Asia Pacific Architecture Festival

Asia Pacific Architecture Festival at State Library 2023

Videos

Take a look at some of the videos from the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival 2023.

A forum about accessibility design held during the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival 2023. Facilitator: Dr Beth O'Brien Panelists: Uncle Willie Prince, Lorraine Mulready, Kathryn Lyons, Karni Liddell and Brendon Donohue.

Transcript - Accessibility Forum 13 June 2023

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2023 APAF wrap up

Make and Design Hub

Read about the various activities that happened at the Make and Design Hub at The Edge for APAF 2023

Read about it

Stories of the new normal - read about the conversations

This innovative conversation program will have some long lasting effects. Read about how it was delivered and what people thought about it.

How did it work?

Karni Liddell wears an electric blue dress and talks to the audience. An Auslan interpreter is in the background

Accessibilty design forum: you CAN ask that!

Read about the intentions, outcomes and insights of the Accessibility design forum: You CAN ask that!

Read what happened

people with visible disability discuss the forum at The Edge

Images from the accessibility design forum: you CAN ask that!

Explore images of Accessibility design forum held at The Edge 13 June 2023

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Other Applied Creativity events at APAF

Design finds: Black gloves experience. Over two nights, attendees examined First Nations collection items that influenced Brett Leavy’s virtual heritage time machine, Virtual Songlines in an intimate black gloves experience at State Library. Brett was joined by librarian Tania Schafer.

Breezeblock workshop. Inspired by the State Library's wonderful Built Heritage collection, our Design your own breeze block workshop focused on highlighting Queensland's love of the humble white breezeblock.

person with VR headset uses virtual reality

The new technologies window bay showcased innovative and interactive experiences including artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality, and the role they play in place making and design. The display featured a curated playlist of 360 videos by Dr Waldemar Jenek and the 3D modelling app for VR, Gravity Sketch.

Made today: Hack the evening. We combined both our long running meet up initiatives Hack the Evening and Made Today to create supercharged creative technology sessions. Over the two weeks of APAF, Made Today: Hack the evening focused on creative and immersive technology in place making and design with some very special guests.