THINK. MAKE. CHANGE.

THINK. MAKE. CHANGE.

How has technology affected your life, your environment and the world? Explore how technology informs design, the creation and use of objects and how it influences our environment. Embrace or retreat?

Integrated into our lives everyday, technology has changed forever the way we interact with objects and materials. It has, and will continue to have an impact on how we work, how we live and the make up of our environment.

The exhibition component of Think.Make.Change will highlight designers responses to challenges faced by the influx of technology in both manufacturing and product end-use. Material should be of a local context, readily available, appropriate, and renewable or repurposed. Thought starters A couch was once a place to sit and relax. Now it is a place to eat, travel, discover, interact and work. Has the couch evolved? What other objects have changed with the uptake of technology? Product lifecycles - now reduced from decades to months. New compounds and materials are endlessly developed. Should we embrace new materials? ...or rethink the old? ...or both? Participants Product designers (furniture, object, jewellery etc.) Built environment (architecture, urban design, built environment) Delivery The exhibition component will feature a mixture of elements and stages of the process to better represent the process of design: Concepts (drawings, renderings, models) Prototypes (one-off experimental works) Products (completely realized objects that are produced/production ready) Digital (online and multi-media) Outcomes There will be a number of outcomes that represent the ideals, processes and practices of a various group of designers. Some will implement technology in the design component, some will use technology to make and some may resolve to illuminate the use of technology all together.

Design Tasmania PO Box 1845 Launceston Tasmania 7250 Contact Rye Dunsmuir 03 6331 5505 or rye@designtasmania.com.au OFFICIAL OPPENING MARCH 17