotics in July 2017. His research mainly focuses on Robotics system, Automation, Sensory System, Internet of Things, Machine Vision etc. He published several research papers in peer-reviewed conference/journal from his research work.

Lyla is at the same time a maker, an architect, a designer, an art curator and an educator. She studied at the National University of Singapore, Chinese University Hong Kong, the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. After graduation Lyla went to work for AEDAS in China, Greg Lynn Form in USA, Graft in Germany and other well-known architectural and design companies internationally. As an educator, Lyla is currently serving as a visiting professor at Tongji University, always in the forefront of research and education in digital design and digital fabrication. In 2015, Lyla founded Neuni_lab, a workspace that combine innovation and prototyping in a laboratory environment, providing experimentation and integration of digital design, digital fabrication, co-working space, creative education, brand incubation and commercialization. In 2016, Lyla obtained exclusive right to collaborate with MateriO and founded Neuni Materio China in Shanghai, thereby becoming the first world-class Chinese platform that provide training, incubation and trading of innovative materials.