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What's on August 1

EAT GREEN DESIGN 1 AUGUST 2009

Challenge your perceptions of sustainability through this unique creative platform and restaurant.

Dinner, 6pm – 9pm (bookings essential): WELCOME TO EAT GREEN DESIGN with Jared Ingersoll, Chef/ Director Danks Street Depot; Hannah Tribe, Director Tribe Studio Architects; Cilla Maden, Creative Director Eat Green Design; Helen Whitty, Producer of Public Programs Powerhouse Museum; John Eusson, Director Eusson Consulting (MC).

Daily Designer, 2.30pm – 4.30pm (free with Museum admission): David Trubridge.

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EAT GREEN DESIGN DAILY DESIGNER TALKS

Hear inspiring designers speak each day at Eat Green Design, a unique creative platform and restaurant inside the Powerhouse. Daily designer talks are FREE with Museum admission, no bookings required.

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FASHIONING NOW: CHANGING THE WAY WE MAKE AND USE CLOTHES

Fashioning Now looks at ways in which clothing is produced, used and discarded. Through a dynamic array of fashion garments, textile objects, photography, illustration and time-base media, Fashioning Now highlights the diversity of sustainable options being explored by designers, researchers and manufacturers, while predicting possible scenarios for a future fashion industry. (more…)

FESTIVAL PASS

Make the most of Sydney Design 09 with a Festival Pass.

SYDNEY DESIGN 09 FESTIVAL PASS ($16)
Visit the Powerhouse Museum as many times as you would like during the Festival, including entry to the late night event, Play Late, on 7 August and Young Blood: Designers Markets on 14 and 15 August 2009. (more…)

AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS

See the Powerhouse Museum’s selection from this year’s finalists in the Australian International Design Awards. This year designs are as diverse as a battery-heated wetsuit, foldable commuter bike, sleep disorder testing device and transportable sink.
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SUSTAIN ME: CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

The word “sustainability” is in danger of losing its tangible value and status as a universal catch-cry from chronic over use. Sustain me: contemporary design explores the conventional role design and designers play in creating and developing a deeper understanding of sustainability. (more…)

DESIGNING WITH LETTERPRESS

Explore traditional and experimental methods of designing and printing with letterpress. Letterpress is a traditional form of print-design manufacture that transfers the inked surface of raised wood and metal letters to paper on a hand press. Over five consecutive Saturdays students will explore the contemporary applications of this method and the allure of the handmade in current graphic design practices.
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DAVID TRUBRIDGE: CULTURAL DESIGN

In association with the exhibition Sustain me: contemporary design, New Zealand designer David Trubridge addresses how ecodesign (however worthy) is not enough unless it also addresses some form of cultural/spiritual nourishment. Says Trubridge: “Design is looking for new meaning and relevance. (more…)

GLENN MURCUTT: ARCHITECTURE FOR PLACE

Glenn Murcutt’s groundbreaking designs are internationally recognised as being at the very forefront of contemporary architecture. His work is celebrated for its sustainability, harmony with the natural world, and resonance and unity with Australia’s diverse climate and topography.
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INTERACTIVATION STUDIO PROJECT DEMOS

The Interactivation Studio is a research laboratory for the design, investigation, invention and development of new ways of interacting with electronic technology. It is a flexible infrastructure which can be rearranged to suit a number of uses – from workshop, class room, test lab, exhibition space (more…)

SURRY HILLS: DESIGN LOVERS TOUR

Immerse yourself in the inspiring world of some of Australia’s most innovative and cutting edge designers and makers on this tour of Sydney’s burgeoning design culture. Discover innovative furniture, ceramics, glass, jewellery and interior design; meet artists, curators and retailers and experience Surry Hills’ cafes and galleries.
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SYDNEY CITY WALK WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATION

A two-hour walk taking in Sydney’s high-rise towers including Sir Norman Foster’s Deutsche Bank Place. Learn who designed Sydney’s tallest tower. Learn why Australia Square is round. Learn where Sydney highest garden is to be found.
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RUGUP DESIGN EXHIBITION

An exhibition of contemporary rugs designed by the third year Textile Design student finalists from the University of NSW’s College of Fine Arts for the 2009 Rug Up design competition. These outstanding pieces were manufactured in collaboration with Designer Rugs.
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FINK: FOSTERING DESIGN

A retrospective exhibition of some of the most outstanding and endearing products developed by celebrated Australian design company FINK + Co. Established in 1994 by Robert Foster, the company has played a critical role in promoting Australian design and nurturing Australian designers. (more…)

TRANSCLIMATIC

Transclimatic demonstrates how climate change drives us to address new objectives: explore new places, set new design strategies, use new techniques or develop new technologies via a multi‐disciplinary design exhibition. It showcases selected works of emerging or established artists, design practices and architects worldwide.
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ULTRA_FAB

Digital modelling and digital fabrication are wonderful things but how toxic are 3D printers and how much gas is given off while laser cutting a piece of plywood? What are the environmental impacts of these Ultra_Fab tectonics? University of Sydney architecture staff and students demonstrate the creative potential – and the impact – of digital fabrication at the Ultra_Fab pavilion.
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THE 2009 SYDNEY TEAPOT SHOW

An invitational exhibition of teapots of every persuasion – from the exquisite and the elegant, to the functional and the purely decorative, to the whimsical and the bizarre – The Sydney Teapot Show has been held for around 20 years at The Inner City Clayworkers Gallery in Glebe and showcases local, interstate and the occasional international design.
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LAUNCH PAD

See the very best budding product design talent in the country – finalists in the highly-competitive Launch Pad program. Launch Pad is designed to foster relationships between emerging Australian designers and industry professionals. It aims to help develop early stage prototypes into market-ready products. Finalists are selected by an elite international panel of design industry professionals. The two-week exhibition culminates at Saturday in Design, an event attracting over 7000 design professionals.
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MATERIALBYPRODUCT: THE CURTAIN GOWN GETS BONES

The Curtain Gown is a signature work by Melbourne fashion phenomenon MATERIALBYPRODUCT. Blurring the boundary between fashion and interior design it has been critically acclaimed and widely publicised both here and overseas. (more…)

KAZUYO SEJIMA + RYUE NISHIZAWA / SANAA: AN ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION

Two of the hottest names in Japanese architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, will give a first-hand glimpse of their architectural aesthetic with their architectural intervention at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. (more…)

ELECTRONIC MEDIA ARTS WORKSHOP

A hands-on four-hour hour workshop to provide the tools to engage in the creative uses of electronic media as well as its application in commercial interaction design. Work with locative media and microprocessor boards to create a performance, interactive installation or media game. The aim is to create electronic media works at the boundaries of technological and artistic experimentation. (more…)

Architecture Harbour Cruise WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATION

Sydney’s only architecture harbour cruise. This 90 minute harbour cruise not only examines buildings along the shoreline, but also highlights some of the underlying characteristics that give Sydney its sense of place, and how our settlement patterns and architecture evolved. (more…)

SPLINTER WORKSHOP DESIGN IN ACTION

Along with completed contemporary furniture and objects in a workshop environment, see works in progress and take the opportunity to speak to designer/makers about their influences and methods. Splinter Workshop – Design in Action in an experiential event that connects visitors with the designers, makers, design process, the craft, materials and the completed pieces.
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Sydney Design Festival 2009 – August 1 to 16, 2009