Future Folds: panel discussion + opening celebration

Join us to celebrate Future Folds: contemporary investigations in origami on Friday 19 July!

Origami is known as a traditional figurative craft, but over the last 50 years its methods and techniques have been integrated into a range of different disciplines. As software, mathematics and technology come to enable new folding patterns and material applications of this artform, new design futures come into reach. Future Folds: contemporary investigations in origami brings together world-leading researchers and practitioners whose work showcase innovative uses of the medium across the fields of engineering, mathematics, design, fashion and art.

5:30-6:30PM
Panel: From Art to Science and Science to Art
Design Hub Lecture Theatre, Level 3
Co-curators Sukanya Deshmukh and Malte Wagenfeld bring together a panel of world-leading practitioners to discuss contemporary research directions in origami art and design.

Panellists: Tomoko Fuse, Robert J. Lang and more

6:30-8PM
Celebration in the gallery
Design Hub Gallery, Level 2
Join the curators, artists and RMIT Galleries community to celebrate the opening of Future Folds.

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Friday 19 July
5:30–8PM
Design Hub Lecture Theatre (Level 3)
+ Design Hub Gallery (Level 2)

Free, registration essential

Image: Tomoko Fuse, Orochi (detail), Photograph by Tsuyoshi Hongo. Image courtesy of the artist.