Events
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DIA — Community: NSW Designer Networking and Council Meet
The Design Institute of Australia NSW Branch Council invites designers and design students to networking drinks with your design community. Catch up with the DIA NSW Council and be updated on DIA advocacy priorities.
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DIA — Community: NSW Designer Networking and Council Meet
The Design Institute of Australia NSW Branch Council invites designers and design students to networking drinks to meet the DIA NSW Council and hear about the 2024 DIA program of events and advocacy priorities.
Adam Grant Live: Unlock Hidden Potential & Transform Worklife: Melbourne and Sydney
Prepare to soar with Adam Grant, world leading expert on work culture, leadership, motivation, and meaning.
Adam Grant deeply understands the challenges of motivating disengaged teams, retaining talent, managing conflicts, addressing work pressure and burnout, establishing psychological safety, and strengthening culture.
In this exclusive half-day session—including a keynote presentation and an extended Q&A moderated by master interviewer Holly Ransom—Adam Grant will introduce his new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations and share the latest research on bringing out the best in others.
Dorothy Erickson: Solo Exhibition 2024
Dorothy Erickson’s new exhibition, Hesperia Piu di Cinquante, celebrates over fifty years of making remarkable and highly collectable contemporary jewellery. This is an exhibition with a number of strands that take different directions to do justice to the different women that have been the source of inspiration that Dorothy’s work honours.
‘Internal Reflection’ by Rive Roshan
Sally Dan-Cuthbert requests the pleasure of your company for internal reflection, the first Australian solo by artists Rive Roshan.
Kaolin x Taubmans | 2024 Colour Forecast
Immerse yourself in a creative talk and inspiring atmosphere of colourful cocktails and curated charcuterie tables between Kaolin’s Paint Collection fashioned from Taubmans forecast colours. Network with fellow industry professionals, who share a passion for colour and design.
Award-winning interior designer James Treble will be moderating our expert panel discussion, they will be sharing colour insights, trends, knowledge and the wisdom behind 2024 colours.
Artichoke Night School
As designers, we have the opportunity – and the responsibility – to go beyond trends to create timeless solutions. Designing for longevity has obvious benefits in reducing construction waste, but how do we ensure we’re still delivering on client expectations, and how can we harness flexibility in designing spaces that will endure?
DIA — City of Design Tour
The Design Institute of Australia invites you to an exclusive opportunity to connect directly with researchers in Australia's only UNESCO City of Design, Geelong.
Join us for a carefully curated tour of Geelong and uncover the innovation at Deakin University, the CSIRO, gaining exclusive access to the most recent advancements in sustainability and the cutting-edge technologies shaping virtual and artificial environment.
DIA Annual General Meeting 2023
The DIA Annual General Meeting (AGM) is the time for us to reflect on the past year and to plan for the future. Join us on Zoom as we celebrate the achievements of 2023 and the reforms undertaken during last year. DIA Members only, registration essential.
DIA — Community: Inclusive Design Series #3 PLACE
Experience an evening of design excellence and inclusivity at the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) Inclusive Design Talk Series #3: PLACE. This event is part of our Inclusive Design Series, focused on exploring inclusive approaches to design.
Our third event features a panel discussion with distinguished designers: Nazia Kachwalla from Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, Charlotte Wilson from SJB, and Kelvin Ho from Akin Atelier. They will share their award-winning projects, design philosophies, and inclusive design approaches. Our expert panel, moderated by interior designer Sarah-Jane Pyke, will facilitate thought-provoking discussions, and the audience can participate in a lively Q+A session.
DIA — Design Days: Mindful Materiality
Presented by the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) during Sydney Deign Week and moderated by industrial designer Nila Rezaei, this discussion explores the work of four local designers, artists and writers who place materials at the core of their practice.
GOTYA Celebrations
Join us at Stylecraft as we celebrate and announce our 2023 State and National Graduate of the Year Award (GOTYA) winners!
This year, we've made a slight change to the format by combining the State and National Winner announcements into one exciting event. Witness the recognition of exceptional designers from across Australia in the early stages of their careers.
Designers Australia Awards 2023: Award of Merit Celebrations
Please join us in celebrating the shortlisted entries and Awards of Merit recipients, which acknowledge Australian designers' and their contribution to ethical, innovative and impactful design. The cocktail event welcomes the attendance of the broader design community as well as entrants and previous winners.
Design for everyone: bridging the gap between desirable designs and accessibility
The Design for Everyone: Bridging the Gap between Desirable Designs and Accessibility short course promotes lived-experience-focused co-design, encouraging participants to go beyond textbook learning and make genuine interpersonal connections that inform the end-to-end design process.
Houses Awards 2023
Join hundreds of your peers and friends to celebrate a year of remarkable work that pushed the boundaries of functional, beautiful homes and set new benchmarks of excellent residential design.
The Architecture Symposium: Reset
As “life as usual” weathers social, economic and environmental change, The Architecture Symposium: Reset explores residential work from architects and designers who question the concept of “usual.” This curated line-up of local and international speakers will share diverse and engaging stories about home to remind us of things overlooked, forgotten or misunderstood.
DIA — Community: NSW Designer Networking and Knowledge
The Design Institute of Australia NSW Branch Council invites designers and design students to networking drinks to catch up with the DIA NSW Council and receive updates on the DIA program of events and advocacy priorities. This event provides a wonderful opportunity for designers to catch up, form new relationships and explore opportunities for collaboration.
Proudly supported by Kaolin at their stunning new showroom, enjoy generous hospitality and a bartender shaking up fabulous cocktails!
You'll also have the opportunity to learn about the recent technological advancements in porcelain tile manufacturing that have led to significant improvements in quality and possibilities. Staun Rasmussenfrom Kaolin Tileswill provide a short overview of the production process, including crucial aspects of porcelain tile quality and how to identify them when specifying. He will also highlight important considerations for compliance with the latest Australian Standards such as grout joint size, bowing, and slip ratings.
DIA — Talks: Inclusive Design Series #2 USE
The DIA NSW Branch Council is delighted be hosting the Inclusive Design Series, a four part lecture and networking series focussed on inclusive design.
Our second session will be interactive, focussing on embedding inclusive practices into design process and acknowledging our bias in the design process.
MILANTRACE 2023 Live Talk Series
Join us for a night with Yellowtrace to unpack the magic of Milan with MILANTRACE 2023 in an immersive experience. Presented by Yellowtrace, in partnership with Living Edge, MILANTRACE live talks are coming to Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne this June. The live 90-min keynote presentation by Dana Tomić Hughes with narrated video content and original photography is an engaging and immersive experience and the most comprehensive overview of Milan Design Week and Salone Del Mobile available globally.
Artichoke Night School, Sydney
As we progress to a sustainable future, more architects and designers are pursuing design interventions that embrace retrofitting and reuse. How can this responsive approach be applied to create beautiful workplace interiors that simultaneously cater to the expectations of employees and the functionality of a business?
Industrial Design: IDX SYD Q2 Social Event
Save your CAD files, ignore the rainbow spinning wheel of death, and step out of the studio and into the next IDX SYD social drinks!
DIA — Talks: Inclusive Design Series, Indigenous Design: Balarinji
The DIA NSW Branch Council is delighted be hosting the Inclusive Design Series, a four part lecture and networking series focussed on inclusive design.
Our first talk focusses on indigenous design and we are thrilled that Ros Moriarty and Johnny Bridges from Balarinji have agreed to share their stories with us, spanning the incredible 40 year history of Balarinji.
DIA — Community: NSW Council Meet and 2023 Program Launch
The Design Institute of Australia NSW Branch Council invites designers and design students to networking drinks to meet the new DIA NSW Council and hear about the 2023 DIA program of events and advocacy priorities.
Sydney — Live Trend Union Seminar
Join Philip Fimmano and David Clark for another inspiring trend seminar, presenting new colours, materials & concepts for fashion, textiles, interiors & lifestyle. Don’t miss this acclaimed annual workshop for creatives & retailers in all industries.
Opening program for Sydney Modern
This is what we have all been waiting for… Checking out the new Sydney Modern building at the Arts Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) will be a huge summer talking topic, and the inaugural commission for the new Tank Gallery (the lower level repurposed fuel tanks at Sydney Modern) is going to create worldwide ripples.
Do Ho Suh
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) is presenting the first solo exhibition from South Korean artist Do Ho Suh staged in the southern hemisphere. He is known for his large-scale sculptures and architectural installations created from fine textiles in bright colours, and the exhibition spans three decades with some works having an interactive quality. Do Ho Suh has lived and worked in Seoul, New York, Berlin and London. It is a Sydney-exclusive exhibition, guaranteed to awe and excite.
Design Show Australia
Design Show Australia is the trade event bringing premium brands, manufacturers and suppliers together with designers, specifiers and buyers working across commercial, workplace, retail, hospitality, multi-res and residential interiors.
The DIA is the proud CPD Partner. All professional designers bear a responsibility to maintain high practice standards. Earn CPD points at the Speaker Series and learn from the industry’s best as they share insights and opinions across multiple topics.
Sydney Design Week 2022
Sydney Design Week 2022, a program of exhibitions, talks, film screenings and workshops, takes place from 15 to 22 September 2022.
The program, inspired by the theme Making Now, examines the role of design across various disciplines, from industrial and interior design to graphics, scenography, restaurant design and more.
Designers Australia Awards 2022 Celebrations
Bringing together Australia's broad design community to celebrate ethical, innovative, and impactful design, the awards are an opportunity to support our emerging and established design community. Join us and celebrate our designers, their contributions and the profession.
5 Cities, 5 Celebrations: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney