SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Pecha Kucha Sydney
#24, 26 June 2014

The Fortynine Studio
http://thefortynine.com.au

The Fortynine Studio is a collaborative design studio. They develop self-initiated projects and create work for research, exhibition, commission and sale. They share a common ethos and foster an open working environment for designing, thinking and making. ‘Home’ is central to everything they do.

Motion Graphics & editing: http://su-anng.com/
Audio: Jonathan Hochman

Pecha Kucha Sydney
#24, 26 June 2014

Greg Fisher / Our Big Kitchen
http://obk.org.au

Greg Fisher is the General Manager of Our Big Kitchen, a not-for-profit NGO in Bondi that describes itself as a community kitchen for those in need. Greg has had a very colourful and diverse life, some of which he will share with us tonight, alongside stories about bringing people together around food.

Motion Graphics & editing: http://su-anng.com/
Audio: Jonathan Hochman

Pecha Kucha Sydney
#24, 26 June 2014

Lisa Tough/ DoubleUp Project UTS

Leisa Tough is an architect and a lecturer in the interior spatial design program at UTS. In her last semester she developed DoubleUp a project that asked students to take the plans of a nuclear family home and rework them to investigate how domestic interiors might be a tool for urban planning.

Motion Graphics & editing: http://su-anng.com/
Audio: Jonathan Hochman

Pecha Kucha Sydney
#24, 26 June 2014

Julia Charles
http://www.juliacharlesphotographer.com

Julia Charles is a photographer specialising in portraiture and photo documentation for architecture, art and design. Julia’s current work ‘Waiting’ examines the life of Mahdi, an Afghani refugee who escaped Kabul and is now in limbo in Sydney, unable to return to his home in Afghanistan, and waiting to make a new home in Australia.

Motion Graphics & editing: http://su-anng.com/
Audio: Jonathan Hochman

Pecha Kucha Sydney
#24, 26 June 2014

Henry Wilson
http://henrywilson.com.au/

Designer Henry Wilson produces objects for the home. His studio develops locally produced furniture and lighting with many pieces involving self-build components or fully resolved ‘in-house’ pieces. The collection continues to grow organically; committed to honestly and longevity.

Motion Graphics & editing: http://su-anng.com/
Audio: Jonathan Hochman

Pecha Kucha Sydney
#24, 26 June 2014

Paul Pholeros/Healthabitat
www.healthabitat.com

An architect who works on urban, rural and remote area architectural projects, Paul Pholeros is a Director of Healthabitat, a social business that in its 29 years has worked to improve the health of Indigenous people by improving their living environments. As well as working in the top end of Australia, Healthhabitat is applying the principles in Nepal, New York, Bangladesh and South Africa.

Motion Graphics & editing: http://su-anng.com/
Audio: Jonathan Hochman

Pecha Kucha Sydney
#24, 26 June 2014

Veena Sahajwalla / SMaRT, UNSW
http://smart.unsw.edu.au

Professor Veena Sahajwalla is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) at UNSW. Significantly, she has invented an environmentally friendly technology for recycling plastics and rubber tyres in steelmaking which offers new ways to build and a new perspective of home as we currently see it.

Motion Graphics & editing: http://su-anng.com/
Audio: Jonathan Hochman

Pecha Kucha Sydney
#24, 26 June 2014

Su-An Ng – http://su-anng.com/
Hothouse 9 – https://www.nfb.ca/film/hothouse_9_behind_abstract_scenes

Our last speaker has worked in Vancouver, Singapore, Sydney and Montreal. She is an animation filmmaker and director interested in telling stories with moving image, working in various techniques and constantly looking to contribute to stories that inspire. Tonight, she is going to focus on a personal project that hits close to home.

Motion Graphics & editing: http://su-anng.com/
Audio: Jonathan Hochman