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Melbourne Design Week: THE CHAIRITY PROJECT 2022 - Reinventing Design Icons
Presented by Cult Design
After a five-year hiatus, Cult’s celebrated fundraising event, The Chairity Project, returns during Melbourne Design Week.
The Chairity Project 2022 sees 18 creatives from a diverse cross-section of design disciplines reimagine the iconic Result Chair, designed by Friso Kramer and Wim Rietveld for Ahrend in the 1950s, and now in production by HAY. The designs will be exhibited at Cult Melbourne, then sold at auction with full proceeds shared between five charities: Cancer Council, Australian Red Cross, St Vincent de Paul, Greening Australia and Gunawirra.
With Melbourne Design Week as the launchpad for The Chairity Project 2022, Cult has aligned the creative brief for Chairity with the Melbourne Design Week theme of ‘Design the world you want’. Join Cult at the fourth instalment of The Chairity Project to explore the diverse ways in which 18 creatives, in their own unique way, show how design can work towards a better, healthier and more sustainable future.
The online auction runs from 17 March – 3 April, 2022. View designs and bid online at chairity.com.au
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HOST: Melbourne Design Week | Cult Design
Melbourne Design Week: RETRO-FIT KIT
Presented by Monash Urban Lab, Monash University
This exhibition demonstrates how common Australian housing types, such as weatherboard and brick veneer houses, walk up flats, townhouses and garage houses, can be systematically modified to achieve seamless and dignified home environments for people with disability, their families and carers and future occupants. It highlights the strategic potential of architectural design in making homes more equitable and accessible to all.
The exhibition simulates a home environment and includes:
A kit of architectural parts at 1:1 scale that represent principles of accessibility through design strategies that enhance the home environment for all – a flexible, converted garage; a safe, dual key entry; a social kitchen; and a generous and dignified bathroom – are composed as a home within the gallery space.
Case study models and drawings that explore the latent potential of common building types – free standing dwellings, walk-up flats, townhouses, garage houses – for adaptation and demonstrates the application of the retrofit kit within a specific home context.
Genealogy of housing types and urban visualisation demonstrate the potential of at scale adaptations – from house to neighbourhood to suburb to city at large.
Catalogue of a series of individual instructive brochures document provide how to guides.
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HOST: Melbourne Design Week | MADA Gallery
Bill Lucas: Architect Utopian
“This exhibition takes us into the extensive archive of Bill Lucas (1924–2001), revealing the aspirations, ideals and works of one of Sydney’s foremost late 20th century architects. It includes a feast of previously unseen archival drawings, photographs, artworks, private writings and public documents, illustrating his trajectory from conventional to increasingly unconventional practice with projects that were invariably ahead of their time.”
LUST FOR LIFESTYLE - MODERN ADELAIDE HOMES 1950 -1965
Explore the allure of modern living in a changing South Australia after World War II. A booming economy and emerging consumer culture led to a desire for enjoyment and a celebration of the pleasures of ‘everyday life’. A new generation of socially mobile individuals sought to define themselves through modern architecture.
Discover what the relationship was between the owners and their new homes. Who were these people and what inspired them to leave (or demolish) their traditional family home to commission or move into a modern, architect-designed home? What were their backgrounds and social network?
Bringing together photographs, drawings and plans, and newspaper and magazine articles from the State Library’s collections, as well as material from other organisations and private family records, this exhibition celebrates the diverse work of architects and firms, including John S Chappel, Robin Boyd, Dickson & Platten, Peter Muller, Lawson, Cheesman & Doley, and others.
Also features video interviews with people who lived and worked in these remarkable buildings.
Curated by Dr James Curry (School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide), and the State Library of South Australia.
ENTRY: Free
SLM: COLLECTED: SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS ACQUISITIONS
Sydney Living Museums seeks to tell diverse stories about Australia’s past, from a broad range of voices and perspectives, through the 12 museums and heritage sites, and rich and varied collections in its care.
Collected showcases a selection of over 40 collection items, from simple household objects to dynamic contemporary artworks, from Sydney Living Museums’ active acquisitions program. Each item has found its way into the collection along different and carefully considered pathways. Many have been generously funded or gifted by donors and benefactors – some of whom are descendants of those who lived in the places now under Sydney Living Museums’ care. Others have been purchased or specially commissioned to add new layers of meaning and understanding to our existing histories.
Reflecting the layered and sometimes contested histories of our sites, their legacies, and the countless stories of people connected to them, these items add to the rich tapestry that is the story of Sydney and NSW. Collected allows visitors to connect with and consider our shared and individual identities – in the present and into the future.
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HOST: Sydney Living Museum
DESIGN IN THE 70s: PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION ACT
“DESIGN Canberra’s photography competition returns for 2021 exploring design in the 1970s.
DESIGN Canberra’s annual photography competition has announced its theme for 2021, encouraging professional and amateur photographers to take photos which take a closer look at Canberra’s iconic design and architecture from the 1970s.
The 2021 photo competition invites individuals to submit digital photographs that celebrate the visionary and experimental design that emerged from the nation’s capital in the 1970s. The theme of ‘Design in the 70s’ may capture architecture by Taglietti, Seidler, Boyd, Andrews and Pegrum; co-living medium density experiments; public art by Bert Flugelman and Margel Hinder; or the refinement of the Y plan in Canberra’s town planning.”
ENTRIES CLOSE: 30th September 2021
Design Canberra Festival have even put together some guides to Canberra in the 70s to help with inspiration:
Modernist Adelaide: 1940s–1970s Exhibition
“Discover the mid-century jet age of Mad Men-era Adelaide, when a new wave of modernist architecture redefined the city’s streetscapes and skyline. This exhibition of photographs by Modernist Adelaide historian and author Stuart Symons, paired with photographs from the City Archives Collections, celebrates some of Adelaide’s iconic modernist buildings.”
Presented by City of Adelaide Libraries, Modernist Adelaide, City of Adelaide Archives