Last week Off the Grid, Australia’s first solar powered, zero-waste music and arts festival unveiled The Palimpsest, a second stage for their inaugural conference program, and another reason for Melbournians to celebrate the power of the sun. The Palimpsest will present some of Australia’s leading environmentalists, architects, activists, entrepreneurs and…

Damon Moon, Creative Director of JamFactory’s Ceramics studio, presents new works reflecting his interests in the history of modernism and ceramic making in a global context. In this exhibition, Moon concentrates on ceramic processes through history, identifying and contextualising the varied approaches to making. He looks at the period of…

A collaboration between the Smart Cities Council of Australia New Zealand and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects has produced STREETS 2.0, an event taking place at the Museum of Sydney on Tuesday 6th December 2016 Many cities have up to 30 per cent of their land area consumed by…

Australia’s premier open building event Sydney Open returns for its 12th year on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November, unlocking the doors to some of the city’s most historic and architecturally inspiring buildings usually off limits to the general public.  Presented by Sydney Living Museums, Sydney Open offers visitors a behind-the-scenes look at some…

Sustain: The Australian Food Network is hosting the Urban Agriculture Forum, 20 & 21 November, at the University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus. Join leading practitioners and policy-makers from across the urban and periurban food landscape to build a shared understanding of what urban agriculture is, and the benefits and opportunities it can offer. Urban…

Launching on November 4, JamFactory’s first ever Sydney pop-up will present a range of beautifully designed homewares produced in Adelaide by skilled artisans in ceramics, glass, timber and metal. Featuring glassware by Brenden Scott French, Kristel Britcher, Clare Belfrage and Andrew Baldwin, ceramics by Susan Frost, Damon Moon and Jane…

MPavilion has unveiled the next wave of free cultural events to be presented in November and December 2016 under the handmade pavilion designed by acclaimed Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai. Inspired by the role of design, architecture and creativity in a vibrant city, MPavilion’s program is highlighted by…

2016 marks the third edition of Cult’s annual ‘Chairity Project’, the esteemed charity event that invites leading Australian creatives to reinvent an iconic chair design. Each creative is given complete freedom to reinvent the chair, which is exhibited and auctioned off to a charity of the creative’s own choice. In…

This year’s Design Canberra festival will kick off with a keynote talk by architect Philip Vivian of Bates Smart at the award-winning Vibe Hotel at the Canberra Airport. Vivian has said the project sought to reflect Canberra’s DNA, resulting in a hotel crafted specifically for its location and context: “We…