“Designers can no longer claim they don’t know the consequences”: Q&A with curator Ewan McEoin

At the NGV’s Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday, design becomes a force for repair. From algae-based vinyl to mycelium earplugs, the exhibition proves that rethinking the ordinary can reshape our collective future.

Emerging designer Jake Rollins: In conversation

JamFactory’s exhibition, Materials Matter: A Bauhaus Legacy, celebrates and highlights the influence of the Bauhaus on the Adelaide design institution and South Australia’s design industry in general. Leanne Amodeo talks to emerging designer Jake Rollins, whose work in the group exhibition expresses a ‘building block’ style of construction that addresses issues of sustainability and regeneration.

Perfect PARK(ing)

Challenging notions of how people think about space on PARK(ing) Day.

Filtration Fields

An exhibition as interested in you as you in it, Filtration Fields responds to the daily movement of people in the UTS Design, Architecture and Building Courtyard.

Two smart-skin surfaces made of laser-cut Perspex and robotically controlled by servo motors and sensors, will line up either side of university traffic creating a hyperspace of live particle-flow patterns.

Filtration Fields draws on PHD research conducted by Architecture academics Joanne Jakovch and Jason McDermott as well as design led research taught in the Master of Architecture Design studio Computational Environments.

You can see it and be seen by it, between April 30 – May 22 at the DAB LAB research gallery located on the Level 4 Courtyard, 702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo.

Woodleigh Regenerative Futures Studio wins The Learning Space at the INDE.Awards 2025

McIldowie Partners, in association with Joost Bakker, has been awarded The Learning Space at the INDE.Awards 2025. Their project, Woodleigh Regenerative Futures Studio, redefines the educational environment as a living ecosystem that nurtures sustainability, innovation, and community.

CPD Live Returns: 14-16 October 2025

Join CPD Live from 14-16 October for three days of live, interactive education – 100% online, 100% free, and packed with insights to keep your knowledge current and earn CPD points.

Annabelle Smith Wins The Graduate at the INDE.Awards 2025

Annabelle Smith has been named winner of The Graduate at the INDE.Awards 2025, in partnership with Colorbond. Her visionary project reimagines housing in Aotearoa, proposing a modular and culturally responsive model uniting people, architecture and nature.

Studio Nicholas: Redefining Australia’s Interior Design Identity

With experience across fashion, styling and interiors, Nicholas Gilbert launches Studio Nicholas with a mission to elevate Australian design on the world stage — and to champion a more rigorous, professional future for the industry.