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Powerhouse Museum - Future Prototypes | Colin Gibson and Keinton Butler

Waterfall falling below skull carved into cliffside.

Program Sydney Design Week 2024

Future Prototypes | Colin Gibson and Keinton Butler

Talk

Academy Award winning production designer Colin Gibson discusses how he imagines real world prototypes for the future. In conversation with Powerhouse curator Keinton Butler.

Gibson will share an insight into his narrative-led design approach and how that has been realised through recent projects, including Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The leading international production designer creates imaginative worlds in the space between reality and fiction. The fictional technologies, sets and props that he envisions could become design solutions for real world problems.

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Speakers

Colin Gibson is an internationally renowned film production designer known for his work on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) which won an Academy Award for Best Production Design, a BAFTA and an Art Director's Guild Award. Gibson has been a leader in the film industry for more than four decades as a production designer and art director on iconic Australian films including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998).

Keinton Butler is senior exhibition curator at Powerhouse and creative director of Sydney Design Week. Butler holds a Master of Arts in Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston School of Art (in partnership with the Design Museum, London). At Powerhouse she leads collaborative exhibition, commission and research projects with a focus on socially and environmentally engaged contemporary design practices. Her recent exhibitions include Common Good (2018), Design for Life (2020), Hybrid: Objects for Future Homes (2020) and Graphic Identities (2021).

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Ended 16 Sept 2024

6–7pm

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UTS Great Hall

On Gadigal Land

UTS Great Hall

Building 1, 1/15 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007

Country Always

Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

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Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

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Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

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Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

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Ongoing Transformations

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Powerhouse Ultimo

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Future Prototypes | Colin Gibson and Keinton Butler

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