[iCONADA Research Team] Bringing Art into the City, Making the City a Work of Art: Reflecting on the Cultural Potential of George Town Through Converge

When art is no longer confined to museums and galleries but instead finds its place in parks, neighbourhoods and public spaces, the relationship between people and art begins to transform. As part of the 2026 George Town Festival, Taiwanese artist Lee Kuei-chih was…

[Golongan Penyelidikan iCONADA] Bagaimana Pendidikan Dapat Membimbing Generasi Baharu Menghadapi Perubahan Zaman

Universiti di seluruh dunia sedang mengadakan majlis konvokesyen secara berperingkat. Tetamu yang dijemput untuk merasmikan majlis dan menyampaikan ucapan kepada para graduan kini pastinya lebih berhati-hati berbanding sebelum ini.…

Pulau Banggi, Malaysia’s largest island, sits at a critical geographic and cultural crossroads. Embedded within the Tun Mustapha Park, it serves as a living laboratory for the modern "Blue Economy." Yet, beneath the clean vernacular of sustainability, funding, and eco-efficiency lies a deeper story: a community actively reclaiming its ecological agency from the ghosts of historical neglect and extractive exploitation.…

The documentary Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare (2023) examines the rise of the "troubled teen industry" (TTI), a network of private behavioral programs that claimed to reform adolescents through strict discipline, isolation, and survival- based experiences.



Rather than portraying these camps as isolated cases of abuse, the documentary argues that they emerged from broader social anxieties in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, growing fears…

[Golongan Penyelidikan iCONADA] Apabila Pemandu Pelancong Menjadi Pencerita Visual: Keupayaan Estetika dan Kreativiti Adalah Daya Saing Sebe nar dalam Era Pelancongan

Ada yang mengatakan bahawa pada hari ini, keupayaan paling penting bagi seorang pemandu pelancong bukan lagi sekadar menghafal sejarah, legenda atau maklumat tentang destinasi pelancongan, tetapi kebolehan merakam gambar yang unik dan mempunyai jalan cerita untuk…

In today’s era, where data and algorithms are used to quantify almost everything with precision, self-mocking or evaluative statements such as “I have absolutely no mathematical ability,” “He is naturally tone-deaf,” or “I lack the social gene” can be heard everywhere. We seem deeply inclined to use a kind of absolute, “either-or” language to impose intellectual “life sentences” on ourselves and others.

However, the theory of Multiple Intelligences proposed by modern developmental…