Research Symposium
Join us a for a day of illuminating talks by our 2025 Research Scholars about objects in the diverse Powerhouse Collection that inspired their investigations and creative projects. A light switch, a radio, an electric car, a wedding dress, a computer game, a spider robot, a craniometer, a recipe book for inks and a story of lost cattle have inspired examinations of history, identity and technological change that reveal the many narratives held within everyday things.
Program
8.45am Registration
9am Welcome and opening address by Nicola Teffer, Acting Research Manager, Powerhouse
- PANEL ONE
9.15am Xavier Ho
Investigating LGBTQIA+ Representation: Developing the Australian Queer Game Archive
9.45am Clint Harvey and Dzintra Menesis
Wimble’s Inks Reimagined
10.15am Talei Mangioni
Radio Histories in the Pacific Islands
10.45am Panel One Q&A facilitated by Anni Turnbull, Collection Curator, Powerhouse
11am Morning tea
- PANEL TWO
11.30am Mia Francesca Jones
Objects of Light: Impacts of Artificial Night Lighting
12pm James Goodman and Julia Scott-Stevenson
Imagining the Electric
12.30pm Lauren Booker
Dismantling the tools and ephemera of pseudoscience
1pm Panel Two Q&A facilitated by Jason Le, Assistant Collection Curator, Powerhouse
1.15pm Lunch
- PANEL THREE
2pm Fabri Blacklock and Treena Clark
The Evolution of Indigenous Fashion in Australia
2.30pm Ruth Höflich
Hard Backs and Soft Fronts
3pm Lu Forsberg
Cowpastures
3.30pm Panel Three Q&A facilitated by Tammi Gissell, Collection Coordinator, First Nations, Powerhouse
3.45pm Afternoon tea
4.15pm Conclusion
Featuring
Powerhouse Research
Powerhouse research generates new knowledge across the applied arts and sciences to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Research Scholars
Powerhouse offers annual programs to researchers interested in exploring the collection for the purposes of creative practice or academic research.
