Events

Tasmanian talent at IN FORM

21 Nov, 2014

Tasmania is renowned for its woodcraft.  However, often Tasmanian wood products are  valued for their rare, or specialty timbers, rather than the merit of their design. IN FORM is an exhibition developed to showcase the creative talents of Tasmanian designers through products made from Tasmanian Eucalyptus.  Whilst many consumers see…

AIA Regional Speaker Series

21 Nov, 2014

Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi is coming to Australia to present the Australian Institute of Architects’ inaugural Regional Speaker Series this month. Curated by Architecture Media’s editorial director, Cameron Bruhn, the series celebrates designing in regional locations and will visit Geelong on 25 Nov, Gold Coast on 26 Nov and Sydney…

Made Here RMIT Furniture Design graduate show

20 Nov, 2014

Over the weekend of Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th of November, between 10am – 4 pm, ‘Made Here’ exhibition opens. The exhibition will showcase the works of graduating students from RMIT’s Furniture Design Program. This year’s Furniture Design Students have been widely recognised for their innovative and sustainable designs in…

Canberra’s Ethical Makers DESIGN Canberra

12 Nov, 2014

The terms ‘ethical’ and ‘sustainable’ are ubiquitous, few places more so than in craft and design. Rejected and embraced, ridiculed and revered, ethics and sustainability are themes that underwrite all aspects of life in the twenty-first century. It is apt, then, that a major design festival would incorporate responses to…

UTS’s Festival of Design and Architecture

29 Oct, 2014

From objects that could change everyday life through to landscape projects that could change whole cities, this series of 12 unique shows and events, spread across 8 inner-city venues, showcases the work of students from UTS’s Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. It also showcases the wide variety of career…

Melbourne Architecture Annual

16 Oct, 2014

The Australian Institute of Architects, in partnership with Federation Square, presents a week-long celebration of Melbourne and its built environment from 27 October. Melbourne Architecture Annual (MAA) features a host of free and ticketed events located around Federation Square and inner Melbourne designed for children, adults, architecture aficionados and locals…

Get intimate with Brisbane’s top design firms

7 Oct, 2014

Come Back To My Place is a unique event series peering behind the closed doors of the design firms shaping Brisbane’s urban landscape. Presented this month as part of the Forecast Festival of Landscape Architecture, the series invites the general public and festival-goers to eight free discussion-based events at intimate…

Cathedrals of Culture

30 Sep, 2014

“Cathedrals of Culture must rank as one of the most fervent hymns to architecture ever sung, proudly throwing down the gauntlet of high culture to that part of the intelligentsia who attend the movies. Clever, coy, precious, stirring, it’s a film of many moods.” – The Hollywood Reporter The Australian…

Garage Sale Trail

29 Sep, 2014

Music magazines, vinyl and pre-loved instruments will be top of the picks for musician and City of Sydney Garage Sale Trail ambassador, Josh Pyke, at the giant, city-wide garage sale on 25 October. Josh, a highly acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter and musician, is an avid supporter of garage sales as a…

Forecast Festival of Landscape Architecture

26 Sep, 2014

Brisbane will host a pioneering event exploring the future of how the landscapes of our cities and public spaces are designed and governed through the inaugural Forecast Festival of Landscape Architecture. Presented by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), Forecast runs from October 16 – 18, and brings together…