Designing for Change
8 September, 2018
Swinburne University of Technology, VIC, Australia
About
Beyond Nostalgia: Designing for Change Symposium
The Featherston Contour chair is an icon of mid-century modernist nostalgia as copies flood the market and the original chairs fetch exorbitant prices at auction. Yet its designer, Grant Featherston, had little time for nostalgia. As he saw it, the important question facing architects and designers was how to live in a post industrialised, technological and urbanised world. He fought tirelessly to make design for social need as important as design for financial profit.
Hosted by the Heide Museum of Modern Art a panel of design experts will explore key social issues in contemporary design practice before taking questions from the audience.
Participants:
Dr. Nanette Carter, Senior Lecturer Design History and Theory Swinburne University of Technology
Mary Featherston, Designer
Dr. Denise Whitehouse, Co-curator Design for Life: Grant and Mary Featherston
Jeremy McLeod, Director of Breathe Architecture
Ewan McEoin, Senior Curator of Contemporary Design, National Gallery of Victoria
Date and time: Saturday 8 September 2018, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Location: Swinburne University of Technology. Lecture theatre 301, Advanced Manufacturing and Design Centre (AMDC) building, Hawthorn Campus. Entrance to the AMDC building is corner Macleod Lane and John Street, Hawthorn.
Cost: Adult $32, Concession $28, Member $24, includes admission, cheese and wine
Register here.