Design & Social Context Events List: 26 July 2004 4
Design & Social Context
Events List
26 July 2004
Contents
Sensoria Festival of Design Education
Alessi Tea and Coffee Towers: Digital Dreams, Manufactured Realities
State of Design Festival
Free Public Lecture by Robert Heath
Free Public Lecture by Christine Wertheim
Workshop: Social Policy in an Election Era
Postgraduate Fine Art Exhibitions
Exhibition: Lite 3
Seminar by Gary Smith Visiting Fellow at Globalism Institute in 2004
Lecture Series: History of the 20th Century
Sustainable Packaging 2004
Call for Papers: Fourth Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment
Study Tour to Italy – November 2004
Victorian Water Trust Newsletter
Sensoria Festival of Design Education
26 to 30 July
Set against the backdrop of Melbourne's Central Business District, Sensoria will be a series of symposiums, exhibitions and events seeking to generate ideas, inspiration, discussion and debate for the next generation of designers. Sensoria is hosted by the RMIT Interior Design program.
International guests Brian Massumi, Takeshi Ishiguro, Marco Casagrande, Philippe Rahm and Ted Krueger will be joined by academics and practitioners from Australia and New Zealand, including Mark Burry, Janet Laurence, Dorita Hannah, Janos Korban, Michael Trudgeon, Sonia Leber and David Thomas.
For updates on speakers, exhibitions and events please see http://www.sensoria.tce.rmit.edu.au
For enquiries on registration and ticketing for the symposiums, please contact Kylie Brown at
Keynote Address by Brian Massumi
Monday 26 July, 7.00pm9.00pm
BMW Edge Lecture Theatre, Federation Square
Tickets can be purchased through Ticketek on 132 849 and will also be on sale at the door.
Exhibition: Shifts, Slips and Reversals
An exhibition by emerging artists and designers.
Conical Gallery, 3 Rochester St, Fitzroy
Wednesday 21 July to Sunday 25 July and Wednesday 28 July to Saturday 31 July
Gallery hours: 12.00pm5.30pm
Floor talks: Tuesday 27 July, 11.00am
Opening event: Tuesday 27 July, 6.00pm9.00pm
Manifest: S.I.E.V.
A one night event/installation by 13 students from the Interior Design program in collaboration with furniture designer Matthew Butler of Bluesquare, chef George Calombaris, new media designer and photographer Ross Hipwell, Tokyo designer Takeshi Ishiguro, and audio/visual designers Gregory More and Jeremy Yuille. Coordinated by Christopher Kaltenbach and Erin O’Callaghan.
Wednesday 28 July, 9.00pm12.00am
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt St, Southbank
Melbourne Interiors: a projection event
Thursday 29 July, 8.00pm11.00pm
Croft Institute, 21 Croft Alley, Melbourne
Lecture by Ross Lovegrove – Product Designer
Monday 2 August, 6.00pm9.00pm
Storey Hall, RMIT University
Cost: $50.00 full price, $35.00 student concession
To reserve tickets, email or book through Ticketek on 132 849.
Alessi Tea and Coffee Towers: Digital Dreams, Manufactured Realities
lab.3000 – innovation in digital design presents an exhibition of tea and coffee prototypes and finished sets from 22 internationally acclaimed architects, the results of a project commissioned by the Alessi design company. Among the featured designers are Victorian architects Denton Corker Marshall and Tom Kovac, who heads creative development at lab.3000. The exhibition was officially unveiled at the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition in September 2002 and has since been travelling internationally.
17 June to 30 July, 10.00am5.00pm daily
Melbourne Museum, Lower Ground Foyer, Carlton Gardens, Carlton
Michele Azzopardi, lab.3000, phone 03 9925 4105, email
State of Design Festival
28 July to 5 August
Presented by Museum Victoria in partnership with the Victorian State Government, the State of Design Festival will feature exhibitions, installations, an international speaker series, forums, master classes, guided walking tours, a design market, concerts and more.
Major events include the Design 2004 Exhibition (at the Melbourne Museum from 28 July to 17 October) and the inaugural Design 2004 Awards.
For a detailed listing of all Festival events please visit http://www.designfestivalaustralia.com
Sensoria and the Alessi Tea and Coffee Towers exhibition are also part of the State of Design Festival.
Free Public Lecture by Robert Heath
Risky Business: Do Media and Public Relations Increase or Decrease Global Risk?
Tuesday 27 July, 6.00pm for 6.15pm start
Village Roadshow Theatrette
State Library of Victoria, Entry 3, La Trobe St, Melbourne
Professor Robert L. Heath, professor of communication at the University of Houston, is the leading public relations scholar in the areas of rhetorical communication, risk communication, issues and crisis management. Professor Heath's visit is sponsored by RMIT Foundation and the Public Relations Institute of Australia (Victoria). For more information, please visit http://www.rmit.edu.au/adc/appliedcommunication/news
Anna Farago, Events Coordinator, School of Applied Communication, tel: 03 9925 2037, email:
Free Public Lecture by Christine Wertheim
Cuni(ng)-linguistics Stealing the Mother's Tongue: Gender and Language in the Age of the Machine
Christine Wertheim teaches at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), School of Critical Studies in Los Angeles. In this lecture, she discusses the politics of gender in modern literature and contemporary hypertext, asking whether women are really any more empowered by today's new textual technologies.
Wednesday 28 July, 6.00pm7.30pm
Casey Plaza Lecture Theatre, RMIT University
Anna Farago, Events Coordinator, School of Applied Communication, tel: 03 9925 2037, email:
Workshop: Social Policy in an Election Era
A workshop jointly organised by Centre for Applied Social Research (CASR) and Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS).
The aims of this workshop are: to stimulate strategic discussion within the welfare sector, based on anticipating what will (and will not) be on the agenda of the forthcoming federal election; and to develop strategic directions, such as generating debate or intervening in the campaign.
Full details of speakers are available from http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse?SIMID=jqbh2o9uj35j
Thursday 29 July, 9.30am3.00pm
RMIT Council Chamber, Building 1
To register, please contact Rose Scasni, Research Centre Coordinator, CASR, tel: 03 9925 5067, email: by Friday 23 July.
Postgraduate Fine Art Exhibitions
Glen Walls: International Boundaries
Co-ordinated by Joy Hirst
Wednesday 28 July to Friday 6 August
Closing Drinks: Friday 6 August, 6.00pm8.00pm
Imaging The Apple
Curator: John R. Neeson
Monday 16 August to Friday 3 September
Opening: Thursday 19 August, 6.00pm8.00pm
Project Space, 23-27 Cardigan St, Carlton
Opening hours: MonWed 12.00pm6.00pm, Thursday 12.00pm9.00pm, Friday 12.00pm6.00pm
For more information on upcoming exhibitions at the Project Space, please visit http://www.rmit.edu.au/adc/projectspace
Exhibition: Lite 3
A one-night event with installations by young architects, artists and designers exploring the possibilities of light. Curated by BKK Architects, Lite 3 is the third Melbourne instalment of the international Faites de la Lumiere Light Festival.
Saturday 7 August from 8.00pm onwards
BUS Gallery, 117 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Simon Knott, BKK Architects, email
Seminar by Gary Smith Visiting Fellow at Globalism Institute in 2004
All at sea? A new Australian geopolitics of borders, identity, security, rights and responsibilities
Tuesday 31 August, 12.30pm–2.00pm
Globalism room, 37.5.32
BYO lunch
Peter Phipps, Acting Director, Globalism Institute, tel: 03 9925 2039, email: , website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/globalism
Lecture Series: History of the 20th Century
Between the local and the global: moments of ‘resistance’ in the architecture of our time
Commencing on Friday 16 July, these lectures will be held weekly during Semester 2 in Lecture Theatre, Building 8, Level 11, Room 68.
Week 3: Friday 30 July at 1.30pm
Peter Corrigan, Metabolism + Buckminster Fuller + Archigram
Week 4: Friday 6 August at 1.30pm
Mauro Baracco, From Team 10 to the Radicals: shifts of Modernism after World War 2
Week 5: Friday 13 August at 1.30pm
Peter Corrigan, Mies van der Rohe and following trajectories of ‘non-rhetorical modernist’ architecture
Mauro Baracco, Course Coordinator, School of Architecture and Design, tel: 03 9925 3511, email:
Sustainable Packaging 2004
The Centre for Design is running a two-day course incorporating lectures, workshop sessions, practical design exercises and the latest case studies from local experts. The program will help companies meet regulatory requirements in Australia and has been revised to include additional material on recyclable and degradable materials, and a workshop on writing and implementing National Packaging Covenant Action Plans.
Brisbane: 2425 August
Adelaide: 1617 September
Sydney: 12 December
For more information and to register, please visit http://www.cfd.rmit.edu.au/training or contact Helen Lewis on 03 9925 3485, email
Call for Papers: Fourth Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment
2325 February 2005, Novotel Darling Harbour, Sydney
The Australian LCA Society is pleased to announce the Fourth Australian LCA Conference. One aim of the conference is to make bridges between different environmental assessment methods that have a sustainability focus. These include life cycle assessment, energy and greenhouse life cycle studies, life cycle costing, triple bottom line accounting approaches, ecological footprints, materials flow analysis, uncertainty analysis in environmental assessment, and input-output analysis. The conference also aims to provide a forum for sharing LCA experience in different sectors such as building applications, waste management, water issues, energy and fuel production systems, products and packaging manufacture, food and agriculture. The conference committee includes Karli James and Tim Grant from the Centre for Design at RMIT University.
Abstracts of papers for full peer review are due by 31 July 2004 and abstracts for presentation only are due by 30 September 2004. For full details, please refer to the conference website at http://www.alcas.asn.au/alcasframe.htm
Dr Karli James, Manager Sustainable Products Program, Centre for Design, phone 03 9925 2237, email
Study Tour to Italy – November 2004
The School of Built Environment is organising a study tour to Northern Italy for four weeks in November 2004. The tour will commence in Venice, make its way to Florence and finish in Rome. The academic program will be based on experiencing and discovering the contrasts and relationships between historic and contemporary places in a region that has greatly influenced our design culture.
Tour costs are $5850.00 including airfares, accommodation and intercity travel. For further details please contact tour leaders, Peter Schenkel and Nino Lucci – phone 03 9925 4037, email or
Victorian Water Trust Newsletter
Please find attached the first newsletter from the Victorian Water Trust Advisory Council.
If you wish to receive future newsletters and updates from the Victorian Water Trust, you are invited to sign up to the Trust Network. The registration form and all contact details are found in the newsletter, which is a PDF file attached to the same email as this Events List.