State. Respond. Exploring sustainable design.

Overview

Object Gallery is reinvigorating the sustainable design/eco-friendly/carbon neutral debate just when it was starting to sound like a whole lot of codswallop - I mean what a life-cycle; from being the preserve of tree-hugging, odorous hippies, it gathered some genuinely concerned folk and then quickly moved on to the realms of fad and ridiculously over-marketed gibberish.

State. Respond. Exploring sustainable design. is a provocative new exhibition drawing together five outstanding design studios from NSW. In a clever move, curator Brian Parkes asked the designers to respond not only to role that design can play in affecting positive change but also to the role that it has/is playing in creating environmental and social problems.

The five studios involved cover furniture design (Schamburg+Alvisse), textile design (Bird Textile), graphic design (one8one7), multi-media (Digital Eskimo) and architecture (LAVA). An exhibition that includes a studio producing textiles using water-based dyes and solar power as well as an architecture firm that designed the Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower in Abu Dhabi (not yet completed), is sure to get some brain juices flowing. Expect provocative written statements as well as images and examples of real and speculative projects.

An interactive micro-site dedicated to the exhibition will be launched in conjunction on the Object Gallery website.