Projects by architects Sumayya Vally and David Gianotten are among this year's Sydney Design Week highlights, chosen by curators Keinton Butler and Amaia Sánchez-Velasco.
Curated by Powerhouse Museum senior curator Keinton Butler and architect Amaia Sánchez-Velasco, Sydney Design Week this year invited a selection of architects, designers and artists to share their visions of alternative futures.
Keinton Butler is the co-curator of Sydney Design Week 2024 and senior curator at Powerhouse Museum. Photo by Zan Wimberley
Titled In Between Worlds, this year's programme spotlighted diverse disciplines including food, film production and space exploration.
"Our discussions began with a review of current social, political, climatic, and technological challenges globally, but more specifically, we chose to focus on the inequitable extraction of natural resources, culture and data in the Global South," Butler and Sánchez-Velasco told Dezeen. Grandeza Studio founder Amaia Sanchez-Velasco joins Butler as this year's co-curator of Sydney Design Week. Photo by Adrian Valiente
"'In Between Worlds' refers to the feeling of standing on a threshold, a space where hope and despair converge and where the enormity of the polycrisis exists alongside the immense potential for transformative action," they continued.
This year's Sydney Design Week takes place while its organiser, Powerhouse, is undergoing a major transformation, with two out of the group's four museums und...