EAT GREEN DESIGN 8 AUGUST 2009
Challenge your perceptions of sustainability through this unique creative platform and restaurant.
Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Oliver Smith.
What's on August 8
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…)
ARTEFACT H10515
Artefact H10515 is a life form that lives in a large display case. It moves, it breathes and it feeds on digital sources within and beyond the walls of the museum. Artefact H10515 is the creation of Craig Walsh, a leading Australian media artist with an international reputation for creating innovative and thought-provoking work. (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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SILVERSMITHING FOR BEGINNERS
Located in the heart of Surry Hills’ design precinct, metalab contemporary jewellery gallery is offering a unique workshop experience. Learn the art of jewellery making with foundation techniques. In this course of two sessions held on consecutive Saturday’s you will be given a workshop orientation and learn fundamental skills (more…)
WORKSHOPPED 09
Showcasing a stellar range of Australian furniture, lighting and product design conceived by emerging young designers, Workshopped 09 focuses on the work of designers that are ‘creating the future, inspiring, enhancing and making a difference’.
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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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FASHION DRAWING: THE ESMOD MÉTHODE
Learn to draw like a fashion designer. Using the celebrated ESMOD Méthode form Paris, participants are introduced to fashion illustration fundamentals. The fashion figure, The fashion face, Clothing a figure, Basic rendering techniques. (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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TYPORGANICS BOTANICA SUSTAINABLE GRAPHICS
An exhibition of final-year Enmore Design Centre work highlighting the innovative and sustainable design solutions of signage. Students were asked to produce designs using non-renewable resources that were found, recycled or included the transformation of raw material (more…)
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…)
MUSEUM STORAGE GLIMPSE: SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES, FURNITURE AND MUSIC COLLECTIONS
Come behind-the-scenes into the Museum’s collection deep stores to explore and marvel at selected Sydney 2000 Olympic Games ceremony costumes created by iconic Australian fashion designers, including Jenny Kee and Lisa Ho, and a selection of objects from both the Museum’s furniture and music collections. (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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UTZON – SYDNEY ARCHITECTURE WALKS
Join architect Eoghan Lewis in this in-depth and textured portrait of enigmatic Danish architect Jørn Utzon. The walk discusses the sources of the architect’s deepest inspiration and charts the development of Utzon’s ideas and their realisation (more…)
SCULPTURE OF THE CITY ARCHITECTURE WALK WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATION
A fascinating exploration of Sydney’s architectural history as revealed by its artworks. Discover how sculpture can enrich the experience of architecture and public space. Learn about the important aspects of the interpretation of sculpture in relationship to the space it inhabits.
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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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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…)
UNTOUCHABLE
Untouchable presents the work of staff from the Object Art and Design Studios of Sydney College of the Arts. It showcases the artists’ diverse approaches. As for its tongue-in-cheek title: What else do you call an exhibition to accompany Unwearable and Unbearable?
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UTILITY: UNBEARABLE
Unbearable challenges assumptions that art objects should be tasteful, aesthetically pleasing, understandable, accessible and physically manageable. The works ask you to address these expectations and consider other possibilities.
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LISA WALKER: UNWEARABLE
Why would a jeweller choose such a confrontational title for an exhibition of work from the last 15 years as Unwearable? It’s a provocation. Those familiar with New Zealand’s Lisa Walker’s work won’t be surprised. The very best jewellery in her exhibition aggressively challenges us on a material, conceptual and practical level. Curated by Damian Skinner.
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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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EXTRA CHEEESE
Self-described as that “tasty something more”, Extra Cheeese is an innovative collective aimed at breaking down the distinctions between artists and designers. It’s a community where ideas and practices are shared and the similarities and differences between the two creative disciplines are celebrated and appreciated rather than find themselves divided into two separate camps. (more…)
PETA KRUGER: JEWELLERY
Peta Kruger’s works re-imagine the past as a grander more complicated version of what might have been.
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DESIGN + WOOD 2009: AN EXHIBITION OF STUDIO FURNITURE
Design + Wood 2009 features the work of established and emerging designer/makers who focus on contemporary design while retaining the tradition of workshop-based production. It showcases the beauty and diversity of Australian native timbers and is a rare opportunity to view handcrafted studio furniture seldom exhibited outside specialist and studio galleries.
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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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COLOURED BODIES
Coloured Bodies is an extraordinary exhibition of abstract geometric paintings and digital prints that symbolically depict human DNA – the blueprint for life. Judith Duquemin’s work is algorithmic reconstructions of red, yellow, blue and green striped colour fields to represent Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine – the constituents of DNA.
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DOMESTIC ABYSS
Exploring the domestic and the mundane and discovering the fantastic, Domestic Abyss takes life’s everyday rituals and questions and illuminates them via a diverse and accomplished group of artists. Alexandra Chambers was a finalist in Ranamok Glass Prize; Ellen Kent – finding inspiration during an internship in Indonesia – draws on cultural difference and exchange and Laura Stekovic pushes the boundaries of the psychological with her digital art, printmaking, photomedia and public art.
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THE KNITTED CONVENIENCE
We’re in the middle of the biggest resurgence in knitting since the 1970s. In Denmark they knitted a tank, in Mexico they knitted a bus and in Sydney guerrilla knitter Denise Litchfield has organised that Taylor Square’s historic public amenities be covered in knitted pieces. (more…)
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…)
EMBELLISHMENT: COUTURE BEADING AND EMBROIDERY TECHNIQUES
Examine and explore a range of introductory embroidery stitches and beading techniques used in haute couture fashion and antique clothing. Traditional stitching methods are applied to basic samples; latest textile trends provide inspiration for an embellishment design exercise.
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DISPLAY STORE TOUR: THE GENTLE ARTS
Join Discovery Centre volunteers Sandra Dyer and Maggie Habgood on a journey through the pioneer women’s work from the Powerhouse Collection. (more…)
FORM . FUNCTION . FABULOUS
Featuring a range of classic plastic designs by 20 international designers that include Ron Arad, Denis Satachiara, Christophe Pillet, Tokujin Yoshioka, Alberto Meda and Roldolfo Dordino Form Function Fabulous is a retrospective look at the last ten years of plastic design.
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NSW ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2009
An exhibition of the 2009 winners of the prestigious NSW Architecture Awards at Sydney’s Centre for Architecture, Potts Point. The exhibition includes winners in the coveted Sulman and Wilkinson Awards – the highest accolades for public and residential architecture in NSW. (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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