Fremantle Design Week / Conversation Series

Conversation Series

presented by ZSA ZSA Property Group

TICKETS

Single Conversation: $15
One-Day Pass: $50 (5 conversations)
Weekend Pass: $90 (10 conversations)
+ booking fee

A 15% early bird discount will be automatically applied until September 12th.

THE PROGRAM

The Conversation Series is proudly presented by ZSA ZSA Property.

Saturday 19 October, 2024

10:00am – 10:45am

Conversation 1 / The Dark Sky Movement
with Dr. Kellie Pendoley

Have you heard of the Dark Sky Movement? The Dark Sky Movement is on a mission to reduce the negative impacts of light pollution on nature, our health and our spiritual connection to the sky. One of Australia's leading experts in the field is Fremantle's Dr. Kellie Pendoley, recipient of a lifetime achievement award from Dark Sky International. Kellie will share her knowledge on the effects of artificial light on wildlife and human health, which include sleep disorders, obesity, heart disease and depression. This thought-provoking presentation will show that starry nights are more than just a beautiful sight and prompt you to consider your relationship with light.

11:00am – 11:45am

Conversation 2 / ADHD House
with Austin Nichols & Isabelle Nash

How do you design a house for someone who has ADHD? That was the challenge graduate architect Austin Nichols set himself, using his own experience as the catalyst. Collaborating with occupational therapist and close friend Isabelle Nash from Balance to Bloom, Austin developed the scheme for a compact two-bedroom home for himself and his neurotypical partner. Isabelle’s experience working with children with ADHD and autism, and Austin’s architectural research, combine to provide insight into neurodivergent understanding of space and design. Austin and Isabelle will share their work and show how design that responds to neurodiversity can have relevance for everyone, supporting a calmer and more focused life.

1:00pm – 1:45pm

Conversation 3 / Telling babies from bathwater: a rebranding field guide
with Hannah Matthews and Mark Braddock 

Why rebrand?
When should you rebrand?? 
How do you remain true to your heritage while courageously moving forward??? 
What were you thinking???? 

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) Director/CEO and cultural sector leader, Hannah Mathews, joins one of Perth’s most awarded communications and branding experts, Mark Braddock from Block to discuss PICA’s recent internationally recognised rebranding. They will share insight into the process of creating a brand identity designed to provoke, grab attention and differentiate … and then redoing it because just wasn’t right. This conversation will be of value to business owners, cultural professionals, designers, students, and anyone with an interest in design, culture and creativity.

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Conversation 4 / A space odyssey: 40 years of spaceagency
with Michael Patroni and Dimmity Walker

Fremantle architecture firm spaceagency is one of Australia's most acclaimed design practices. Founded forty years ago, spaceagency's highly awarded portfolio of residential, hospitality and commercial projects has led the way on adaptive reuse and heritage interpretation and changed the face of hospitality design in the West.
Come on a design journey with principals Michael Patroni and Dimmity Walker as they reflect on four decades of creating beautiful buildings and interiors.
In celebration of its 40-year milestone, spaceagency has commissioned a short film to be screened at the event, shot at locations designed by the practice over several decades. The film uses storytelling to reveal how spaces take on a secret life of their own beyond the reach of the designers.

3:30pm – 4:30Pm

Conversation 5 / Keynote: Planetary Imaginaries
with Liam Young

Liam Young's Fremantle Design Week keynote presentation is not to be missed.

Following centuries of colonisation, globalisation, and never-ending economic extraction, we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. The dystopias of science fiction that previously read as speculative cautionary tales are now the stage sets of the every day as many of us live out our lives in a disaster film playing in real-time. In this seemingly futureless moment, the storytelling performance Planetary Imaginaries will take us on a sci-fi safari through a screenscape of alternative and hopeful worlds. Slipping between fiction and documentary, the journey will be both an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent illumination of the environmental questions that are facing us today.

Sunday 20 October, 2024

10:00am – 10:45am

Conversation 6 / Pattern book homes: looking back to go forward
with Matt Delroy-Carr, Joel Benichou & Craig Nener

Pattern book homes have a long history, especially during times of housing shortages. With construction costs rising and housing becoming increasingly unaffordable, is it time to revisit the past? Reflecting on historical precedents and what's currently on the market, Matt Delroy-Carr (MDC Architects) will share his off-the-plan housing model, whilst Joel Benichou (Archive) and Craig Nener (Grotto Studio) will launch Project_Home, a new model for efficient, innovative and comfortable housing.

11:00am – 11.45pm

Conversation 7 / Fashioning the future: material transition
with Lisa Piller, Daniel Tinning and Molly Ryan

Creating new fibres from old clothing; patternmaking, sewing and fitting on a digital avatar; tackling mining uniform waste. In this conversation, fashion researcher and educator Lisa Piller introduces local innovators designing out waste at different points in the fashion life cycle. Designer and educator Daniel Tinning teaches virtual design, patternmaking, sewing and virtual fitting on an avatar, and does all his product development using this method. Fibre Economy redistributes discarded workwear through a circular network to lower its environmental footprint. This panel is the perfect primer for the Metanoia Fashion Runway on Wednesday 23 October, which will bring all of these innovations to the catwalk.

1:00pm – 1.45pm

Conversation 8 / House, suburb, street: how to make change
with Loren Holmes, Christina Nicolson, Kali Ballint, Cate Baker and Kavi Guppta

Whose job is it to make our cities great places to live? Everyone's! Architect and educator Loren Holmes will introduce people who have taken action to make their homes, streets and suburbs better places for people and nature. Landscape architect Christina Nicholson has created a beautiful, productive garden for her family. Dubbed the ‘Vine Street National Park’, it supports the community via shared spaces and biodiversity. South Fremantle resident Kali Ballint began working with his neighbours 15 years ago to reinvent the park in their street as a place for local families. Gold Street Park became a hub for its community that endures today. Town Team Movement is a global movement of 'doers' empowering local communities to improve their places and by putting ideas into action. Fremantle Town Teams’ leader Cate Baker shares some of the projects being delivered by passionate locals and tips on how to get the support to do it.

2:00pm – 3.00PM

Conversation 9 / The architecture of Iwan Iwanoff

with Warren Andersen & Stuart Harrison

Bulgarian architect Iwan Iwanoff arrived in Fremantle on a boat in 1950 and went on to become a national design icon. Join Iwanoff biographer Warren Andersen and architect Stuart Harrrison, former host of Restoration Australia, in a conversation exploring Iwanoff’s life and work. The presentation will draw on Warren's recently published book, The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff and the fascinating stories gathered in the making from Iwanoff's sons, alongside homeowners, architects, contractors and artists. Rare, unpublished images and contemporary photography will accompany a fresh journey into Iwanoff’s extraordinary design evolution.

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Conversation 10 / What is ‘good design’?

with Dr Anthony Duckworth, Ross Harding & Renae Tapley

In 1stC BCE, Vitruvius established three timeless principles of good design - firmitas, utilitas, and venustas (strength, utility and beauty). Modernism reshaped the translation of these principles for the machine age, and in the 1970s, German designer Dieter Rams coined his own 'ten principles of good design'. Half a century on, how do we define 'good design’? What is considered strong, useful and beautiful today? Design practitioner and educator Dr Anthony Duckworth will facilitate a lively panel conversation exploring the spirit of design in 2024 and beyond, as ecological crisis and technology bring about radical change.Special guest panellist Liam Young will be joined by 'Future Materials' founder and interior designer Renae Tapley to consider the role of design and designers in the past, present and future.

ABOUT FREMANTLE DESIGN WEEK

Fremantle Design Week is a biennial festival of design and design ideas. Western Australia’s first multi-disciplinary design festival, it is a week-long program of talks, exhibitions, tours, workshops, open studios and special events.

Fremantle Design Week is presented by DesignFreo, a platform celebrating design and designers in the port city of Fremantle / Walyalup and beyond.

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