Events

The Finders Keepers Markets are heading to Brisbane

13 May, 2016

Finders Keepers design market returns to sunny Brisbane this 2nd and 3rd July. Presenting another carefully curated line-up at The Old Museum in Bowen Hills, you can head straight from the poll booths to the Finders Keepers markets to catch Australian designers on their rise to fame. Consistently presenting a…

Fake Food Park: Martí Guixé for Kids

12 May, 2016

Catalan designer Martí Guixé, acclaimed as the ‘father of food design’, will present his first major Australian exhibition Fake Food Park: Martí Guixé for Kids at NGV International from 11 June 2016.  Guixé, who is renowned for his playful and experimental approach to food and its design, has previously developed…

MoMA – Young Architects Program

11 May, 2016

Earlier this year The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announced Escobedo Solíz Studio as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. Now in its 17th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent…

DENFAIR

10 May, 2016

DENFAIR has attracted a stellar cast of exhibitors for 2016 – doubling in size from last year due to the show’s careful curation. With over 300 brands exhibited at DENFAIR, the list of exhibitors is the Who’s Who of Design in Australia. Space, Cult, Living Edge, Jardan, Tait, Zuster, Great…

Architect Mario Cucinella calls for a new approach

7 May, 2016

Sustainability expert and award-winning Italian architect Mario Cucinella is in New Zealand and Australia this month (16-24 May) to discuss his theory of Creative Empathy. Creative Empathy is a vision for sustainable building where the relationship between architecture and engineering becomes genetic, and sustainable features are no longer a fashionable accessory….

DesignBUILD propels next generation of design talent

3 May, 2016

For the first time in DesignBUILD’s 30 year history, event organisers Diversified Communications have teamed up with two leading Victorian universities to offer students the opportunity to be involved in producing the country’s leading event for the architecture, building, construction and design communities. Under the new initiative DesignBUILD Raw, students…

Plant Planet

2 May, 2016

As part of Superlocalstudio’s 2016 Sweet Nature program, Plant Planet is a zero waste creative collaboration that works to strengthen our connection with nature and explore our skills and imagination. Every plant is beautiful and full of possibility but we can only see it when we are curious, experimental, open…

CityShapers of Melbourne

25 Apr, 2016

A new wave of design-led residential development is sweeping through Australian property. Social, sustainable, and community-focused outcomes are driving the next generation and shifting the agenda. The questions being raised are: where should the industry place its focus in light of society’s evolving priorities? How can we create sustainable and enduring…

DesignBUILD 2016

25 Apr, 2016

DesignBUILD has announced its 2016 speaker program featuring leaders from across Australia’s architecture, building, construction and design industries, who will address topical and emerging issues in compliance, innovation and sustainability. Leaders from several industry associations and bodies including Australian Construction Industry Forum (ACIF), Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), Australian Institute…

How Soon is Now?

21 Apr, 2016

The ceaseless appetite for the new means that architecture is constantly projecting, speculating and theorising. Instead of always looking into the future or back into the past, projects are already demonstrating the new ways in which architecture operates in the world. The challenge for architecture is to not retreat into…