Our Talks

 Navigating music

Inch Chua and Hyder Albar
The musical path is one less traveled in Singapore, with no tried and tested formula to success. Watch Inch Chua and Hyder Albar unpack and explore the dimensions of musical journeys, and perhaps you’ll pick up a trick or two in navigating your own relationship with music.

Art and science of smell

Prachi Saini
“Sense of smell is the most ancient and least understood sense. See how dogs can smell in 4D and humans are not as bad as we think we are. Let’s recap what we know and find out where the scientists are focusing.”

The Brinjal Story – A Journey of Discovery

Shannon Lee 
In 2014, Shannon Lee became the first Singaporean to be named an Intel Foundation Young Scientist at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF). This is a story of how she discovered brinjal as a potential electrocatalyst for metal-air batteries as well as how brinjal “discovered” her. This can be your story too. 

 The Brain as Unread Library

Shubigi Rao 
As the most widely accessible and yet truly mysterious repository of knowledge, fiction, narratives and structures, the brain is a library without borders, still largely unmapped. This is where the creative impulse comes in, with its mnemonic linking, illogical leapfrogging, and circumambulations.

Drawing on her artistic practice and current ten-year art, book, and film project, the talk will look at creative impulses within and outside academic structures, and why the arts flourish naturally in the gaps, the gray areas and uncharted terrain.