Art and design webcasts

Black Opium with Fiona Foley

After reading Rosalind Kidd’s book The Way We Civilise, which exposes the truths behind the Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, Fiona was compelled to create a work that explored the history, personal stories and legacy associated with this controversial policy.

In honour of this important work, the Black Opium Symposium brought together a unique multi-disciplinary line-up of guest speakers who discussed, unravelled and shared a time past that still resonates strongly today.

Speakers:  Rosalind Kidd, Andrew Gillett and Anna Haebich (Griffith University) discuss the historical context of the artwork, and Fiona Foley and Louise Martin-Chew look at the artistic and aesthetic qualities of the piece.

Duration:  1:25:25 minutes
Date:  12 February 2010

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APDL Lecture Series: Side project with Kevin Finn

The APDL lecture series uncovers and explores the Side Project and the inspiration that exists outside the world of design.

Shane Thompson (2012 Queensland Smart Design Fellow) asks leading design thinkers about the projects they undertake outside their primary work practice, how these extra-curricular activities transfer across disciplines, and how they enrich all sides of life – both work and play.

Kevin Finn

Kevin is an internationally recognised graphic designer. Having begun his career in Dublin with the studio that produces all the design material for Irish rock legends U2, Finn left Ireland to explore the world. This led him to Saatchi Design, Sydney, where he held the position of Joint Creative Director for seven years, winning numerous national and international awards, including a D&AD Yellow Pencil and a Type Directors Club Judges Choice.

Following this, he set up TheSumOf, an independent design studio which for the first three years was based in Kununurra - a remote town in Western Australia. Finn is also the founder of Open Manifesto, Australia's first journal of critical writing on graphic design culture, which includes contributions from Edward de Bono, Noam Chomsky, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher and Peter Saville, among many others.

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APDL Lecture Series: Side Project with Andrew Ballantyne

The APDL lecture series uncovers and explores the Side Project and the inspiration that exists outside the world of design.

Shane Thompson (2012 Queensland Smart Design Fellow) asks leading design thinkers about the projects they undertake outside their primary work practice, how these extra-curricular activities transfer across disciplines, and how they enrich all sides of life – both work and play.

After the event, take the opportunity to discuss your own project during option post event drinks in the APDL lounge, tickets $15 (incl refreshments).

Andrew Ballantyne

Andrew is Professor of Architecture at Newcastle University UK. He has been the Chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, and has written extensively on architectural history and theory, including Tudoresque: In Pursuit of the Ideal Home (2011) and the bestselling Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2002). He has been a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, and often makes use of literary texts in framing his arguments.

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APDL Lecture Series- Side Project with Christina Waterson

The 2012 APDL Lecture Series 'Side Project' uncovers and explores the inspiration that exists outside the world of design.
 
On the 14 November 2012, Shane Thompson (2012 Queensland Smart Design Fellow) asked Christina Waterson (How We Create) about the projects she undertakes outside his primary work practice, how these extra-curricular activities transfer across disciplines, and how they enrich all sides of life – both work and play.
 
Celebrated Australian Artist, Designer and Writer - Christina Waterson – is the Creative Director of Howwecreate.com a unique organisation that initiates new conversations and sparks innovation across all creative sectors. Her creative direction of Howwecreate.com events and installations including the Make it Precinct at Saturday Indesign Melbourne and We Were Here at Saturday Indesign Singapore in 2012, have been welcomed by the local, national and international community as an important shift within our industry.
 
Christina has maintained a vibrant creative practice across a variety of scales and mediums for over a decade. Trained as an architect, she is a celebrated artist and designer across exhibition, event and product design. She infuses her writing, lecturing and public engagement with personal and direct experience across these creative pursuits. Her whole practice is imbued with a passion to make meaningful places, objects and relationships to be treasured by all of the community.
 
Christina’s unique approach has been recognized through short listings in the 2008 Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award, DQ magazine’s Top Ten Forces and Faces in Australian and New Zealand Design, 2009, and the 2012 Queensland Smart State Design Fellowship. In 2010 Christina received a highly coveted Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship. Recent presentations of her designs include the Australian Chair Survey, at The Gallery of Australian Design, Canberra in 2011 and Trace at Pin-Up Project Space, Melbourne in 2012. Christina Waterson’s innovative projects have been featured in publications throughout Australia, Asia and Europe.

The 2012 APDL Lecture Series 'Side Project' was supported by Arts Queensland in the Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts and proudly endorsed by QUEENSLANDERSIGN™, an initiative of the Queensland Design Council.

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Nielson Design Lecture with Bruce Mau

The 2011 Nielson Design Lecture was delivered by world-leading visionary, innovator, designer and author, Bruce Mau.

Informed by 25 years of studio experience in design innovation and collaboration with some of the world's leading artists, institutions and businesses, Mau has made the simple committment to connect his life and work to education and human development. He is the co-founder of Massive Change Network, a new initiative committed to developing purposeful projects in education, health, leadership and security.

Listen as Mau discusses the challenges facing our rapidly expanding worldwide population and the opportunities those challenges present to us to respond with design-led solutions.

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Deepen the Conversation:Fashion and cultural identity

Fashion is an expression of cultural identity. In a multicultural society like Australia, styles are adapted and adopted across ethnic groups and into the mainstream. In the process of settlement, some new residents feel pressured to assimilate whilst others hold onto their traditional dress more tightly. What is the place of traditional dress in new lands, and what does it mean to give it up?

Join Nadia Buick in conversation with fashion designer Juli Grbac, fashion historian Dr Margaret Maynard and Director of the Romero Centre, Faiza El-Higzi, as they share personal stories and explore fashion as a cultural identity and how it influences what we consider to be fashion in Australia and globally.

Presented by the Romero Centre and SLQ, as part of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival
When               Sat 25 August, 12.30pm
Where              SLQ Auditorium 1, level 2

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Remix: Culture, Technology, Entrepreneurship

We are witnessing the inevitable transformation of the global cultural sector with the emergence of new technologies, consumer trends and business models. What are the opportunities and challenges ahead of us?

Hear from Peter Tullin and Simon Cronshaw, the London-based founders of CultureLabel.com, who address these fundamental questions. Simon and Peter believe cultural organisations can create new commercial income streams on the strength of what they already possess - great content, great experiences and great brands.

Peter Tullin and Simon Cronshaw of CultureLabel were guests of the Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) as part of AbaF's Richard Pratt Legacy Project developing leadership in the arts and cultural sector with support from The Pratt Foundation. Thanks to national tour partner the British Council and in Queensland major presenting partner the State Library of Queensland. Find out more: abaf.org.au

For more info about CultureLabel visit http://www.culturelabel.com/blog/category/remix

When 5.30pm, Tues 17 Apr 2012
Where slq Auditorium 1, level 2

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Rainterrain: Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha (Mathur & da Cunha, Philadelphia) discuss how they have focused their artistic and design expertise on cultural and ecological issues of contentious landscapes.

An underlying thread in their work is a concern for how water is visualised and engaged in ways that lead to conditions of its excess and scarcity, but also the opportunities that its fluidity offers for new visualisations of terrain, design imagination, and design practice.

Anuradha Mathur is an architect and landscape architect as well as Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dilip Da Cunha is an architect and planner. He is faculty at Parsons School of Design, New York and the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

This session was presented by Luis Feduchi from UQ School of Architecture.

APDL Lecture Series 2012

Speakers: Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha

Date: 8 May 2012
Place: slq Auditorium 1
Duration: 1:32:05hr

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Island architectures of place and displacement

Julian Worrall is an Australian architect, scholar, and critic based in Tokyo, where he is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Waseda University’s Institute for Advanced Study.

After taking a doctorate at the University of Tokyo in 2005, Julian worked as an architect at OMA in Rotterdam. A contributing editor for Icon magazine, his writings have been widely published and translated.

His most recent book is 21st Century Tokyo: A Guide to Contemporary Architecture.

This session was presented by Andrew Wilson from UQ School of Architecture.

Presented by State Library and The University of Queensland.

Where: slq Auditorium 1

When: 1 May 2012

Duration: 1:22:52 hr

Download audio: mp3 [78MB]

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