Powerhouse and David Jones Australian Design Commission

Powerhouse and David Jones have established an annual Australian Design Commission. This partnership aims to invest into the next generation of Australian designers by providing them with the opportunity to design a prototype of a new product for the contemporary Australian home. Apply - https://powerhouse.com.au/david-jones-design-commission

David Jones X Powerhouse

An exhibition marking the gift of the David Jones Archive, the most significant of its kind in Australia, to the Powerhouse Museum and the beginning of a three-year partnership between the two iconic institutions that will invest into the next generation of Australian designers. David Jones has inspired Australians for almost two centuries as an international innovator and industry leader. The David Jones Archive includes thousands of artefacts and documents, som...

SEAWEED

When you skip by seaweed on the beach or crunch into nori wrapped sushi rolls, you're interacting with something that also exists as billion-year-old fossils. In Australia, palawa people have crafted bull kelp water carriers for millennia, and from Ireland to Japan, seaweed’s been a culinary ingredient, a cough remedy and a way to pay taxes. Nowadays, this versatile alga gets shaped into sushi rolls, musical instruments, plastic alternatives, and could be a powerful tool in comb...