‘NOT FOR SALE: Redefining Design Culture’
CHANGEX 2005 POSITION STATEMENTS
Launched in 2004, CHANGEX is an annual event hosted by Change Design in order to support new developments in sustainable design theory and practice emerging in the work of students. The supplementary forum and workshop play a key role in enabling participants to engage with these issues on a range of levels, and in building a critical and inclusive design community.
Change Design invites you to be provoked, be inspired and make a difference.
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A selection of cross-campus graduate works which address issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, community and social equity.
Encompassing such diverse fields as industrial design, graphics, architecture, textiles, installation, and multimedia, these works challenge conventional industry expectations, extending the boundaries of what design is, and what it could be. Design is reclaimed here as a tool for satisfying genuine human needs in ways that are both practical and imaginative, posing a compelling alternative to the contemporary (mis)use of design as an elitist, profit-driven enterprise fuelling unsustainable levels of consumption.
M.A.D about Re-use
After the success of last years ‘Junk Love’ exhibition, the peoples from Reverse Garbage decided to take the leap and create their own Sustainable Art and Design Center. Welcome to M.A.D a space for sustainable design.
The Sustainable Toy Story
From DesignBoom: The Sustainable Toy Story - William Wilson’s creations with their distorted expressions warrant a new life for abandoned outcasts of the ‘throw-away-society’ with a sincere desire of communicating truth and sustainability.
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/moretoys.html
Sustainable Energy Photography Competition
World Sustainable Energy Days are seeking images that show renewable energy sources and/or energy efficiency in all their forms (plants & installations, buildings, energy sources, users, landscapes...).
Prize: 1000 Euro
Deadline: 15 January 2005
The competition is open to private persons, companies, public institutions, NGOs etc. from all countries of the world. Each participant can submit up to 5 images. You can submit digital pictures or prints.
Details: http://www.esv.or.at/foto/foto/index.php?id=435&L=1
Graduate Design Exhibition Season Scouts
Change Design needs YOU! Following are upcoming dates and venues for graduate exhibitions around Sydney. We are looking for forward scouts to attend these and other national grad exhibitions to critique and to hunt for sustainable, responsible designs that we can showcase in ChangeX05
Check Into Utopia for a bit
From a Radio National series: Why dream of a perfect but imaginary world? Instead you could build a living alternative that shows us how society might be....Explore ideas about community, join debates on land sharing, bad behaviour and good intentions and see the outcome of your actions. Start your journey… Re-imagining Utopia
Workshopped Design Talks @ The Strand Arcade, 11th Aug
5 Designers (Stefan Lie, Karina Clarke, Rina Bernabei, Matthew Conway & Danny Cheung) having different experiences and educations spoke about their individual works within the context of “From Prototype to Production”.
Virtually none of the designers spoke of or made reference to Sustainability, Ecology or Social Responsibility.
Review of Keynote Lecture with Q&A, with William Sawaya.
SDW#8
Notes on viewing the Powerhouse Museum exhibit, ‘Contemporary Silver: Made In Italy’ (with at least 1 Australian Designer included!), and review of Keynote Lecture with Q & A by Milanese Industrial Desigers, Sawaya&Moroni 5/8/04 6pm
Young Designer of the Year Award 2004: An Alternate Brief
Didn't do so well in the Young Designer of the Year Award? We are now calling for entries in our Eliminate Plastic Bags Design Challenge