SCCI x the Design Museum launches in London
This Friday 28 October, SCCI: Sherman Centre for Culture & Ideas lands in London to host an exciting partnership with the Design Museum .
Over two weekends in October and November, the museum will host a pair of ‘hubs’ – a curated programme of discussions and panels focusing on fashion (28-30 October) and architecture (4-6 November) as part of the UK/Australia Season 2021-22.
We caught up with David Congram , co-curator of the Architecture Hub about his highlights in the programme, which explores how fashion and architecture intersect with themes of identity, technology, art, social justice, and the environment.
As humankind collectively looks to increasingly uncertain tomorrows, the
SCCI x the Design Museum speakers have something profound, and a uniquely Australian perspective, to share about meeting the needs of diverse societies without further breaching – and it is hoped, in fact reversing – injured ecologies
The Fashion Hub (28-30 October) spotlights Australia’s unique sartorial landscape and position in a rapidly changing global context. First Nations and global majority designers feature prominently, and speakers include futurist and ‘body architect’ Lucy McRae, artist and Art Gallery NSW La Prairie Art Award-winner Atong Atem, First Nations fashion leader Grace Lillian Lee, and visionary Australian fashion designers Romance was Born.?
The Architecture Hub showcases the leading figures driving a progressive approach to contemporary needs for housing, infrastructure and innovation. Speakers include John McAslan of John McAslan + Partners , Ka Wai Yeung and David Kaunitz of Kaunitz Yeung Architecture , Isabelle Toland of Aileen Sage Architects, and Neil Logan, of BVN Architecture .
The hubs are all about cultural exchange, so we asked David what he thinks the UK and Australia can learn from each other –
There is obviously much intelligence and creativity to share…constant re-learning, which speaks to something not traditionally associated with the practice of architecture: humility…
We were also interested in his personal highlights within the two hubs –
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'Provocation’, explaining how Dr Gene Sherman AM created SCCI to facilitate discussions that ‘are anything but stale and boring. They're spontaneous, gleefully decentralised, completely non-hierarchical, and deliberately disruptive by nature – all the ingredients for provocation and, thereafter, the start-again-steps leading to change.’
Beyond the hubs, we asked David what his plans were for his visit to London –
We've been privileged to meet many of these ground-breaking Brits – writers, performers, musicians, designers, artists, and creatives – with whom we're looking forward to reconnecting on home turf, and drinking more wine than is advisable on studio visits…?It's certainly not for everyone but sitting cross-legged on an ink-splattered studio floor, animatedly picking over a graveyard of abandoned prototypes, drinking from a vessel probably destined for washing tomorrow's paintbrushes... that's the dream. I can't wait to see where your magic is made
And finally…as SCCI wraps up five years of cultural programming, what is the centre’s greatest success??
SCCI's greatest achievement is yet to come. Across five years of programming, SCCI has planted seeds in the worlds of fashion, architecture, and countless other areas of cultural expression
Looking towards the future, David speculates –
Perhaps tomorrow, perhaps next year, perhaps even next century, moments of enlightenment and innovation will flourish. In time, that will be our greatest achievement
The SCCI x the Design Museum program is a vibrant exploration of Australia’s role in global creativity, opening debate and discourse directed by the question ‘who are we now?’