Cocktail Party & Keynote Speaker

$65

Includes:

• Friday night cocktail party and keynote address

For student tickets please contact Design Tasmania
All ticket prices include GST

The theme for the 2018 Women in Design Colloquium is Making a Design Culture, and will look at the different ways this can be explored: materiality, ethics, and identity. This theme will initiate talks and dialogues from people, asking the question: How do we create an inclusive and well-informed culture of design? Design Tasmania has invited professors, entrepreneurs, directors, academics, designers, founders, and CEO’s to talk at this event. Among this group of creative influencers are people who have built their practice around a culture that sustains a design practice, or who influence social fabric through a design culture.

Our commissioned exhibition for this year’s Women in Design will be a collaboration between architect and artist Fei Fei Feng (USA) and Tasmanian designer Michelle Boyde, who will engage with these themes.

We want to know what women in design are dreaming about in 2018.

What are our collective hopes, fears and visions for a post ‘man-made’ 20th century world, and how might the future look with women at the lead?

To find out, we’re inviting participants of Women in Design to contribute a dream to our online, custom dream portal. Working closely with socio-analyst and social dreaming facilitator Professor Susan Long, we’ll find the links and themes of collective interest and respond to these in a design outcome to be presented at the colloquium.

In conjunction, Susan will conduct a live social dreaming and reflection session, discussing the project process and its potential as a tool for designing in groups and growing a genuinely inclusive design culture.

You’ll be invited to participate when you sign up to the colloquium.

Michelle and Fei Fei

The future of design/making in Australia is dependent upon the support of organisations such as Design Tasmania to ensure that our initiatives continue foster expansiveness and dynamism in the sector. Our program is partially covered by Government funding and by our own commercial activity, however we rely on financial support from donors and sponsors to realise and expand on our vision.

We are incredibly proud of our artistic program and all who have contributed to its success over the past four years and we invite you to be part of this exciting time of our evolution.