Design Outlook 23 (DO23) continues to make a significant impact on the Melbourne design community with its energising event wrapping last month.
The event took place at Fed Square in the heart of Melbourne's CBD, following the success of the 2022 version, and brought together designers, creatives, and thought leaders to explore the latest trends and ideas in the design industry.
Read MoreThe conference offers a unique opportunity to learn, be inspired, and connect with other designers. Whether you’ve been in design for decades, or just starting out, DO23 has something for most design palettes.
Read MoreVenture capital firms are like time machines. They let us see the future before it’s created. If you want to know what the world might look like in five or ten years, cast your eyes to the companies that VC firms are investing in now.
Read MoreNithya Gopu Solomon’s career journey spans some of the world’s biggest brands and most innovative healthcare environments. She tells us about ‘anti-disciplinary’ concepts, reimagined workflows in the health system and digitally rich prototyping spaces.
Read MoreAn Australian research project exploring the revitalisation of post-industrial, contaminated land sites using a low-cost, natural, plant-based process called phytoremediation is yielding promising results. The project aims to test a variety of plants within an Australian context to see which are the most effective at restoring soils. Read more via link in bio
Read MoreWe're excited to be partnering with Purpose, a unique and immersive two-day conference for the purpose-driven business community. Held on 19 and 20 October 2022 at Carriageworks, Sydney, the event is filled with ideas, inspiration, leadership, community and conversations helping us stay at the cutting edge of the purpose-driven landscape.
In partnership with Purpose
Read MoreAs a supporting partner of Transitions Film Festival, we discussed with Director of Hot Money Susan Kucera how our financial system keeps us from making swift and much-needed collective change.
Read MoreTransitions Film Festival director Daniel Simons draws from the feature documentary To Which We Belong to share how regenerative practices can have a dramatic net-positive impact on the planet. Words by Transitions Film Festival
Read MoreCan we make sustainable and ethical design choices that bring us back into harmony with nature?
Read MoreAs a supporting partner of Transitions Film Festival, we sat down with Director of Beyond Zero, Nathan Havey, to discuss how business can play a leading role in reversing climate change.
Read MoreThe Transitions Film Festival returns this February with an enthralling program of world-changing documentaries about the existential challenges, creative innovations and heroic pioneers that can help us envision a new normal.
Words by Transitions Film Festival
Read MoreWith great power comes great responsibility. AI has the potential to both harm and help society – the path it takes, writes Renata Carli, is up to us.
Words by Renata Carli
Read MoreOne in five Australians have a disability. So why aren't we designing our cities for them?
Words by Fiona Murphy
Read MoreTo prevent catastrophic climate change, we need to halve global carbon emissions by 2030. Intimidated? Fortunately, sustainable energy is more accessible than we once thought.
Words by Maddison Brake, Melina Bunting and Chantelle Gourlay
Read MoreWe know that technology is becoming increasingly intertwined with the daily functions of society, but what are the physical and environmental costs of the exponential growth of ‘the cloud’? Tyson Yunkaporta reflects on the Internet of Things and Indigenous sovereignty in this excerpt from Issue 4.
Words by Tyson Yunkaporta
Read MoreWe are living through a period of improvisation. How can we use it to invent a more responsible way of life? Melissa Howard and Eben Kirskey talk ‘pandemic projects’, non-human companions and lessons we could learn from COVID.
Words by Melissa Howard
It’s difficult to say where technology will take us in ten years, let alone 50 or 100 – let alone imagine the jobs that will populate this unknown future. As the world of work is increasingly automated, we are seeing an entirely new spectrum of work emerge at the intersection of human and machine skills and capabilities. What will those jobs be? And what does the evolving landscape of employment mean for the workforce of today?
Words by Cher Tan. Illustrations by Lee Lai.
In a world where a handful of mega firms are responsible for a third of global carbon emissions, it can feel absurd to hope that by diligently carrying a KeepCup or riding a bike to work we can make a difference. But as one filmmaker makes clear, the individual actions of many really can drive lasting change.
Words by Nadia Bailey
Taryn Southern and Elena Gaby are co-directors of the new technology documentary, ‘ I Am Human’. We spoke to them about their new film, and how best to approach a future in which the distinction between human and machine is unclear.
Taryn Southern and Elena Gaby in conversation with Taylor Mitchell
We could all be swiftly approaching the end of an era, what some have called the ‘golden age of antibiotics’. But what does this mean for medicine? How did we get here, and what comes next? Its looking like the future of medicine is moving away from antibiotics, which may change the way we approach health and wellness.
Words by Hollen Singleton
