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Waterfall falling below skull carved into cliffside.

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Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

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Exoskeleton

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A woman stands on stage in front of a large audience. She has her left hand raised in the air and a microphone in her right hand. The audience are holding their phones up recording the woman.

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Program Sydney Design Week 2024

Future Prototypes | Colin Gibson and Keinton Butler

Name: Future Prototypes | Colin Gibson and Keinton Butler
Start: 2024-09-16T08:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-16T09:00:00.000Z
Location: UTS Great Hall

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when

Ended 16 Sept 2024

price

Free

where

UTS Great Hall

Academy Award winning production designer Colin Gibson discusses how he imagines real world prototypes for the future. In conversation with Powerhouse curator Keinton Butler.

Gibson will share an insight into his narrative-led design approach and how that has been realised through recent projects, including Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The leading international production designer creates imaginative worlds in the space between reality and fiction. The fictional technologies, sets and props that he envisions could become design solutions for real world problems.

This is an Auslan interpreted event.

Speakers

Colin Gibson is an internationally renowned film production designer known for his work on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) which won an Academy Award for Best Production Design, a BAFTA and an Art Director's Guild Award. Gibson has been a leader in the film industry for more than four decades as a production designer and art director on iconic Australian films including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998).

Keinton Butler is senior exhibition curator at Powerhouse and creative director of Sydney Design Week. Butler holds a Master of Arts in Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston School of Art (in partnership with the Design Museum, London). At Powerhouse she leads collaborative exhibition, commission and research projects with a focus on socially and environmentally engaged contemporary design practices. Her recent exhibitions include Common Good (2018), Design for Life (2020), Hybrid: Objects for Future Homes (2020) and Graphic Identities (2021).