Art and design webcasts

Industry and autonomy: what is sustainable fashion?

Can the term ‘sustainable fashion’ really exist, or is it a paradox? How does the fashion industry, from celebrity designers to mass market retailers, tackle the problem of environmentally friendly fashion practices? Is it about local knowledge, and how does this work in the global economy? And what does ‘sustainability’ mean to you? In an industry notorious for its wastefulness, and in a world where the designer label is king, how do we shift the paradigm? Join us for a discussion about the problems and possibilities in sustainable approaches to fashion.

When: Tues 23 Aug 2011, 8:30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 01:13:31 hours

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Brisbane women in fashion

Fashion and women go hand in hand. Throughout the ages, women have used clothing as a way of connecting with one another and as a method for expressing social and cultural identities. In Brisbane, there is a wealth of wonderful women working in fashion, from designers and retailers to academics and social welfare workers.

Listen to Lydia Pearson & Pamela Easton (Easton Pearson), Kath Horton (Discipline Leader, Fashion QUT and Co-founder, The Stitchery Collective), Thea Basilou (Blonde Venus) and Faiza El-Higzi (The Romero Centre) discuss fashion's role in our community, culture and identity.

When: Wed 24 Aug 2011, 8.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, Level 2
Duration: 1:07:20

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Jeffrey Inaba

INABA, an architecture office founded by Los Angeles-based Jeffrey Inaba, specialises in content development and design. The firm’s creative process involves a unique method of analysis to first define a project’s objectives and then to oversee all aspects of its production. This stems from the practice’s broader philosophy to grasp the depths of a problem and once it is appraised, to provide clients with findings that assist in making better-informed decisions during planning, design and realisation phases.

A commitment to insight, creative thinking and careful execution underscores the firm’s approach to architecture projects. INABA transforms observations about culture, human interaction and the urban environment into comprehensively designed artifacts.

Presented by the State Library of Queensland and The University of Queensland

Speakers: Jeffrey Inaba
When: Tues 24 May 2011
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:16:12

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Justine Clarke: here, there and everywhere

Join Justine Clark as she shares experiences from the media side of architecture.

Justine recently resigned as editor of Architecture Australia, the national magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects, a position she held since 2003, to establish a consultancy pursuing freelance architectural criticism, writing, editing and research.

In 2009 Justine received the National Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media. Experienced as an architectural researcher, writer and historian, she has designed and curated a number of architectural exhibitions and has taught architectural design, history and theory in New Zealand and Australia.

When:  Tues 19 April 2011
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 01:09:40

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Genius Loci: Stevens Lawson Architects

Stevens Lawson Architects are a multi-award winning architectural practice based in Auckland, New Zealand. Their work covers a wide spectrum of scale and typology from small-scale artist studios, residential projects, cultural facilities, and an urban Homeless Housing project.

Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson discuss explorations into place-making and regional difference within contemporary architecture culture, and explain their design approach through a range of built and un-built projects throughout New Zealand. Stevens Lawson Architects aim is to produce architecture of humanism and spirit, culture and community.

Speaker: Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson
When:  Tues 12 April 2011
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 01:12:38

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M3architecture: specificity tht surprises

With a significant focus on collaboration and the creative design process, M3architecture seeks to develop the idiosyncratic conditions of each project – including site, client, budget and brief – towards the creation of unique and project specific outcomes, rather than uniform or formulaic buildings.

When:  Tues 5 April 2011
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 01:10:12

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Yen Trinh: designing for happiness

The design solutions don’t belong to the designer, but rather the community they inspire and enable. Building community participation into design solutions involves designing systems not just objects. Yen Trinh explores a number of local and international projects that enable communities to contribute and transform their own urban public places.

Yen is a Brisbane urbanist and designer. She is passionate about urban spaces, community building and collaborative design and has worked for design firms, non-profits and government, in Australia, Toronto and New York. Yen is the 2011 Qld Premier’s Emerging Design Leader Award recipient.

When: Wed 26 Oct 2011, 6:30 pm - 07:45pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:40:49

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Sean Godsell: designing for happiness

In 2002 the influential English design magazine Wallpaper listed Melbourne architect, Sean Godsell, as one of ten people destined to ‘change the way we live’. In 2003 he received a Citation from the President of the American Institute of Architects for his work for the homeless. The following year his Future Shack prototype was exhibited for six months at the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York. Time Magazine named him in the ‘Who’s Who -The New Contemporaries’ section of their 2005 Style and Design supplement.

Sean is currently working on projects in China and Australia and his first major building, the RMIT University design Hub is currently under construction in Melbourne.

Speakers: Sean Godsell
When:Wed 12 Oct 2011, 6:30 pm - 07:45pm
Where:slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:40:49

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Anupama Kundoo - Material Matters in Architecture

In the wake of unprecedented urbanisation, there is a global concern about depleting resources. Ideas about drawing from local materials and local skills using low-embodied energy are being globally acknowledged as sustainable development directives. While lifestyle trends tend to evolve in a common direction, several issues like geography, climate, local materials and appropriate technology are important concerns in shaping architecture and will always remain site-specific. Join Anupama Kundoo as she presents her work and research, sharing local expressions of global architectural concerns.

Anupama graduated in 1989 from the University of Bombay and practiced as an independent architect in India producing a number of award-winning projects in which sustainable building technologies and infrastructural systems were developed as an integral part of the architecture. She completed her doctoral studies in 2008 at the University of Technology in Berlin, where she has also taught architecture and urban management. She has taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London and the University of Technology, Darmstadt.

Speaker: Anupama Kundoo
When: Tues 15 March 2011
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:03:42 hours

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