Experimental Thinking / Design Practices
18 September – 7 November 2015
Experimental Thinking / Design Practices applies innovative approaches and creative thinking to the pressing social and environmental issues of our time. Some of the artworks navigating this complex area include a poetry generating robot, a strategy game using Australian census data and a machine that plants seeds in visually stunning patterns across fields, as if printed on to the landscape.
Experimental Thinking / Design Practices mixes design and research through investigating how hybrid practices and collaborations are negotiating complex issues such as global warming, online surveillance and personal protection through wearable technology.
Artists: Yoko Akama / Andrew Brown / Laurens Boer and Jared Donovan / Bettina Bruder / David Carlin, Lukman Iwan, Adrian Miles, Reuben Stanton, Peta Tait, James Thom, Laurene Vaughan, Jeremy Yuille / Chicks on Speed (Alex Murray- Leslie and Melissa Logan) in collaboration with Kenneth Feinstein / Beck Davis, Raune Frankjaer, Sara Adhitya, Zoe Mahony and Tricia Flanagan / DesignInquiry / Timothy Kendall Edser / Tricia Flanagan / Bill Gaver, Mike Michael, Tobie Kerridge, Liliana Ovale, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Alex Wilkie and Jennifer Gabrys / Benedikt Groß / Brad Haylock / Joachim Halse, Eva Brandt, Brendon Clark and Thomas Binder / Natalie Jeremijenko (xCLINIC) and Tega Brain / Volker Kuchelmeister, Jeong Greaves, Laura Fisher and Jill Bennett / Katherine Moline / Sang Mun / Jason Nelson / Josh On/LittleSis.org / Tristan Schultz / Noam Toran / The Australian Bureau of Statistics, Leo Burnett Sydney, and Millipede Creative Development / Mitchell Whitelaw / Anouk Wipprecht
Curators: Katherine Moline, Peter Hall & Beck Davis
Downloadable exhibition labels
Experimental Thinking / Design Practices exhibition catalogue
installation images
Public programs
Panel discussion, 18 September 2015
What's the use of speculative design?
Griffith University Art Gallery.
10 am – 12 pm. Join Katherine Moline (UNSW), Beck Davis, Peter Hall & Eleni Kalantidou (QCAD) for a discussion followed by a viewing of the exhibition Experimental Thinking/Design Practices.
Afternoon Workshops
1 – 3 pm: Myths of the Near Future 2, led by Katherine Moline (UNSW).
3 – 5 pm: Cognitive Redirective Mapping, led by Tristan Schultz (QCAD).
Curator’s talk, 19 September 2015
1 pm at the Griffith University Art Gallery, join Katherine Moline, Peter Hall and Beck Davis for a tour of the exhibition.
Griffith University Art Gallery: Queensland College of Art and Design, South Bank campus 226 Grey Street, South Bank, Brisbane.
School holiday workshop, 29 September 2015
1 – 3 pm. Recommended ages 10 –15. $10.
Want to know how to create art with your phone? Dr Jason Nelson leads a workshop to explore creative possibilities using the technology in the palm of your hands.
Design & Learning for Life: Care & Repair, 30 October 2015, 10 am – midday
What does it take to become a change agent? Queensland College of Art and Design students discuss facing the future of a world in need of repair.
Curator's talk, 30 October 2015, 3 pm
Join Katherine Moline (UNSW), Peter Hall (QCAD), Beck Davis (QCAD), Laurene Vaughan (RMIT) and Brad Haylock (RMIT), for a tour of the exhibition Experimental Thinking/Design Practices.
Media
Dr Katherine Moline, curator of Experimental Thinking, took part in an interview with ABC's Radio National on 1 November, during the last week of the exhibition at the Griffith University Art Gallery.
- Listen to the interview, focusing on Myths of the Near Future on ABC Radio National.