Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

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

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

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Sun speckles amongst wild grass in nature

Program Sydney Design Week 2023

Material Cultures

Name: Sydney Design Week | Material Cultures
Start: 2023-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-24T07:00:00.000Z
Location: Sydney Design Week

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Ended 24 Sept 2023

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Sydney Design Week

The design of contemporary artefacts can provide a powerful platform to interrogate our material, cultural and technological (hi)stories. Projects that engage with the past, through the exploration of material and extraction, or through our relationship to ancient cultures, can reframe deep-rooted chronologies and reveal new meanings.