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EAT GREEN DESIGN 2 AUGUST 2009

kathleene — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:09:03 +0000

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.

Paula Rogers, Managing Director The Fair-trading Company, is a strong advocate of improved working conditions for overseas workers in developing countries. She has 25 years experience in international trade of consumer goods, servicing the USA, Europe and Australia markets. While worked in Hong Kong (1995 to 2003), Rogers managed the social compliance of 6,000 factories in over 80 countries worldwide, for some of the world’s largest international retailers. She sits on the Executive Board of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ).

Eckhard Kemmerer is a scientist and marketing executive with 20 years’ management experience in consumer and business products and services. He now runs the innovation consultancy, Apogee International, and has developed his LifeArt Enviroboard coffins. Manufactured using fibres recovered from recycled cardboard boxes and sugarcane waste, the coffins use cornstarch glue to make them strong and lightweight. “By using less material to make our product,” explains Kemmerer, “we have set the benchmark for emissions from cremations.”

MORE ABOUT EAT GREEN DESIGN

POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
DAILY DESIGNER TALKS ARE FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

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

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)

BOOK TICKETS

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

TAKE A BALL OF THREAD

belindah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:55:04 +0000

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.

2 August 2009, 1.00pm-4.00pm SOLD OUT
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP: 9 August, 1pm-4pm. TICKETS SELLING FAST!
METALAB
10B FITZROY PLACE
SURRY HILLS
COST: $30 (INCLUDES SOME MATERIALS, OTHERS PARTICIPANTS WILL SUPPLY)
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL (LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS)
INFO@METALAB.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

Craig Walsh, visual artist

belindah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:12:20 +0000

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. Walsh will also discuss and present documentation from a selection of site-responsive projection-based artworks.

2 AUGUST 2009, 2.00pm–3.00pm
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

GLENN MURCUTT: ARCHITECTURE FOR PLACE

belindah — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:49:39 +0000

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.

This a special exhibition that reveals the way Murcutt crafts his projects, with a selection of ideas presented from initial sketch to detailed construction drawings, and final built work. A series of photographs by Anthony Browell completes the show.

UNTIL 5 OCTOBER 2009, 9.30am-5.00pm
MUSEUM OF SYDNEY
CNR BRIDGE AND PHILLIP STREETS
SYDNEY
Presented by the Architecture Foundation Australia, in association with the Historic Houses Trust and the NSW Architects Registration Board and courtesy of Toto Gallery MA ,Tokyo.

INTERACTIVATION STUDIO PROJECT DEMOS

belindah — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:25:46 +0000

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 … During SD09 the studio welcomes visitors interested in the design of new interfaces, finished demonstrators and works-in-progress.

1 – 16 AUGUST 2009, 10.00am – 5.00pm
LEVEL 4 COURTYARD
PETER JOHNSON BUILDING
DAB FACULTY BUILDING 6
702 – 730 HARRIS STREET
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, ULTIMO
www.educ.dab.uts.edu.au/interactivation/

BOYD EDUCATION CENTRE TOUR

Robert Swieca — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:03:26 +0000

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.

Make a day of it and visit the neighbouring Bundanon property and tour the Homestead, Studio and grounds – bequeathed to the nation by artist Arthur Boyd and wife Yvonne.

9 AUGUST 2009, 2.00pm, 3.00pm and 4.00pm
BOYD EDUCATION CENTRE
RIVERSDALE
COST: $25/$15 CONCESSION (INCLUDING AFTERNOON TEA)
WWW.BUNDANON.COM.AU