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Brighton Museum & Art Gallery has just acquired the following outfit at part of it’s Heritage Lottery funded project Fashioning Africa.

These garments featured in the museum’s exhibition Fashion Cities Africa (April 2016-Jan 2017) as a look put together by Nairobi-based stylist Sunny Dolat.

(above image photographed by Tessa Hallmann)

This look draws from male silhouettes from the East African coastal regions, echoing the relaxed yet regal demeanor of the Swahili. The fitted sandstone jura shirt is reminiscent of a crisp kanzu, and offers a stark contrast to the kohl black scarf. The polished brass and the geode’s innate sparkle provide lustrous accents that enhance the distinguished appeal of this luxe ensemble.  

Jura shirt dress by Katungulu Mwendwa

Sandals from Afros by Emo Rugene

Black scarf by Memsaab Ltd

Caged Geode cuff by Ami Doshi Shah

Recycled sugar sack clutch bag with bone adornment by Adele Dejak

Antique Samburu pipe necklace by Katungulu Mwendwa

Tasseleted wrist piece by Ami Doshi Shah

Although Fashion Cities Africa is no longer on display at Brighton Museum, there is still an opportunity to see this outfit, together with some of Sunny’s other looks because the exhibition has gone on tour to The Tropenmuseum, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 6 October 2017.

See: https://tropenmuseum.nl/en/exhibition/fashioncitiesafrica

Sunny Dolat is a Kenyan fashion stylist, creative director and production designer.

His background in visual arts set the stage for a career in evolving concepts in beauty and design everywhere from fashion shoot mood boards to TV/film sets, and luxury hotels of international repute.Sunny has designed interventions such as Stingo & Chico Leco to provoke dialogue on the improvement of the infrastructure and operations of the regional industry. 

He was the creative director of the fashion film “To Catch A Dream”, starring renowned Kenyan model Ajuma Nasenyana, and firmly believes in the role of film as both an extension and disruption of the catwalk. His online fashion intervention, Chico Leco, has grown from high fashion editorial work into a holistic brand representing the bold, eclectic aesthetic of an eternal Africa, shifting the narrative and expectation of Kenyan fashion beyond ankara, kikoy and kanga, and making unapologetic statements about the dignity of black skin.

 His latest project, a fashion book titled - Not African Enough, puts together ideas and images from a selection of emerging Kenyan designers who are contributing to the shifting aesthetic of our country. In this interrogation of what exactly qualifies as ‘authentically African’, we challenge narrow definitions of African design and showcase original, unencumbered thinking and practice in this challenging sphere. Not African Enough is a voyage into Kenyan contemporary fashion as an exploration of wider issues regarding Africa’s place in global cultural debates and dialogues.

Sunny is 1/10 of The Nest Collective, a multidisciplinary arts (http://www.thisisthenest.com)

collaborative that serves as a functional playground for artists,

thinkers and curious minds. He is also Creative Strategy Manager

and board member at HEVA, an East African creative economy catalyst fund,

interested in sustainable financing, business support and market

growth for creative professionals.

Not African Enough presents a collection of words and images from a selection of emerging Kenyan designers who are contributing to shifting the aesthetic of our country by challenging the narrow expectations of what African design looks like.

'Not African enough' is a derogatory term routinely lobbed at artists, creators and thinkers who step outside the narrow confines of what the world—and Africans—think it means to look, talk like, think like and be an African. The book is an attempt to dismantle—perhaps even distance from—this heavy, super concept 'African'; this assembly of words, images, sounds, ideas, weaknesses, histories and failings associated with the entire continent.

Collated by Steve Kisko, Collections Assistant, World Art with kind assistance from Sunny Dolat in Kenya.

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Brighton Museum & Art Gallery's own Mannequin Challenge - taking down all the mannequins of our Fashion Cities Africa exhibition!

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This slide from our Natural Sciences collection hosts a member of the genus Tenthredo, more commonly known as Sawflies. These delightful creatures are said to be the closest living form to the ancestor of all Hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps and sawflies) and first appeared in the fossil record around 250 million years ago in the Triassic. They are very similar in appearance to wasps but they lack both “wasp-like waist” and a stinger. Instead of a stinger, female Sawflies possess a saw-like egg-laying tube or ovipositor, which they use to saw through plant tissue in order to deposit their eggs. This ovipositor is harmless however; due to its’ appearance is often mistaken by humans for a stinger.

Come down to Brighton MuseumLab's 'Drop-In and Do' sessions to discover more hidden gems from our Natural Science collection and learn how you can help to look after them with us! Every Wednesday in Brighton Museum 2-5pm!  

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Dezeen Awards 2021 architecture shortlist reveals world's best buildings

We are announcing the Dezeen Awards 2021 shortlists this week. Here are the 61 buildings shortlisted in the 12 architecture project categories.

All shortlisted architecture projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the Dezeen Awards website, where you can find an image and more information about the project.

All shortlists to be announced this week

The interiors shortlist will be announced tomorrow, followed by the design shortlist on Wednesday, the sustainability and media shortlists on Thursday, and the studio shortlist on Friday.

Above: Guha in Jakarta, Indonesia, by RAW Architecture is shortlisted in the business building category. Top: Cinema Le Grand Palais, France, by Antonio Virga Architecte is shortlisted in the civic building category

The winner of each project category will be announced online in November. All ten winners will then go on to compete for the title of architecture project of the year.

Vote for your favourite project next week

For the second year running, Dezeen Awards is holding a public vote after the shortlist announcements, so readers can choose their favourite projects from 13 September onwards. Projects with the highest number of votes in their category will win a public vote award.

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Below is the full architecture shortlist:

Villa Fifty-Fifty by Studioninedots is shortlisted in the urban house category

Urban house

› Canning Street, Carlton, Australia, by Foomann › Fitzroy Bridge House, Australia, by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design › CH house, Hanoi, Vietnam, by ODDO architects › Macdonald Road House, Applecross, Australia, by Philip Stejskal Architecture › Mt Coot-Tha House, Brisbane, Australia, by Nielsen Jenkins › Villa Fifty-Fifty by Studioninedots

Browse all projects on the urban house shortlist page.

nCaved in Serifos, Greece, by Mold Architects is shortlisted in the rural house category

Rural house

› Xerolithi, Serifos, Greece, by George Sinas › Casa Ter, Baix Empordà, Spain, by Mesura › nCaved, Serifos, Greece, by Mold Architects › Setoyama, Shizuoka, Japan, by Moriya and Partners › Mazul, Oaxaca, Mexico, by Revolution

Browse all projects on the rural house shortlist page.

Punta Majahua in Guerrero, Mexico, by Zozaya Arquitectos is shortlisted in the housing project category

Housing project

› Baochao Hutong Mirror Yard, Beijing, China, by DAGA Architects › La Trobe University Student Accommodation, Victoria, Australia, by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects › Stone Garden - Mina Image Center and Housing by Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture › Agorahaverne: Ibihaven, Copenhagen, Denmark, by Tetris A/S › Punta Majahua, Guerrero, Mexico, by Zozaya Arquitectos

Browse all projects on the housing project shortlist page.

Ørsted Gardens in Frederiksberg, Denmark, by Tegnestuen LOKAL is shortlisted in the residential rebirth category

Residential rebirth

› Jūra Spot, Palanga, Lithuania, by JSC Šilta Šiaurė › Fitzroy Bridge House, Fitzroy, Australia, by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design › Quarter Glass House, London, UK, by Proctor and Shaw › Ørsted Gardens, Frederiksberg, Denmark, by Tegnestuen LOKAL › PONY, Brighton, UK, by WOWOWA

Browse all projects on the residential rebirth shortlist page.

Cinema Le Grand Palais in Cahors, France, by Antonio Virga Architecte is shortlisted in the civic building category

Civic building

› The Bodø City Hall, Bodø, Norway, by ALL › Cinema Le Grand Palais, Cahors, France, by Antonio Virga Architecte › My Montessori Garden, Ha Long City, Vietnam, by HGAA › House of Nature, Silkeborg, Denmark, by Revaerk › Antoine de Ruffi School Group, Marseille, France, by TAUTEM Architecture

Browse all projects on the civic building shortlist page.

Hall of Immortality at Longshan Cemetery in Henan, China, by Studio 10 is shortlisted in the cultural building category

Cultural building

› Baoshan WTE Exhibition Center by Kokaistudios › Yabuli Conference Center by MAD Architects › Babyn Yar Synagogue by Manuel Herz Architects › Hall of Immortality at Longshan Cemetery, Henan, China, by Studio 10 › PANNAR Sufficiency Economic and Agriculture Learning Center by Vin Varavarn Architects

Browse all projects on the cultural building shortlist page.

Nodi in Nya Hovås, Sweden, by White Arkitekter is shortlisted in the business building category

Business building

› Sanya Farm Lab, Sanya, China, by CLOU architects › Frizz23, Berlin, Germany, by Deadline Architects › Guha, Jakarta, Indonesia, by RAW Architecture › Imatra Electricity Substation, Imatrankoski, Finland, by Virkkunen & Co. Architects › Nodi, Nya Hovås, Sweden, by White Arkitekter

Browse all projects on the business building shortlist page.

Presence in Hormuz 2  by ZAV Architects is shortlisted in the hospitality building category

Hospitality building

› The Museum Hotel Antakya, Antioch, Turkey, by EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture › PokoPoko Clubhouse, Nasu, Japan, by Klein Dytham Architecture › Ziedlejas Latvian Spa and Wellness Resort, Krimuldas, Latvia, by Open AD › Vedana Restaurant, Phuong, Vietnam, by VTN Architects › Presence in Hormuz 2, Hormuz, Iran, by ZAV Architects

Browse all projects on the hospitality project shortlist page.

Helfštýn Castle Palace Reconstruction in Czech Republic by Atelier-r is shortlisted in the rebirth building category

Rebirth building

› Helfštýn Castle Palace Reconstruction, Czech Republic, by Atelier-r › Zvonarka Bus Station, Zvonarka, Czech Republic, by Chybik + Kristof › Gare Maritime Neutelings, Brussels, Belgium, by Riedijk Architects › Revitalization of Prague riverfront area, Prague, Czech Republic, by Petr Janda/brainwork › Art Barn, Devon, UK, by Thomas Randall-Page

Browse all projects on the rebirth project shortlist page.

Bio-Informatic Digester in New Jersey, USA, by Terreform ONE is shortlisted in the small building category

Small building

› Peach Hut by Atelier XI › Hill Country Wine Cave, Austin, Texas, USA, by Clayton Korte › The Olive Houses by Mar plus ask › Bio-Informatic Digester, New Jersey, USA, by Terreform ONE › Alive, Venice, Italy, by The Living

Browse all projects on the small building shortlist page.

Alpine Garden: Preserve Indigenous Culture and Native Plants in Lijiang, China, by Z'scape is shortlisted in the landscape project category

Landscape project

› Heito 1909, Taiwan, by ECG International Landscape Consultants › Haoxiang Lake Park, Shenzhen, China, by Elandscript › Sunac Yunyang In Huanan, Danyang, China, by Qidi Design Group › Back to the Neighbourhood: The Playscape, children's community centre, Beijing, China, by Waa › Alpine Garden: Preserve Indigenous Culture and Native Plants, Lijiang, China, by Z'scape

Browse all projects on the landscape project shortlist page.

The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design in Georgia, USA, by The Miller Hull Partnership is shortlisted in the sustainable building category

Sustainable building

› Welcome to the Jungle House, Sydney, Australia, by CplusC Architectural Workshop › Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center, Kamikatsu, Japan, by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP › The Arc at Green School, Bali, Indonesia, by Ibuku › ciAsa Aqua Bad Cortina, Val Badia, Italy, by Pedevilla Architects › The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, Georgia, USA, by The Miller Hull Partnership

Browse all projects on the sustainable building shortlist page.

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Сэйлорс-Снаг Харбор (Sailors' Snug Harbor)

Сейлорс-Снаг Харбор, известный как Культурный Центр и Ботанический Сад Снаг Харбор (Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden) или просто Снаг Харбор (Snug Harbor) — коллекция архитектурно ценных зданий XIX в. В парке, расположенном неподалеку от Килл-Ван-Кулл (the Kill Van Kull) на северном берегу Стейтен-Айленд в Нью-Йорк Сити.

Когда-то он был домом престарелых для моряков. Сейчас здесь находится гор��дской парк площадью 340 000 м2. Часть зданий и территорий используется художественными организациями под предводительством Культурного Центра и Ботанического Сада Снаг-Харбор. Сейлорс-Снаг Харбор включает 26 зданий в стиле греческого возрождения, а также итальянского и викторианского стилей. Место считается ценным для Стейтн-Аленда и напоминанием о морском прошлом Нью-Йорка XIX в.

История

Снаг Харбор был основан к 1801 г. по завещанию нью-йоркского капитана Роберта Ричарда Ренделла, в честь которого назван близлежащий район Ренделл-Мейнор (Randall Manor). Ренделл оставил свой участок земли на территории между Пятой Авеню и Бродвеем и Восьмой и Десятой Улицами, чтобы построить заведение, где бы заботились о «престарелых, ушедших на пенсию» моряках. Открытие дома для моряков было отложено из-за споров между обездоленными наследниками Ренделла. Когда Сейлорс-Санг Харбор открылся в 1833 г., он стал первым заведением для ушедших на пенсию моряков в истории США. Сначала существовало одно-единственное здание, сейчас оно находится в центре из пяти сооружений в стиле эпохи греческого возрождения, внешне напоминающих храм и возвышающихся над набережной Нью-Брайтон (New Brighton waterfront).

Капитан Томас Мелвилль, ушедший на отдых морской капитан и брат Германа Мелвилля, автора книги Моби-Дик (Moby-Dick), управлял Снаг Харбор в 1867-1884 гг.

В 1890 г. Капитан Густавус Траск, директор Снаг Харбор, построил церковь в стиле эпохи Возрождения, Мемориальную Часовню Ренделла (the Randall Memorial Chapel) и, наконец, музыкальный холл, оба выполнены по проекту Роберта В. Гибсона.

Около 1 000 ушедших на покой моряков жили в Снаг Харбор в период его расцвета в конце XIX в., когда сама организация входила в список самых богатых в Нью-Йорке. По оценкам Вашингтон-Сквер (Washington Square) ежегодные расходы на содержание дома составляли около 100,000 $.

В середине XX века Снаг Харбор начал испытывать серьезные финансовые трудности. В 1952 году массивная структура, Мемориальная Церковь Ренделла (Randall Memorial Church) из белого мрамора, пришла в упадок и была разрушена. С появлением системы Социальной Безопасности в 1930-х гг. были изменены требования для содержания пожилых людей; к середина 1950-х гг. здесь оставалось не более 200 человек. К началу 1960-х гг. приют, был перемещен в Си-Левел (Sea Level) в штате Северная Каролина.

К 1960-м гг. это место площадью в 336,000 м² приглянулось землевладельцам, выступавшим за сохранение имущества. Недавно сформированная Комиссия Достопримечательностей Нью-Йорк Сити (New York City Landmarks Commission) сделала шаг на встречу, пообещав сохранить оставшиеся здания, призна�� историческую ценность и добавив их в Национальную Регистрационную Книгу Исторических Мест (National Register of Historic Places). В последствие прошло несколько судебных споров, однако, в конце концов, историческая ценность была подтверждена вновь, и Снаг Харбор получил статус Национального Исторического Объекта в 1965 г.

12 сентября 1976 г. Культурный Центр Снаг Харбор был официально открыт для публики. В 2008 г. Культурный Центр Снаг Харбор и Ботанический Сад Стейтен-Айленд (Staten Island Botanical Garden) объединились в Культурный Центр и Ботанический Сад Снаг Харбор.

Архитектура

Пять сообщающихся зданий в стиле эпохи греческого возрождения считаются «самым амбициозным образцом классического возрождения в США» и «самым экстраординарным» комплексом греческого храма в стране. Здание С (Building C) 1833 г. является центром композиции, пять сооружений в стиле греческого возрождения, «формируют симметричную композицию на Террасе Ричмонда (Richmond Terrace), восьми колонный портик в центре и два шести колонных портика в каждом конце».

Административное здание 1833г., выполненное Минардом Лейфевером – «прекрасное» здание в стиле эпохи греческого возрождения с монументальным портиком в ионическом стиле, являющееся самой старой из сохранившихся работ архитектора. Оно было реконструировано впервые в 1884 г., обзаведясь «трехэтажной галереей раскрашенного стекла», и повторно уже в 1990-х гг.

Все пять знаменитых рядов сооружений в стиле эпохи греческого возрождения индивидуально зарегистрированы, так же как и 131-летняя часовня, которая была реконструирована как учебный и концертный зал; дом у входа в Итальянскую Террасу Ричмонда (the Italinate Richmond Terrace gate house, 1873г.) обнесен железным забором XIX в., скрывающим от взора все прилежащие сооружения, а также Здание С и часовню.Сооружения расположены на ландшафтной территории и окружены специально разработанным железным забором XIX в. Неподалеку находится «красивый» цинковый фонтан 1893 г., изображающий бога Нептуна, и не так давно замененный копией. Согласно Нью-Йорк Таймс «Он расположен в центре, на ракушке, поддерживаемый морскими монстрами и с поднятым трезубцем. Струи воды бьют из центра фонтана и из металлических букетов с коралловыми лилиями.

Культурный Центр и Ботанический Сад Снаг Харбор

Культурный Центр Снаг Харбор (Snug Harbor Cultural Center) и Ботанический Сад Стейтен-Айленд (Staten Island Botanical Garden) являются некоммерческой организацией, обслуживающей Сейлорс-Снаг Харбор. Их первоочередная цель «работа, управление и развитие помещений, известных как Сейлорс-Снаг Харбор в качестве культурного и образовательного центра и парка». В 2005 г. он попал в список 406 художественных нью-йоркских и культурных институтов, получивших часть 20-миллионого $ гранта от Корпорации Карнеги при поддержке мэра Нью-Йорка Майкла Блумберга. В 2006 г. доходы и расходы бесприбыльной организации составили около 3,7 миллионов $, а активы на конец года – около 2,6 миллиона $. Он является резиденцией для Ассоциации Детского Театра Стейтен-Айленда (the Staten Island Children's Theater Association, SICTA), которому первоначально покровительствовали такие актеры, как Нолан ДеБауэр. Также здесь располагается Музыкальная Консерватория Стейтен-Айленд (Staten Island Conservatory of Music).

Ботанический Сад Стейтен-Айленд (Staten Island Botanical Garden)

Ботанический Сад Стейтен-Айленд содержит такие пространные сады, как Белый Сад (The White Garden), разбитый по образцу знаменитого сада Вита Саквиль-Уэст (Vita Sackville-West) в Сиссингхерсте; Секретный Сад Конни-Гретц (Connie Gretz’s Secret Garden) с замком, церковью и окруженным стенами потаенным садом; и Китайский Школьный Сад Нью-Йорка (The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden), самый настоящийкитайский сад в стиле знаменитых садов Сужоу (Suzhou).

Ньюхауз Центр Современного Искусства (Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art)

Основанный в 1977 г., Ньюхауз Центр Современного Искусства выставляет работы местных и международных художников. Центр, где также проводятся выставки художников-резидентов, имеет общую выставочную площадь в 1 400 м2.

Морская Коллекция Нобла (The Noble Maritime Collection)

Дворянская Морская Коллекция – музей с особым акцентом на работах художника Джона А. Нобла (1913-1983 гг.). Нью-Йорк Сан (The New York Sun) назвала коллекцию Нобла «драгоценным камнем среди нью-йоркских музеев».

Детский Музей Стейтен-Айленд (The Staten Island Children's Museum)

Детский Музей Стейтен-Айленд располагает сменяющейся коллекцией, где представлены экспонаты, выполненные руками детей.

Музей Стейтен-Айленд (The Staten Island Museum)

Институт Стейтен-Айленд по Искусству и Науке (the Staten Island Institute of Arts - Sciences) планирует открыть художественный музей в современном здании с полным климат контролем в стенах одного из пяти знаменитых сооружений Снаг Харбр. Основанный в 1881 г. как Естественнонаучная Ассоциация Стейтен-Айленда (Natural Science Association of Staten Island), институт временно располагает музеем недалеко от Сент-Джордж (St. George), где проводятся выставки, посвященные естественной истории и искусству и истории Стейтен-Айленд.

Художественная Лаборатория (Art Lab)

Художественная Лаборатория – школа изобразительного и прикладного искусства, основанная в 1975 г. и организующая художественные выставки-инструкции.

Мьюзик-Холл (Music Hall)

Мьюзик-Холл – аудитория на 850 мест. Мьюзик-Холл открылся в июле 1892 г. кантатой «Розовый Майден» ( The Rose Maiden ), куда пришло 600 резидентов, рассаженных на обычных деревянных скамейках, а 300 мест на балконах были заняты опекунами, руководителями и их гостями. http://newyork.kiev.ua/gid-po-gorodu/dostoprimechatel-nosti/seilors-snag-xarbor-sailors-snug-harbor.html А дальше по дороге прикольный Shakers bar в окружении шиномонтажных мастерских со старыми покрышками используемыми для украшения старых заборов, как в россии.

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REMIX THE MUSEUM goes monthly at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

CALLING ALL 13-25 YEAR OLDS! Drop-in and mix up the Museums collection in this series of workshops run every last Saturday of the month in the Brighton Museum Lab.

No previous experience necessary, just come along and have a go at creating your own animation or Gif. Bring your own smartphone if you have one, but equipment is also provided.

Each month will have a different theme and focus.

First session starts 25th November 2-4pm If you live in Brighton or Hove it's free. http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/brighton/plan-your-visit/admission-charges/

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Come and explore the varied and exciting chocolatey delights in London!  As the third-largest consumers of chocolate in Europe, we Brits take our sweet treats seriously! Whether it comes steaming hot in a mug or in a solid bar, flavoured with the latest must-have ingredient or just pure chocolate, everyone from Buckingham Palace to the streets of Soho and beyond is eating chocolate. During your chocolate getaway, you will explore the capital’s top addresses and taste the most daring of flavours!

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10 ways to dive into the London chocolate scene

Visit the chocolate museum

 Opened in March 2013 by Isabelle Alaya, French chocolatier and creator of the Mélange Chocolate brand, the Chocolate Museum in London is a haven for chocolate lovers. By bringing together a wide variety of museum pieces – including posters, cooking utensils and ancient artefacts – the museum allows you to dive headfirst into the world of chocolate and learn more about its origins. The museum also organises a number of workshops and tastings to set your taste buds tingling! The Chocolate Museum, 187 Ferndale Road, Brixton, London SW9 8BA

Take a specialist course with MyChocolate

 Want to learn to make chocolate-based cocktails? How about truffles or your own sweet treats? This is what MyChocolate, a London business specialising in organising chocolate workshops, can offer. In a relaxed atmosphere, you will learn how to work with delicate chocolate. The courses are designed for everyone, from complete novices to those with existing confectionary-making skills. MyChocolate 10C Branch Place, London N1 5PH

Discover the historic Menier Chocolate Factory

 First opened in 1870 on the South Bank, for many years the Menier Chocolate Factory was an important London-based outlet for the French brand, Menier. Listed as an historic monument, the factory was converted into a 180-seat theatre in 2004. Although chocolate has not been produced here since, those interested in its history can still make a pilgrimage and enjoy a show in the converted theatre at the same time!  Menier Chocolate Factory 53 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU

Have a cup of decadent hot chocolate at Chin Chin Labs...

 Although they’re best known for producing cutting-edge ice cream using molecular cooking techniques, Chin Chin Labs in Camden have a secret weapon: their hot chocolate! Made using artisan chocolate, it comes topped with a gigantic helping of lightly caramelised vegetarian marshmallow. Indulgent and irresistible! Chin Chin Labs 49-50 Camden Lock Place, London, NW1 8AF

... or try the almost obscene caramel hot chocolate at Said!

 At the other end of the spectrum, Said which is the oldest Italian chocolatier, offers up a hot chocolate that is just as pleasing to the eye as it is to the palate from its Soho workshop: the caramel hot chocolate. Presented in a cup covered in dark chocolate on one side and caramel on the other, its powerful and devilishly decadent flavour sets it apart from the rest. Difficult to resist! Said dal 1923 41 Broadwick Street, Carnaby, London W1F 9Q

Try darker-than-dark chocolates at Charbonnel & Walker

 London chocolatiers since 1875, Charbonnel & Walker is one of the UK’s oldest brands. A very traditional confectioner, the shop has remained a key player in the capital’s chocolate scene year after year. Their secret? The finest dark chocolate as well as exceptional champagne truffles. They’re so delicious, you won’t be able to resist! Charbonnel & Walker One, The Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond St, Mayfair, London W1S 4BT

Wake up your taste buds at Montezuma’s

 Compared to other chocolatiers, Montezuma’s have a much more modern and quirky approach when it comes to their flavours. Founded in 2000 by two chocolate-addict lawyers, they offer bars in unusual flavours such as orange & geranium, chilli & lime and even caramelised sesame & sunflower seed.  Montezuma’s Chocolates 8 Market Street, London E1 6DT

Live out your wildest chocolate dreams at Choccywoccydoodah

 As inventive as their name suggests, Brighton-based chocolatier Choccywoccydoodah made its name through its kitsch creations, rococo-style cakes and ornate chocolate flowers. In their London store, their gallery-style “Bar du Chocolat” invites you to sample their chocolate delights and can always be accompanied by a tasty milkshake or hot chocolate. Imaginative and delicious! Choccywoccydoodah 30-32 Foubert’s Place, Carnaby, London W1F 7PS

Bite into one of Philip Neal’s Buddhas

 Known as one of the best chocolatiers in London, Philip Neal offers luxurious and often unusual creations. In his Chiswick shop, you will find chocolates in the shape of Buddha, stilettos, theatre masks and even bars which depict the Kama Sutra. After you’ve sampled the truffles and chocolate squares, you’ll want to move onto the more unusual designs! Philip Neal Luxury Chocolates 43 Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick, London W4 1RG

Taste excellence at William Curley

 Luxury pastry chef and master chocolate maker, William Curley is a big name in chocolate, not only in London but around the world. He excels in producing high-quality traditional chocolates as well as more unusual combinations. In our opinion, no chocolate lover will be able to resist temptation and just walk past the window! R Chocolate London 198 Ebury Street, Belgravia, London SW1W 8UN

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Chocolate... as described by great chefs:  “Chocolate is a unique product. You can be incredibly creative with it and experiment in many areas such as:  cakes, pastries and desserts.”  -William Curley, chocolatier and pastry chef, four-time winner of “Britain’s Best Chocolatier” Spotlight on: Paul A Young and the secret of his success  Having fallen into chocolate-making almost by accident, the chef Paul A. Young is known today as one of the leading figures in the global chocolate world. However, his road to success wasn’t easy. Having gained experience as a pastry chef, he initially ventured into the world of industrial cooking. After working for Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s, he then decided to move into the chocolate business in 2006 by opening his own shop in London. Then came the real success! Developing quintessentially British flavours, such as  Marmite chocolate and Port & Stilton truffles, he is considered one of the most inventive chefs on the planet. Amazing! The Cadbury Creme Egg: a British chocolate institution  Invented in 1923 by Cadbury, these eggs filled with fondant creme are a lot more than just Easter chocolate: they are a real national treasure! This egg-shaped milk chocolate full of white and yellow fondant creme delight is extremely popular at Easter. Having previously reached sales of over 200 million units each year, sales of Creme Eggs fell in 2016 when Cadbury’s new owners, American food giant Kraft, decided to change the recipe. Yes – you can’t meddle with an institution such as this without the British public noticing!

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Container Art Collective is a collective of Seven Artists and Lecturers from UCA Canterbury.

Ian Bottle, Evelyn Bennet & Chris Rutter, John Dargan, Andy Malone, Rob McDonald and Tania McCormack.

We are united in our interests in the book as an object. It’s tactile form, it’s playful nature, the way a viewer interacts with it, and ultimately, it’s accessibility.

As a group of artists from different disciplinary backgrounds our common interest is in developing ideas through examining what a book can be or represent, from sequential narrative to sculptural form.

Our books are handmade, generated from diverse processes and materials either creating limited editions to one off pieces.

The Collective or members of the collective regularly show at

LAB Whitechapel Gallery.

Pages International Artist Book Event Leeds.

The PAGES New Voices collection Touring Exhibition:                                 ROAR, Rotherham, Doncaster Art Gallery & Museum.

Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam.

PRINTed Barcelona.

Ink, Paper, Print, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne.

Doverodde Book Arts Festival in Denmark.

Lutyens and Rubinstein in London,

lmnop in Brighton.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts USA.

The Scottish Poetry Library.

Members of the Collective have also initiated and curated

Hand Made and Bound London

All Inked-Up Artist Book International Event Kent 2017

Books from the collective are in collections at The V&A, The Tate, The British Library, Book Art Bookshop in London, Marc Jacobs ‘Bookmarc’ in London, Paris, New York and L.A.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Library, UAL Library, UCA Library, Arts University Bournemouth Library. Plymouth University Library. UWE Library. The Alternative Book Fair London, Iwona Blaswick – director of the Whitechapel Gallery.

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STUDY ABROAD

Come join the London Information Session TODAY at 3pm in the AIMM Conference Room, AIMM 302!

For non-science majors, this course fulfills your Liberal Learning Requirements for lab science and global. Many topics will be presented, from sculpture and dyes to photography, textiles, stained glass and paper making.

Some heights of the trip include visits to museums, galleries, public art venues, street art sites, Olympic Site, Kew Gardens, Frogmore Paper Mill, Fox Talbot Museum and Village, Brighton Beach and Bath.

Below is a list of study abroad scholarship opportunities offered by the college. Go to the CGE web site for a list of other scholarship opportunities. https://cge.tcnj.edu/students/scholarships/

Henry Ahrens Scholarship – Art and Art History Students Stephen Persche and Caitlyn Ryan Persche Fund for International Study – Good Academic Standing and Need Based TCNJ Access to Education Abroad Scholarship – Need Based Mahoney-Meriwether Study Abroad Fund Scholarship – Academic Promise and Need Based

If you are unable to attend the session but would like more information, contact: mackie@tcnj.edu

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Magnitude and Direction, Issue #41 | 6 Sep 2019

Hardware, Prototyping, and Fabrication

The Mobius Flex is both an elegantly simple work of electronics art, as well as an ingenious use of a flexible PCB. 🛸 The Curiosity rover's wheel's have taken quite a beating in the time it's been driving around the Martian surface. Take your files LITERALLY everywhere you go, with this implantable mesh network device. I appreciate how open-sourced this is, but I think I'll pass on implanting this in my forearm.

Software and Programming

From the MIT Tech Review: You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality. Well, isn't that lovely? How do you turn your macbook (or any laptop, for that matter) into a touchscreen for about $1? I'll give you a hint, computer vision is involved. This video of Bill Hader turning into the people he's impersonating is one of the most jarring things I've ever seen, and also the scariest deepfake-produced video I've ever encountered. Perhaps you've heard me say this here before (you have), but AI-driven fake news articles are getting uncannily good at writing to any prompt and we're going to start to have a really hard time identifying fake news, videos, etc. unless we're really paying close attention. Still don't believe me? Try making a fake article yourself.

Science, Engineering, and Biomedicine

🥃 What do you do with an artificial tongue? Taste whiskey to make sure it's not counterfeit, of course. 🔴🔴 According to popular lore, you can predict the weather based on sky color. The saying typically goes, “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.” The saying has been around in various forms for a long time, and the reason it’s lasted so long is that it actually works (at least in certain parts of the world), as XKCD artist Randall Munroe explains with words (and cartoons) in the New York Times. ➕➕🧑➕🤴 It turns out that having a few extra husbands can be a good way to weather tough times. Apparently we've had the idea of a harem backwards this whole time.

Mapping, History, and Data Science

The Version Museum may be the easiest museum in the world to visit, seeing as you can get there right from the device you're reading this on right now. What does this Version Museum exhibit? The old versions of some of the world's most influential websites. (It really does feel like a "only 90s babies will remember..." article - crazy how much has changed in the just under a quarter century.) ‍ Here's a design guide for the flags of all the US states, which explains but doesn't quite justify why some of these designs were chosen. ⚰ Since it is my birthday today, I'll also continue a long-running social media tradition here and share my deathclock. Do you live in The Midwest?

Events and Opportunities

Maybe my channels to find out about upcoming events and opportunities have just increased, because we've got another jam-packed section in this edition of M&D:

Friday 9/6 I'd like to say Nanotech NYC scheduled their next nanonite happy hour in honor of my birthday, but I don't think Jacob or the other organizers know when my birthday is! (Although they do now.) At any rate, NYC's nanotech community (practitioners and enthusiasts alike) will be getting together at Clinton Hall in east Midtown.

Monday, 9/9 Small science gets a big showcase at Nano Day at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. Learn about some of the most exciting nanotechnology research and innovations coming from the NYC area and meet other technologists working in the field.

Monday, 9/9 Innovation Forum New York is co-hosting a workshop with NYU Biolabs on fundraising for biotech startups, a topic of utmost importance to entrepreneurs in the life sciences. The workshop will provide valuable insights for all interested in starting their own company or considering work at a startup.

Tuesday, 9/10 The NYC Emerging Healthcare Technology meetup is holding their next event for anyone interested in creating websites for Healthcare

Tuesday, 9/10 The Accelerating BioVenture Innovation 12-week entrepreneurship training program kicks off at Cornell Med. The program is focused on building teams and business plans around patented technologies from Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University.

Wednesday, 9/11 Ingredient Intelligence startup (and M&D darling) See Thru is holding the first panel discussion in their Straight Talk series, aimed at unpacking emerging trends at the intersection of beauty, science, and technology. The first topic: what does it mean to be "transparent" in the digital age, where consumers are more educated on products than ever?

Wednesday, 9/11 Scientists, researchers, cartographers, artists, and everyone in between will be gathering together at Peculier Pub for the next SciArt mixer.

Friday, 9/13 The Nanotech NYC meetup hosts Kendra Krueger, the founder of 4LoveandScience, a research and education platform that inspires new modes of working and learning in a complex world. An electrical engineer with nanotech experience in academia and the photonics industry, Kendra is also a trained facilitator in mindfulness, sustainable design and social justice.

Some other upcoming events to keep on your radar...

Wednesday, 9/18 LiveIntent is hosting their first tech happy hour at their office in lower Manhattan. The event promises to be a great opportunity for New York tech professionals to network, share ideas, meet our team, and learn all about LiveIntent and how their re-imagining email. There will be food, beer and wine provided, along with video games and board games available!

Friday, 9/20 The Aspen Institute Science & Society Program and the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Health are co-hosting InspireScience, a symposium inspiring scientists to create a more outward-looking culture through communication, engagement, and innovation. Scientists of all levels are welcome to this special event focused on community building through communication and outreach.

Tuesday, 9/24 Join NYDesigns for a tour of their 5,000 square foot fabrication facility and learn about how you can make use of all the impressive equipment there at their upcoming open house.

Tuesday, 9/24 Join GeoNYC and Doctors Without Borders for a special map-a-thon to fill in missing geospatial data for underserved regions in order to provide international and local NGOs and individuals with the data they need to better respond to crises.

Wednesday, 9/25 Coming off their 1st birthday party, the NYC JLABS crew is taking a short break for the summer but will be back in September for their next Innovators and Entrepreneurs mixer.

Wednesday, 9/25 The RobotLab meetup's September event focuses on the good, the bad, and the ugly of Industry 4.0 and autonomous manufacturing.

Thursday, 9/26 It's been touched on in previous Existential Medicine events, but the next science seminar collab between New Lab and JLABS dives deep into the revolutionary, and sometimes controversial technology of CRISPR. Use code "NewLab2019" to unlock the event registration.

Saturday, 9/28 Admission is just the swipe of a metro card for the Parade of Trains at the Brighton Beach station. Vintage train cars from all periods of the subway's history will be on display, as well as taking passengers on short trips around south Brooklyn.

Tuesday, 10/1 The next stop on Ogilvy's healthcare innovation pop-up series takes them to Hudson Yards, where they're teaming up with the HITLAB and SAP.iO Foundry for an event that will focus primarily on the female and underserved health innovators who are disrupting healthcare today.

October 11-16 Innovation Week at Mount Sinai. What started as just the SINAInnovations conference is now a week's worth of activities dedicated to bringing New York's biomedical innovation communities together. Here's the full lineup:

Friday-Sunday, 10/11-13 Mount Sinai Health Hackathon. The 4th annual Mount Sinai Health Hackathon will be an exciting 48-hour transdisciplinary competition focused on creating novel technology solutions for problems in healthcare. This year’s theme is Artificial Intelligence – Expanding the Limits of Human Performance.

Tuesday, 10/15 Careers & Connections 2019. October may feel far away, but I promise you it's not and you'll want to be sure to mark your calendars for GRO-Biotech's next big event, the Careers & Connections mini-conference and networking event, held concurrently with emerging healthcare technologies conference, SINAInnovations.

Tuesday & Wednesday, 10/15-16 SINAInnovations Conference. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is hosting its eighth annual SINAInnovations conference around the theme of Artificial Intelligence. A range of talks and panels will focus on the explosive growth of AI in our society and in particular in medicine, featuring international thought leaders across the range of relevant domains.

Saturday, 10/26 The Future of Care conference is back at Rockefeller University featuring some of the latest breakthroughs in clinical care and the innovators helping shepherd them from bench to bedside. Apply to attend the conference by September 6th.

Tuesday, 10/29 Join Columbia Nano Labs for their annual Industry Day conference. Learn how you can use and leverage the Nano Labs facilities, hear from a panel of entrepreneurs who have done just that, and listen to faculty and technical experts discuss the way these sophisticated tools contribute to cutting-edge research. (Yes, this was rescheduled from the originally planed date of 9/5.)

Friday-Sunday, 11/8-10 For 36 hours on November 8-10, HackPrinceton will bring together 600 developers and designers from across the country to create incredible software and hardware projects. They'll have swag, workshops, mentors, prizes, games, free food, and more.

Map of the Month

When we hear about the 2-3 Celsius increase in temperature that's going to set us on path to irreversible environmental changes, it often sounds like it's still a ways off. As this map from the Washington Post shows, that future is already becoming a reality in some parts of the US.

Odds & Ends

"Jay Street and needless to say... ...Metrotech"

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Workplace Student Review

Here is a little blog from Grace who worked with us recently: (Grace is pictured above in the World Stories Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery)

During the last three months, I have been completing a placement in the World Art section at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. I currently study History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, and my placement was part of a ‘Behind the Scenes’ module, which focuses on gaining experience working within museums and galleries. World Art was something that I had never really studied before, so I was really intrigued to see what the department was like.

A main task I was working on was scanning and uploading a large collection of photographs from the World Art collection. Through scanning them to create a digitised image, and then uploading them onto the museums database, I was enabling a huge range of images to become accessible to more people, who would now be able to see them, and their corresponding details, through Asset Bank. Although this task took a very long time, it felt good to know that hundreds of photographs from the collection were now not stuck in a box, but out for people to see and access! For a few weeks I was working in Museum Lab, part of Brighton Museum, that enables the public to engage with the curators and staff who are working there, by opening up their working space to the public. It was really interesting to see how many museum visitors really immersed themselves in the practical elements of the museum.

Doing my placement at the museum has benefitted my degree studies greatly; I now have a greater insight into how museums are run, and how important the digitisation of collections, and improving accessibility is. I have also gained a greater appreciation of just how much work is put in by all the museum staff to ensure the museum is a place that is accessible to all.  The practical skills I have also gained, such as handling collections, and experience with the museums database, will also prove extremely valuable in the future. Most of all, my placement has made me realise how much I would like to continue working within museums after I have finished my degree.

Grace Roberts, University of Brighton student, Spring 2017.

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I’d like to thank Grace for all her help during the 8 weeks she worked with us in World Art. We were hugely grateful for her time and effort in digitalising a collection that was long overdue. She demonstrated great enthusiasm and picked up learning the systems really quickly. Thank you so much and well done!

Steve Kisko, Collections Assistant, World Art, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.

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WALK - Walk with Wildlife

Animal lovers everywhere will enjoy this walk as it provides an opportunity to visit a pet welfare centre and a wildfowl reserve. Exploring the flat Low Weald near Ringmer, Steve Kisko comes face-to-face with donkeys, rabbits, goats and even the odd chinchilla.

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VoiceOver – From participatory artwork to product for care organisations and older people [1 Nov 2018]

VoiceOver is an urban scale communication infrastructure – a hyperlocal social radio – that everyone in a community can listen in on and contribute to, lighting up their windows as they join the conversation.

VoiceOver started as participatory artwork In 2016, in East Durham, UK. VoiceOver East Durham was commissioned as part of East Durham Creates, one of 21 Creative People and Places projects nationally, funded by Arts Council England, produced by Forma Arts and Media. We worked with groups of people who lived in geographically dispersed towns without a good broadband penetration The community was crucial in creating, recruiting and expanding the network of participants. The content in this intervention was purely generated by the community. Participants became deeply engaged with people they didn’t know through VoiceOver: playing music to each other, organising dinners and sharing personal stories, even telling jokes and bedtime stories to neighbourhood children.

In 2017 we worked with Furtherfield, a digital arts gallery and community lab which neighbours Park House who worked with a group of residents who lived in a tower block in Finsbury Park. Many of them had moved to London from other countries, and even though they lived next door to each other, had never had an opportunity to talk to their neighbours. The operational model (e.g. how the programme is generated and run, who pays and maintains for the service. etc.) was co-created with the local community organiser. As a result VoiceOver was quite different from our first deployment. In this intervention, the local community organiser, writer and director Christine Entwisle curated the programme for the community, with the aim to create conversation between community members. VoiceOver was crucial in bringing residents closer together and create a sense of community. VoiceOver Finsbury Park, co-commissioned by the Museum of London and Thirteen Ways for City Now City Future, was documented in an exhibition open to the public at the Museum of London from February 12 to April 15, 2018.

In 2018, VoiceOver Brighton, in collaboration with artist Emma Frankland, commissioned by Brighton Digital Festival, saw twenty-five members of Brighton’s trans (including non binary) community invited to archive their thoughts and feelings using VoiceOver, record and upload thoughts, poems, songs or anything that they wanted to share with the rest of the group. Each week there was a moment of communal listening for participants, where the VoiceOver radio boxes broadcast a 30 minute audio performance made exclusively for them by a trans artist, including Travis Alabanza, Ren Steadman, Morgan M Page and AllSorts Youth Project. The result of this deployment was an exhibition as part of Brighton Digital Festival in the fall 2018.

Each time VoiceOver’s participatory communication infrastructure is rolled out in a community it ends up quite different from the last time. Evolving from a spectacular event to a more sustainable project with a long-term impact.

This year (2018), we became more aware of the issue of social Isolation and loneliness in older people from various conversations with councils. The main challenge is how can we reduce loneliness for older people, who are currently digitally excluded, using technology that is inclusive, accessible and intuitive?

We’re now looking to apply VoiceOver to such challenges, for a number of reasons:

It focuses on hyperlocal context and new connections: In contrast to the products currently available in the market – that only maintains the existing relationships that the owners already have – VoiceOver helps participants to establish new connections with their peers and like-minded people in their very community and feeling more connected to their carers and community organisers

It does not require a broadband: Home assistants usually need a broadband connection which often are restricted in rural area. VoiceOver Social Radio comes with built-in SIM card that make use of the 3G network (rather than being dependent on 4G or broadband) it ensures that even the most isolated people in rural areas can become part of the social network and have access to digital technology.

It is easy-to-use: VoiceOver has very simple interface, there is no touch screen and there is only one button to press making it easy to use even by those uncomfortable with technology.

It is co-designed with the community: Its radio programme and contents are curated by the local community organiser based on local needs.

During the process of researching this area, in order to understand the context, we had a number of conversations with local care organisations, both charities and commercial organisations. As a result of the feedback, we are now looking to provide VoiceOver Social Radio to community care organisations that need to:  

Reach out to older people who can’t leave their home and currently can’t access the organisations’ services.

Make a difference by providing a new way of allowing older people to communicate with each other from their own homes.

We are planning soon to conduct a series of community engagements and tests with communities in different parts of the UK, in order to validate that VoiceOver can tackle the challenges of social isolation and loneliness.

We are looking for community partners to try out VoiceOver in their communities. If you think VoiceOver Social Radio can benefit your organisation in any way, please get in touch.

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Designers Australia 2021 Awards Winners

Designers Australia 2021 Awards Winners, DIA News, Best New Architecture

Designers Australia 2021 Awards Winners News

12 August 2021

Australian Interior Design Awards 2021 Winners

Design Institute of Australia releases groundbreaking Designers Australia 2021 Awards

Outstanding shifts in design by Bates Smart, DesignByThem, Monash University XYX Lab, and Edward Linacre.

The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) — Australia’s peak national design body, released the inaugural recipients for its Designers Australia 2021 Awards. The final winners out of a shortlist of seventy-four across the country, reflect the designer’s ability to make a strong contribution to a better world and include three national winners, a President’s Award and thirty-one awards of Merit. The awards, a first for the industry, identify Australia’s preeminent designers and studios, calling attention to the individual/s and their distinguished design processes as much as the outcome.

Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini:

Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini was awarded the ‘PLACE’ category winner, while DesignByThem for DL Range by Gibson Karlo and Dion Lee received the winning ‘USE’ award. Monash University Department of Design XYX Lab for HyperSext City won ‘INTERACT’, and product designer, artist and mentor Edward Linacre received the President’s Award.

DIA’s Designers Australia 2021 Awards are the culmination of months of evaluation, development and revisions. They are different in their categories and criteria to most of the design awards currently offered in Australia. The three groundbreaking cross-disciplinary design categories would have previously been categorised by traditional design disciplines such as industrial, interior, graphic, digital, product, environmental, textile, fashion, and many more.

DIA President Gavin Campbell FDIA said: “Since 1948, the Design Institute of Australia has been committed to nurturing and empowering designers. It is pleasing to see the culmination of these awards, responses in design shifts while also creating a platform for our collective future. The winning recipients and awards of Merit have all in their way embraced ethical, diverse and sustainable processes through collaborative and professional practice. Their projects are a testament to their values and entrepreneurship, and it’s our responsibility to identify and support them as design leaders and to demonstrate the value of design to the broader community.”

Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini:

Shining a light with a new focus on Australian designers and their award winning responses to current community challenges.

Awards jurors, and internationally renowned Dutch trend forecasters and design educators Lidewij Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano also commented: “The Cabrini Malvern Hospital extension by Mark Healy the studio director of Bates Smart truly encapsulates our times; from the importance the medical sector plays in our lives to designing social spaces with wellbeing in mind. The new Gandel Wing’s natural finishes, rounded edges and neutral palette illustrate the power of buildings that can heal us. Considered lighting and attention to detail therefore become critical to care. The comforting interiors have been so thoughtfully reimagined that we thought it was a sustainable hotel concept — now that’s somewhere one should check-in! It’s time that hospital and hospitality go hand in hand.”

Tuba Kocaturk, awards juror, and professor of integral design said: “The DL Range by DesignByThem presents a timeless process of experimentation with form and materials which brings together functional and purposeful production techniques from fashion and industrial design, translated into an innovative marriage of comfort and inspirational design.

“The Monash University’s design, the HyperSext City, presents a series of interaction platforms where the design transcends being merely a product, but rather becomes a research and a communication platform, which informs, raise awareness and continually involves its users/audience in the evolution of the displayed content. Both projects are a testament to the changing role and position of design, moving from the traditional concept of a tangible product through to orchestration of new interactions and experiences.“

PLACE winner — Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini identified for their exemplary approach to design by focusing on wellness and human-centred healthcare. Gandel Wing was praised as a place in partnership with nature and technology, encouraging healing rather than simply treating disease. The architects were honoured for responding to the hospital’s evolving needs by comforting the lives of many.

USE winner — DesignByThem for DL Range by Gibson Karlo collaborates between founders and industrial designers Sarah Gibson and Nicholas Karlovasitis and Australian fashion designer Dion Lee. The key objective of this project was to promote cross-disciplinary design by creating a unique body of work merging fashion and industrial design principles.

INTERACT winner — Monash University Department of Design for HyperSext City use design as an intersecting mediator, educational and collaborative tool giving voice to community members. The University’s XYX Lab was commended for its investigative exhibition encouraging and empowering people to comprehend and imagine complex issues together.

President’s Award — Multidisciplinary designer, artist, student mentor and former DIA Graduate of the Year recipient Edward Linacre applauded for his contribution to the profession, and commitment to diversity and equality across cultures, gender and race. He is a partner at Copper Design, which resides within Mycelium Studios, a co-working hub and place where designers coexist and learn from each other.

Industry leading jurors include Alessandra Baldereschil, Susanna Bilardo, Lisa Cahill, Gavin Campbell, Lidewij Edelkoort, Philip Fimmano, Marcus Fairs, John Gertsakis, Dr Rafael Gomez, Peta Heffernan, Fenella Kernebone, Tuba Kocaturk, Dr Scott Mayson, Nicole Monks, Lorenzo Palmeri, and Quan Payne.

The winning recipients, and the awards of Merit, are listed below. A link to the Designer’s Australia 2021 Awards ceremony can be found here

Designers Australia 2021 Awards jurors include Alessandra Baldereschil, Susanna Bilardo, Lisa Cahill, Gavin Campbell, Lidewij Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano, Marcus Fairs, John Gertsakis, Dr Rafael Gomez, Peta Heffernan, Fenella Kernebone, Tuba Kocaturk, Dr Scott Mayson, Nicole Monks, Lorenzo Palmeri, and Quan Payne. The awards sponsors are Dulux Acratex and Woods Solutions.

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PLACE category winner, representing the spaces we live, work, and play Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini

PLACE Awards of Merit: -Billard Leece Partnership and Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Susan Wakil Health Building -Comunitl for Davidson -Cox Architecture for Parmelia Hilton Hotel -Cox Architecture for Sydney Coliseum Theatre, West HQ -Cox Architecture and Neeson Murcutt + Neille for Australian Museum Project Discover -Danielle Brustman for Brighton Street Early Learning -DesignInc Adelaide for DesignInc Adelaide Studio -Elenberg Fraser for Market Lane -Latitude for SBB -Mata Design Studio for Applecross Residence -Mycelium Studios for Mycelium Studios -Naomi Milgrom Foundation and Glenn Murcutt for MPavilion 2019 -Phillips/Pilkington Architects for Gunditj Mirring Keeping Place -Russell & George for Sarah & Sebastian -Skeehan Studio for Canberra Glassworks Shop -studio-gram for The Guardsman -Walter Brooke & Associates and Genesin Studio for iTL -Walter Brooke & Associates and Hecker Guthrie for EOS -Woods Bagot for Central Park Tower Refurbishment -Zwei Interiors Architecture for body of work

USE category winner describing things we use DesignByThem for DL Range by Gibson Karlo and Dion Lee

USE Awards of Merit: -Cobalt Design for KeepCup Thermal Cup & Press Fit Lid -DesignByThem for August Lounges by Gibson Karlo -Hare + Klein for Bridge Table -JamFactory for Solute Pendant Light -JDT Design for LEGO 3D printed Spinner -Naomi Milgrom Foundation and BoardGrove Architects for MPavilion 2020 Stool Dolly -Skeehan Studio for NAVE Collection -Yellow Goat Design for H2O

INTERACT category winner depicting what or who we interact with -Monash University XYX Lab for HyperSext City

INTERACT Awards of Merit: -Black Squid Design for A-Lure Gin -Ian Wong for 100 Objects & I-CONIC -United Studio for Markr

President’s Award -Edward Linacre for contribution to the profession

25 May 2021

Australian Interior Design Awards 2021 Shortlist

Design Institute of Australia releases groundbreaking Designers Australia 2021 Awards

Australian Interior Design Awards 2021 Shortlist

Images courtesy of DIA

Place representing the spaces we live, work, and play:

Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini;

Cox Architecture for Transurban Workplace;

Cox Architecture for Sydney Coliseum Theatre, West HQ;

Cox Architecture for 2 Market Street Lobby;

Cox Architecture for Australian Museum Project Discover;

Cox Architecture for Eagle Workplace;

Glenn Murcutt for MPavilion 2019;

Ohlo Studio for Dune House;

Phillips/Pilkington Architects for Gunditj Mirring Keeping Place;

Stephen Varady Associates for Nasteski Apartment;

studio-gram for Fino Vino restaurant, Adelaide, South Austrlia;

studio-gram for Hotel Indigo;

Walter Brooke & Associates for EOS by SkyCity;

Woods Bagot for Central Park Tower Refurbishment;

Zwei Interiors Architecture for body of work – pictured, Citizen.MDW:

Burgmann Anglican School – Early Learning Centre: photo : Anne Stroud

ACMI Renewal: photo : Shannon McGrath

The Mercy Centre Mater Private Hospital Townsville: photo : Andrew Rankin

Rouse Hill Childcare, New South Wales: photo : Ross Honeysett

Spring Bay Mill – The Banksia Room, Tasmania: photo : Samuel Shelley

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photographs : Trevor Mein

Premier Award winner – Indigo Slam NSW house: photos : David Roche

Indigo Slam, NSW, by Smart Design Studio: photo : David Roche

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[aboutanabrotas]

ANA BROTAS (b. 1990, PT)

Head, shoulders, knees and toes Head, shoulders, knees and toes And eyes and ears and mouth and nose Head, shoulders, knees and toes

Body of work interested in material and aesthetic manipulation in order to tell stories. The constant search to find appropriate forms of storytelling has led to the experimentation of a wide range of mediums, consistently embracing a playful discourse that connects art with a social and ecological context.

EDUCATION

2016

.Managing the Arts: Cultural Organizations in Transition – Goethe-Institut, Lisbon (Portugal)

2015

.Initial Pedagogical Training for Trainers – Espiralsoft, Lisbon (Portugal)

2010-2013

.BA Hons Fine Art - Goldsmith University of London, London (U.K.)

2009-2010

.Art & Design – Diploma in Foundation Studies- Central Saint Martins, London (U.K.)

.Website Design in CSS e HTML - London College of Communication, London (U.K.)

2008-2009

.Cinema Studies (Screenwriting, Filmmaking and Production) – ESTC, Lisbon (Portugal)

.Digital Photography - Portuguese Institute of Photography, Lisbon (Portugal)

2005-2008

.Level 4 Qualification in Audiovisual Communication - Escola Artística Antonio Arroio, Lisbon (Portugal)

.Black and White Photography Techniques - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon (Portugal)

 EXHIBITIONS

2018                    

.The Soil we live of - Group Global 3000, Berlin (Germany)

.Obras dos Residentes IV - Oficina Cultural do IPVC , Viana do Castelo (Portugal)

.You certainly have a particular gift for fables - Goldmali Gallery (Netherlands)

.Natura Sapiens - Ibirapi Contemporânea, Lisbon (Portugal)

2017                    

.Marinar - Galeria Quarto Interior, Lisbon (Portugal)

.Closer Than Ever - Gallery MOMO, Cape Town (South Africa)

2016                    

.Tirar os Três - Galeria Quarto Interior, Lisbon (Portugal)

2015                    

.Sound International Photo Exhibition - ArtiKA Festival, Karlovac (Croatia)

.Martelinhos de São João - Palácio das Artes, Fábrica de Talentos, Porto (Portugal)

2014                    

.Telephone Game - Satellite Press Collective, New York (U.S.A)

.Zero - Fort Gallery Space, Sesimbra (Portugal)

2013                    

.Goldsmiths Fine Art Degree Show - Goldsmiths University of London (U.K.)

.Fresh - Dulcinea Art Gallery (Italy)

2012                    

.Scan.it - Gallery40, Brighton (U.K.)

.Salt & Bread - Godsbanen and Aarhus Center for Visual Art (Denmark)

.Re-Imagine: Ourselves - Winter Festival of New Art, Music and Poetry, New York (U.S.A)

2011                    

.Hello Stranger - The Pharmacy of Stories, London (U.K.)

.Fourth take away NX - New cross, London (U.K.)

.State of Sculpture – Central Saint Martins, London (U.K.)

VIDEO ART SCREENINGS

2018                    

.Under the Subway Video Art Night:

     .JCC Harlem Institution (New York, U.S.A.)

     .Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània (Valencia, Spain)

     .Verbeke Foundation (Kemzeke, Belgium)

     .Taller Gorria Gallery (Havana, Cuba)

     .Cervantes Institute (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

.AVSD Audiovisual Sem Destino, Art Institute UFRGS (Porto Alegre - Brasil)

2017                    

.Eye’s Walk Digital Festival (Ermoupoli -Greece)

2011-2014          

.Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival (Riga – Latvia)

.Shams – The Sunflower (Beirut – Lebanon)

.Arte Video Roma Festival 2011 (Rome – Italy)

.Ares Film & Media Festival (Siracusa – Italy)

.ExTeresa Arte Actual (Mexico City – Mexico)

.Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco (Mexico City – Mexico)

.Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosi (S.L.P. – Mexico)

.International Videoart Festival Camaguey (Camaguey – Cuba)

.ISA University of the Arts Havana (Havana – Cuba)

.CeC Carnival of e-Creativity (Bhimtal/Uttabakhand – India)

.Meta House Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh – Cambodia)

.Budapest International Short Film Festival (Budapest – Hungary)

.Athens International Video Art Festival (Athens – Greece)

.Miden Videoart Festival (Kalamata – Greece)

.International Digital Film Festival (Ionian – Greece)

.Arab Media Lab, Digital Marrakech (Marrakech – Morocco)

.Cinema Perpetuum Mobile (Minsk - Belarus)

.Urban Culture and Fire Festival (Minsk – Belarus)

.Goethe Institute Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (Bangkok - Thailand)

.Generation Loss Festival (Manila - Philippines)

.Action International Short Film Festival (Prokuplje – Serbia)

.Anemic Festival of Independent Film and New Media (Prague - Czech Republic)

.FONLAD Digital Art Festival (Coimbra - Portugal)

.8th Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Manizales – Colombia)

.ARTchSo Video Festival (Rennes - France)

.Museum of Contemporary Art Now & After Festival (Moscow – Russia)

.XI International Video Festival (Kansk – Russia)

.Polytechnical University (Valencia – Spain)

.VideoBabel Festival (Cusco – Peru)

.National Cinematheque (Quito – Ecuador)

.Art:Screen Festival (Orebro – Sweden)

.FIVA Videoart Festival (Buenos Aires – Argentina)

.EuroShorts Film Festival (Gdansk – Poland)

.Videoholica Festival – (Varna – Bulgaria)

  KNOWLEDGE SHARING

2018                    

.Guest Lecturer (Seminário Zero | Conferências na Comuna) – Salão Nobre da Câmara Municipal, Fundão (Portugal)

.Guest Lecturer (Project Presentation Meetings Vol.1) – SKLAD Tabacco City, Plovdiv (Bulgaria)

2017                    

.Guest Lecturer (Partilha de Experiências) – UniNorte Empreende, Manaus (Brasil)

.Guest Lecturer (Artistic Education Seminar) - M_eia University, Mindelo (Cape Verde)

2014-2017          

.Audiovisual Communication Teacher - Escola Artística António Arroio, Lisbon (Portugal)

  COMMISSIONED WORK

2017

.Interactive Performance design – commissioned by Sydney Opera House, Sydney (Australia)

2016

.Dear DTLA outdoor billboard design – comissioned by WeTransfer, Los Angeles (U.S.A.)

2013

.In-room murals design - commissioned by ACE Hotel, London (U.K.)

ART RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

2018                    

.Interactivos? Lab - Silo Arte e Latitude Rural, Serrinha do Alambari (Brasil)

.Luzlinar - Realidades Submersas | Projecto Pontes, Fundão (Portugal)

.Adata AiR programme - European Capital of Culture 2019, Plovdiv (Bulgaria)

.FIGAC - International Forum of Artistic and Cultural Management, Viana do Castelo (Portugal)

2017                    

.LabVerde - Art Immersion Program, National Institute of Scientific Research, Amazon Rainforest (Brasil)

2012                        

.Fringe Award – Deptford X London’s Foremost Contemporary Visual Arts Festival, London (UK)

.People’s Prize and Panel’s Commendation – Camberwell Arts Festival, London (UK)

PUBLICATIONS

2018                    

.Obra/Artifact #5 - Multilingual (U.S.A.)

.Superstition Review #21 - launching at the Piper Writer’s House in Phoenix (U.S.A.)

.Barzakh Magazine #10 - Spring 2018 Planning the Escape (U.S.A)

.Portfolio #14 - A5 Magazine (U.K.)

2017                    

.Novelty Magazine #10 - Spinning Stories (U.K.)

.LV 17 Catalogue – launching at Galeria Vermelho in São Paulo (Brasil)

2016                    

.Mystical Jouneyers Jounal– London Art Mob (U.K.)

.United Projects Newsletter Issue X – Monthly Art Magazine (International)

2015                    

.FStop Magazine Issue #73 - Bi-monthly Photography Magazine (U.S.A.)

.Ismology Magazine - Contemporary Art and Culture Magazine (France)

.FStop Magazine Issue #70 - Bi-monthly Photography Magazine (U.S.A.)

2014                    

.Serendipity Magazine- Annual Multimedia Art Magazine (Greece)

2012                    

.ITCH magazine #10 - Creative Expression Journal (South Africa)

.Young, Fresh and Relevant #2 - Art Writing Journal (U.K./Germany)

.Hesa Inprint- Art and Design Billingual magazine (Finland)

PRESS

2018      

.Plovdiv Press - Cultural Article about the Adata AiR Meetings Vol.1 (bg)

.What Could a Stone Hide? - Interview for the Goldmali Gallery (eng)

.Jornal I - Daily Newspaper Article about Natura Sapiens Exhibition (pt)          

2016                    

.ACE Hotel blog - Interview for the DTLA project (eng)

.La Canvas – Cultural Guide Article about the DTLA project (eng)

.PSFK arts & culture - Cultural Guide Article about the DTLA project (eng)

.The Flaneur - Cultural Guide Article about the DTLA project (eng)

2013                    

.P3 Jornal Público - Art & Culture Newspaper Article about Scan.it Exhibition (pt)

.Art Licks - Visual Culture Article about the Goldsmiths Fine Art Degree Show (eng)

2012                    

.VIP VideoChannel Interview Project - Interview for the International Video Festival Platform (eng)

[tinymixtapes]

Charalambides share exclusive track “True Love” from forthcoming album Tom and Christina Carter, announce tour

You know what you’re in for when you see the words “Christina Carter” or “Tom Carter” on a new slab of vinyl or coded disc. The odds are good that you’re in for a treat of a listen, and the goods are going to be an odd treat, so the listen will stick with you for a long time. When you have the two names together, returning with their first Charalambides album in many years, you know the treat is going to reek of quality. The sweet smell of finesse is all over the welcome return of Charalambides. The latest from Tom and Christina Carter is entitled, simply, Tom and Christina Carter, and it hits all eager ears on October 12 via Drawing Room Records. Available digitally and as a double LP(!), Charalambides’ Tom and Christina Carter was recorded in Houston in 2017, sans edits or overdubs, allowing the duo’s “spontaneous songs to remain absolutely unadorned.” If this ace news wasn’t enough, we have the great pleasure of premiering a track from the forthcoming album today called “True Love.” Years back, when others were trying to say something big, Charalambides were making you think and feel something big, every time out (which seemed like every couple of weeks). Carter and Carter’s latest has the same beautiful, dippy warmth, moving with such freedom that you can’t help but give all your attention to the album’s story unfolding before your ears. Speaking about the loose incantation “True Love”, Christina Carter addressed its creation, in relation to the instinctual “feeling” intended and the unexpected “thinking” that resulted: Two ideas were important for the songs that made it to this album: rhythm and repetition, not necessarily together…This particular track (“True Love”) was recorded in the last of three recording sessions. Tom pushed this song to be rhythmic. I just tried to keep an open mind and ride on top of it and feel instead of think. Later it came to me that I was thinking along with feeling. I was thinking about that mysterious period of my life, early adolescence, when I was so afraid but also brave and so many things were about to be made to happen. Pre-order the album here and listen to “True Love” below while you scan the tracklist and scrutinize the duo’s upcoming tour schedule. Odd are you’ll find the goods more than a treat. Charalambides: Tom And Christina Carter by Charalambides Tom and Christina Carter tracklisting: 01. Runaway 02. True Love 03. Midnight 04. Life and Death 05. Gone 06. Proper Charalambides live: 09.28.18 - New Orleans, LA - Allways Lounge 09.29.18 - Birmingham, AL - TBD 10.01.18 - Lexington, KY - 21c Museum Hotel 10.02.18 - Columbus, OH - Dirty Dungarees 10.03.18 - Detroit, MI - Trinosophesue 10.04.18 - Chicago, IL - The Owl 10.05.18 - Louisville, KY - Cropped Out at American Turners Club Rd. 10.07.18 - New York, NY - Artist Space 10.08.18 - Washington, DC - Rhizome 10.09.18 - Philadelphia, PA - Vox Populit 10.10.18 - Greenfield, MA - Root Cellar 10.11.18 - Montréal, QC - Vitrola 10.12.18 - Toronto, ON - Array Space 10.13.18 - Cleveland, OH - Mahall’s 10.14.18 - Toledo, OH - Robinwood Concert House 10.15.18 - Milwaukee, WI - Boone & Crockett 10.16.18 - Madison, WI - Arts and Literature Lab 10.18.18 - Iowa City, IA - Trumpet Blossom Cafe 10.19.18 - St Louis, MO - Schlafly Tap Room 11.09.18 - London, UK - Café OTO 11.24.18 - Brighton, UK - The Rose Hill http://j.mp/2L8e32d