Future Workplace Thinking: Systems, Spaces, Cities
Presented by HOW Group & RMIT Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design disciplines
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
HOW Group Showroom - THE MELBURNIAN, Ground Floor
250 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC, Australia
DATES
Fri 22 May 2 – 9pm
Internal viewing
Sat 23 May 12am – 11.59pm
External viewing
Sun 24 May 12am – 11.59pm
External viewing
HOW Group and RMIT present a curated window installation that turns the street into a gallery of future workplace thinking. Located at the HOW Group showroom, just up the road from the NGV, the installation showcases projects from students in Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design. It highlights how education and industry are shaping the next generation of Australian design. Through images, video, models and prototypes, visitors see how iterative processes of designing, testing, refining and remaking build towards concepts and integrated material systems that respond to the circular economy.
From speculative proposals to near-market prototypes, the installation considers how we will work in the twenty-first century, and how consumption can be reduced while improving experience across the built environment value chain — from sourcing and manufacturing through to use, reuse and recovery. Visitors encounter work at multiple scales, from furniture designed for upgrade rather than obsolescence, to interior schemes that explore shared resources and future patterns of consumption, through to the scale of the city, where the office is understood as more than a workplace, but as a cultural and urban catalyst.
An opening event takes place on 22 May. The exhibition window display is accessible internally and externally from Friday 22 May to Friday 29 May. The external display is visible at all times from the pedestrian area in front of the Melburnian on St Kilda Road. The internal display is open Wednesday to Friday, 2–5 pm.
Participants
HOW Group
With over forty years of experience delivering furniture solutions across Australia, HOW Group is deeply rooted in the Melbourne/Naarm design community. HOW Group provides commercial furniture and bespoke joinery designed to create adaptable, functional environments. Through a long-standing partnership with RMIT, HOW Group supports the next generation of designers by sponsoring Interior and Industrial Design scholarships.
RMIT Industrial Design
At RMIT, Industrial Design focuses on the trans-disciplinary nature of contemporary industrial design. Students engage in hands-on learning through practice-based design studios, co-creating solutions through a human-centred approach to product, service and experience design.
RMIT Interior Design
RMIT Interior Design is concerned with the social, cultural, material, technological and temporal conditions of the spaces we inhabit. Students address global and local challenges shaping interior design and explore the complex relationships between people, their environments, and other living entities through innovative studio-based learning.
RMIT Architecture
RMIT Architecture is a platform for practice-based experimentation in architecture and the built environment. The school provides a context in which students, staff and industry partners develop architecture and urban design propositions that respond to critical issues and challenges facing contemporary practice. It fosters a culture of debate, difference and diversity, where new ideas, positions, techniques and models of architecture and urbanism emerge through discussion.