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Selective Ethics

For the past month, the art museum at my university has been host to an exhibition of extraordinary beauty, fascinating experimentation, and craft technique of a skill that I thought was no longer found in the contemporary world. It was … Continue reading

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Get your art and craft facts

Just released by the Australia Council for the Arts is Art Facts, the new home for statistics about Australian arts. Here you will find a range of facts about visual arts and craft in Australia and the latest trends to watch out … Continue reading

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Oscar and Reuben

The recent death of Oscar Niemeyer attracted glowing tributes from around the world. As well as being truly venerable (104 years old) and extraordinarily prolific (about 400 projects), Niemeyer (or just Oscar as he is usually known in Brazil) was the last of the … Continue reading

In crowd-share innovation, collaboratively building messy physical models and envisioning new futures with a wide array of props allows latent ideas to move beyond the limits of conversation and into the territory of gestalt.

Rethinking innovation: harnessing the collective creativity of the crowd

The past few years have seen a resurgence in design as a driver of innovation. This has been visible in the popular managerial press and also the scholarly debate in management and design. Many foreign organisations and governments have already … Continue reading

Tasmanians are pretty happy with their lot in life: isn’t that worth more than growth for growth’s sake? Georgie Sharp

No basket-case: Tasmania on the bumpy road to economic sustainability

Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of Tasmania, is publishing a series of provocations. Our authors ask where does Tasmania’s future lie? Has it reached … Continue reading

Planned new tower podium and gateway building for UTS. Image courtesy UTS.

On Broadway

Recently I gave some help to a heritage architect  working on the Broadway Central Park development. We were looking at the Kent Brewery photos in our Tooth & Co collection. I particularly enjoyed revisiting the Broadway photos,  timely given that … Continue reading

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Design your raingarden

Raingardens could be a landscaping design solution to droughts and water shortage conditions. They are certainly changing the way Australians think about gardening and are rapidly becoming an important part of garden design, particularly in Melbourne. Melbourne Water, a water … Continue reading

Tea trolley, '900', wood, ceramic, plastic, cane, rubber, designed by Alvar Aalto, made by Artek, Finland, 1936-37

Finland to become a leader in measuring the effects of design

Last year Dhub published an article on Australia’s need to increase productivity with investment in integrated business strategy to strengthen the manufacturing sector. The proposal will increase the success of creative ventures such as those undertaken by designers while improving Australia’s competitiveness on a global scale … Continue reading

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Engineering excellence awards 2012

The annual Engineering Excellence Awards exhibition is a collaboration between the Powerhouse Museum and the Sydney Division of Engineers Australia. The exhibition showcases innovative Australian engineering projects that have been developed for both local and global markets. All awards have … Continue reading

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Make. Play Workshops

This June get crafty, learn new skills and pick the brains of some of Sydney’s hottest craft and design talent at a Make. Play Workshop which include: Brooching The Subject with Kelly Doust (AKA The Crafty Minx), P-P-Party Piñata with Kit Palaskas, Cut ‘n’ Paste Zines with Alex Falkiner and Pom Pom … Continue reading

The RIBA President's Medals Student Awards

The RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President’s Medals Student Awards are considered the most prestigious and long-lasting awards in architectural education in the world. First awarded in 1836 as the RIBA Silver Medal for an architectural essay (and awarded … Continue reading

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ONE Prize 2013: Stormproof

Open International Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities ONE Prize Award aims to explore the social, economic, and ecological possibilities of urban transformation. This year’s competition is set in the context of severe climate dynamism.  How can cities adapt to … Continue reading

Red Dot Awards 2013

red dot design awards: design concept 2013

Any person may participate. Participation extends to all design studios, companies, universities, research laboratories, inventors, design students and design professionals from anywhere in the world. All kinds of inventions, novelty designs and aesthetic designs that are not in the market, … Continue reading

Twittering Machine, Jon Drummond

ECHOSONICS

Presented by ISEA2013 and the University of Technology Sydney and curated by Dr. Nigel Helyer Within the sonic world there is no separation; sound enters our bodies as vibration, immersive and continuous. Sound is the one fundamental phenomenon that we are immersed … Continue reading

Chris Henschke. Lightcurve (infrared arc); 2011.

ISEA2013: resistance is futile …

The Powerhouse Museum contributes three exhibitions to ISEA2013 (19th International Symposium of Electronic Art), an international event of electronic art and ideas that takes place in a different location annually. Presented in Sydney by the Australian Network for Art and Technology … Continue reading

City Design Awards

City Design Awards: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane

The annual City Design Awards provide recognition across the design spectrum and are open to design professionals, as well as those who commission design. The awards are cross-disciplinary, and celebrate and honour the role of design and the skills of … Continue reading

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Head On Photo Festival 2013

Head On Photo Festival, Australia’s largest photo festival and the world’s second largest festival. Heading into its fourth year, Head On celebrated a wide range of photography across all genres from photojournalism and reportage through commercial to fine-art. With over 200 … Continue reading

Craft Punk Warm up!

Craft Punk: Warm-up!

Craft Punk is suggesting some crafty ways you can warm-up this winter.  Book a workshop lead by an industry expert and learn how to create a quirky tea-cosy, coffee plunger cosy or hat from industrially knitted off-cuts.  Kill the chill … Continue reading

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CUSP: Designing into the Next Decade

Over the last number of years Object: Australian Design Centre has explored many notions of design. From Freestyle: new Australian design for living in 2006 to HYPERCLAY: Contemporary Ceramics in 2011, Object has presented some of the most exciting current emerging and established practitioners … Continue reading

Sydney Design 2013

Sydney Design re-think

Tell us your big idea before Tuesday 30 April. Be quick and be part of Sydney’s leading festival of design, alongside other well-known local and international designers. Apply now. This year’s theme Design re-think asks: can clever design save the … Continue reading

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EXPO 1: New York

EXPO 1 is an exploration of ecological challenges in the context of the economic and socio-political instability of the early 21st century. EXPO 1: New York will reconsider the museum from the ground up, presenting a simultaneity of modules, interventions, … Continue reading

Here art grows on trees, Simryn Gill

55th International Biennale of Venice

Established in 1895 the Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is the oldest and most prestigious event on the international contemporary visual arts calendar. Every two years, Venice becomes the world stage for the international visual arts community, with the … Continue reading

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Public Sydney: Stop, look, live!

All around you in Sydney’s public spaces people are doing the most unexpected things. This exhibition celebrates the unusual stories of the city’s public buildings, parks and street corners, and may answer some of your burning questions about strange things you … Continue reading

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Get involved with Sydney Design

Not only can you visit Sydney Design 2013 – you can be part of it. Applications are now open until Tuesday 30 April. Your application should respond to this year’s theme Design re-think: can clever design save the world? Can design transform, replenish … Continue reading

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) with Pierre Jeanneret. Villa Savoye Poissy-sur-Seine, France. 1929–31. Wood, aluminum, and plastic, 16 x 34 x 32" (40.6 x 86.4 x 81.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/FLC

Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes

MoMA presents its first major exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer. Conceived by guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibition reveals the ways … Continue reading

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Biennale of Sydney moves dates

The Biennale of Sydney has announced the 2014 exhibition will open to the public from 21 March until 9 June 2014, with the Vernissage to be held from Tuesday, 18 March to Thursday, 20 March 2014. The new dates mark … Continue reading

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Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style

Museum Victoria is pleased to announce ‘Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style’ will be coming exclusively to Melbourne Museum from 1 November 2013. Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style’ presents the craft behind the icon, focusing … Continue reading

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IDCA Awards

Think you deserve an award for a cultural project? Apply now for the IDCA awards. The third edition of the International Design & Communication Awards (IDCA) for excellent communications and creativity in the art world is now open for entries. … Continue reading

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A’ Design Award & Competition 2013

A’ Design Award & Competition, one of the world’s most known design awards program is offering 7500 Euros worth of prizes to as many as 20 contestants who submit the most compelling ideas to advance the A’ Design Awards & … Continue reading

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Gold Coast Cultural Precinct design competition

Australia’s Gold Coast is on a global quest to develop a cultural heart and soul through the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct design competition. Formally launched by Gold Coast City Council in 2013, this initiative invites the world’s leading multi-disciplinary design teams … Continue reading

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Henley Square Urban Design Competition

The City of Charles Sturt is pleased to announce a design competition seeking compelling design proposals to reinvigorate South Australia’s historic Henley Square and surrounding precinct. The competition invites submissions from registered architects and landscape architects in Australia. The Henley … Continue reading