Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas - Fashion & Architecture Hub events 2018-2021

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FASHION HUB 2018 Director’s Message “Fashion in particular, has lacked serious attention as a sophisticated, intellectually rich and multifaceted mode of creative expression. Through SCCI, we seek to elevate fashion to a more prominent position alongside other artforms, and begin a conversation that is long overdue. The very best of contemporary ideas on fashion, and its intersections with cultural, social, aesthetic and economic factors, will be explored intensively and debated extensively at SCCI’s series of presentation and panel discussions across SCCI’s ten day programme.”

Dr Gene Sherman AM Founder, Executive and Artistic Director Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI)

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FASHION HUB 2018 SCCI X AFTRS: The Film Commission Biannually via a competitive process, the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) commissions students from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) to produce a short film exploring a set theme in our Fashion and Architecture Hubs.

For SCCI Fashion 2018, the theme explored was ‘Future Of Fashion’. The winning film – Who’s A Fly Bird? – reflected on how fashion continues to look back to nature as a continual source of inspiration. The core AFTRS team behind Who’s A Fly Bird? included Bianca Tomchin (Writer and Co-Director), Mat Harvey (Co-Director) and Stephanie Bosnic (Producer).

“We believe fashion has the potential to inspire a more sustainable future in the textile industry,” says Bianca Tomchin and Mat Harvey. “In Who’s A Fly Bird? we portrayed this through three different vignettes of birds, or people dressed interpretively as birds.”

Who’s A Fly Bird? premiered as part of SCCI Fashion Hub 2018.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Dr Emmanuel Coquery Image courtesy: Emmanuel Coquery

Keynote Address Powerhouse Museum, 5 April 2018 Dr Emmanuel Coquery shares his perspective on fashion as a legitimate object of curation, exploring the links between fashion and art and institutional recognition of fashion.

Formerly deemed frivolous, fashion is now venerated in museums worldwide, with collections routinely achieving blockbuster status once reserved for the Great Masters, such as da Vinci, Vermeer, van Gogh and Picasso. Exhibition projects dedicated to fashion have become some of the most popular shows on the international circuit, including Alexander McQueen at Metropolitan Museum (2011, 650,000 visitors) and Manus ex Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology at Metropolitan Museum (2016, 660,000 visitors).

Dr Coquery discusses whether these shifts reveal a change in popular attitudes towards fashion. In the public imagination, is fashion now synonymous with art?

Dr Emmanuel Coquery is a Doctor of Art History, a specialist of the art of the Grand Siècle, an educator, museum director, author of numerous publications, and a curator of diverse exhibitions for museums in Nantes, Troyes, and the Louvre. In 2011, he joined CHANEL as Director of Heritage, where he led the production of the CULTURE CHANEL series of shows with French and foreign museum partners, and in May 2017 he was appointed the Director of Exhibitions of the RMN-Grand Palais, where he oversees exhibition programming.

With special thanks to the Embassy of France in Australia.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Fashion Words Morning Image courtesy: Bandana Tewari

07 April 2018 Curated by journalist and author Caroline Baum, Fashion Words is a day filled with conversations and talks unpicking the hemlines of style, inspiration and identity, featuring a cast of distinguished writers and designers.

International special guest, Bandana Tewari, is one of the most influential fashion journalists in India as Vogue India’s Editor-at-Large. In conversation with Caroline Baum, she discusses collaborations between; Indian traditional artisans; European luxury brands; the flourishing of talent among a new generation of designers; the ethics of fashion manufacture, and more.

Afterwards, designer Alistair Trung joins Bri Lee, writer and feminist fashionista, and Dolla Merrillees, Director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences – which includes the Centre for Fashion – to discuss the books that have shaped their thinking about dress, identity and gender.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Fashion Words Afternoon Image courtesy: Gabriela Tylesova

07 April 2018 Model turned author and social commentator, Tara Moss, talks about her passion for cosplay and steampunk, her new love of making bespoke, retro-inspired clothes and explains how corsets have changed her life. Moss is joined by former editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly and journalist Deborah Thomas.

Caroline Baum moderates Hemlines, in which two of our most distinguished and versatile award-winning authors, Helen Garner and Charlotte Wood, discuss how they clothe their characters and reveal their own fashion triumphs and tribulations. Joining them in conversation is acclaimed stage costume designer Gabriela Tylesova.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Ethical Fashion Morning Image courtesy: Paul Castro

08 April 2018 Clare Press, author of Wardrobe Crisis and Sustainability Editor-at-Large, Vogue Australia, chairs a day on fashion ethics featuring designer Bianca Spender, Paul Castro of the label AMASSMENT and others working at the cutting edge to reconceptualise fashion. Speakers explore fashion’s most critical and topical issues – sustainability, supply chains and the slow fashion movement – imagining a more responsible fashion future.

A teacher at RMIT, Paul Castro’s practice explores the artistic and socio-political implications behind upcycled fashion using factory surplus or “deadstock.” In this session, Castro focuses on his innovative 8 Shirts Dress which reimagines waste as a resource to challenge the linear system of produce, use, discard.

Bianca Spender, a celebrated, Australian fashion designer, talks with Clare Press about her eponymous brand, locally made and accredited by Ethical Clothing Australia. Spender addresses what gives garments their value and how designers can fashion clothes that last.

With special thanks to Australian Ethical

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FASHION HUB 2018 Ethical Fashion Afternoon Image courtesy: Jackie Ruddock

08 April 2018 Caroline Poiner (Artisans of Fashion), Bandana Tewari (Vogue India) and Lakshmi Sukumaran (SAAKI) examine whether India’s rich craftsmanship provides answers to fashion’s sustainability crisis. The antidote to fast, “disposable” fashion, artisanal clothing and textiles are slowly created using traditional techniques, often with natural fibres and dyes. The panelists discuss how these skills can be preserved and used to empower communities. Which designers are making these crafts feel contemporary and desirable while also preserving their heritage?

The Social Outfit is a fashion label with a difference, employing and training people from Sydney’s refugee and new migrant communities. Fabric is mostly deadstock from designer donations, however the team also produces original, limited edition prints in collaboration with local artists and designers including Linda Jackson and Romance Was Born. Clare Press and The Social Outfit founder Jackie Ruddock ask how fashion can build community and positive change.

With special thanks to Australian Ethical

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FASHION HUB 2018 Nasim Nasr: Women in Shadow Image courtesy: Nasim Masr

Performance Powerhouse Museum, 09 April 2018 Artist Nasim Nasr draws on her personal experience as an Iranian-born Australian to probe the situatedness of dressing the female form.

In Women in Shadow, Nasr deals closely with themes of power, memory and rebirth as represented through the veiled figure. The paradox of the chador, being agent of both concealment and enticement, is played out this evening in the form of a haute couture fashion parade, challenging both traditional mores and contemporary celebrations of the female form. Nasr boldly orchestrates a meeting of East and West that confounds cultural norms and puts notions of gender identity firmly into question.

A continuing theme in her work, fashion is here explored as a cultural signifier, a source of engenderment, and a product of social construction.

Through video, photography, performance, objects and sound, Nasim Nasr highlights complexities within contemporary notions of cultural difference, balancing and counterbalancing Western and Eastern perspectives. Nasr graduated with a BA in Graphic Design from the Art University of Tehran, Iran (2006), and a Master of Visual Arts (Research), SA School of Art, University of South Australia (2011). Her work is in prominent collections in Qatar, Dubai, the US, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, including the Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Akira Minagawa Image courtesy: Akira Minagawa

Keynote Address Powerhouse Museum, 10 April 2018 Eminent Japanese designer of fashion, textiles and objects, Akira Minagawa, discusses his cross-medium methodology which ranges from textile and industrial design to his celebrated interior designs evident in the sleek minä perhonen stores of Daikanyama. In this presentation, Minagawa-san explores the design-led ethos of these stores, for which he creates everything from tableware to the wooden dome that crowns his Tokyo flagship. With a nod to his experience as collaborator of the world famous Alvar Aalto studio in Finland, Minagawa-san traces the inspiration and evolution of his own iconic design language through the close ties between Japanese and Scandinavian minimalism in contemporary design.

Born in 1967 in Tokyo, designer Akira Minagawa is founder of minä perhonen, a fashion and textile brand working to produce fashion that does not lose its allure through time. Minagawasan has felt a sympathy with Scandinavian culture since he first visited Finland at 19 years of age: minä in Finnish means “I” and “perhonen” is “butterfly”, with a “wish to make many beautiful designs like those of butterfly wings.” His design work now expands to furniture, tableware, children’s toys, carpets, and shoes, encompassing the full gamut of the quotidian. Minagawasan also creates illustrations for magazines, newspapers and books.

With special thanks to the Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Art of Fashion Image courtesy: Paul Vasileff

11 April 2018 Devised in collaboration with curator and writer Alison Kubler, The Art of Fashion will highlight the originality and artistry of clothing the human body; from the conceptual expression of contemporary artists to the fine detail of haute couture.

Alison Kubler introduces artists Mella Jaarsma, who highlights how the body and clothing connect to social issues in her work, and Kate Scardifield, who discusses her practice which crosses textiles, sculpture installation and video.

Afterwards Alison Kubler leads an illustrated presentation on her seminal book, Art/Fashion in the 21st Century, co-authored with Mitchell Oakley Smith, profiling key designers and artists provocatively exploring the art-fashion crossover.

Romance Was Born’s Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett join Kubler to discuss their creative and collaborative design ethic.

The Art of Fashion concludes with 2017 Young Australian of the Year, designer Paul Vasileff, talking with Kubler about the creative impulses behind the exquisite handcrafted gowns of his Paolo Sebastian label, recently featured in a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Fashion Business Futures Image courtesy: Karen Walker

12 April 2018 A revolution is transforming culture and business, at once a cornucopia and a maelstrom. Everything exists simultaneously; symbols have slipped their meanings; customers are omnivorous and desire is attention-deficit. Commerce and community are under duress. Many businesses will change form. Some will be relegated to history, others will thrive. Fashion is at the heart of this change – the agora where culture and commerce collide. In this session, fashion industry professionals explore the challenge of innovation in a rapidly changing world, the burgeoning of social and digital platforms, the fashion start-up in an era of disruption, and the future of retail in a hybrid market of real and online stores.

Programmed by senior fashion industry MD and board director Julie Ann Morrison and featuring internationally renowned designer Karen Walker; Fashion Editor at The Australian, Glynis Traill-Nash; startup entrepreneur, David Whittle; Vogue Australia Editor-in-Chief, Edwina McCann; and Australian designers, Gail Sorronda and Kacey Devlin, Fashion Business Futures probes the fashion industry in the 21st Century.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Fashioning Men Image courtesy: Giuseppe Santamaria

20 April 2018 This evening tackles the development of men’s fashion as a barometer of cultural change. World-renowned UTS expert in the field, Design Professor Peter McNeil, hosts an exploration of the evolving nature of male fashion and aesthetic expression across cultures and time. Influences and trends in menswear are examined: from the Dandy’s precursor, the 18th-century British Macaroni, to gender aesthetics in the age of the internet.

Peter McNeil begins by exploring the power of subculture and subversion through fashion and deportment, tracing a lineage from the Macaroni to popular anti-fashion styles of the last 50 years. Next, eminent University of Alberta historian Professor Beverly Lemire, an expert in the political economy of dress, highlights the power of a single item of clothing – British imperial seafarers’ trousers – to create aesthetic and social change. Internationally-renowned street-style photographer Giuseppe Santamaria, UTS Fashion graduate Gina Snodgrass, Dr Masafumi Monden, Research Fellow in the School of Design at UTS, and Timothy Nicol-Ford, SCCI Fashion Programme Manager, conclude by reflecting on the future of menswear in the 21st Century.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Honmono: Genuine Article Image courtesy: Dr Gene Sherman

21 April 2018 Founding Patron of MAAS’ Centre for Fashion and ongoing donor of Japanese Contemporary Fashion: The Gene Sherman Collection, Dr Gene Sherman AM is joined by Octavius La Rosa (dot COMME) and Sebastian Supel (Aoyama Archive) to discuss the allure of Japanese aesthetics and their passionate engagement in collecting.

Octavius La Rosa founded online shopping platform dot COMME and collects Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Walter Van Beirendonck. The collection presently consists of over 3,500 pieces, featuring key items from every collection since the 1970s and including over 20 sculptural art pieces from the recent Comme de Garçons runways. Sebastian Supel is the founder of Aoyama Archive, a curated store paying homage to the first wave movement of Japanese fashion houses Issey Miyake, Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto.

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FASHION HUB 2018 Collectors Cocktail Party Image courtesy: Charlotte Smith

21 April 2018 Introduced by City of Sydney Councillor, Jess Scully, SCCI Founder and Artistic Director Dr Gene Sherman AM closes the inaugural SCCI Fashion Hub with a cocktail party celebrating our two-week exploration of all things fashion.

Charlotte Smith of the Darnell Collection discusses the way she is shaping her inherited collection of American fashion into a mirror of our multicultural society, showcasing recent acquisitions from South East Asian and Australian designers.

She is joined by Founder of Fashions of Multicultural Australia, Sonia Gandhi.

Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas is grateful for the generous support of Summers Floral, Beluga Vodka, Tanqueray Gin, and the selection of curated wines provided by Five Way Cellars.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Director’s Message “Each year from 2018–2022, SCCI hosts two public event programmes across Fashion and Architecture. The hubs provide a forum for deep-dive engagement in these two forms of cultural expression within the broader context of contemporary art and culture. Following our sold out inaugural SCCI Fashion Hub in April, we now celebrate architecture in all its complexity during the October Architecture Hub with a programme for professionals and the general public that continues our work with the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and the Fugitive Structures architectural pavilions series.”

Dr Gene Sherman AM Founder, Executive and Artistic Director Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI)

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 SCCI X AFTRS: The Film Commission Biannually via a competitive process, the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) commissions students from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) to produce a short film exploring a set theme in our Fashion and Architecture Hubs.

For SCCI Architecture 2018, the theme explored was ‘Future Of Architecture’. The winning film – Building Worship – reflected on how sites of worship will continue to be a driving force of architecture’s future as our communities become increasingly globalised, diverse and multi-faith.

The team behind the winning film included Gracie Delaney (writer, editor and director), Sam Martin (producer), Beck Ward (assistant director), Roderick Gadaev (cinematographer), Grace Brighton-Hall (production designer) and Vincent Nguyen (sound designer). Building Worship premiered as part of SCCI Architecture Hub 2018.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Gurjit Singh Matharoo Keynote Address ‘Eat, Love, Play, Discourse’ MAAS/Powerhouse Museum, 12 October 2018 Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) & C+A Talk Series* present Gurjit Singh Matharoo, with thanks to presenting partner Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

Gurjit Matharoo has played a significant role in reviving the Indian architectural scene. In 2013 he was awarded an International Fellowship by The Royal Institute of British Architects, one of the youngest recipients of the lifetime honour for services to international architecture.

This presentation charts the generation, incorporation and growth of ideas of Matharoo Associates, culminating in the construction of their own studio, ‘Pool’, that embodies their core philosophy and practice.

Matharoo Associates’ diverse range of projects have brought the firm international and domestic recognition, including the 2011 International Architecture Award by the Chicago Athenaeum, and the 2010 Architectural Review House Award.

Gurjit Matharoo is currently Chair for Architectural Design at his alma mater, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, where he has been visiting faculty since 1990, and is the founder member of the architectural workshop ‘Pan India Travel Studio’. *C+A Talk Series is owned by Cement, Concrete and Aggregates Australia

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Architecture Words Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), VCA, School of Art, 2018. Photographer: Trevor Mein. Contributor: Kerstin Thompson.

SCCI Hub, 13 October 2018 Words that made me: Architects on reading Susan Wyndham (journalist, author, and former literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald), moderator; with architects Peter Tonkin (Tonkin Zulaikha Greer), Kerstin Thompson (Kerstin Thompson Architects), Peter Lonergan (Cracknell & Lonergan Architects) Leading architects discuss the books and writing that have formed them as people, and shaped their sensibility as thinkers and practitioners of design, from textbooks to literature and digital sources. Their conversation will form self-portraits in words and a reading guide for the audience.

Writing a sense of place Dr Gene Sherman AM (SCCI), moderator; with authors Luke Slattery (Mrs M), Michelle de Kretser (twice winner, Miles Franklin award, The Life to Come, 2018 and Questions of Travel, 2013) Vanessa Berry (Mirror Sydney) Acclaimed authors give an insight into how they create a sense of place in fiction and non-fiction, evoking the built environment of the city as context or as character in their work.

They share visions of Sydney – real and imagined, grand and modest, unfulfilled and lost – to make us look more closely at our city.

The production of this session was supported through the Woollahra Council Community and Cultural Grants Program.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Women and Architecture Durbach Block Jaggers, 5–9 Roslyn Street, Kings Cross, 2009. Photographer: Julia Charles. Contributor: Camilla Block.

SCCI Hub, 13 October 2018 Writers on the Opera House Susan Wyndham (journalist, author, and former literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald), moderator; with Helen Pitt (The House), Kristina Olsson (Shell), Anne Watson (The Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House) Authors of new works on the Sydney Opera House take on the intriguing story of the Opera House’s construction on the 45th anniversary of its opening in October 1973.

Women in Architecture: Making change Andrew Cameron AM (arts philanthropist and qualified architect), moderator; with architects Penelope Seidler AM (Harry Seidler & Associates), Abbie Galvin (BVN), Camilla Block (Durbach Block Jaggers) Early to mid-career and distinguished architects discuss their experiences as women in a profession with a high level of gender inequality. What are the challenges faced, and how can these be addressed structurally within the profession in a way that promotes positive change?

Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) gratefully acknowledges BVN for its generous support of women professionals’ participation in SCCI Architectue Hub 2018, helping ensure greater than 50% representation.

The production of this session was supported through the Woollahra Council Community and Cultural Grants Program.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Barangaroo Tour Barangaroo, Sydney, Australia. Courtesy: Barangaroo Delivery Authority

14 October 2018 Barangaroo Reserve was designed by PWP Landscape Architecture in partnership with Johnson Pilton Walker. The development was completed by Lendlease Engineering (formerly Baulderstone) and was officially opened on 22 August 2015.

The southern end is the economic engine of Barangaroo and is due for completion in 2019 with progressive openings since July 2015. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners designed the three commercial buildings in the precinct known as International Towers Sydney, with development by Lendlease.

Due for completion in 2024, Central Barangaroo will be the cultural and civic focal point for recreation, events and entertainment. A consortium comprising Grocon, Aqualand and Scentre Group will deliver this final stage of the Barangaroo development. The consortium will design, develop and deliver the 5.2 hectare precinct, completing the transformation of Barangaroo from a disused container terminal into a vibrant new destination on Sydney Harbour for the people of NSW.

This tour is a collaboration between Barangaroo Delivery Authority and Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI).

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Ethical Architecture Tacloban, Philippines after 2013’s Typhoon Haiyan. Photographer: David Sanderson

SCCI Hub, 14 October 2018 Shelter after disaster: Go deep or go wide?

Professor David Sanderson (UNSW), moderator; with architect Renate Carius (UNSW, post-Nepal earthquake recovery) and Tom Bamforth (shelter advisor, International Federation of the Red Cross).

After a disaster there is a cost-based tension in the better approach to providing shelter: to provide good quality, expensive houses to a few, or to deliver cheaper, lesser quality shelters to more?

Affordable housing: Dream or reality?

Professor David Sanderson (UNSW), moderator; with Jason Twill (Innovation Research Fellow, Department of Design, Architecture and Building, UTS), Professor Eileen Baldry (UNSW), Professor Bill Randolph (UNSW) Many cities around the world face a crisis in affordable housing: ‘essential workers’ that make cities work can ill-afford a place to call home, while further still, those who are marginalised or especially vulnerable have little choice but to live in substandard housing. Will housing ever be affordable?

The Proposal – Jill Magid Screening of feature film The Proposal (83 mins) followed by a short artist talk by Jill Magid.

Drinks and canapes will be served.

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Sunday, 14 October 5:00 pm

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Presented in partnership with Antenna Documentary Film Festival Generously supported by Aesop

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Pavilions 1 Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Green Ladder, 2016. Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney. Contributor: the architect.

SCCI Hub, 15 October 2018 Emerging in the 18th Century, the pavilion has been a highly significant building type in the work of major architects of the 20th and 21st centuries. The recent commissioning of the $340 million Sydney Modern extension to the AGNSW, which comprises three cascading pavilion structures, is a case in point. The temporary pavilion is now also emerging as a cultural phenomenon: the celebrated Serpentine Galleries’ summer pavilions in London, national pavilions at the various Architecture biennales including Venice and, locally, the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation’s Fugitive Structures series are some notable examples. These inventive and idiosyncratic structures blur the boundaries between art and architecture.

Fugitive Structures was the first series in Australia to explore the potential of temporary pavilions as tools for experimentation, and for testing new concepts and construction techniques.

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) partnered with BVN for five years to support the exhibition of their ‘Fugitive Structures’ pavilions programme.

With special thanks to Pavilions event partners Barangaroo Delivery Authority, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Australian Institute of Art History, and to Fugitive Structures partner BVN.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Ryue Nishizawa Ryue Nishizawa portrait. Courtesy: Office of Ryue Nishizawa.

Keynote Address Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 October 2018 Pritzker Prize winner Ryue Nishizawa has a philosophical stance on architecture that informs his social use of space.

“Architecture is dependent on how people use it. More often than not, the simple fact that people use space affects the decisive form of architecture’s creative elements.” – Art In Asia, September 2010 Nishizawa-san will present some of his major works including pavilion structures, with reference to the forthcoming Sydney Modern expansion to The Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Ryue Nishizawa is a Professor at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture Y-GSA. He co-founded SANAA with Kazuyo Sejima in 1995, and in 1997 established Office of Ryue Nishizawa. Nishizawa’s renowned projects include Moriyama House, Tokyo, The Teshima Art Museum (with artist Rei Naito), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (with SANAA), in New York City.

With special thanks to Pavilions event partners Barangaroo Delivery Authority, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Australian Institute of Art History.

SCCI also gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Cultural Partner The Japan Foundation.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Moriyama-san Moriyama-san. Film directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, France, 2017, 63 mins.

Contributor: Bêka & Lemoine

15 October 2018 One week in the extraordinary-ordinary life of Mr. Moriyama, a Japanese art, architecture and music enlightened amateur who lives in one of the most famous contemporary examples of Japanese architecture, the Moriyama house, built in Tokyo in 2005 by Pritzker-prize winner Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA).

Introduced in the intimacy of this experimental microcosm which redefines completely the common sense of domestic life, filmmaker Ila Bêka recounts in a spontaneous and personal way the unique personality of the owner: an urban hermit living in a small archipelago of peace and contemplation in the heart of Tokyo. From noise music to experimental movies, acrobatic reading, silent movies, fireworks and Japanese architecture, the film lets us enter into the ramifications of Mr. Moriyama’s free spirit.

Moriyama-san will be preceded by a 2 and a half minute short, Building Worship, the winning commission of the SCCI / AFTRS Architecture Hub film competition based around the theme The Future of Architecture.

This project is a collaboration between the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) and the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).

SCCI gratefully acknowledges Nelson Meers Foundation for its generous support of Architecture Hub 2018 Film Programme.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Koolhaas Houselife Koolhaas Houselife. Film directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, France, 2013, 58 mins.

Contributor: Bêka & Lemoine

16 October 2018 Directed by: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, France, 2013, 58 mins Koolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. In 1998 the wheelchair-bound owner of the Maison à Bordeaux, commissioned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas to build him a dwelling of a very special kind – one that would be suited to the requirements of its disabled owner and yet at the same time represent the aesthetic standards of contemporary architecture. The film lets the viewer enter into the house’s daily intimacy through the stories and chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper, and the other people who look after the building.

Rem Koolhaas was clearly surprised by Guadalupe Acedo’s view of the house: ‘You can observe the collision here between two systems: the system of the platonic conception of house cleaning and the system of the platonic conception of architecture.’

– Text by Nora Schmidt, Architonic, November 2018

SCCI gratefully acknowledges Nelson Meers Foundation for its generous support of Architecture Hub 2018 Film Programme.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. Film directed by Matt Tyrnauer, USA, 2016, 92 mins.

Contributor: Madman Entertainment

16 October 2018 Directed by: Matt Tyrnauer, USA, 2016, 92 mins A documentary feature on Jane Jacobs and New York’s ‘Master Builder’, Robert Moses and their epic battle for the right to the city in the 20th century, in which bureaucratic, “top down” planning dramatically clashed with grassroots “bottom up” approaches. The film explores how those struggles inform, define and frame the era of mass urbanization and the global megacity.

“A finely woven tapestry that feels as relevant and alive as the place you live.” - Variety “Enthralling” - The Financial Times “As the world’s urban population grows by more than one million every week, so does the resonance of this documentary” - The Times

SCCI gratefully acknowledges Nelson Meers Foundation for its generous support of Architecture Hub 2018 Film Programme.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Michael Rakowitz Keynote Address MAAS/Powerhouse Museum, 17 October 2018 “Art should demand the right to be dangerous, weird and impolite; I don’t think artists have a responsibility except to stay true to that impetus.” (M Rakowitz interview, Frieze: March 2018) Iraqi-American interdisciplinary artist Michael Rakowitz will speak on several projects spanning the past 20 years that engage with issues of displacement, disappearance and reappearance.

His works interrogate the contested history of objects and antiquities in conflict zones such as the Middle East, and the fate of art during war. A key focus is the reconstitution of lost or looted cultural artifacts and practices, such as the highly acclaimed Lamassu on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London (2018).

Michael Rakowitz is Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University, Chicago. His work features in major private and public collections worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Neue Galerie, Kassel; The British Museum, London; Kabul National Museum; and UNESCO, Paris. Rakowitz has received numerous international awards, including the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2018), and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2012).

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Modern Architecture: The Sydney School Smart Design Studio, Indigo Slam, Chippendale, Australia, 2016.

Photographer: David Roche. Contributor: William Smart

18 October 2018 With Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) President Ken Maher (former principal of HASSELL Studio); design historian and curator of 20th century Australian interior design and decoration Catriona Quinn; and practising architect William Smart (Smart Design Studio).

Deeply influenced by European emigré architects and designers, a group of young Sydney architects of the mid 20th century adapted the traditional bungalow to suit the topography of Sydney’s coast-clinging suburbia through site-specific linear buildings erected in stone and wood, creating an enduring influence on Sydney’s urban landscape. Colloquially labelled The Sydney School, a small and influential group has created a lasting impact on our city’s aesthetic identity. Three specialists unpack this unique moment in Sydney’s distinctive post-war domestic home and interior design.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Kengo Kuma and Koichi Takada: In Conversation Kengo Kuma & Associates + Koichi Takada Architects, Stacking Forest, Waterloo, Sydney, 2018. Contributor: Kengo Kuma & Associates + Koichi Takada Architects.

Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney

19 October 2018 An informal and wide-ranging conversation between worldrenowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium) and leading Sydney-based new generation architect Koichi Takada who are collaborating on a landmark residential tower in Sydney’s Waterloo, described as a vertical urban forest.

They discuss their key projects, influences, inspirations and visions for the future of architecture.

Kengo Kuma & Associates have two other major projects in development in Sydney: the Darling Exchange building at Darling Harbour (with a facade wrapped in 20 kilometres of sustainably sourced timber), and a hotel tower (with Crone Architects) at Circular Quay. Other high-profile works include the Asakusa Culture Tourism Centre (2012), the Cultural Village, Portland Japanese Garden, Oregon, US (2017), and the recent highly lauded V&A Design Museum, Dundee, Scotland (2018).

Established in 2008, Koichi Takada Architects has quickly gained an international reputation through a series of awardwinning designs that are reshaping the skylines of Tokyo, Los Angeles and Mexico City. Recent projects include the Arc in Sydney’s CBD, a 22-storey building podium with layered brick masonry arches and public rooftop gardens in striking curved white rib cages; and six interiors of the National Museum of Qatar, currently under construction in Doha.

Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Cultural Partners, The Japan Foundation and the Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Kengo Kuma Keynote Address: ‘From Rural Vernacular to Urban Potential’ Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 October 2018 Credit: J.C. Carbonne. Kuma & Associates.

Kengo Kuma is considered to be among the most significant figures in contemporary architecture. His works in rural areas of Japan, and his experience with ephemeral building materials and modest dwellings, inform his signature techniques and style which naturally merge architecture with its cultural and environmental surroundings, proposing gentle, human scaled buildings.

Kengo Kuma & Associates have designed three major projects currently in development in Sydney: Darling Exchange – a six-storey community and retail centre with a facade wrapped in 20 kilometres of sustainably sourced timber – at Darling Harbour; a hotel tower (with Crone Architects) at Circular Quay; and a residential tower (with Koichi Takada Architects) in inner-city suburb, Waterloo.

Kengo Kuma (born 1954) studied architecture under Hiroshi Hara and Yoshichika Uchida at the University of Tokyo, where he also received his Master’s Degree, and where he is currently Professor of Architecture. After a Visiting Scholar appointment at Columbia University, New York, he established Kengo Kuma & Associates in Tokyo in 1990, has designed works in over 20 countries, and has received prestigious awards including the Architectural Institute of Japan Award and the International Stone Architecture Award (Italy).

Kuma is constantly in search of materials to replace concrete and steel, and a new approach for architecture in post-industrial society.

His recent major works include the V&A Design Museum, Dundee, Scotland (2018) and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium (forthcoming).

SCCI gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Cultural Partner The Japan Foundation. With special thanks to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Library Architecture BVN, Woollahra Library, Sydney, Australia, 2017. Photographer: John Gollings. Contributor: BVN Principal, Ninotschka Titchkosky

20 October 2018 Caroline Baum (author and broadcaster), moderator; with architects Ninotschka Titchkosky (BVN – Woollahra Library) and Elizabeth Carpenter (FJMT – Surry Hills, Craigeburn Libraries), and specialist library interior designer Cecilia Kugler (CK Design International).

Libraries are having a high-visibility cultural moment as community hubs and centres of cultural, intellectual and social activity – a nexus where the local and global, the physical and the digital meet. While retaining their traditional function as a space for quiet reading, research and scholarship, libraries are now a meeting place, a conduit to global digital information, and even a home for ‘makerspaces’ where people gather to produce handmade objects. In this session specialists explore the ‘renaissance’ of the library as a vibrant cultural institution and discuss challenges and innovations in library design to meet evolving community needs.

Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) gratefully acknowledges BVN for its generous support of women professionals’ participation in SCCI Architecture Hub 2018, helping ensure greater than 50% representation.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2018 Future Architecture Cox Architecture, Inner City School Strategy, Courtyard. Contributor: Cox Architecture, Director, Christina Cho.

20 October 2018 Cameron Bruhn (Head, School of Architecture, University of Queensland), moderator; with Christina Cho (Director, Cox Architecture Brisbane), Jeremy McLeod, Director, Breathe Architecture and Sara Wilkinson, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology, Sydney.

Buildings made from algae, socially and financially sustainable urban villages and the architectural experiments of the Rice Cake Mafia will be explored at this lively future-focused panel discussion. The conversation will speculate on the future of the built environment, exploring the radical and the practical, the emerging voices and the innovative built and proposed works at the cutting edge of design, architecture and urbanism in Australia and internationally.

The Future of Architecture, Powered by PechaKucha Curated by Christina Cho (Director, Cox Architecture) and Netta Egoz (Project manager, Social Impact Hub). Seven women architects, Christina Cho, Amelia Holliday and Isabelle Toland, Tracey Wiles, Louise Wright, Qianyi Lim and Dr Dagmar Reinhardt, take on the future of architecture and the built environment, exploring paradigm-busting themes, works and thinkers pushing the boundaries of design.

Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) gratefully acknowledges BVN for its generous support of women professionals’ participation in SCCI Architecture Hub 2018, helping ensure greater than 50% representation.

Dr Gene Sherman and Brian Sherman warmly invite you to attend

SCCI Architecture Hub 2018 Closing Party Please join us to celebrate the completion of our inaugural Architecture Hub at 20 Goodhope St, Paddington.

20 Goodhope St Paddington NSW 2021

Date & time: Saturday, 20 October 5:00pm – 8:00pm

The Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI), established in 2018, is a cultural-exchange platform focusing on deep engagement with contemporary fashion and architecture.

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FASHION HUB 2019 Director’s Message “SCCI Fashion Hub 2019 aimed to deepen and expand upon the previously explored fashion thématique, as well as introducing new fields of inquiry. In the 2019 iteration, additional historical periods were explored and geographical spread amplified. We brought to the attention of a broad and specialised public, the most expansive views – both positive and negative – on fashion in its evolving complexity.”

Dr Gene Sherman AM Founder, Executive and Artistic Director Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI)

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FASHION HUB 2019 SCCI X AFTRS: The Film Commission Biannually via a competitive process, the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) commissions students from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) to produce a short film exploring a set theme in our Fashion and Architecture Hubs.

For SCCI Fashion 2019, the theme explored was ‘Compassion In Fashion’. The winning film – Cinderella – investigates the roles of equality and ableism in contemporary fashion. The core AFTRS team behind Cinderella included Victoria Thompson (Director), China White (Producer) and Lucca Barone-Peters (Cinematographer).

“We’re so grateful to AFTRS and SCCI for the opportunity to tell this story,” says Producer, China White. It was a pleasure working with our lead Bridie McKim, and the whole team who put in a huge amount of hours to pull this film together. The pitching and feedback sessions with Gene and Emile Sherman were incredible opportunities to learn from some of the best in the industry.”

Cinderella premiered at AFTRS as part of SCCI Fashion 2019, 8 April 2019.

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FASHION HUB 2019 China: 21st-Century Producer & Consumer Keynote Address Warrane Theatre, Museum of Sydney, 05 April 2019 Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) presents Angelica Cheung, Vogue China, Editor-In-Chief, with thanks to presenting partner, Sydney Living Museums.

Since joining Condé Nast as Editor-In-Chief of Vogue China in 2005, Angelica Cheung has brought the title to the forefront of the Vogue universe. The biggest and most-influential of Vogue’s international imprints, Vogue China is widely recognised in fashion and publishing circles as a pioneering influence reaching the young, digitally active generation.

Through the lenses of fashion and new media, Angelica Cheung’s presentation charts the shifting cultural, economic and social landscapes of China in the 21st Century as it becomes increasingly influential on the global stage of transnational fashion.

Angelica Cheung spearheaded the launch and ongoing growth of Vogue China. Its success has been credited to Cheung’s authentic understanding and deep respect of the Chinese market. Speaking to The Financial Times, Cheung said “International titles were not giving China the respect it deserved as a market. They would syndicate and translate material from elsewhere. It dawned on me that I could create something entirely new.”

Presented in partnership with Sydney Living Museums Supported by Nelson Meers Foundation

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FASHION HUB 2019 Fashion Words: On The Bookshelf, In The Streets SCCI Hub 06 April 2019 Fashioning Protest Clare Press (author and Sustainability Editor-At-Large, Vogue Australia) with Ollie Henderson (model, social activist and founder, House of Riot) investigate the important role of ‘change makers’ in fashion.

Fashion Book Club Dolla Merrillees (respected cultural leader and author), Kelly Doust (author and lifestyle publisher) and SCCI Founder and Executive Director, Dr Gene Sherman AM, explore dress in literature, diving deep into the relationship between fashion and literature and how it amplifies the reader’s ability to inhabit past, present and future cultures and landscapes.

Fashion & Literature: Jane Austen’s Pelisse Dress historian, Hilary Davidson, presents an interactive deconstruction of Regency dress, exploring Jane Austen’s descriptions of fashion, making use of historical fashion plates and the one surviving garment attributed to Austen’s personal wardrobe.

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FASHION HUB 2019 Fashion Words: The Press & The Public SCCI Hub, 06 April 2019 Vogue In The 21st Century SCCI International Keynote and Vogue China Editor-In-Chief, Angelica Cheung, presents an In-Conversation with Vogue Australia Editor-In-Chief, Edwina McCann, on the fascinating transformation of the Vogue universe in the 21st Century. At the heart of this conversation is the Editors-In-Chief expert scrutiny of how products and personalities create new cultures of consumption.

Fashion Journalism Leading fashion commentators and journalists share insights on fashion’s evolving taxonomy seen through the lens of media innovation.

Dolla Merrillees (respected cultural leader and author) moderates this panel featuring Glynis Traill-Nash (Fashion Editor, The Australian), Sammy Preston (Sydney Editor and Style & Design Editor, Urban List) and Sophie Joy Wright (writer and editor).

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FASHION HUB 2019 Lost Vienna: A Fashionable Society SCCI Hub 07 April 2019 Good Living Street: The Fortunes Of My Viennese Family Author of Good Living Street: The Fortunes Of My Viennese Family, Tim Bonyhady, shares the story of his forebears, their once-exalted position in fashionable Vienna as sophisticates and cultural leaders, and their adaptation to living in Australia.

Viennese Men & Fashion: 1890-1938 Scholar Jonathan C. Kaplan expands upon Viennese society’s fashion and fortunes at the turn of the century, drawing attention to the interlinked codes, aesthetic preoccupations and social roles of Jewish men, from bohemian to dandy, in Vienna from 1890 to 1938.

Lost Vienna: A Fashionable Society Distinguished Professor of Fashion, Art and Design History, Dr Peter McNeil, joins Kaplan and Bonyhady in this panel discussion on dress, politics and communities in Vienna at the dawn of the 20th Century.

Presented in partnership with Sydney Jewish Museum

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FASHION HUB 2019 Jewish Fashion Stories Sydney Jewish Museum, 07 April 2019 Claudio Alcorso: From Rome To Hobart Claudio Alcorso (1913-2000) was an early emigré ‘change maker’: an Italian-born Jewish industrialist, winemaker, cultural philanthropist and Founder of Australia’s Silk and Textile Fabrics. Scholar, Tracey Sernack-Chee Quee, brings Alcorso’s legacy to life in a presentation that spans Rome to Hobart.

Sewing Their Way To Success: Sydney’s Jewish Emigres Distinguished Professor of Fashion, Art and Design History, Dr Peter McNeil, re-visits the 2015 exhibition Dressing Sydney, exploring how the Jewish community was instrumental in developing Australia’s fashion credentials. A screening of Geraldine Doogue’s Rags To Riches follows McNeil’s presentation, and further shares the survival and successes of Jewish families after fleeing Europe to rebuild lives in Australia.

Presented in partnership with Sydney Jewish Museum

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FASHION HUB 2019 Compassion In Fashion AFTRS, 08 April 2019 Fashioning Awareness: Premiere A competition-winning AFTRS alumni group created Cinderella, a short film commissioned by SCCI in response to the theme ‘Compassion in Fashion’. Bravery and inclusiveness are celebrated through Cinderella’s treatment of ableism and fashion.

Fashion Revolution Melinda Tually of Fashion Revolution Australia/New Zealand shares how emerging methods of production are changing the global fashion industry. Fashion Revolution brings an ethical focus to the fore of its negotiations with the full spectrum of the fashion industry supply chain – from raw material suppliers, right through to the end consumer.

Ethical Consumption & Sentient Beings Dr Meg Good of Voiceless: Animal Protection Institute, leads an InConversation with Gemma Davis, author of The Compassionate Road and Linda Weatherlake of Neena. Weatherlake and Davis shares their experience in seeking alternatives for the ethically-minded consumer.

Fashioning Fairer Futures Gemma Davis brings together Camille Reed, Founder of the Australian Circular Fashion Conference and Thea Speechly of RawAssembly to discuss rapid growth in the sustainable fashion industry.

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FASHION HUB 2019 Art and Fashion SCCI Hub 09 April 2019 Fashion Beyond Fabric VAULT’s Alison Kubler explores how contemporary artists engage with fashion both conceptually and commercially. Kubler is joined by contemporary artist and sculptor, Alex Seton, paper engineer, Benja Harney, and photomedia artist and costumier, Gerwyn Davies.

Creative Couples In-Conversation Jackie Frank, chairs an In-Conversation celebrating the work of creative pairs Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy of Dinosaur Designs, together with Alison Kubler and her artist partner, Michael Zavros.

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FASHION HUB 2019 Photography & Fashion Warrane Theatre, Museum of Sydney 10 April 2019 A Passionate Affair: Fashion Meets Photography William A. Ewing, esteemed curator, author and photography specialist, joins SCCI’s international guest lineup with this presentation on the career of American artist and photographer Edward Steichen (1879-1973), generally credited with developing studio fashion photography as we know it today.

Snapped On The Streets Of Sydney Curated by Sydney Living Museum’s Anna Cossu, with photomedia artist, Anne Zahalka, from a wide public call-out, Street Photography 1930-1950 brings together photographs taken on the streets of central Sydney, with images drawn from hundreds of private family albums. Cossu leads a curator’s tour of the exhibition.

Screening: Qui Êtes-Vous, Polly Maggoo? (Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?)

William Klein’s 1966 seminal film Qui Êtes-Vous, Polly Maggoo?

(Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?) is part panegyric and part smear campaign, commenting on the precarious relationship between photographers, models, tastemakers and designers in the global fashion industry of the 1960s.

Presented in partnership with Sydney Living Museums Supported by the Consulate General of Canada, Sydney

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FASHION HUB 2019 Business & Fashion SCCI Hub, 11 April 2019 Maskit: Israel’s First Fashion House Maskit – an Israeli fashion house founded in 1954 by Ruth Dayan (first wife of Moshe Dayan) and funded by the national government – exemplifies fashion playing a crucial role in the social, economic, aesthetic and political life of a community. In 2013, Sharon Tal reestablished Maskit alongside Dayan to revive the luxury label that once brought Israel’s melting pot of ethnic styles to the wardrobes of fashion icons. SCCI welcomes Tal as an international guest for Fashion Hub 2019.

Luxury As Business: Creating The ‘Must Have’ In conversation with Dolla Merrillees, Philip Corne, the Non Executive Director of LVMH (Louis Vuitton AU), shares personal reflections on the industry that specialises in shaping desire. Where commerce butts heads with creativity, Corne questions what makes an artefact of fashion a ‘luxury’.

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FASHION HUB 2019 Politics & Fashion Warrane Theatre, Museum of Sydney 12 April 2019 Gandhi’s Mindful Luxury Former Editor-At-Large for Vogue India and currently one of India’s foremost authorities on fashion as Sustainability Editor for Business of Fashion (BoF), SCCI international guest, Bandana Tewari, explores Gandhi’s history with dress – from his days imitating a young English dandy, to enduring racial discrimination in South Africa, and finally his return home to lead the Khadi (handmade cotton) movement.

Embroidered Relations UTS fashion and textile academics, Cecilia Heffer, Armando Chant and Alana Clifton-Cunningham join Tewari onstage to speak about Embroidered Relations: From India To UTS, a student-teacher collaboration with remote craftspeople in rural India. Examples of this collaboration will be on display.

Presented in partnership with Sydney Living Museums Supported by Indian Link Media Group Supported by the Consulate General of India, Sydney

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FASHION HUB 2019 Japanese Fashion SCCI Hub 13 April 2019 The Kimono: An Ongoing History SCCI international guest, Dr Toby Slade of Bunka Gakuen and Keio University explores the nuanced history of the kimono and its associated accessories, unravelling the role that dress (both informal and formal) continues to play in public life.

Isogawa In-Conversation Roger Leong, Senior Curator, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), and Japanese-born Australian designer, Akira Isogawa, discuss the cultural layers providing depth and meaning to Isogawa’s eponymous label. Japanese and Western influences coalesce in Isogawa’s use of fibres, dyeing and weaving techniques to create truly reflexive garments crossing boundaries of time and national heritage.

Kimono Dressing: Art & Technique Founder of the International Kimono Club Sydney, Tae Gessner, demonstrates traditional kimono dressing, exploring the elaborate narratives and sartorial customs which define and delineate the art of kimono dressing as ritual and costume.

Supported by the Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney

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FASHION HUB 2019 Connecting Through Craft SCCI Hub 13 April 2019 Crafting Social Justice Journalist and broadcaster, Caroline Baum, joins SCCI’s international guests, Bandana Tewari and Sharon Tal, to share experiences working in tandem with traditional craftspeople. Tal and Tewari highlight the important role such individuals can play in supporting and sustaining communities, as well as opportunities by which traditional processes offer corrective measures to minimise the harmful impact of large-scale fashion production.

Weaving The Social Fabric Artist, Grace Lillian Lee, draws inspiration from her Islander heritage, both in personal weaving practice and collaborative work with remote Indigenous communities. Lee’s fashion performances are instrumental in engaging young people from remote areas, providing them with opportunities to create and take pride in their shared culture. In this presentation, Lee explores the power of textiles in developing a sophisticated and unique Indigenous visual culture.

Supported by the Consulate of India, Sydney

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Director’s Message “Within the context of past histories and, taking into account present trends,” says Dr Sherman, “the Foundation’s 2019 Architecture Hub continues to explore architectural styles, the growing impact of design in contemporary societies and the evolution of the built environment – as humankind comes to terms with massive population growth and the fragility of our planet’s resources.

“Welcoming some fifty local speakers, eight international leaders in their field, and four international headliners, the Hub brings together architects, landscape designers, writers, academics, theoreticians, psychologists, judges, prosecutors, investors, hoteliers, visionary developers and other professionals.

In short, SCCI Architecture Hub 2019 looks to dive deeper into the architectural conversation, expanding on previously foregrounded topics whilst looking to the future.

We look forward to welcoming both professionals and the wider public to ten days of stimulating and transformative discussion.”

Dr Gene Sherman AM Founder, Executive and Artistic Director Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI)

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 SCCI X AFTRS: The Film Commission Biannually via a competitive process, the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) commissions students from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) to produce a short film exploring a set theme in our Fashion and Architecture Hubs.

For SCCI Architecture 2019, the theme explored was ‘Accessing Architecture’. The winning documentary – The Caretakers – investigates two spiritual architectural spaces via spoken and visual interventions from caretakers serving in a Sydney based Islamic mosque and a Jewish synagogue. The core AFTRS team behind The Caretakers includes Kate Vinen (Director), Petra Leslie (Cinematographer) and Jayden Rathsam Hüa (Producer).

“I’ve always had a love of the awe-inspiring architecture of spiritual spaces,” says Director, Kate Vinen. “After the recent attack against the Muslim community in Christchurch, I was further inspired to use documentary as a method of healing, harnessing its ability to bear witness, share knowledge and create understanding.”

The Caretakers premiered at the SCCI Hub Headquarters in Paddington, 19 October 2019.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Odile Decq: Architecture Thinking 10 October 2019 What does it mean to be ‘an architect’?

Today, architecture’s professional nomenclature largely describes those individuals with a specialised focus on designing and building. This established description is less than 80 years old, says renowned French architect, Odile Decq.

“It’s only since the middle of the Twentieth Century that architects have been solely concerned with building,’’ says Decq.

“We have to stop categorising and being too specific. The world needs people who are much more open-minded.”

Odile Decq’s keynote – ‘Architecture Thinking’ – opens the 2019 SCCI Architecture Hub, exploring why the discipline of architecture must become less about buildings and more about embracing a complete universe whose boundaries continue to grow.

“If, in 50 years’ time we are still human,” Decq continues, “then we will need architects, or the discipline of architecture: architecture thinking.”

Odile Decq’s keynote is introduced by SCCI Founder, Executive and Artistic Director, Dr Gene Sherman AM.

This event is proudly supported by SCCI’s 2019 Architecture Hub Principal Partners.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Sou Fujimoto: Between Architecture & Nature 11 October 2019 What lies between architecture and nature?

For celebrated architect, Sou Fujimoto, the intersection between architecture and nature captures the richness of living.

Or, in his own words, between architecture and nature lies “a beautiful life.”

“Making human life actively connect with the life of the building and with the life of the natural elements associated with it,” Fujimoto says, “is my goal.”

“I believe that our life is already a part of architecture and that architecture is a part of our life. The care of architecture and the care of greenery are part of human life.”

Sou Fujimoto, Founder of Sou Fujimoto Architects, presents an evening exploring how between architecture and nature lies the possibility of discovering new potential for life.

Fujimoto’s keynote address will be introduced by SCCI Founder and Executive Director, Dr Gene Sherman AM.

Presented in partnership with Sydney Living Museums.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Ar(t)chitecture SCCI Hub, 12 October 2019 What makes the union of architecture, art and urban geography so powerful?

Alison Kubler, Editor of VAULT Magazine, moderates a conversation identifying the maelstrom of issues related to public space, gentrification, creative design practice, urban renewal and the increasingly complex rendezvous of art, architecture and urban futures.

Ar(t)chitecture brings together Danya Sherman, USA-based cultural planning and community development consultant, with Antonio Pio Saracino, Italian-born architect based in New York City, and with Anthony Lister, Australian contemporary painter and installation artist best-known for inventing ‘Adventure Painting’.

Together with Kubler, the architect, artist and cultural planner discuss the intensities of public art commissions; the high stakes in attracting visitors and investment to enhance property development through art activations; and the role of adapting, augmenting, defacing and reinterpreting urban infrastructure.

Can art, architecture and urbanism build democratic capacity, address inequities and add cultural layering to our cities?

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 The Last Time I Saw Paris SCCI Hub, 12 October 2019 « Je veux entendre le chant des colonnes, et me figurer dans le ciel pur le monument d’une mélodie » – Paul Valéry.

Since Paris was announced as host of the 2024 Olympic Games, the city has undergone accelerated refashioning. Recently, events from the iconoclastic efforts of the gilets jaunes to Notre Dame’s smouldering spires suggest that the future of Paris’ built environment is also being signigicantly shaped by political activism and force majeure.

Exploring the bold, beautiful and brutal spirit of transformation reinventing Paris, Professor Francesca Hughes (UTS, Head of School of Architecture) is joined by renowned French architect and educator, Odile Decq (Studio Odile Decq), with Tokyo- and Paris-based architect, Sou Fujimoto (Sou Fujimoto Architects).

The speakers investigate Paris’ history of metamorphosis, its honeycomb substrata of sewers, tunnels and catacombs, and the imaginative shifting of ‘the architect’ as public figure.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Junya Ishigami: My Work 12 October 2019 Can architecture be invisible?

Can architecture resemble clouds, the horizon, or even water? For renowned Japanese architect, Junya Ishigami, these questions yield multiple possibilites. Drawing inspiration from the way nature appears to the human eye, Ishigami’s practice aspires to an architecture that floats and dissolves, reading as light and transparent – an architecture that, paradoxically, appears almost invisible.

As one of Japan’s visionary architects, Junya Ishigami has received worldwide acclaim for seeking the limits of the possible. Making ‘a new reality’, his oeuvre expands both human perception and technical limitations, allowing his structures to gain a new logic of space and imaginative richness. In the increasingly diverse world of today, Ishigami’s radical quest for the pure overturns the value system of contemporary architecture.

Junya Ishigami, Founder of junya.ishigami+associates, joins us for an intimate evening investigating the architecture of unfathomable probabilities. Ishigami’s keynote will be introduced

by SCCI Founder and Executive Director, Dr Gene Sherman AM.

Presented in partnership with Sydney Living Museums.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Architecture Book Club 13 October 2019

“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.” – Philip Johnson.

SCCI Founder and Executive Director, Dr Gene Sherman AM, is joined by respected cultural leader and author, Dolla Merrillees, for a deep dive conversation exploring the relationship between architecture, storytelling and the written word.

The discussion will cover biography and fictionalised history, exploring the fraught architectural interiors of World War II, America’s early twentieth-century architectural innovation and the lives of those who lived, breathed and fought for arguably the most impactful of design professions.

Taking three texts, each unique in approaching the architect as author, as subject, as maker and as cultural path-finder, this conversation examines how narrative can write the cultural histories of the built environment.

Merrillees and Sherman will discuss three texts in-depth: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (2007), The Man In The Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster (2018) and The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure (2013).

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Form & Formative Years 13 October 2019 Is the built environment the cradle of the future?

For children – constant and usually silent stakeholders in architectural discourse – this might very well be the case. In recent years, pioneering research into children’s early education, child psychology, paediatrics and investigations into the wellbeing of society’s most vulnerable, has made a profound impact on architectural best practice.

Session I: Form & Formative Years Form & Formative Years addresses ways children shape architectural practice and how design, in turn, shapes children’s earliest and enduring engagements with the built world. Moderated by Dr Kate Bishop (UNSW), Form & Formative Years includes Sue Barnsley (Sue Barnsley Design Landscape Architects), Andrew Burns (Andrew Burns Architecture), Professor Linda Corkery (UNSW) and Camilla Block (Durbach Block Jaggers).

Session II: Film screening Children Who Won’t Die Can a house make us immortal? Artists/scientists/revolutionaries Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa declared that our lives need not end, and created dwellings purpose-designed to defy death itself. The Reversible Destiny Lofts in Tokyo, with their vivid colours, undulating floors, irregular lines and spherical rooms, were the culmination of Arakawa and Gins’s research and speculation. Arakawa said, “living here, human beings will never die, as the potential ability of their bodies can be maximally developed.” The film Children Who Won’t Die includes interviews with residents of the Reversible Destiny Lofts and an astrophysicist, as well as growth records of children who were raised in these remarkable buildings.

This event is proudly supported by the Woollahra Council.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Architecture Of Justice 14 October 2019

Is justice delivered at the whim of a judge, the jury, or informed by the architecture of the courtroom itself?

In many ways, courtroom architecture provides key insights into the public’s shifting perspective on justice. While the architecture of courtrooms is thought by some to express universal standards regarding the right to fair trial and the presumption of innocence, contemporary experts – from both architecture and jurisprudence – suggest that courtroom design traditions impact the delivery of justice in unexpected ways.

The Architecture Of Justice inspects architecture’s role in Australia’s court system and the bearing of design on justice outcomes. Introduced by The Hon Justice Melissa Perry QC (Judge of the Federal Court of Australia), Dolla Merrillees moderates a panel including The Court of Future Network co-convenors – Professor David Tait (University of Western Sydney), Diane Jones (PTW Architects) – and former Senior Crown Prosecutor, Mark Tedeschi AM QC (Wardell Chambers).

Presented in partnership with Sydney Living Museums.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Architecture Of Injustice 14 October 2019 Behrouz Boochani, keynote from captivity Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian-Kurdish author, journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer incarcerated on Manus Island, wrote his memoir, No Friend But The Mountains: Writings From Manus Prison, on a mobile phone. The work has been described as “an outstanding work of literature in its own right”, apart from being “remarkable for the circumstances of its production [and] compelling and shocking content.”

Behrouz Boochani joins SCCI via live AV link for a solo presentation exploring the architecture of injustice, in conversation with noted Australian barrister, human rights & refugee advocate, and author, Julian Burnside AO QC. Together Burnside and Boochani explore the Architecture of Injustice from inside one of Australia’s most controversial architectural projects – Manus Regional Processing Centre – a site of widely condemned human rights abuses.

Presented in partnership with Sydney Living Museums.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Bricks & Budgets: The Architecture of Investment 15 October 2019 If form follows function, does function follow finance?

The United Nations calculate that by 2050 more than 68% of the global population will live in urban centres. Precisely where and how they will do so remains a matter of debate. Who controls future forms, functions and the financing of our built environment?

Session 1: Bricks and Budgets Dolla Merrillees moderates a conversation with Dr Stanley Quek (Greencliff) and Nikos Kalogeropoulos (Molonglo Group), investigating the oft-secretive, generally complex and always-changing relationship between the built environment and the wheels of commerce.

Session 2: Sydney XXXL Ed Lippmann is Principal of Lippmann Partnership and author of Sydney XXXL – a deep-dive into the city’s history of architecture and development, including glimpses into potential future scenarios.

In this conversation moderated by Eastside FM’s Sylvia Rosenblum, Lippman is joined by Peter Poulet, Central City District Commissioner and Gerard de Valence of UTS of University College London to discuss shifting controversies and possible strategies for urban planning and architecture in Greater Sydney, as the city continues to undergo population growth, increase in density and negotiate volatile real estate fluctuations.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 A Garden, An Oasis, A Shrine 16 October 2019 Professor Ido Bruno, a significant cultural and design expert and former Professor of Design at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, has recently been appointed Director of the Israel Museum based in Jerusalem. In his first appearance in Australia since this appointment, Professor Bruno joins SCCI in Sydney for an intimate evening exploring the architecture and design legacies of Israel’s encyclopaedic museum. Holdings include the world’s most comprehensive collections of Holy Land archaeology, as well as significant and extensive holdings in the Fine Arts, the latter encompassing eleven separate departments: Israeli Art; European Art; Modern Art; Contemporary Art; Prints and Drawings; Photography; Design and Architecture; Asian Art; African Art; Oceanic Art and Arts of the Americas.

With collections featuring significant work by artists such as Duchamp, Agnes Martin, Noguchi, Picasso, Charles Ray, Gerhard Richter and more, the Israel Museum’s wide curatorial vision makes the institution an important international research resource. Professor Bruno’s keynote will address the museum’s history, including the challenges and opportunities facing museums today, with a focus on the particular issues faced by the Israel Museum.

Professor Bruno’s keynote address is introduced by SCCI Founder, Executive and Artistic Director, Dr Gene Sherman AM.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Architecture and Memory 17 October 2019 Can architecture grasp the notion of absence?

Architecture is supremely material by nature. Bearing witness to the notion of lack would appear to betray the very essence of architecture and, perhaps fundamentally, the essence of our human condition: we fear forgetting. Architecture lies at the heart of our need to recognise suffering. With the world’s cities punctuated by memorials, does architecture monumentalise our death and destruction, or does it memorialise our collective desire to reimagine a better future?

Session I: Requiescat in (s)pace Dolla Merrillees moderates an in-depth conversation on the role of architecture in memorialisation alongside Joe Agius (COX Architecture), Megan Cope (contemporary artist and Official War Artist) and David Neustein (Other Architects), analysing commemorative sites and identifying debates surrounding official government-appointed memorials, funerary architecture and other sites of collective and individual memorialisation.

Session II: The Israel Museum & The Australian Museum In Conversation Dr Gene Sherman AM moderates a conversation between the Directors of Australia’s and Israel’s national museums. Professor Ido Bruno, Director, Israel Museum, is joined by Kim McKay AO, Director, Australian Museum, to investigate the role of museums as sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, rather than the mere showplaces of collected objects. Together, Professor Bruno and Kim Mckay chart the role of museums as a mediating force, bringing diverse forms of human endeavour into close proximity as times change and new voices emerge.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Brutally Sydney 18 October 2019 Does concrete represent Sydney’s serious attempt to tame nature?

Concrete is now the most consumed material worldwide, second only to water, with three tonnes used per annum, per capita. And yet, this hard-faced material is a relatively recent focus in architecture’s material repertory.

Internationally, concrete’s superabundance is mostly a result of work performed by visionary architects, developers and far thinking politicians. Locally, a larger part of its endurance is thanks to brutalism – an architectural movement derived from the French term ‘béton brut’ (in English, ‘raw concrete’) – which underpinned Sydney’s development since the middle of the last century.

Brutally Sydney investigates the nexus of architecture and concrete which together explain Sydney’s international significance as a brutalist city. Rebecca Hawcroft (curator, ‘The Moderns’, Sydney Living Museums) moderates a discussion exploring how this architectural aesthetic and radical approach to construction shaped post-war Sydney and continues to shape the city’s social, political, economic and heritage debates. She is joined by Simon Rochowski (studioplusthree), Phillip Arnold (Plus Minus Design), Councillor Philip Thalis (City of Sydney) and Glenn Harper (PTW Architects and author of Sydney Brutalism: Lost and Legacy Projects), who chart how brutalist architecture put roofs over the heads of millions, fortified our defences against natural disasters (and each other) & provided new global standards for design in healthcare, education, transport, energy and industry.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 Architecture: The Picture Of Health 19 October 2019 Can buildings kill?

In recent years, the World Health Organisation identified a critical mass in Sick Building Syndrome – a medical condition wherein people suffer from symptoms of illness catalysed by the built environment in which they work, live or play.

In Architecture: The Picture of Health, Dolla Merrillees moderates a conversation exploring the relationship between architecture and the human body, with particular emphasis on the neuroaesthetic, medical, therapeutic and salutary concerns of contemporary architectural practice.

Merrillees is joined by Abbie Galvin (BVN), William Feuerman (Office Feuerman and UTS) and Luke Baxby (Deloitte), who together survey where wellbeing and architecture meet. They will examine how contemporary architectural practice dedicates greater energy to understanding the incidence, spread and control of disease and how design can alleviate physiological suffering.

This event is proudly supported by the Woollahra Council.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2019 The Architecture of Human Happiness 19 October 2019 How do buildings manage to connect bricks and mortar to our emotional lives?

For centuries, writers, artists and philosophers have grappled with architecture’s capacity to speak. The built form inevitably creates resonances: expressing hostility, arrogance and despair, or signalling hospitality, open-heartedness and elation.

Whether shielding us from the vicissitudes of the world or helping us better live our lives, our built environment invites us to lean towards happiness.

In Architecture Of Human Happiness, Professor Cameron Bruhn (University of Queensland) gathers together Adam Haddow, George Livissianis and Dr Zena O’Connor, to discuss the role of architecture and design in producing the psychological conditions for mental wellbeing and happiness.

This deep-dive session traces the most profound journey of all – one which embraces the enormity of the built world and the interiority of the human mind.

This event is proudly supported by the Woollahra Council.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Clothing & Culture in Communist China In conversation with cultural facilitator and translator, Jane SydenhamKwiet, Dr Vivian Bi describes the background of Mao’s Communist China, her personal experience growing up as a teenager under this regime and the ongoing impact on China’s cultural landscape as depicted in her 2020-published novel, Dragon’s Gate.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Costume & Collaboration for Hamlet Bell Shakespeare’s Artistic Director, Peter Evans, is joined by Set and Costume Designer, Anna Tregloan, in a discussion moderated by National Film and Sound Archives Curator, Dr Jennifer Gall, exploring the company’s 2020 production of Hamlet, and how, together, they approached dressing the ill-fated Prince of Denmark, today.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Threads: An Audience with Tate Modern Director, Frances Morris (two parts) Part 1

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In this two-part episode, Dr Gene Sherman AM hosts a conversation with Tate Modern Director, Frances Morris. Together, Frances Morris and Gene Sherman investigate the vital and profound threads of connection between female artist-makers, textiles and tactile production, through the work of Anni Albers, Louise Bourgeois and Magdalena Abakanowicz.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Hands of India Caroline Baum discusses social sustainability, artisanry and the financial power of craftsmanship with KOCO (Knit One, Change One) founder, Danielle Chiel. In partnership with women in rural villages of southern India, Chiel created a sisterhood of artisans following the United Nations’ Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Costume & Collaboration: Opera, Dance & Performance National Film and Sound Archives Curator, Dr Jennifer Gall, hosts an audience with acclaimed theatre and costume academic, Dr Suzanne Osmond, alongside globally-recognised opera, theatre, ballet and dance costume designer, Jennifer Irwin, exploring the changing role of costume across performance types and history.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Culture In Quarantine: 2020 Cultural leader, author and curator, Dolla Merrillees, moderates a conversation with NIRIN: 22nd Sydney Biennale CEO, Barbara Moore, and Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy in Australia and Artistic Director of the French Film Festival, Philippe Platel. Together, they explore the role of cultural programming and organisations during times of crisis.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Veiled Women: An Audience with The Israel Museum, Jerusalem: In which Dr Gene Sherman AM interviews No’am Bar-am Ben-Yossef, curator of the Israel Museum’s recent exhibition Veiled Women of the Holy Land: New Trends in Modern Dress (2020) . They are joined by the creator and producer of the accompanying 2019 video installation work You Must Be Ready To Let Go Of What The Eye Sees, Ari Teperberg.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Collectors: A Well-Curated Life Moderated by Dolla Merrillees, Dr Gene Sherman AM and antique jewellery collector, model and author, Sarah Jane Adams, discuss their personal drive to collect and the way in which their respective curatorial visions shape their worldviews.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Crisis & Creativity: Opportunities For Change Dolla Merrillees interviews SCCI Founder, Dr Gene Sherman AM. Together, they explore the responses to unexpected, uncontrollable and oftentimes unexplained global crises.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Crisis & Creativity City Of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore shares thoughts on a city emerging from lockdown. Interviewed by curator, author and cultural leader, Dolla Merrillees, The Lord Mayor discusses issues relating to leadership, innovation and collective action as communities across the world grapple with bold, new approaches for shaping the future.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Faith & Fashion Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins of Emanuel Synagogue and Sonia Gandhi, Founder Fabrics of Multicultural Australia [FOMA] speak with Dolla Merrillees on the complex and often contentious fields of modesty and dress within traditional and contemporary religious contexts.

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SCCI CINÉPHILE HUB 2020 Season II

Tsuyoshi Tane: Archaeology Of The Future In this episode of SCCI Cinéphile Hub 2020, SCCI Tokyo Correspondent, journalist and author, Kate Klippensteen, interviews Tsuyoshi Tane, architect and Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Founder.

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Together, Klippensteen and Tane discuss architecture on the world stage: from the architect’s early project in Estonia, to art, architecture and museum projects currently underway in France, Japan and Bhutan.

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Kengo Kuma & Akira Minagawa: Remember Hope In this episode of SCCI Cinéphile Hub 2020, SCCI Tokyo Correspondent, journalist and author, Kate Klippensteen, interviews architect Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma & Associates) and designer Akira Minagawa (minä perhonen).

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With Klippensteen, Kuma and Minagawa share perspectives on contemporary and historic Japan, the worlds of production and manufacture, interventions in wasteful and inhumane consumption and the ongoing role of creators in contemporary societies worldwide.

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Astrid Klein & Mark Dytham: Let’s Talk SCCI Tokyo Correspondent, journalist and author, Kate Klippensteen, interviews architects and co-founders of Klein Dytham Architecture and PechaKucha, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham.

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Together, Klippensteen, Klein and Dytham discuss the architectural pedigrees of Japan, design’s role in addressing disaster and the importance of cross-disciplinary conversations.

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Masataka Hosoo: Twelve Generations In The Making SCCI Tokyo Correspondent, journalist and author, Kate Klippensteen, interviews Masataka Hosōo, the twelfth-generation President of famed Nishijin textile Maison – HOSOO – founded 1688 in Kyoto.

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Together, Klippensteen and Hosōo discuss the ancient traditions of Nishijin textiles, Japan’s fashion and design culture, the evolution of Maison Hosōo over four centuries and an array of innovations – from nineteenth-century industrialisation to twenty-first-century biotechnology – weaving through the history of silk.

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Mami Kataoka & Hiroshi Sugimoto: Garden of Time

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In this special feature and SCCI Cinéphile Hub 2020 exclusive, Mori Art Museum Tokyo Director, Mami Kataoka, shares perspectives on Japan’s art, architecture and photography luminary, Hiroshi Sugimoto. Kataoka discusses the dynamic interplay of memory and time in the artist’s portfolio – seen to especially brilliant effect via Sugimoto’s Enoura Observatory perched on the hillside mandarin groves of Odawara, Japan.

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Sugimoto’s film, The Garden Of Time, premiered for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere as part of SCCI Cinéphile Hub 2020, for an exclusive one-week period.

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Dame Zandra Rhodes & Andrew Logan: Alternative Worlds SCCI Global Emissary and London correspondent Dolla Merrillees interviews textile and fashion designer, Dame Zandra Rhodes DBE, and sculptor, portraitist and Alternative Miss World founder, Andrew Logan.

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With Merrillees, SCCI Cinéphile Hub viewers are welcomed into the unique world of two unashamed maximalists and lifelong friends who have always stuck to their guns, becoming cultic figures of counterculture, creativity and colour.

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Tom Amerson & Stephanie Macdonald: 6a Architects Are Never Modern SCCI London Correspondent and Global Emissary, Dolla Merrillees, sits down with 6a Architects co-Founders Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald.

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Sharing their perspectives on 6a’s design portfolio across art museums, educational halls of residence, residential projects and urban developments, Emerson, Macdonald and Merrillees discuss the social behaviour of cities, progressive design attitudes and roles played by architecture in shaping the human story.

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John McAslan CBE: Making Design Matter Direct from the architect’s studio in London, John McAslan CBE (Founder, John McAslan + Partners) speaks with SCCI London Correspondent and SCCI Global Emissary, Dolla Merrillees.

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From reimagining London’s West End theatres to weather COVID-19, to revitalising rare heritage buildings in Doha, to operating a global architecture practice in two hemispheres, Merrillees explores the varied and visionary practice of one of the UK’s leading architects.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x UoN Architects of Moving Image: Creatives And Creators 23 April 2021, SCCI Braelin Pavilion Oscar and BAFTA-winning producer, Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech, Lion, Top Of The Lake, Candy) and filmmaker, producer, director and writer, Samantha Lang (The Well, Carlotta, The Monkey’s Mask, It All Started With A Stale Sandwich) introduce us to the numerous architects behind the moving image.

Not dissimilar to the multi-layered skills of built environment professionals, filmakers band together armies of collaborators in order to realise creative projects.

Film directors, producers, screenwriters, actors and set and costume designers – not to mention audio engineers, score composers, lighting technicians and a host of other specialist consultants – interact as creative constituents in the movie-making endeavour. How to define the roles played by ‘creatives’ versus ‘creators’ in this collaborative process? And what does filmmaking as a macro ecosystem reveal vis-à-vis the profession’s multiple microcultures and systems?

The conversation is moderated by author, curator, cultural producer and SCCI Global Emissary, Dolla Merrillees.

Presented in partnership with University of Newcastle.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x UoN Glimpses Of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World 24 April 2021, Newcastle City Hall In this keynote address Jess Scully, Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney and author of Glimpses Of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World, introduces us to people across the globe who are refusing a business-as-usual mindset – putting humans back into the civic equation, reimagining work and leisure, finance and government, urban planning and communication – initiatives intrinsic to a vision for a fairer and better world.

Jess Scully shares how care workers are reclaiming control in India and Lebanon; how people are transforming slums into safe havens in Kenya and Bangladesh; how radical banking is funding renewable energy in the USA; how Australian architects are redefining real estate; how new payment systems in Italy and the Philippines are keeping money in local communities – and that’s just the start…

“Humans everywhere are rising up to confront our challenges with creativity, resilience and compassion. Harnessing technology and imagination, we can reshape our world to be fair and sustainable.” – Jess Scully, Glimpses of Utopia.

Presented in partnership with University of Newcastle.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x UoN Homes For The Hopeful 24 April 2021, Newcastle City Hall Homes For The Hopeful gathers together David Kaunitz (coFounder, Kaunitz Yeung Architecture) and Troy Uleman (Director, John McAslan + Partners) addressing the responsibility of built environment practitioners to provide architectural solutions for housing and humanitarian challenges.

The conversation is moderated by acclaimed author, journalist and broadcaster, Caroline Baum.

Presented in partnership with University of Newcastle.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x UoN Living Luxury 25 April 2021, Newcastle City Hall Today, ‘luxury’ is no longer exclusively defined by wealth or prestige. In keeping with the more humanist and ecological values of our current moment, ‘luxury’ now brings into its ideological embrace, concepts such as quality, durability, environmental sustainability, community generosity and – ultimately – sensory delight. Living Luxury unites architects Camilla Block (co-Founder, Durbach Block Jaggers) and Andrew Burns (Founder, Andrew Burns Architecture) in a conversation regarding what we most value in the built environment.

The conversation is moderated by acclaimed author, journalist and broadcaster, Caroline Baum.

Presented in partnership with University of Newcastle.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x UoN Architectural Resonances 25 April 2021, Newcastle City Hall Where might a degree in architecture take one? What possibilities might be shaped by an architectural imagination?

Architectural Resonances brings together philanthropists Andrew Cameron AM and Dr Gene Sherman AM to discuss how architects – and those deeply interested in design – are uniquely positioned to find new pathways allowing spatiallysensitive people to explore original, professional, community- and culturally-focused opportunities.

The conversation is moderated by author, curator, cultural producer and SCCI Global Emissary, Dolla Merrillees.

Presented in partnership with University of Newcastle.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x WSU Architecture Hub Opening Night 30 April 2021, SCCI Braelin Pavilion Where might a degree in architecture take one? What possibilities might be shaped by an architectural imagination?

SCCI x WSU Architecture Hub Opening Night brings together philanthropists Andrew Cameron AM and Dr Gene Sherman AM to discuss how architects – and those deeply interested in design – are uniquely positioned to find new pathways allowing spatially-sensitive people to explore original, professional, community- and culturally-focused opportunities.

The conversation is moderated by Professor Cameron Bruhn, University of Queensland’s Dean, Head of School of Architecture and SCCI Global Emissary.

Presented in partnership with Western Sydney University.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x WSU Architecture and Nature 02 May 2021, Western Sydney University In the Age of the Anthropocene, the very ground upon which we build – physically and conceptually – is becoming increasingly unstable. Director and CEO of the Australian Museum, Kim McKay AO, is joined by architect and BVN Principal, James Grose, in a conversation which aims to explore the link between our nature-rejecting sprawling metropolises and those institutions which aim to protect our natural resources.

The conversation is moderated by Non-Executive Director and SCCI Global Emissary, Lisa Chung AM.

Presented in partnership with Western Sydney University.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x WSU Art and Architecture 02 May 2021, Western Sydney University SCCI Founder, Executive and Artistic Director, Dr Gene Sherman AM, moderates a conversation identifying the increasingly complex rendezvous of architecture and art, attempting to strike harmony between the two disciplines within the framework of our contemporary built environment.

Art and Architecture brings together Janet Laurence, one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists exhibiting nationally and internationally, with Megan Cope, a Quandamooka artist and Australia’s first Indigenous female Official War Artist.

Facilitated by Dr Sherman, the artists explore the relationship between environment, geography, identity and the endurance or ephemerality of art and urban environments.

Presented in partnership with Western Sydney University.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x WSU Architecture and Faith 01 May 2021, Western Sydney University Places of worship serve as crucibles for identity, belonging and community. Religious architecture has long served as one of the profession’s most exciting typologies, historically giving rise to design and structural innovations. Architecture and Faith explores contemporary approaches to the design, use, stewardship and conservation of buildings across diverse faiths, celebrating the work of Angelo Candalepas – the architect responsible for Punchbowl Mosque and the forthcoming redevelopment of the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady and St Peter Julian’s Catholic Church.

In this conversation, Professor Cameron Bruhn, University of Queensland’s Dean and Head of School of Architecture, seeks to tease out particular-to-the-topic issues in Angelo Candalepas’ faith-based practice.

Presented in partnership with Western Sydney University.

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ARCHITECTURE HUB 2021: SCCI x WSU Architecture Words: Critics & Criticism 01 May 2021, Western Sydney University Technological innovation, social upheaval and changing economic drivers have clearly transformed the media and altered pathways via which journalists and writers share knowledge on matters relating to design. The role of the critic – and, indeed, criticism – is undergoing seismic change. Architecture Words brings together Australian Financial Review Design Editor and Sydney Design Week Creative Director, Stephen Todd, with former Vogue Living Australia Editor-In-Chief, David Clark, to examine how architecture and design criticism and commentary are valued (or otherwise) in Australia.

The conversation is moderated by VAULT Magazine Editor, Alison Kubler.

Presented in partnership with Western Sydney University.