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Exhibition asks visitors to talk sustainability
An exhibition on the relationship between sustainability and design that asks
visitors to record their comments as part of a research feedback loop opens on
Sunday.
RMIT University researcher, Elizabeth Farlie, is running the exhibition, called “10
incomplete things from an imaginary life”, as part of a larger investigation into the
connection between sustainability and communication design.
Ms Farlie, from the School of Media and Communication, said the project was
looking at how people thought about sustainability and how that could be shifted
through conversation initiated by new uses of design.
“I am encouraging people to contribute to this research by attending the exhibition
and recording their responses by audio or writing.
“The exhibition will display a range of materials intended to prompt people to re-
think their understanding of sustainability.
“As a practising designer I have often asked what I could contribute to the
challenge to be a more sustainable society, what else can I contribute beyond
meeting the commercial needs of my clients?
“To answer that question I chose to take a broader view, a deeper view. How does
it all fit together? The exhibition asks in particular what makes something real?
What makes consumerism real? What are the notions underlying that economic
and sociological system?
“As part of this exhibition, I have also examined a group of visual artists from the
United States who produced works around these questions, a group which
included David Salle, Paul McManhon, Matt Mullican, Cindy Sherman and Barbara
Kruger.”
“10 incomplete things from an imaginary life”
DATES:
17 October, 12-2pm; 19 October, 6-8pm; and 22 October, 12-2pm
VENUE:
Nucleus design studio, level 2, Building 9, Bowen Street,
RMIT University
For interviews: Elizabeth Farlie, 0400 938 056.
For general media enquiries: University Communications, David Glanz, (03)
9925 2807 or 0438 547 723.
13 October, 2010
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