The conference explores connections between wellbeing, space, and learning through conversations about how schools can be strategically re-designed to better meet the current and future needs of students, teachers, and the wider community. Supported by stimulating provocations from expert panelists and workshop facilitators, including Amelia who shared our work into designing for the senses and wellbeing in education, focusing on the Wangaratta District Specialist School.
The conference was hosted at the Centre for Higher Education Studies where students also shared their expert voices and perspectives.
Events, Projects
Not Natural opens at the Science Gallery Melbourne
Sibling have been working on the exhibition design for the Science Gallery Melbourne’s inaugural show, ‘Not Natural’, which finally opened at the end of January.
The exhibition explores the growing fiction between natural and artificial systems, showcasing a number of speculative local and international projects dissolving the line between what is considered natural and not natural.
We will be sharing more about our approach to designing the exhibition for some of the weird and wonderful exhibits including live jellyfish and a machete-wielding houseplant! But for now, here are some pics from the opening event.
Not Natural is on show from now until June 29 at Science Gallery Melbourne.
Events
The South East Centre for Contemporary Art Opens in Bega!
Just in time for summer, we celebrated the opening of the new South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Bega, NSW.
Located on Yuin Country in the far south coast of NSW, the redeveloped gallery doubles the area of the previous exhibition spaces and provides state of the art facilities to accommodate both community and international touring shows.
Sibling first started working on this project in 2018, so it was especially rewarding to finally see it open and occupied by the public. SECCA has been warmly welcomed by the people of the Bega Valley Shire and is set to enhance the region as an arts and cultural destination. If you’re traveling up the east coast over the summer, be sure to drop in and check it out!
Events
‘Unprecedented’ 2023 AIA Conference
Unprecedented is this year’s Australian Institute of Architects National Conference, hosted on Ngunnawal land, Canberra. The conference is an opportunity to ‘reflect on what has come before, focus on how we face the future and shape what is yet to come.’
Keynote speakers include Denise Scott-Brown, Stan Grant and Kevin Carmody.
Qianyi will be speaking on a breakfast panel on Tuesday 31st October, alongside Shoba Cole, Adam Haddow, Bradley Kerr and Kerstin Thompson on the importance of diversity to creating an equal playing field.
Hope to see you there for a thoughtful and engaging conversation, Tuesday 31st October 7am!
Events
Regional Museum Conference
Earlier this month we had the pleasure of welcoming delegates from the Regional Public Galleries NSW conference for a site walk through the nearly complete SECCA/Bega gallery ????We also joined gallery director Iain Dawson, artist Liam Benson and Cayce Hill on a panel to discuss what it takes to create equitable and accessible cultural spaces. Looking forward to the gallery opening later this year!
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