Challenge your perceptions of sustainability through this unique creative platform and restaurant.
Brunch, 9.30am (bookings essential): With Jared Ingersoll, Chef/Director Danks Street Depot, and Hannah Tribe, Director Tribe Studio Architects. Ingersoll devised the menu for Eat Green Design, and Tribe designed the temporary restaurant.
Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Tom Barker.
Jared Ingersoll trained as a chef in London at renowned restaurants such as Mezzo, Hilaire and The Square. After travelling to Sydney, he became head chef at Bayswater Brasserie and in 2002 opened his own cafe and cocktail bar, Danks Street Depot, in Waterloo. Later this year, Danks Street Depot will launch at the Sydney International Airport. Ingersoll is committed to ethical and sustainable food principles, representing the restaurant industry on the Nature Conservation Council’s ‘Nice Choice’ sustainable seafood project.
Hannah Tribe founded Tribe Studio in 2003, a Sydney-based architect firm, that designs beautiful houses, interiors, retail spaces and public buildings. Environmental sustainability is seamlessly integrated into the design process. Hannah Tribe studied architecture at Cornell University, USA, and Sydney University, graduating with First Class (Hons) and the University Medal. In 2008, the firm won the AA Award for Unbuilt Architecture for an urban design and residential masterplan scheme. Tribe is also a painter, exhibiting in Sydney.
Tom Barker spent more than 20 years in the UK working on world-acclaimed creative projects, including the London Eye ferris wheel, the sustainable Greenwich Millennium Village, and a Turner Prize shortlisted interactive artwork with Langlands & Bell. Qualified in design, architecture and engineering, he moved to Sydney in 2008 to help develop sustainable affordable housing. Barker is currently a professor at the University of Technology in Sydney and a visiting professor to RMIT University’s Design Institute in Melbourne.
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
DAILY DESIGNER TALKS ARE FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
