Designing Playful and Vibrant Places

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
McCoy Cct, Acton ACT

Event Description

How can governments, organisations and individuals help design public places that surprise and delight? What roles do creativity and culture perform in contemporary placemaking? What makes you feel excited and engaged by a place you’ve never visited, or one you visit everyday? Join us as we explore the roles of culture, creativity and play in our cities.

Panellists:

Dr Baden Pailthorpe is a contemporary artist who works with emerging and experimental technologies. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University School of Art & Design, Canberra. Dr Pailthorpe has a digital public artwork commissioned for Uncharted Territory, which will be located on a large LED wall at Kambri, ANU.

Dr Cathy Hope is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra and is interested in play as a mechanism for connecting and transforming people and places. She’s also the Coordinator of the Play, Creativity and Wellbeing Project and the Founder/Coordinator of Play Activation Network ACT. Dr Hope is convening the ACT Play Symposium – Canberra: the Laboratory of the Possible as part of Uncharted Territory.

Thomas Hobbs, Associate, Design Director Australia, Henning Larsen. Thomas leads global Architectural firm Henning Larsen’s Australian practice.

Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) and hosted by Dr Keir Winesmith, NFSA Chief Digital Officer.

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