A working design laboratory focused on the changing nature of the environment in relation to TarraWarra Museum of Art and neighbouring TarraWarra Estate, as well as the Yarra Valley more broadly, will be conducted at the Museum, 28 March – 8 June 2015. Led by design academics and students from…

Field Experiments designers Paul Marcus Fuog (AUS) Benjamin Harrison Bryant (USA) and Karim Charlebois-Zariffa (CAN), in partnership with MFA Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York, are running a design camp in Bali. With a focus on transnational and interdisciplinary exchange, the camp is open…

Where do you go when your island home is gone? The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show is curated by Danish artist Søren Dahlgaard with deputy curators Elena Gilbert & Microclima. This international group exhibition promotes themes of environmental awareness and climate change with videos, performance, music, and games. The Maldives Exodus…

At NGV International six monumental rock columns entwined with native flora will reach skywards in Federation Court from Friday 27 March, 2015. Informed by Federation Court’s bluestone architecture and its former history as an outdoor sculpture garden, Rock Melt is a major new commission by Sydney-based artist Jamie North. Constructed…

Architecture for Collective Impact Johannes Molander Pedersen and Morten Rask Gregersen of NORD Architects will share an architect residency based in Sydney, awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects Foundation.  NORD’s work represents a contemporary Scandinavian approach with numerous prize-winning projects, and will present only one joint lecture. Hear them…

The City of Melbourne’s Creative Spaces program has established a new studio at Carlton Connect Initiative’s (CCI) LAB-14. The studio positions artists amongst researchers and organisations addressing issues of sustainability and resilience. Melbourne artists Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett are the first Artists-in-Residence at the new Creative Spaces: Carlton Connect…

Transitions film festival kicks off Feb 18 at Cinema Nova with an epic line up of world-changing films. To win tickets to Infinite Happiness at Transitions Film Festival on March 3 visit the TFF win page and enter the code INFINITEGREENNL Infinite Happiness Copenhagen’s “8 House,” an ultramodern loop of…

Architecture, building and construction professionals can now register to attend DesignBUILD 2015, which will be held at The Dome in Sydney Olympic Park’s Sydney Showground from Tuesday April 28 to Thursday April 30. DesignBUILD connects more than 6,000 building industry professionals working across residential and commercial sectors with 200 leading…

Now in its fourth year, The Transitions Film Festival is Australia’s largest sustainability film festival. Covering topics such as social and technological innovation, renewable energy, community empowerment, eco-architecture, collaborative consumption, global movements, ecological economics and consciousness, the festival aims to inspire audiences with stories of hope, resilience and action. Amongst an…

Meet Wayne. From Feb 9-13, this everyday hero and unlikely-eco warrior, will live like ‘The New Joneses’ in public view at City Square in Australia’s first carbon positive home, when the multi-awarded ‘The New Joneses’ project pops-up again. With lifestyle coaching from Denise Drysdale, (who recently downsized to pursue the…