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EAT GREEN DESIGN 10 AUGUST 2009

kathleene — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:41:12 +0000

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

Dinner, 6pm (bookings essential): CREATIVE CONCEPTS FOR A HEALTHY LIFESTLE AND HOME ENVIRONMENT John Eusson, Director Eusson Consulting; Sandy Debeyer, writer/ stylist/ photographer Burke’s Backyard magazine; Rachel Guy, Wholistic Lifestyle Trainer.

Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Julie Paterson.

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

John Eussen has been a leader in the textiles and interiors industry for more than 20 years, specialising in sustainable and environmentally friendly decor. He worked in high-profile management roles before leaving the corporate world to pursue his penchant for interiors. His passion for a sustainable future has since led him into a raft of inspired roles, from being an Al Gore Ambassador for the Climate Change Project to working as a consultant for global sustainability conferences.

Sandy de Beyer first found recognition as an art teacher and artist. Her works are represented in overseas collections and in Australia, including Canberra’s Parliament House. She expanded her horizons by manufacturing and retailing outdoor furniture, as well as running a homewares store. However, de Beyer found her niche when she entered the publishing industry, currently working as a feature writer, stylist and photographer at Burke’s Backyard, and is a freelance contributor for Better Homes & Gardens and Your Garden magazines.

Rachel Guy is a lifestyle coach, physical therapist and strength-and-conditioning coach. Having worked in the health and fitness industry for the past six years, Guy has gained a deep insight into health and wellness. Her studies include a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in physiotherapy; graduate certificate in exercise science; ASCA strength and conditioning; dry needling and Cert IV personal training. Guy is also a qualified holistic lifestyle and exercise coach.

Julie Paterson, a painter, printmaker and designer, launched her fabric company, cloth, in Sydney’s Surry Hills 15 years ago. She produces contemporary screen-printed textiles for upholstery and soft furnishings, along with a range of prints and paintings that have many references to the Australian bush. Mainly working with hemp and linen, Paterson produces handmade fabric in short runs in a tin shed in country NSW. This method allows for a controllable low-impact approach to manufacturing and materials.

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MORE ABOUT EAT GREEN DESIGN

POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
DAILY DESIGNER TALKS ARE FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
BREAKFAST: $66 PER PERSON
DINNER (INCLUDES ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES): $110 PER PERSON
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

EAT GREEN DESIGN DAILY DESIGNER TALKS

kathleene — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:39:26 +0000

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.

Saturday 1 August, 2.30pm free with Museum admission: David Trubridge, furniture and lighting designer.

Sunday 2 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Eckard Kemmerer, Executive Director, Apogee International and Paula Rogers, Managing Director The Fair-trading Company.

Monday 3 August 2009, 12pm free with Museum admission: Arthur Koutoulas, Director Arthur Koutoulas Design.

Tuesday 4 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Nicholas Karlovasitis and Sarah Gibson, Creative Directors Design By Then.

Wednesday 5 August 2009, 2pm, free with Museum admission: Richard Francis-Jones, fjmt.

Thursday 6 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Claire Morris, Creative Director Apple and Bee.

Friday 7 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Michael Alvisse and Mark Schamburg, Directors Schamburg and Alvisse.

Saturday 8 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Oliver Smith, silversmith and designer.

Sunday 9 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Tom Barker, Unversity of Technology Sydney.

Monday 10 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Julie Paterson, Design Director Cloth Fabrics.

Tuesday 11 August 2009, 2pm, free with Museum admission: Kent Gration, Director/ designer Wambamboo.

Wednesday 12 August 2009, 2pm, free with Museum admission: Cindy-Lee Davies, Director Lightly; Kate Mitchell and Katherine Brickman, Directors Greedy Hen.

For more information visit www.eatgreendesign.com

1–12 AUGUST 2009
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
DAILY DESIGNER TALKS ARE FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
BREAKFAST: $66 PER PERSON
DINNER (INCLUDES ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES): $110 PER PERSON
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FOR BREAKFASTS AND DINNERS

FASHIONING NOW: CHANGING THE WAY WE MAKE AND USE CLOTHES

Robert Swieca — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:50:15 +0000

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.

Curated by Alison Gwilt and Timo Rissanen from University of Technology Sydney including Romance was Born, Alex Martin, Jennifer Shellard, Bijan Sheikhlary, Helen Storey, Issey Miyake (garment loaned by Dr Gene Sherman), The Perfect T-shirt and The Local Wisdom project by Dr Kate Fletcher

28 JULY-28 AUGUST 2009, MON-FRI 12NOON-6.00pm
UTS GALLERY, LEVEL 4, 702 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
FREE ADMISSION

FESTIVAL PASS

kathleene — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:34:14 +0000

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.
Includes:
• Unlimited general Powerhouse Museum admission (1–16 August)
• Entry to Play Late (6–9pm, 7 August)
• Entry to Young Blood: Designers Markets (6–9pm, 14 August & 10am–5pm, 15 August)

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ARTEFACT H10515

belindah — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:52:04 +0000

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. Walsh’s artificial life form is designed to disrupt and expand our expectations of a museum – as well evoke intrigue, contemplation and delight.
OPENING IN AUGUST
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS

belindah — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:55:14 +0000

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.

The Australian International Design Awards are an important measure of design innovation in this country and proof that a better solution emerges when you apply a stringent design process.

FROM 1 AUGUST 2009, 10.00am – 5.00pm
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

INTENSIVE SHOEMAKING COURSE

belindah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:13:13 +0000

A five-day closely directed learning experience, focusing students on applying the techniques and skills necessary to design and make one pair of custom shoes. The course covers pattern making/design, cutting clicking patterns and leather, upper stitching, lasting and finishing. All the steps required for making your own custom shoe.

3-7 and 10-14 August 2009, 10.00am-4.00pm
ANDREW MCDONALD SHOEMAKERS
58 WILLIAM STREET
PADDINGTON
COST: $2200 (LIMITED TO 1 PARTICIPANT PER CLASS)
BOOKINGS: 02 9358 6793
WWW.ANDREWMCDONALD.COM.AU

WORKSHOPPED 09

belindah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:35:14 +0000

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’.

Established in 2001, Workshopped remains committed to assisting designers in the difficult process of taking a new product design from prototype to production and maintaining successful commercial relationships with industry and the marketplace. Designers exhibiting at WORKSHOPPED 09 include Tomek Archer, Charles Wilson, Gary Galego, David Knott and collaborators Ueno Fukutoshi and Akira Isogawa.

5–15 AUGUST 2009, MON – FRI 9.30am – 6.00pm, SAT 9.30am – 4pm
CHIFLEY PLAZA
29/2 CHIFLEY SQUARE, SYDNEY
FREE ADMISSION
WORKSHOPPED.COM.AU

SUSTAIN ME: CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

belindah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:35:11 +0000

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. Exhibitors include David Trubridge, Green Life 21 project (designs by Yoshikazu Hasegawa and Prue Venerables), Elliat Rich Steven Harrison, Luisa Cevese: RIEDIZIONI, Instyle Contract Textiles, Mark Vaarwerk, Andrew Maynard Architects and Julie Paterson: clothfabric.

30 JULY- 22 AUGUST 2009, 10am to 5.00pm (CLOSED SUNDAYS)
IVAN DOUGHERTY GALLERY
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF NSW
CNR OF SELWYN STREET AND ALBION AVENUE
PADDINGTON

CULTURAL DESIGN: DAVID TRUBRIDGE
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. In the past all cultures were defined and expressed by their artifacts and art… we too could find cultural and spiritual nourishment from long lasting objects and this may reduce the never-fulfilled craving for consumer goods.”

1 AUGUST, 12 noon
COFA LECTURE THEATRE, EG02
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
GREENS ROAD
PADDINGTON

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? 9 OUT OF 10 ROBOTS WILL KILL YOU: HUMANOID DESIGN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

belindah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:07:53 +0000

UTS’s Professor Tom Barker looks at the future of robots in design via the medium of the movies. Featuring seminal robot movie footage from Westworld, Forbidden Planet, Star Wars, I Robot, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Metropolis, Dark Star, Terminator, Robocop, Modern Times, Blade Runner, Stepford Wives and more.

10 AUGUST 2009, 6.30pm
LEVEL 4 COURTYARD
PETER JOHNSON BUILDING
DAB FACULTY BUILDING 6
702 – 730 HARRIS STREET
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, ULTIMO
FREE ADMISSION