Free lunch-time talks every Wednesday and Sunday at the Powerhouse. Throughout August Talks After Noon focuses on some of the unique events, exhibitions and people featured in SD08.

Seidler’s first studio - 1948-59
10 August, 2.00-3.00pm
Penelope Seidler in conversation with architects Colin Griffiths and Professors James Weirick and Philip Goad.

Workshopping Design
13 August, 12.30 - 1.30
Workshopped organiser Dean ormston, US designer Donald Corey and UK based designer Michael Young discuss how product ideas are born, refined, tested, patented and brought to market

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER - BIRGIT LOHMANN
Does originality still exist?
17 August, 2.00-3.00pm
This is a question often asked of Birgit Lohmann, CEO and editor-in-chief of the international online design publication designboom. In this talk Lohmann searches for an answer by drawing on her experiences working in a transcultural context and organising international design competitions.
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Lohmann studied industrial design in Florence before moving to Milan, where she has lived and worked, since 1987. She has worked as a designer and product development manager for Achille Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti, Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari and Renzo Piano, a design historian for justice departments and auction houses, and a researcher and lecturer in universities. In 1999 she co-founded designboom, where she is currently editor-in-chief, head of educational programming and curator for international exhibitions.

Celebrating 50 years of design promotion: a history of the Australian International Design Awards
20 August, 12.30-1.30pm
Angelique Hutchison, Curator of Product Design at the Powerhouse, talks about the history of the Australian International Design Awards and the Museum’s involvement.

Bauhaus in Australia
24 August, 1.00-2.00pm
Daniel Thomas, AM, Emeritus Director, AGSA in conversation with Andrew McNamara, Visual Arts, QUT.
Followed by a screening of Farbenlichtspiele: the re-constructed Bauhaus films of Ludwig Hirscheld-Mack at 2.00pm.

Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo
All talks are free with Museum admission