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:: Hybrid Objects ::
2003 Melbourne -2002 Tokyo
[Exhibition + Identity + Design]
Producing the Exhibition Idea, Identity and Art Direction+Design for Hybrid Objects, In Tokyo Japan.
An Exhibition of Recent Australian Designs Directions, as part of Tokyo Designers Block 2002. For the first time a selection of Australia's most innovative and exciting designers will exhibit their works at the Australian Embassy from October 10-14 as part of Tokyo Designers Block 2002.
In October 2002 the Australian Embassy in Tokyo and the Idee showroom in Tokyo played host to the Hybrid Objects exhibition of Australian Design as part of the annual Tokyo Designers Block. With the support of Arts Victoria, the Australian Embassy in Tokyo , fusionbureau, and RMIT University, the Hybrid Objects exhibition was seen as a landmark exhibition in the promotion of Australian Design talent to an International audience.
The brief for the exhibition, originally sent to over four hundred designers, called for participants to seek to blur the boundaries and definitions of what constitutes design.
The diversity of responses received revealed contemporary design ideas emanating from Australian lifestyle, culture and sense of place. All of the designers were seen to be responding to local and regional conditions, therefore displaying the cultural diversity that is unique to Australia.
The pieces in the exhibition included furniture, products, homeware, lighting, sculpture and architectural forms, featuring work from leading practitioners as well as up and coming talent. The projects displayed ranged from experimental and theory based speculations to fully realized and marketable products.
This project would not have been possible without the network of fusionbureau tokyo designers + the Australian Embassy in Tokyo
The works on display in Tokyo were shown at Melbourne Museum from 20 December 2002 to 31 January 2003, exposing the work to diverse audience which ranged from members of the Architecture and Design profession to the public at large
Hybrid Objects was an Australian Design precedent in the export and exhibition of Australian Design Internationally, exhibited in the worlds most competitive design territory + setting the stage for Australian Cultural projects in Japan (Ancient Future + Tyranny of Distance exhibition, a group show of Australian designers curated by the RMIT Furniture Laboratory)
Australian Embassy Tokyo, RMIT School of Architecture and Design.
1) Australian Embassy Tokyo
2) IDEE Minami Aoyama
3) Melbourne Museum
We are interested in the IDEA.
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