‘Coolant Green’, WWF is appealing to creative thinkers from all over the world to look at our lifestyles and make sustainable living a reality by presenting ideas. These aspirational ideas need to be adopted easily by those who can physically and financially afford it, and should help individuals or communities move to a greener way of life.
You’ll pitch your ideas along side creatives from all over the world. The best idea to stimulate a low carbon or low-waste mindset will win a $1500 Bounty – and an exclusive feature on the WWF’s website.
- Bounty (for winning idea): $1500.00 USD.
- Deadline: 20 August 2009
WWF website
Tell Melbourne what you hope for it’s future. Write a message or add a drawing; be its voice and imagination. Help craft a future for Melbourne’s next generations.
City Wiki is based on the concept that the future of design for cities will be strongly centered on human interaction supported by multimedia and technology. The interactive installation is a means of recording collective ideas and personal responses. Photos, video footage and comments of City Wiki are posted online daily, promoting ongoing discourse and further involvement in creating a future for our city.
17 – 24 July, 24 hours
Location: Higson Lane, Melbourne
Phone: +61 3 9654 3644
Cost: Free
Source: State of Design
Picking culture’s collective brain for innovation, inspiration & brilliant ideas.
Check out Maria’s Wordle of every TED talk ever = 9,306 hours of culture’s biggest brain cloud, condensed into a tiny word cloud.
Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, a curious mind at large with a passion for behavioral psychology, innovation, design and good conversation.
Brain Pickings is about picking culture’s collective brain for tidbits of stuff that inspires, revolutionizes, or simply makes us think. It’s about innovation and authenticity and all those other things that have become fluff phrases but don’t have to be.
Source: www.brainpickings.org
Need to find new ways to present your ideas? Then be sure to book ahead to one of the hottest nights in town. Yes the Artsource Industry Night is on again and this year we have an even sweeter line-up such as; Edward Khoury, Managing Director, Form Designs Australia who are a local industrial design company with the ability to translate artists™ ideas into 2D and 3D forms.
Magic!. Their wide range of services includes design documentation, engineering drawings, 3D modelling, rapid prototyping and model making. Hear how this company and the others in our mini-expo can help give shape to your ideas.
8 April, 6 – 8 pm,
Cost: $11 Artsource members, $17 non-members, MAX members FREE. Bookings essential.
King St Art Centre, 357 Murray St, Perth
For further information, email: perth@artsource.net.au
http://www.formdesigns.com.au/
A line-up of leading international designers and thinkers is assembling for Australia’s foremost architecture conference in April, 2009.
Parallax is this year’s Australian Institute of Architects national conference, under the creative direction of TERROIR directors Gerard Reinmuth (Sydney), Richard Blythe (Melbourne) and Scott Balmforth (Hobart).
TERROIR’s provocative program invites the profession to take a ‘parallax’ view of the conditions in which it practices, heartily fuelled by contributions from leading international designers, philosophers and cultural commentators.
Confirmed conference guest, the controversial public intellectual Slovoj Žižek (Slovenia/UK), uses parallax to refer to situations where the same thing, when viewed from two different perspectives, presents itself in two completely irreconcilable ways.
“Žižek’s confronting assertions will make us think much harder about what we are willing to believe and accept. His interrogative perspective will stir our thoughts about the choices we make as practitioners and how we determine what becomes privileged in our selections,” said Reinmuth on behalf of the creative team.
Other confirmed guests are: Aaron Betsky (USA), Tatiana Bilbao (Mexico), Sou Fujimoto (Japan), Bijoy Jain (India), Jeff Kipnis (USA) and Peter Wilson (Australia/UK/Germany).
Describing their program as the “writers festival of architecture”, the creative directors have designed six main thematic sessions – Studio, Politics, Media, Young Guns, Collaboration and The Cosmopolitan. Each is built around two key speakers exploring a specific issue, followed by a facilitated panel for extended discussion and debate. The Parallax format promises free flowing discussion with regular crossovers during the event.
“The best conferences build momentum as they unfold over a few days, as key topics emerge in response to the particular cocktail of speakers present and the opportunities they are given to unpack these topics over an extended period,” said Reinmuth.
In the 12 workshop sessions a keynote guest will discuss issues of particular local relevance of contemporary practice in conversation with an Australian speaker.
Early bird registrations: March 2nd, 2009
Parallax – 2009 National Architecture Conference
30 April – 2 May, Melbourne
architecture.com.au/parallax
More info on Žižek – http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/oddelki/filo/english/staff/zizeka.htm
Žižek’s Facebook page: – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Slavoj-Zizek/8406557479
