2025 UpRising 'Futures Now' @ Hassell Studios

UpRising @ Hassell Studios April 16th Wednesday 9am to 2pm.  

Your chance to see the next steps of what it is like to be a professional designer. To hear from industry about how important your creative, critical thinking, and collaboration skills are to them. To be in a room full of like-minded people in the inspiring buildings and surrounds of Hassell Studios, a great way to give you and your MDP a boost. 

• Insights from Industry Experts: Get firsthand insights from professional designers. Learn how to add commercial value to your ideas through the power of Copyright, Patent, Design, and Trademark from IPTA Australia.
  
  
• Career Path Exploration: Hear from ex-students about life beyond the HSC and the MDP. Discover diverse career paths and gain valuable advice.
  

• Networking Opportunities: Connect with professionals and other UpRising design students and teachers. Exchange ideas, collaborate, and build lasting relationships.
  
  
• Inspiration: Explore Hassel Architecture’s cutting-edge design studios. Meet their young designers and gain insights into the real-world business of design. The surrounding environment buildings and more
  
  
• - Oh and did I mention lunch is on us.

There will be a limit of 40 attendees. Invitations are going out to you first, the UpRising students of 2025.  Please RSVP now by grabbing a ticket. If there are any spaces left by the end of next week, then share the link with a friend from your design class and bring them along. (Make sure they fill in their details when they get a ticket).

Why attend- 

Great for design students.  

• Great for connecting with creatives & businesses
• The chance for three design students to showcase their major design projects 
• To meet other UpRising students and become part of that tribe.
• The chance for them to hear from industry and see possible new career pathways.

Great for teachers

• For connecting with creatives & businesses 
• To be able to connect to other teachers and share learning and ideas 
• For PD on latest design thinking practices
• To be inspired and connected to the innovation ecosystem

Great for industry.  

• To be able to talk to students & teachers directly
•  To reframe misconceptions and challenge stereotypes about the design industry and open up new opportunities

Looking forward to seeing you there.

LOCATION 
Level 2, Pier 8/9, 23 Hickson Road
Sydney
New South Wales
2000
Australia