Designing for happiness
Can good design inspire social change and transform conventional thinking?
Join Queensland Government Architect Malcolm Middleton OAM as he discusses designing for happiness with three design experts in the latest instalment of the Asia Pacific Design Library lecture series.
Wed 12 Oct: Sean Godsell
In 2002 the influential English design magazine wallpaper listed Melbourne architect, Sean Godsell, as one of ten people destined to ‘change the way we live’. In 2003 he received a Citation from the President of the American Institute of Architects for his work for the homeless. The following year his Future Shack prototype was exhibited for six months at the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York. Time Magazine named him in the ‘Who’s Who -The New Contemporaries’ section of their 2005 Style and Design supplement. Sean is currently working on projects in China and Australia and his first major building, the RMIT University Design Hub is currently under construction in Melbourne.
Wed 26 Oct: Yen Trinh
The best design solutions don’t belong to the designer, but rather the community it inspires and enables. Building community participation into design solutions involves designing systems not just objects. Yen Trinh explores a number of local and international projects that enable communities to contribute and transform their own urban public places. Yen is a Brisbane urbanist and designer. She is passionate about urban spaces, community building and collaborative design and has worked for design firms, non-profits and government, in Australia, Toronto and New York. Yen is the 2011 Qld Premier’s Emerging Design Leader Award recipient.
Wed 9 Nov: Jason Grant
Jason is a member of Inkahoots design studio. The studio began in 1990 as an artist run, community access screen printing collective, and is now recognised around the world as a leading model of alternative visual communication practice. Their history is a close relationship with the community, cultural, and arts sectors as visual advocates and activists.
Wednesdays 6.30pm
slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Free, bookings required – apdldesigningforhappiness.eventbrite.com
This Designing for Happiness series will conclude with the annual Nielson Design Lecture, featuring world-leading visionary, innovator, designer and author, Bruce Mau.
