Challenge your perceptions of sustainability through this unique creative platform and restaurant.
Dinner, 6pm (bookings essential): IMPORTANCE OF CREATIVE THINKING Liane Rossler, Co-founder, designer and director Dinosaur Designs; Phil Stubbs, Producer The Environment Show; Dave Gravina, Director Digital Eskimo; John Eusson, Director Eusson Consulting (MC).
Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Cindy Lee-Davies, Kate Mitchell and Katherine Brickman.
MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Liane Rossler is a co-founder, designer and director of Dinosaur Designs, which began in 1985. While the design house operates locally, it also exports worldwide. Supporting environmentally sustainable initiatives, Dinosaur Designs takes responsibility for their environmental footprint. Rossler has been trained by Al Gore as a Climate Project ambassador, and gives talks to the design and architecture community. She’s also a co-founder of the Sydney-based social group, GreenUps, and an ambassador for the 1 Million Women campaign.
Phil Stubbs is an environmental journalist, airing stories on radio 2SER and producing The Environment Show podcast which launched in 2008. The other hat Stubbs wears is as a lecturer in media, working in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney. Here, his research and consultancy work is in the use of new media to promote sustainable development. He is one of the founding committee members of GreenUps, a leading green social network based in Sydney.
David Gravina is the founder and creative director of Digital Eskimo. He established this agency in 2001 to create social change using sustainability principles along with the power of design and digital technologies. The agency has developed design strategies for companies as large as Telstra Bigpond and as small as independent media outlets such as newmatilda.com. Highlights have included award-winning campaigns for Your Rights at Work, and projects for Amnesty International and the Sydney Symphony.
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.
Cindy-Lee Davies is the designer behind Melbourne-based design house, Lightly, which opened in 2005. Now consisting of over 70 products, Davies takes inspiration from romance, nostalgia and domesticity. Lightly ranges include lace- and doily-inspired bowls, a chandelier made from prismatic plastic, and Chrysalis butterflies made from recycled saucers and crockery. Lightly also has a sustainable range called dEco, which consists of recycled cork tableware and the Paperback storage unit made from recycled cardboard.
Greedy Hen is an art collective and studio, housing the collaborative works of illustrators and art directors Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell. Greedy Hen devises projects intent on creating images alluding to a playful black humour, unwritten fables, or off-kilter sinister elements. Clients include Advanced Alternative Media Promo in New York, Frankie and Russh magazines and Third Drawer Down, as well as exhibiting works in Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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
