EAT GREEN DESIGN 2 AUGUST 2009
Challenge your perceptions of sustainability through this unique creative platform and restaurant.
Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Eckhard Kemmerer and Paula Rogers.
What's on August 2
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.
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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TAKE A BALL OF THREAD
Based on Melinda Young’s jewellery project of the same name, you’re invited to make a piece of jewellery using a ball of sewing thread. The premise is simple: by using a common domestic material, engaging with and re-working simple craft techniques (and perhaps inventing some new ones), sewing thread becomes the vehicle for fantastic wearable creations, either as a material in itself or in combination with other found objects.
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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…)
Craig Walsh, visual artist
Craig Walsh profiles the development and evolution of his extraordinary artificial life form ARTEFACT H10515 on display at the Powerhouse Museum. He will present ideas related to new possibilities in technology-based art forms in public spaces and how current technologies allow for new forms of permanent public art and sustained engagement with audiences. (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…)
BOYD EDUCATION CENTRE TOUR
A rare opportunity to view the celebrated Boyd Education Centre at close quarters. Designed by Glenn Murcutt, Wendy Lewin and Reg Lark The Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre was nominated by Architectural Review magazine as one of the most influential buildings in Australia of the past 25 years.
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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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TALKS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE EXHIBITION – ARCHITECTURE FOR PLACE
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Richard Leplastrier, a seminal figure in Australian architecture and education, discusses the work of award-winning architect Glenn Murcutt in association with the exhibition Architecture for Place.
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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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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…)
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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