August 2019 | Join this exciting work festival promoting creative industries in Brunei. Facilitated by industry experts, workshops and experiences are immersive and practical. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned professional, there is something for you!
Creative Economy Week runs from August 5th-10th and features a range of creative professionals from VR Designers to engineers, data scientists to product developers. expect labs, intensives, workshops and more..
The Creative Economy encompasses the creative industries* alongside trade, labour and production. In this day and age, the creative industries is one of the most dynamic sectors in the world economy. Sitting at the intersection of human creativity and ideas, knowledge and technology, the effective development of the creative economy results in both commercial and cultural value. Its ability to bring about sociocultural development in a nation sets itself apart.
*Creative Industries include: advertising, architecture, arts and crafts, design, fashion, film, video, photography, music, performing arts, publishing, research & development, software, computer games, electronic publishing, and TV/radio.
WORKSHOPS
Facilitated by industry experts, our workshops are immersive and practical.
Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned professional, there is something for you!
CREABILITY MOVEMENT
A 3-day workshop designed to assist curators, artists and art managers wishing to undertake
inclusive art projects by providing them with ideas, resources and skills to design projects
that engage artists and people with disabilities.
AR CREATION & VR STORYTELLING
Whether you are a creative or someone looking to spice up your company’s marketing
campaign, you’ll learn different methods in using AR effects in your work. This 2-hr
augmented reality workshop will take you through practical technique in AR creation,
highlighting the value of human-centred design.
CREATION LAB
What would we get if we tasked a biologist, sound engineer, writer and landscape artist to
work together to solve Brunei’s waste management issues? The lab is an 8-day
interdisciplinary co-creation lab to encourage and showcase the value of cross-sectional
This style of a creation process forces creators to look outside of their own
field, pushing them to alter their usual creative processes and challenge them to work with
new elements that may be outside of their expertise. Each team’s creative work will be
guided by one of the following themes: i) Natural Environment, ii) Culture & Identity, iii)
Urban Space and Planning, and iv) Health & Social Welfare. All works created will be asked
to address at least one of the 17 the UN Sustainable Development Goals in a showcase at
the tail end of the Lab.
EXPERIENCES
Immerse yourself into activities and conversations around the role of Creativity
Talk About It. Let’s! Talk About It. Let’s! is an informal and intimate round table chat set
around a dinner table. Whilst the speakers will be pre-selected, you have a chance to join in
on the conversation as an OBSERVER. Observers sit outside the circle with an opportunity to
ask or comment on the discussions at hand. This exclusive edition will double up as a
networking event. Dinner & Drinks are included.
Experience Art
An interactive art experience presented by local and regional creatives. The exhibition will
feature an AR and VR experience by Asia’s first creative innovation lab, Meshminds, along
with other local works.
C.E.W Forum
This forum will bring the Creative Economy Week to a close. The forum will see both local and regionpanelists from various backgrounds, including the private and public sectors. The discussion will fall around 3 main topics, i) the current landscape of the creative economy in Asia Pacific, ii) what creativity looks like outside of the Arts, iii) tri-sector collaboration.
Find out more and apply for the above at www.creativeeconomyweek.com/
IG: @creativeeconomyweek
@thecreativecore