Beyond Smokestacks and Solar Panels: Telling Visual Stories about Energy Transition

Join us for 'Beyond Smokestacks and Solar Panels: Telling Visual Stories about Energy Transition' Thursday, October 17.

Energy transition dominates political, business, and environmental discussions today. 

Yet beyond smokestacks and solar panels, people rarely discuss what this looks like. 

How then is environmental imagery changing? How can we engage different audiences and what visual strategies work best to inspire change?

Join a conversation with leading illustrators, architects, photographers and academics to consider how to use imagery to tell better and more nuanced stories.

Date: Thursday 17 October
Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Venue: Tin Sheds Gallery
Moderator: Daniel Ryan
Speakers: Jessica Harwood, Huw Turner, Christopher Wright and Ben Berwick

Bios:
Jessica Harwood is an artist, cartoonist and climate campaigner living on Darramuragal land in Sydney, Australia. Her work has been featured by the Guardian, appeared on the BBC and been used by social movements, charities and businesses. Jess specialises in environmental and social justice storytelling by turning complex messages into artworks, infographics and 'info-toons'. 

Daniel Ryan is an environmental historian of architecture and senior lecturer at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. His research looks at the changing meaning of climate in architecture and the visual culture of environmental design. He is the curator, with Jennifer Ferng, of Monumental Imaginaries at the Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney.

Huw Turner is an architect and principal of Collins and Turner, an award-winning architecture practice based in Sydney. Collins and Turner focus on the design and construction of innovative environments for living, work, learning and recreation. The practice has recently completed the Upper Hunter Innovation Centre, in Muswellbrook, NSW, a building that plays a key educational role in the Hunter region’s plan to diversify its economy away from coal.

Christopher Wright is Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School and a landscape and wildlife photographer. He has published extensively on environmental politics, climate change and critical understandings of capitalism and political economy. His photography explores the vulnerability of the natural environment and the changing landscape we now live within.

Ben Berwick is the director and founder of Prevalent. His practice provides strategies for the built environment that are underpinned by global trends in furthering environmental, economic & social sustainability. A Newcastle native, now working internationally, his practice focuses heavily on user experience and one’s relationship to the built environment, at scales ranging from the object to the city. He has received national and international accolades in architecture, interior design, industrial design, and design innovation.