Challenge your perceptions of sustainability through this unique creative platform and restaurant.

Breakfast, 8am (bookings essential): SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA AND ART FROM DISCARDED ORGANIC AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE with Tamsin O’Neill, Green Magazine; Tracey Deep, Floral Sculpture Studio; Caroline Pidcock, Pidcock – Architecture + Sustainability; John Eusson, Director Eusson Consulting (MC).

Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Michael Alvisse and Mark Schamburg.

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Tamsin O’Neill is the founder and editor of Green, a national magazine focusing on sustainable architecture and landscape design. During the launch in 2007, O’Neill told The Sydney Morning Herald there was a gap in the market for a magazine with “good, inspirational stories about environmental design”. Published quarterly by Green Press, Green is printed on recycled paper using a carbon neutral process, and also provides an extensive website (www.greenmagazine.com.au) with regular news, events and resources.

Tracey Deep has been a floral sculptor for the past 15 years, producing works for film and theatre companies, architects, hotels, restaurants and corporations. By using raw, pre-loved and discontinued materials, Deep creates sustainable sculpture through her passion for rescuing, recreating and reworking. She creates her pieces at her Floral Sculpture Studio in Sydney’s inner-city Paddington, where she focuses on fresh local indigenous seasonal produce, graphic textural seed pods, windswept weathered branches, lush succulents and sculptural organic materials.

Caroline Pidcock, director of Pidcock – Architecture + Sustainability, is a Sydney-based architect. Formerly president of both the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council and Royal Australian Institute of Architects in NSW, Pidcock is now an industry representative on the Australian Building Codes Board and member of the Bicycle NSW board. She is an ambassador for both the Al Gore Climate Project and 1 Million Women project which aims to collectively cut one million tonnes of carbon dioxide by reduced usage.

John Eussen has been a leader in the textiles and interiors industry for more than 20 years, specialising in sustainable and environmentally friendly decor. He worked in high-profile management roles before leaving the corporate world to pursue his penchant for interiors. His passion for a sustainable future has since led him into a raft of inspired roles, from being an Al Gore Ambassador for the Climate Change Project to working as a consultant for global sustainability conferences.

Schamburg + Alvisse is a Sydney-based firm that designs, manufactures and distributes innovative furniture. The exploration of ecologically sustainable design is a cornerstone of the approach by interior designer Marc Schamburg and architect Michael Alvisse, who joined forces in 1994. In recent years, they have had their sustainable designs independently certified by Good Environmental Choice Australia. In 2008, Schamburg + Alvisse also became the first Australian furniture makers to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.