A New Normal will run from 24 May until 15 June, bringing together more than fifty of Sydney?s most ambitious designers, architects, developers, technologists, brands and architects to actualise new solutions to solve some of the city?s most persistent challenges.
Presented at the Powerhouse in partnership with Vivid Ideas Sydney, Zen Energy and Landcom, A New Normal Sydney provides an opportunity to experience solutions that collectively represent a $120BN investment opportunity – into profitable initiatives that will pay for themselves within 7 years.
The 3-week long exhibition is part-gallery, part pavilion and part community meeting place, housing under one roof future prototypes that give visitors the opportunity to experience ?new normal? solutions for a self-sufficient Sydney. In addition to four prototypes and light displays, more than 20 concepts form part of an exhibition that provide a near-term solution that if implemented would transform Sydney from a consumer of water, energy and other commodities within 10-years to be a self-sufficient producer of clean energy, limitless water and zero waste within 10 years.
Highlight concepts that will be exhibited include a beer made from recycled waste-water in partnership with Heaps Normal called ?The Last Beer on Earth??, the rehabilitation of the Cooks River,  a new take on an old community gardening model, zero-waste retail fitouts, a coat hanger-eating robot, a 1000 megawatt pumped hydro power project that wil...