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QLD PREMIER’S DESIGN AWARDS NOW OPEN

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Australia’s richest design prize – the Queensland Premier’s Design Awards – celebrates the contribution of good design towards business, lifestyle and innovation in Queensland. Now in its third year, the 2012 Queensland Premier’s Design Awards is calling for entries from any industry or sector for the following:

  • The $40 000 Smart State Design Fellow acknowledges an individual who has significantly contributed to developing a design culture within Queensland. Entrants may be from any industry or sector.
  • The $10 000 Emerging Design Leader Award recognises an emerging Queensland designer who embodies excellence in their expertise, talent, skill and commitment to design. The prize involves a travel bursary to attend an international design event.

For more info, visit Arts Queensland.

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Grey Street EOI: QATA X South Bank Corporation

February 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

South Bank Corporation has developed and approved a Grey Street Place Management Strategy to realise its goal of creating one of Brisbane’s great streets. As Grey Street is not the sole domain of the Corporation, it requires a place making approach to developing a self organising community for the future that actively participates in co-creating the street.

South Bank wants to engage the many diverse communities who use the street to share in the shaping of an integrated design approach and participate in creating ideas for a shared future. To begin this process of change for the Grey Street, a shop front on Grey Street will operate for three months as a PLACE.Lab.

It will be a tool for engaging discussion about the type of street that the community desires, and how the many diverse, and at times conflicting communities, can be involved in creating a meaningful place. It will be venue for developing the cultural aspirations of the community offering design workshops, gathering data, and facilitating partnerships.

School Design workshops

South Bank Corporation is seeking Expressions of Interest from schools who are interested in participating in design by enquiry workshops as a participatory place making workshop to ‘design Grey Street’.

  • A venue will be available  on Grey Street from May-July 2012 to be known as the PLACE.Lab;
  • The venue will house from 10-15 students at one time;
  • The venue is open both weekdays and weekends;
  • Delivery models for workshops are flexible; from half days to full days, ongoing over a period of time or within a defined timeframe;
  • Mentors in urban design,  community engagement and cultural development are available;
  • Options for displaying outcomes include exhibition within PLACE.Lab and online;

Please contact Chetana Andary, Place Manager, for further information and email proposals to:

E: Chetana.andary@south-bank.net.au

P: (07) 3687 2009

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Portable presents Product Design 2012

February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

There are a limited number of HALF PRICE TICKETS available fo the upcoming event ‘Product Design’ with Portable and The Edge, Queensland on 14 Feb. Use discount code BRISBANE. Get in quick! http://portablebrisbane.eventbrite.com/

About Product Design 2012.

Never has it been easier to come up with an innovative product idea and deliver it to the world. This February, Portable is proud to present Product Design 2012. In a two-hour salon style presentation we will be exploring the complexities of conceiving, designing, funding and launching online products to an international audience.

Joined by Leni Mayo, founding investor of 99designs, the world’s largest online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design and Shainiel Deo, CEO of the game design company Halfbrick, who’s behind some of the world’s most popular mobile game apps. Both will draw upon their own success stories in designing products for international audiences, while also highlighting the most important global trends in product design.

This Portable Talks series has been especially curated for creative individuals and companies wanting to make the leap into designing online products for international audiences. Designed to be a conversation, the event will run through the main points of starting and scaling a product business, from conception, to investment and future planning. In doing so, Portable Talks will provide a comprehensive forum for networking with designers, product developers, technologists, entrepreneurs and investors.

Please note, previous Portable events have sold out so book early in your city to ensure your place.

Speakers
Leni Mayo, Founding Investor, 99designs
Shainiel Deo, CEO, Halfbrick
Simon Goodrich, Co-Founder Portable


VENUE

Brisbane
Tuesday 14th of February, 3pm
The Edge, State Library of Queensland

For more information please visit www.portable.tv

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Reminder – applications close 9 March 2012 for 2011-12 round of the Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowships

February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This is a reminder that applications for the 2011-12 round of the Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowships will close at 5:00pm on Friday 9 March 2012.

The Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowship Program provides Fellowships each year to enable Queenslanders to undertake research projects at the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex and research organisation.

The Program seeks to foster an interchange of knowledge and skills between Queensland organisations and the Smithsonian and advances the Queensland Government’s Toward Q2 vision of a strong, green, smart, healthy and fair Queensland through the development of international alliances and networks.

Up to three Fellowships will be awarded in 2011-12.  The duration of a Fellowship is for a maximum of 26 weeks and a minimum of 13 weeks, with a maximum award of $30,000.

Applications are open to Queenslanders working in areas of mutual interest with the Smithsonian, in particular:

  • evolutionary, systematic, behavioural and environmental biology;
  • biodiversity, conservation and climate change;
  • earth and mineral sciences;
  • anthropology, archaeology and Indigenous and cross-cultural studies;
  • science and technology;
  • art and design;
  • museum based education, science education; and
  • museum outreach; and museum management and practice.

The program is open to people working in government; research, educational or cultural institutions; or the private sector.

Applications close at 5:00pm on Friday 9 March 2012.

Detailed information about the Fellowship Program, including the guidelines and application form, can be found at http://www.science.qld.gov.au/dsdweb/v4/apps/web/content.cfm?id=13220

Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact:

Jenny Riches

Principal Policy Officer, Global Science Engagement
Science Strategy and Capability
Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
T +61 7 3405 5224 F +61 7 3225 8754
E Jenny.Riches@deedi.qld.gov.au

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Design Minds

January 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The State Library of Queensland will benefit from $60,000 in State Government funding to create and make available high quality design education resources for Queensland teachers.

Funded through the State Government’s $3 million Designing Queensland program 2008–12, Design Minds will provide a central, online location for design education tools that all Queensland teachers can tap into.

Manager of State Library’s Asia Pacific Design Library Christian Duell said the resource, to be hosted on the APDL’s website, would be launched with content from the Queensland- Smithsonian (Cooper-Hewitt) Design Museum Fellowships.

“The aim of Design Minds is to increase the capacity of Queensland teachers to teach creativity in the context of the Australian Curriculum, as well as increase the opportunity for students to take part in world-class design education projects and activities,” he said.

“Design educators will be able to access material for lessons, share knowledge and ideas, interact with each other, and contribute and collaborate.

“Design Minds also aligns with the goals of QUEENSLANDERSIGNTM, the Queensland Design Council’s communication initiative dedicated to celebrating and championing world- class Queensland design.”

The Asia Pacific Design Library was launched in October 2010 to support and promote the best of design and offer the best publicly-accessible collection of design resources in the Asia Pacific. Its website will host the Design Minds resource.

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Geographics: Design, Education, and the Transnational Terrain – Call for Proposals

January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

For many design educators working in different parts of the world today, design practice is taking place in what may be called a transnational context.

The boundaries that define the field of higher education have become increasingly fluid, and professors, students, programs, and curricula are moving back and forth between different regions of the world as never before.

The design projects, research, and institutions that result retain a unique cultural complexity because they promote meanings and values that often transcend the cultures and boundaries of the nations within which they originate.

Taking place at the East-West Center and the University of Hawai’i in Honolulu, the conference, Geographics: Design, Education, and the Transnational Terrain will provide international design educators, scholars and practitioners the opportunity to share examples of design programs, research, and projects that have been implemented within a transnational context.

Deadline for proposals is February 15, 2012.

more: aigageogfx.com/files/GEO_FINAL_CALL_PROPOSALS.pdf(48)

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Restarting Britain: Design Education and Growth

January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

“To create tomorrow’s innovators our education system needs to learn from the best businesses in the world. Companies like Apple, Dyson, and JCB integrate design as engines of innovation,” commented David Kester, Chief Executive of the Design Council. “It’s time for our education system to follow suit. We need to shift from a system that encourages discrete specialist subjects to mix but remain unchanged, towards an integrative system that promotes adaption as skills needs change. Put simply, our High Schools need to be ‘iSchools’.”

This inaugural report from the Design Commission explores the link between the UK’s national design capacity, and economic growth in the 21st century. In so doing, it describes and analyses the design skillset, assesses the current strengths in the field of design education, and compares those to the practices of other nations. It sets out the current threats to the ongoing successful delivery of design education and what the Design Commission believe the UK must do now to continue to compete.

Read the report
Download the full report
Download the pamphlet (executive summary)

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Towards a creative Australia: the future of the arts, film and design.

December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Creativity is increasingly recognised and celebrated for its contribution to cultural development, economic growth and social harmony; but it’s also intrinsically good. We value our artists, film-makers, designers, authors, playwrights and performers because they entertain us, challenge us and inspire us.

Australian cultural endeavour feeds the roots of our creativity; it helps preserve and protect the storehouses of the nation’s memory; it supports and sustains our disadvantaged and marginalised communities; and it shapes and defines our shared national identity.

Australian culture, in all its various forms and guises, is interwoven with the philosophy and the spirit of our nation, it is at the heart of who we are and is integral to the way we see ourselves and how others see us. Through film, writing and performance we try to define our unique experience, tell our own stories in our own voices and make our mark on the world.

Read more about The future of the arts, film and design here.

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del.icio.us – A selection of resources and links for teachers of Visual Arts & Design in Queensland.

December 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A selection of resources and links for teachers of Visual Arts & Design in Queensland.

QATA is now using Delicious.com to save, stack and share the web. You can instantly access our favorite links, share what you find with your students and colleagues, and dig deeper into your favorite topics.

Click on the image below to access all our favourite links now!

del.icio.us

 

 

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Announcing the 2012 TED Prize Winner – The City 2.0

December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

TED is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 TED Prize.

For the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends.

The 2012 TED Prize is awarded to….the City 2.0.

The City 2.0 is the city of the future… a future in which more than ten billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably.

The City 2.0 is not a sterile utopian dream, but a real-world upgrade tapping into humanity’s collective wisdom.

The City 2.0 promotes innovation, education, culture, and economic opportunity.

The City 2.0 reduces the carbon footprint of its occupants, facilitates smaller families, and eases the environmental pressure on the world’s rural areas.

The City 2.0 is a place of beauty, wonder, excitement, inclusion, diversity, life.

The City 2.0 is the city that works.

The TED Prize grants its winner $100,000 and “one wish to change the world.”   Individuals or organizations who wish to contribute their ideas to a TED Prize wish on behalf of The City 2.0 should write to tedprize@ted.com

Read more here.

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