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DESIGNERS AUSTRALIA AWARDS
Judge.
The Designers Australia Awards bring together Australia's broad design community to commemorate ethical, innovative, impactful design – highlighting and honouring work defined by quality.
Liane Rossler, co-founder and former designer and director of Dinosaur Designs, and designer Melinda Harper joined in a unique dialogue, as they discussed a shared love of abstraction and their individual approaches to working creatively with shapes, colours, textures and materials.
Focusing on the design process as much as the outcome, each accolade considers how the designer's perform responds to authenticity, diversity, equality, inclusivity, community and the environment.
The Design Institute of Australia (DIA), Australia's peak national body representing Australia’s designers has released the first nine out of eighteen jurors invited to decide the prestigious Designers Australia Awards The DIA's awards are the benchmark for Australian design excellence and are the ultimate accolade for designers backed and endorsed by Australia's only association characterizing all the design disciplines.
Prominent international and locally respected jurors include Kate Goodwin, Thomas Skeehan, Liane Rossler, Ellie Stathaki, Dale Hardiman, and David Meagher.
The jury's primary role is to emphasize the value of design thinking and problem solving, designer/s morality, conduct and capabilities, and their processes.
BUILD: LIFE ON LAND
With Jefa Greenaway and Liane Rossler
In an intimate night of conversation explore new perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, science, the humanities and the arts to reflect on how these disciplines and design innovation can deal with the urgent issues of our times.
Sydney Opera House.
26 May
SHAPE SYMPOSIUM
Speaker.
Presented in association with NSW Education Standards Authority, Shape showcases a selection of outstanding major projects from last year’s HSC Design and Technology, Industrial Technology, and Textiles and Design courses.
Powerhouse Museum.
Pride
NORTHERN BEACHES ENVIRONMENTAL ART AND DESIGN PRIZE
Judge.
In , the inaugural Environmental Art & Design Prize exhibition displayed works by over finalists across nine categories, shining a light on renewal, regeneration and our shared human experience in the world.
The category winners were awarded by the judges: artist Euan Macleod; artist, artist and curator Liane Rossler; and CEO and Artistic Director of the Australian Design Centre, Lisa Cahill.
Finalists announced here
STORYBOX CLIMATE FUTURES
In April Storybox invited a group of Sydney-siders to distribute their perspectives on climate futures as part of a STORYBOX Sydney workshop.
Participants each contributed a life sized video portrait for STORYBOX. Each portrait expressed a personal response to climate futures now. A video of the Climate Clock was featured on STORYBOX and each participant discussed responses to the climate emergency.
SYDNEY CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS FOR CLIMATE ACTION TALK (SCICA)
Speaker.
Liane Rossler is an artist, artist, curator and creative advisor who has worked in creative industries for over thirty years, and has spent the last fifteen years focused on projects that intersect art, design and the environment. Alongside her solo innovative practice which is focused on beneficial and beautiful sustainable layout, she is founder of Superlocalstudio which inspires collaborative, socially engaged cultural and creative projects for diverse audiences. Liane was co-founder of Dinosaur Designs, and as a director and designer for twenty five years established pose alone stores in Sydney, Melbourne and New York. Works were exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Australia and internationally, and sold through stores worldwide.SCICA is a working group of leading arts, culture and museum specialists who meet monthly to share how cultural organisations are tackling sustainability and climate alter. The group is driven by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and works to impact adjust both internally (through sustainable procurement, solutions to temporary exhibition plan, freight and conservation) and externally (through programming which educates, connects and inspires audiences on climate issues).
The aim is to make the greatest impact through sharing, connecting and problem-solving.
URBANISTAS SYDNEY TALK
Lately we’ve been challenged to think creatively about how we communicate and connect with our neighbours and wider group.
Urbanistas SYD brings together three amazing creatives to share how these they were able to stayed socially connected (albeit at a safe distance) with their local community, reimagine our sky-high streets and make people to smile through their projects and creativity.
Cara O'Dowd is a photographer working commercially in the fashion industry + artist behind the Hurlstone Park Lockdown Locals venture.
Cara’s images are feminine and strong.
Good Natured. Australian Style Centre, Sydney Curator. Natural Wonder. Powerhouse x Vivid Ideas, Sydney.She is interested in the concept of female identity and this theme is frequently repeated in her work.
Liane Rossler is an artist, designer and resourceful advisor. + was one of the designer that contributed to al exhibition titled ‘COMMUNITY. Alongside her solo creative practice, she is founder of Superlocalstudio which inspires collaborative, socially engaged imaginative projects for diverse audiences.
Emilya Colliver is the founder and director of Art Pharmacy and author of ‘Making Art Matter’. She is also the ‘artistic advisor’ to the municipality of Spoonville Sydney, the newest ‘handmade’ inclusive village built by local kids and creating enjoyment for everyone that visits.
RUTH POPE Communicate.
Liane was co-founder of Dinosaur Designs, and as a director and designer for twenty five years established stand alone stores in Sydney, Melbourne and Fresh York. Works were exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Australia and internationally, and sold through stores worldwide.
SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS
Speaker.
The Ruth Pope Speaker Series for Sydney Living Museums is aimed at staff learning and development. Liane Rossler presented Building beneficial beauty, an overview of creative practice highlighting a multitude of projects, issues and processes.
SYDNEY OPEN
Ambassador.
Over one weekend, Sydney Open will unlock the doors of more than 60 of the city’s most important, inspiring and intriguing buildings and spaces.
Australia's premier open building event, Sydney Open returns on November , marking 21 years since the program first unlocked the doors to some of the city's most historic and architecturally inspiring buildings usually off limits to the public.
Presented by Sydney Living Museums, Sydney Open offers visitors a "behind-the-scenes" look at veiled architectural treasures and some of the city's most loved buildings.
From places of historic significance to award-winning new structures that shape the city's urban landscape and cultural life, Sydney Open celebrates great architecture and how it influences our lives.
November
KIDS’ DESIGN WORKSHOP X HAPPY Discuss
SHERMAN CENTRE FOR CULTURE AND IDEAS
Workshop leaders:
Heidi Dokulil, Jenny Louey, Liane Rossler.
Design team:
Twelve budding childish designers
Happy Talk’s Liane Rossler and Heidi Dokulil were joined by Jenny Louey for the SCCI Architecture Hub's Kid’s Design Workshop.
Celebrating resourcefulness and the collective influence of ideas, Happy Talk's plan brief challenged a group of budding young designers to re-imagine the city and share their ideas for a collection of happy spaces for Sydney.
Fostering ideas from the wild to the wonderful, the workshop focused on collaboration, sketching, materials play and model making, allowing each planner to explore environmental sustainability through diverse languages of expression.
21 October
SYDNEY ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
Ambassador.
The 12th annual Sydney Architecture Festival invites Sydneysiders to get behind some of our most iconic buildings and ask: what makes a building truly great?
is a supernova for milestones in Australian architecture. With major anniversaries for the Sydney Opera House and Australia’s Parliament House coinciding with plans for their future, this year’s Festival looks at our opportunity to preserve, protect and renew the enduring legacy of these modern monuments for future generations.
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28 September
HELLO WORLD: CODE AND DESIGN
Panelist and speaker.
HELLO WORLD: CODE AND DESIGN examines the role of code in contemporary design, considering the ways in which designers are integrating computation into their practice.
The exhibition gathers objects and technologies from across the design spectrum—from fashion and textiles, to the moving image, graphics and the handmade—in order to reveal the social, economic and critical impact of code and design.
SPEAKING IN CODE
Led by Cameron Tonkinwise of the UTS Academy of Design this panel invites key industry guests to respond to a chosen object from our current exhibition, Hello World: Code and Design, including:
Matthew Beard, philosopher and ethicist
Dr Kate Dunn, research leader in digital fabrication and material innovation at the UNSW Creative Robotics Research Lab
Dr Tom Lee, Lecturer, UTS School of Design
Liane Rossler, artist, designer, curator and creative advisor, Superlocalstudio
Our second panel invites guests from legal, ethical and style backgrounds to respond to their chosen objects from the exhibition.
Curated by Aaron Seymour
24 July—14 September
GOOD NATURED
Curated by Liane Rossler, this program included a series of short talks at Superlocalstudio for Sydney Design Festival by local creative practices who combine an approach of considered & engaging design through a purpose & process that is human & nature centered.
Speakers included:
The Biological Tea Project about their circular style process that benefits the producer, the customer & the environment. Jennifer Kwok on the five elements of design & nature in the urban landscape. The Republic of Everyone on Plant Life Balance, a fresh campaign that encourages the benefits of integrating plants in everyday life. Waverley Council highlighted local creative & sustainable initiatives that encourage & support biodiversity in the environment. Julia Champtaloup discussed her Terra Botanica photographic venture which looks at everyday innate treasures in the urban landscape. Valentina Zarew on her project Simpatico, featuring how creative practices are in tune with nature. Liane Rossler on the Sweet Nature Planting Project.
Additionally, GECA presented their Materials in Mind pod, showcasing some of their 4, sustainable products for better living.
SYDNEY Layout
'Celebrating its 20th year, Sydney Layout Festival presents events that respond to the theme Call to Action.'
‘Through a diverse program of events, Sydney Design Festival champions local, national & international blueprint, & promotes a critical sympathetic of the impact of plan on everyday life & culture. Action is purpose & movement; Move is deliberate & forward thinking. Design has a role to engage in an ever-changing world & has the potential to solve complex global problems.
SDF18 events explore design practice, collaboration, conversation & current design trends.’
SHAPE SEMINAR MAAS MUSEUM
Speaker as part of Sydney Design
"Discover creative projects that will shape the future of Australian design.
Shape showcases a selection of superb major projects from the HSC Design and Technology, Industrial Technology, and Textiles and Design courses.
Taxes and shipping calculated at checkout. Liane Rossler is an artist, designer and curator who has worked in creative industries for over thirty years, and has spent the last fifteen years focused on projects that intersect art, design and the environment. Alongside her solo innovative practice which is focused on beneficial and beautiful sustainable style, she is founder of Superlocalstudio which inspires collaborative, socially engaged cultural and creative projects for diverse audiences. Liane was co-founder of Dinosaur Designs, and as a director and designer for twenty five years established position alone stores in Sydney, Melbourne and New York.As varied as they are creative, these projects provide a glimpse into the minds of tomorrow’s designers.'
JURASSIC PLASTIC
Jurassic Plastic is a participatory contemporary art experience for children, families and adults.
In collaboration with the artist, audiences are invited to take part in the recycling and reinvention of discarded toys. It features a large-scale art installation by Hiroshi Fuji, created with his signature Toysaurus sculptures in explosive sprawling plastic landscapes of colour and pattern.
Jurassic Plastic is an art-antidote to the mass-consumption and waste that plagues our society. At once beautiful and disarming, Jurassic Plastic hits us with the reality of our disposable customs at point blank range. By transforming unwanted objects into items of value, Jurassic Plastic hopes to shine a light on our collective consumption and waste, and together, consider the role of plastic in our lives.
Hiroshi Fuji is a Japanese contemporary painter and social activist born in Kagoshima, Japan in He grew up during the height of Japan’s miraculous economic boom, symbolised by mass consumerism and excess.
Years later, in response to the glut of toys in his own family, he developed a community exchange marketplace operating on a barter economy, named ‘Kaekko’ (Japanese for ‘swapsies’).
There contain been over 5, Kaekko Bazaars since , contributing to the artist’s enormous collection of unwanted plastic toys. These are the toys Fuji transforms into his evocative and captivating artworks.
Jurassic Plastic also features interactive spaces where children can explore, play and make. Atelier; the artist studio where children collaborate with artists.
For Sydney Festival, they helped Hiroshi Fuji create 4 new Sydney Toysaurus, as well as collaborate with guest artists; Liane Rossler and Stephen Mushin.
Jurassic Plastic was devised and created by ArtsPeople in collaboration with Japanese creator Hiroshi Fuji.
The project was pitched to the Sydney Festival who commissioned a tailored version for their festival program.
"As the daughter of an émigré architect, it was a great honour & pleasure to open Rebecca Hawcroft's magnificent exhibition at The Museum of Sydney.
Shining beam on an important & unrecognised period of Australian Modernist architecture & design. On view along with Marion Hall Best Interiors as part of The Modernist Season July 22 to November
My father, Henry Rossler came to Australia from Prague after WWII in , arriving on The SS Derna after an eventful ten-week passage.
He was 20 years old, and with his brother had been orphaned after surviving numerous camps in Europe. In this new territory of opportunity he first went to study architecture in Brisbane and then studied further in Sydney, graduating in
My mother Lilli Rossler, was born in Vienna, and arrived in Sydney with her family after fleeing Europe on the Nieuw Holland in aged 7. My mother and father both shared a adore of contemporary art, design, architecture, and culture.
It was essential in our family life and has had a big alter on me. After qualifying as an architect in and working at first with local firms, my father set up his possess modernist architecture practice on the corner at Edgecliff Road in Woollahra.
He worked there for 30 years and designed many buildings around Sydney."
The Moderns: European Designers in Sydney at Museum of Sydney, explores a forgotten aspect of Australian modernism, emphasizing the direct connections between Sydney and the European design centres of Vienna, Berlin and Budapest. This object-rich exhibition tells the stories of Sydney’s émigré architects, interior designers and furniture makers operational in the s to s and their impact on the development of modernist design in Sydney. Predominantly well-educated, urbanised and middle class, Sydney’s émigrés brought a direct experience of European modernism then available to few Australians at the time.
Supported by a network of European clients and assisted by émigré craftsmen, they made a significant contribution across many fields of style and in the media, and quickly recast the suburban, low-scale city into a modern metropolis.
Designers George Korody and Steven Kalmar sold lightweight furniture for the modern home, while cabinetmakers Michael Gerstl and Paul Kafka brought a European flavour to the custom made furniture market.
Architects such as Henry Epstein and Hugh Buhrich designed starkly modernist houses in Sydney from the s while Hugo Stossel and Hans Peter Oser formed big firms that helped transformed Sydney’s skyline. High profile and formative, Sydney's émigré designers also included commentators Eva Buhrich and George Molnar, regular contributors to some of the most noteworthy publications of the day, including The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian House & Garden and Architecture & Arts magazines.
Discover the vitality of this community, their stories of achievement, loss, adaptation and ingenuity in this celebration of both the richness that migration brings and the diverse history of our city.
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SOUL SAFARI SYDNEY
A PIVOT TO PURPOSE
Liane Rossler, Designer, Designer, Curator and Creative Advisor | How can we style our lives for maximum impact?
Liane discusses her hands-on approach to sustainable design at Superlocalstudio and how her personal equilibrate of art, culture and the environment extends into her everyday.
CRAFT AND DESIGN AS A CAREER
Craft is pleased to display the return of the annual day-long professional development seminar Craft & Design as a Career as part of Craft Cubed Festival Taking place on Monday 22 August , the seminar will present influential creatives and industry professionals to deliver key insights on topics relevant to emerging practitioners looking to forge their creative careers.
As part of this action packed day-long program, ticket holders can expect tip from curators, encouragement from makers, insights into collaboration, helpful reflections on what it means to run a sustainable craft exercise as well as a thoughtful conference bag of goodies.
The diverse line-up of expert speakers and industry panelists will span imaginative disciplines across makers, designers, artists, writers, and curators all delivering unique insights and specialist knowledge.
Speakers include:
Hannah Presley (curator)
Kitiya Palaskas (craft-based designer)
Liane Rossler (artist, artist, curator & creative advisor)
Amanda Dziedzic (glass artist)
Claire Rosslyn Wilson (freelance writer)
Peter Waples-Crowe (artist)
Katie Somerville (Senior Curator, Fashion and Textiles, NGV)
Sue Batten (head weaver, Australian Tapestry Workshop) Kate Rohde (artist)
Phil Ferguson (crochet artist)
IN CONVERSATION: CREATIVE WOMEN
On March 5, North Sydney Community Centre hosts a program of talks with six of the country’s most imaginative thinkers, designers, artists, makers and creators. The talks examine artistry, artistic confidence, resilience, collaboration, generational adjust, connections, and the social media and digital landscape.
Speakers include:
Victoria Alexander and Carolyn Lockhart
Liane Rossler and Jess Scully
Shona Wilson and Katherine Roberts
Kara Rosenlund and Barbra Sweeney
Julie Paterson and Tanya Buchanan
Karen McCartney and Tanya Buchanan
Harriet Goodall and Victoria Carey
Listen here: Creative Women conversation
MELINDA HARPER HEIDE GALLERY
Colour Sensation - Exhibition talk.
Liane Rossler, co-founder and former architect and director of Dinosaur Designs, and artist Melinda Harper connected in a unique dialogue, as they discussed a shared passion of abstraction and their individual approaches to working creatively with shapes, colours, textures and materials.
AUSTRALIAN DESIGN HONOURS.
The Australian Style Centre is proud to offer the Australian Design Honours – a little black book of leading Australian designers, thinkers and innovators, and a growing resource dedicated to promoting and advocating for Australian design on the world stage. Saluting 50 years of outstanding Australian design, and selected with an aim to capture Australia’s most influential talent, the Australian Design Honours program will showcase designers work both online, and in collective physical exhibitions running at the Australian Style Centre throughout As exceptional and pioneering creative activists, digital engagers, spatial thinkers, and object makers, the two hundred Australian Layout Honours inaugural honourees will develop founding members of this one-of-a-kind community, and will nominate inspiring emerging designers of their possess as a means to increase and ensure the exciting future of Australian design.
AUSTRALIAN DESIGN CENTRE GOLD CLUB
A talk examining how our changing lifestyles notify and influence the spaces we create. The panel addresses the functional concerns of today’s interior layout community – covering aspects from styling, to product design and sustainability concerns.
Hosted by the Australian Design Centre, Australia’s leading centre for craft and design, and chaired by The Snap Assembly's Anne-Maree Sargeant, this panel discussion features a line-up of Australian design luminaries including: “Australia’s first stylist” Babette Hayes OAM; artist, creator, and educator Jacquie Clayton; Liane Rossler, designer, curator and creative advisor; and Robyn Holt, former CEO of Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue and GQ, and co-founder of the Monocle Magazine empire.
The second Gold Club event, is a conversation series that shines a spotlight on how powerful women have contributed to the Australian art, craft, and layout landscape. Presented as part of Sydney Design , organised by the Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences, and is proudly supported by UNSW Art & Design.
CHANGE AGENTS.Liane Rossler – alt.material: Liane is an artist, artist, curator, and creative advisor on design, art and the environment. Recent work includes Superlocalstudio, Here and Now, Happy Talk and Supercyclers; projects focused on clever and beautiful sustainable design practice.
A REAL Foundation + UNSW Art & Design Initiative.
A showcase of work interested in innovation, design thinking and social impact to help change our world, as part of the Design for Social Impact REAL Accelerator program.
Judging panel includes Virginia Bruce, Heidi Dokulil, Kerry Series, Jill Bennett, Liane Rossler and Brad Furber.
FLICKERFEST.
A member of the of the Greenflicks jury for Flickerfest with Pat Fiske and Ben Peacock. A selection of the best short films based on environmental themes from around the world.
Congratulations to all finalists and winners DUSTS - Daniel Metge and Sandra da Fonesca, and IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN - Sanjay Patel and Victoria Wharfe McIntyre.
KUDOS AWARD.
The ArcCOFA annual Kudos Award for emerging artists and designers, held in October every year, provides students with a momentous opportunity to achieve prizes and gain recognition as groundbreaking artists and designers.
Finalists are exhibited at Kudos Gallery and judged by a panel of distinguished industry professionals.
The judges of the Kudos Award were Tony Albert, Liane Rossler, and Amanda Rowell.
Congratulations to all exhibitors and winners:
Justin Shoulder
Claudia Nicholson
Yao Zhang
Charles Mouyat
James D McDonald
Katherine Rooke
Louise Zhang
Nathan Babet
Rebecca Gallo
Terrence Combos
ARTISANS IN THE GARDEN.
The popular Artisans in the Gardens exhibition will return for its fourteenth year in Held in the iconic Lion Gate Lodge in the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, the exhibition showcases the work of some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists and craftspeople.
The exhibition features the works of artists from around Australia including emerging and established contemporary jewellers, ceramicists, glass makers, textile artists, weavers and sculptors.
Presented by Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens, Artisans brings together some of the country’s most groundbreaking and exciting artisans whose inspiration for their outstanding work is drawn from the beauty and complexity of nature.
All work is for sale and proceeds help the work of the Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens and the Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust.
Artisans in the Gardens is an associated event of Art & About Sydney
IDEA BOMBING.
How Design Can Improve Our Everyday Lives.
"We've teamed up with Object: Australian Design Centre to give you The Gallery Edition – 7 weeks of some of the most creative and innovative design concepts in Sydney right now.
Enter and witness the pop up installations of past bombed ideas, and help answer these questions: 'how we can make Sydney's art spaces better?', and 'how design can boost our everyday lives?'.
Idea Bombing Sydney: The Gallery Edition will move for 6 weeks from 7 July to 23 August and split into two parts."