This DIA — Design Days Canberra event is presented in partnership with the Alastair Swayn Foundation and National Museum of Australia for Design Canberra Festival, and facilitates a timely round table discussion amongst industry bodies.

With the advance of new technologies, environmental challenges, global pandemics, and political upheaval across the globe, governments and communities are adapting to Change. Designers are interacting with a vast array of specialists from other professions as their own design disciplines morph, evolve and respond to unprecedented levels of disruption. Are our peak bodies equipped to represent the next generation of designers, to best advocate for the crucial role designers can play across the cultural sector and more broadly, linked to the sciences and technologies as a vital stage in addressing Australia’s contemporary challenges.

This roundtable aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration through partnerships and community, encouraging debate, knowledge share, learning and connection with the broader ecology of design practice and networks

Moderator - Lyndon Anderson, Swayn Senior Fellow of Australian Design, National Museum Australia

Participants
Jodie Cunningham | Craft ACT CEO
Tom Skeehan | ACT Chair, Design Institute of Australia | Skeehan Studio
Cia Flannery | ACT President, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects AILA | Cia Landscapes and Colour
Alisa Moss | Director DJAS
Natalia Anderson (Weglarz) | Associate Planner WSP, former Board member Planning Institute of Australia (PIA)
Jane Cassidy | National Council Director & President ACT Chapter Australian Institute of Architects (AIA)
David Whitbread | ACT Chair Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA)
Dr Catriona Quinn | Arts, Design & Architecture, School of Art & Design UNSW

Venue - Council Room, National Museum of Australia
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Online - To participate via TEAMS, please follow this link.