Sydney Creativity and Design Festival 2019
23 — 26 May 2019
Carriageworks
A creativity and design festival of talks, exhibitions, installations, innovation labs and workshops focusing on the truth across art, design, business and technology.
At the 2019 Semi Permanent Creativity and Design Festival, we tackled the theme of truth: how to wield it, how to overcome those who seek to blur it, and if it’s even a necessary ingredient on the path to success. We invited an extraordinary roster of voices within and between multiple disciplines of design to explore these notions. Some you will have heard of (CJ Hendry, Michel Gondry, The New York Times), and others we can’t wait to introduce you to (Anagrama, Erica Dorn, Beth O'Brien).
Highlights
Speakers & Artists
Schedule (Local Times)
All day
Experience
Rare - Masterclass
RARE brings its leadership masterclass for underrepresented creatives back to Sydney as part of Semi Permanent.
4:00 PM
PremiumExperience
Premium Experience: Creating meaningful AR experiences with Sam Keene from Google
Sam Keene — AR/VR lead UX engineer with Google — teaches you practical tips on how to weave AR/VR into your scope of work and add true value to clients.
All day
Experience
Levi's: Sustainability Showcase
Both a large-scale installation and showcase of Levi's work as a sustainability leader in the fashion industry.
All day
Experience
National Geographic and R/GA: The 'Make Good' Project
National Geographic and global innovation consultancy R/GA are seeking young Australian changemakers to participate in a first-of-its-kind innovation lab at Semi Permanent.
All day
Experience
Volkswagen's world-first VR and AR exhibition
Catch the debut of a new immersive VR and AR experience at Semi Permanent and a world-first innovation for the automotive industry.
All day
Experience
Jonathan Zawada: House of Genetic Diversity
A celebration of genetic variation in all of its forms by celebrated artists Jonathan Zawada and Mark Pritchard.
6:00 AM
Neuromuscle
In an outrageous act of mechanomorphisim, AKQA and Semi Permanent present their Neuromuscle experiment at Carriageworks - a game-playing AI designed to operate through the human body
All day
Experience
Rare - Masterclass
RARE brings its leadership masterclass for underrepresented creatives back to Sydney as part of Semi Permanent.
10:15 AM
11:15 AM
4:15 PM
5:00 PM
Panel
Rare
Rare Across two thought-provoking panels, at this year's Semi Permanent festival, Rare talents from around the world share how embracing their difference and staying true to themselves helped them reach their fullest creative potential.
12:00 AM
PremiumExperience
Premium Q&A: CJ Hendry and Alexie Glass-Kantor
11:00 AM
3:30 PM
Talk
The Art of the Trailer with Mark Woollen (USA)
The go-to trailer director teaches you the unsung art of Hollywood marketing.
All day
Experience
Levi's: Sustainability Showcase
Both a large-scale installation and showcase of Levi's work as a sustainability leader in the fashion industry.
All day
Experience
National Geographic and R/GA: The 'Make Good' Project
National Geographic and global innovation consultancy R/GA are seeking young Australian changemakers to participate in a first-of-its-kind innovation lab at Semi Permanent.
All day
Experience
Volkswagen's world-first VR and AR exhibition
Catch the debut of a new immersive VR and AR experience at Semi Permanent and a world-first innovation for the automotive industry.
All day
Experience
Jonathan Zawada: House of Genetic Diversity
A celebration of genetic variation in all of its forms by celebrated artists Jonathan Zawada and Mark Pritchard.
7:30 AM
Experience ∙ 1 hour 30 minutes
Breakfast with Anagrama (MEX) and SouthSouthWest (MELB)
Join Daniela Garza (Anagrama) and Andy Sargent (SouthSouthWest) over breakfast at QT Sydney to hear from two of the most unique design studios in the world.
7:00 PM
Experience
Isle of Dogs film-screening and Q&A with Erica Dorn
Join Erica Dorn, the lead-designer behind Isle of Dogs for a Q&A and film screening of Wes Anderson's masterpiece at the QT Sydney.
All day
Experience
Rare - Masterclass
RARE brings its leadership masterclass for underrepresented creatives back to Sydney as part of Semi Permanent.
12:00 AM
Talk
Erica Dorn: Designing Isle of Dogs (UK)
A lesson in world building for the Oscar-nominated masterpiece.
11:45 AM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Panel ∙ 4 hours
Future Youth
Join us for an afternoon where we delve into what it means to be young in 2019, the attitudes and behaviours affecting our lifestyles. Presented in collaboration with Andpeople.
3:15 PM
12:45 PM
PremiumExperience
Premium Experience: Hands-on workshop with Wes Anderson's Designer Erica Dorn
Step inside the world of a Wes Anderson brief in this intimate workshop with Isle of Dogs lead designer Erica Dorn.
2:30 PM
Panel
Designing Your Career
Join two award winning creatives over canapés to discuss the tricks to designing your career at its earliest stages.
4:30 PM
All day
Experience
Levi's: Sustainability Showcase
Both a large-scale installation and showcase of Levi's work as a sustainability leader in the fashion industry.
All day
Experience
National Geographic and R/GA: The 'Make Good' Project
National Geographic and global innovation consultancy R/GA are seeking young Australian changemakers to participate in a first-of-its-kind innovation lab at Semi Permanent.
All day
Experience
Volkswagen's world-first VR and AR exhibition
Catch the debut of a new immersive VR and AR experience at Semi Permanent and a world-first innovation for the automotive industry.
All day
Experience
Jonathan Zawada: House of Genetic Diversity
A celebration of genetic variation in all of its forms by celebrated artists Jonathan Zawada and Mark Pritchard.
All day
Experience
Rare - Masterclass
RARE brings its leadership masterclass for underrepresented creatives back to Sydney as part of Semi Permanent.
All day
Experience
Levi's: Sustainability Showcase
Both a large-scale installation and showcase of Levi's work as a sustainability leader in the fashion industry.
All day
Experience
National Geographic and R/GA: The 'Make Good' Project
National Geographic and global innovation consultancy R/GA are seeking young Australian changemakers to participate in a first-of-its-kind innovation lab at Semi Permanent.
All day
Experience
Volkswagen's world-first VR and AR exhibition
Catch the debut of a new immersive VR and AR experience at Semi Permanent and a world-first innovation for the automotive industry.
All day
Experience
Jonathan Zawada: House of Genetic Diversity
A celebration of genetic variation in all of its forms by celebrated artists Jonathan Zawada and Mark Pritchard.
Information
- We commission Australian and International artists to make monumental new work that intersects with contemporary ideas. Reflecting the diverse communities of urban Sydney, our artist-led program is ambitious, radical and always inclusive.Carriageworks was built between 1880 and 1889 as part of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops. By the 1900s several thousand people worked here, building and maintaining locomotive engines and carriages for the expanding rail network. Those workers shaped the development of our city for over 100 years.The Carriageworks site was one of the first places to employ Aboriginal people on an equal basis. It is also the place where generations of new migrants were first employed. In 1917, it was within these walls that the Great Strike started, which saw thousands of workers march on NSW Parliament and, through sheer power in numbers, shut it down.In 2007, the site was redeveloped as a cultural precinct. Today, Carriageworks is the most significant multi-arts centre in Australia.
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