Melvin Tan is the Creative Director of Currency, a design agency providing value through strategic design. He believes purposeful design can transform projects and businesses. He enjoys helping new businesses enter the market and revitalising existing brands. Co-founder of Hothouse in 2020, the project supports and prototypes local artistic practices, fostering experimentation and production to upend conventions. The collective collaborates with new media artists INTER—MISSION and speculative architecture lab formAxioms, blending expertise in contemporary art, technology, design, and architecture for innovative knowledge building and dissemination.