Design Events

The Faculty of Design is visiting Kuala Lumpar, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Shanghai as part of the QSWorldARTS Tour 2010.

Come along and meet us. We will answer your questions, review your portfolio and offer advice. We will be making on-the-spot offers during the tour and will waive the application fees for any applications submitted.

Areas represented:

• Communication Design (also known as Graphic Design)
  
• Digital Media Design (also known as Multimedia Design)
  
• Industrial Design and Product Design Engineering
  
• Interior Design
  
• Film and Television
  

Cities, Dates, Times, and Venues

Kuala Lumpur: 21st February (2pm to 8pm) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC)

Singapore: 23rd February (2pm to 8pm) at the Raffles City Convention Centre (RCCC)

Hong Kong: 25th February (2pm to 8pm) at the Hong Kong International Trade & Exhibition Centre (HITEC)

Seoul: 27th February (2pm to 8pm) at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Centre

Shanghai: 1st March (2pm to 8pm) at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai

For further information click the hyperlinks above to view/download media releases or go to: www.qsworldarts.com

The demand for graduates with an understanding of sustainable practices continues to increase and the Sustainable Living Festival is a great opportunity to come along and see what Swinburne has on offer.

As well as a tent on the river promenade, Swinburne staff are involved in a number of presentations including: A Climate for Change, Climate Thought to Climate Action, and Are We Making a Difference Yet? Visit the Sustainable Living Festival website for a full list of presentations over these three days.

Sustainable Living Festival

Date:        Friday 19 February to Sunday 21 February 2010
Time:       10am to 6pm daily
Cost:        Free!
Location:  National Centre for Sustainability Exhibit, River Promenade, Federation Square, Melbourne

Swinburne Design and The Swinburne School of Film and Television proudly presented the following awards at the official graduating student screening at ACMI on Thursday 17 December 2009:

Best Production Design
Awarded to: Sally Addinsall

Best Editor
Awarded to: Jemma Rea

Best Writer
Awarded to: May Tusler and Stephanie Phillips

Best Cinematographer
Awarded to: Ed Goldner

Best Director
Awarded to: Lachlan Ryan

Best Picture (The Richard Franklin Award)
Awarded to: The Domestication of Humans (Lucy Cugno and Stephanie Phillips)

Encouragement Award
Awarded to: Guy Franklin and Summer de Roche

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Graduating industrial design students will celebrate the end of their current studies next week at Level 2, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne. Their exhibiton, Untapped, will open to the public from Wednesday 2nd December through to Sunday 6th December. See below for details.

Saturday 28th November is your last chance to see 'Round', the Communication Design graduating student exhibition.

Round is at Lot Four Gallery, 4 Railway Place, Richmond

(near Each Richmond station, behind Swan street between Green Street and Royal Place).

If you can't make it ... have a look at the online graduating exhibition at www.swinburne.edu.au/design/gradex09

A series of free events celebrate our talented graduating students as they begin the next stage of their professional lives - from Tues 24 Nov to Thurs 10 December.

Download all event details here

SenseMaking for ChangeMaking

- Garry currently moderates the Transforming Transformation newsgroup on Google - one of the most erudite forums for theoreticians and practitioners of cutting-edge transformation design and innovation.

Breakfast Lecture: Wednesday 25 November, 7.15am to 9.00am (lecture starts 8am)
Presented by: Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Design, Design Victoria and VESKI

Download invitation: RSVP to lisamwilliams@swin.edu.au or phone 03 9214 6871

GK VanPatter is a well-known global commentator on design and design thinking, His intellectual explorations have led to a reexamination and greater appreciation of sense making methodology as a tool for progressive social change at work and in life. Co-Founder of Next Design Leadership Group (NextD) and Humantific, New York & Madrid. His series of monologues and interviews set the standard for discourse on design. Humantific, a firm he co-founded and directs, was featured in Time magazine for it's design-thinking opinion leadership. http://www.humantific.com

Topic: "SenseMaking for ChangeMaking"
As the complexity of human challenges rises so to does interest in Visual SenseMaking (making the strange familiar) as opposed to StrangeMaking (making the familiar strange). In a post consumer society SenseMaking is a brain and skill shift equivalent to the retooling of the industrial era. Making sense of organisational and social complexity in order to get ready for change is very different from focusing on making cool products to consume. A paradigm shift is underway across Design that has enormous implications for strategic design practice and 21st century design education.

Wednesday 25 November: 7.15am to 9.00am (lecture starts 8am)
There will be a buffet breakfast in PA Foyer, Level 2 from 7.15am.
Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran Campus
Faculty of Design, PA309 (PA Building), 144 High Street, Prahran 3181

RSVP: lisamwilliams@swin.edu.au or phone 03 9214 6871

As a registrant of this event you are consenting to join Design Victoria's mailing list to receive information about their events and activities.

Design Victoria respects and treats personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act/Information Privacy Act (Vic). Personal information provided to Design Victoria will only be used by the Design Victoria staff for the purposes for which it was collected. For the full Design Victoria privacy policy please visit www.designvic.com/Privacy.aspx

Why All Thinkers need to become Design Thinkers
(or how Silicon Valley effected global design practice)

Speaker: Professor Barry Katz
Public Lecture: Monday 23rd November, 6.30pm - 8pm
Presented by: Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Design; Design Victoria, and VESKI

Download invitation: RSVP to lisamwilliams@swin.edu.au or phone 03 9214 6871

Barry Katz is a design luminary. He is Professor of Design at the California College of the Arts, Consulting Professor of Design at Stanford University, and Fellow at IDEO, Inc., Silicon Valley's leading design and innovation consultancy. He is the author, with Tim Brown, of Change By Design: How Design Thinking can Transform Organizations and Inspire Innovation. He is currently at work on a new book, Tectonic Shift: The Unstable History of Silicon Valley Design.

Why All Thinkers need to become Design Thinkers
Design practice in California's Silicon Valley is a barometer of professional practice worldwide. It emerged in response to a unique confluence of technological, cultural, and economic factors and has evolved in ways no longer regionally specific and no longer tied to specific industries. The most recent, and potentially the most fundamental development in this ongoing, 30-year history is the shift from design to design thinking.

Details:
Monday 23 November: 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran Campus
Faculty of Design, PA309 (PA Building), 144 High Street, Prahran 3181
RSVP: lisamwilliams@swin.edu.au or phone 03 9214 6871

As a registrant of this event you are consenting to join Design Victoria's mailing list to receive information about their events and activities.

Design Victoria respects and treats personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act/Information Privacy Act (Vic). Personal information provided to Design Victoria will only be used by the Design Victoria staff for the purposes for which it was collected. For the full Design Victoria privacy policy please visit www.designvic.com/Privacy.aspx

Professor Dori Tunstall is keynote speaker at a free public event at the BMW Edge in Federation Square on 12 November.

Cumulus 38° South is a global forum to share cultural expressions of art and design across education, industry and research. It will examine how design contributes to the world around us and poses the question: 'How can design as a discipline transcend boundaries, shift thinking, and evolve to meet the needs of our future?'

Keynote speaker Professor Dori Tunstall, Associate Professor of Design Anthropology and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at Swinburne will present an engaging insight into how anthropology works as an innovative design tool for business, government and society.

Cumulus is an international association of more than 140 universities and colleges of art, design and media. The conference is sponsored by Swinburne University of Technology and RMIT University.

What:   Cumulus 38° South Conference launch
When:  6pm Thursday 12 November 2009
Where: BMW Edge, Federation Square
RSVP:  caxiaq@swin.edu.au

Drinks and canapés will be served.

ends

Proudly presented by Inner South Community Health Service and Swinburne University's Design Centre.

Opening Night - 19th October 2009, 4.30 to 6.30pm.

Location: PA Gallery, 2nd floor, PA Building, 144 Hight Street, Prahran 3138

The exhibition will be open from 10am to 5pm daily - Tuesday 20th to Thursday 29th October.

Download: The Lottery of Life invitation

These stories explore the rich and diverse lives of 20 individuals and are sure to find a place in everyones heart as they candidly share their views and experiences.

For further information please call Prue Ingram or Jade Palmer on 03 9525 1300

Proudly supported by the Department of Human Services

Conference:18-19 November. Explore and theorize the consequences of this text|artefact intersection.

Art.Media.Design | Writing Intersections
Swinburne University of Technology, 18-19 November 2009

The fields of Art, Media and Design engage in the creative production of digital and material artefacts that reproduce and resist existing discourses. The text genres that accompany this artefactual creativity also enter into reproductive and contrasting relations with project work.

Art.Media.Design | Writing Intersections offers a two day conference space to explore and theorize the theoretical and applied consequences of this text|artefact intersection.

We invite faculty, practitioners and students to join us in Melbourne (Australia) to explore these issues. Writing Intersections follows immediately after the Cumulus09 Melbourne (RMIT/Swinburne) Conference and we encourage you to attend both events.

For information about speakers and accommodation see: http://artmediadesign.synthasite.com/

Many parts have come together to form the 2009 Industry Placement exhibition.

View visual fragments and reflections of our industry experiences that have gone beyond university boundaries.

Gallery open 5-9 October, 10am to 5pm.

Communication Design - Film and Television - Industrial Design - Interior Design - Multimedia Design

www.swinburne.edu.au/design/industry/ip

Turn your TAFE studies into a Swinburne Degree with Pathways ... and if you're at Swinburne TAFE find out about Pathways Direct where you can transfer directly into a Swinburne Uni course without applying through VTAC.

Find out more at: http://www.future.swinburne.edu.au/pathways/index.html  or call 1300 ASK SWIN (1300 275 794)

Twenty-three design students took part in a three-week American Adventure study tour which took them from San Francisco Design Week to design cultural capital, New York City. 

Emily Wright, Lecturer:

It was little more than a year ago that the idea was first put forward to plan a new study tour to the USA.  From then on it has been a flurry of activity, researching, planning and finally leading the tour this past June in San Francisco and New York City. Our American Adventure Study Tour has been an exciting and rewarding experience for the students as well as staff and I feel privileged to have been apart of it.

This tour could not have happened without the support from many important people here in Australia as well as the USA. A big thankyou goes out to our Study Tour Coordinator, Anne Howell, for all her hard work, our Deputy Dean International, Scott Thompson-Whiteside, for supporting the new tour, Swinburne International for funding the scoping research trip, Jo Walsh and Reho for the extensive travel planning, Lotars Ginters and Jill Holt for sharing invaluable study tour veteran wisdom, Anthony Elliot for being the trusted co-pilot of the tour and putting together this amazing exhibition and of course to the 23 students who made this endeavour all worthwhile. I'd also like to thank our US support network including, the American Institute Graphic Arts (AIGA), the San Francisco Design Week organising committee, Chronicle Publishers, California College of the Arts and Pratt University.

Please enjoy the exhibition and be sure check out Swinburne's many international study opportunities at http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/isp/