Updates

DESIGN Canberra Festival Announces Exhibition Program & Partnership With Forage Festival

22 Oct, 2022

DESIGN Canberra festival has announced five new exhibitions and a collaboration with acclaimed food and entertainment organisation, The Forage, to launch as part of its ninth edition. DESIGN Canberra 2022 will run from Wednesday 2 – Sunday 20 November, with an ambitious line-up of over 250 events responding to the theme of Transformation. Positioning the city not only as Australia’s capital, but…

Ovolo Launches Sustainability Initiative – Do Good, Feel Good

21 Oct, 2022

Ovolo will plant one tree for every direct booking, align sustainability development goals (SDG), commit to a 50% reduction in waste by 2030 and push vegetarian-led cuisine to reduce carbon footprint. Ovolo Hotels, the award-winning independent lifestyle hotel brand, has been lauded worldwide for its vegetarian pledge, Plant’d, a commitment…

Green Square’s Ecological Engine ‘The Drying Green’ Unveiled

20 Oct, 2022

Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore has unveiled ‘The Drying Green’ at Green Square — the world’s first ‘ecological engine’. The 6,400m2 urban park is located on Gadigal Country at the heart of Green Square’s urban regeneration zone, planned to have the highest population density in Australia. The Drying Green…

Open House Hobart Turns Ten!

10 Oct, 2022

Open House Hobart invites locals and visitors to take a look behind the doors of some of Hobart’s most interesting and beautiful buildings as it celebrates its tenth year this November. Opening dozens of buildings – many of which are private homes – is no small feat for the small…

MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission: Tatiana Bilbao

6 Oct, 2022

The inaugural MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission will unveil a large-scale installation by world-leading Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao exploring the concept of clothing as a symbol of protection, and the associated practices of domestic labour, gender and community. The MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission is a…

Ian Nazareth on MINI INVERT 4.0

5 Oct, 2022

This will be RMIT’s fourth collaboration with MINI and green magazine for the INVERT initiative. How has your relationship with these two companies evolved over the years? RMIT is proud to have worked with MINI and green magazine on three INVERT initiatives thus far. They have all been incredibly interesting…

Greenhouse by Joost Q&A events

28 Sep, 2022

Madman Entertainment is thrilled to announce that zero-waste innovator Joost Bakker will participate in a series of special Q&A events around Australia ahead of the theatrical release of GREENHOUSE BY JOOST in November. Joost Bakker will be joined after screenings of the film for an on-stage discussion with a variety…

Brisbane’s Princess Theatre wins Australian Good Design Award 2022

20 Sep, 2022

Brisbane architecture firm JDA Co. has received a Gold accolade in Architectural Design at the 2022 Australian Good Design Awards for its meticulous refurbishment of Queensland’s oldest-standing theatre, The Princess. Built in 1888, the heritage-listed Woolloongabba building was underutilised for 30 years before an extensive restoration by JDA Co. allowed…