Exploring Creativity, Curiosity, Innovation in Next-Gen Materials

On 7 September 2024, UNSW SMaRT Centre Director Prof Veena will join Stylecraft's "NEXT: Saturday Indesign Panel Discussion - Exploring Creativity, Curiosity, Innovation, and Partnerships in Next-Gen Materials".

Veena will share her vision for a sustainable future, highlight the importance of creating a circular economy and how using waste as a resource must be at the centre of our manufacturing future and innovative decarbonisation efforts.

She will highlight that using innovations such as UNSW SMaRT Centre's recycling and MICROfactorie^TM technologies are central to help achieve the sustainability needed for the future.

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Host Stylecraft says: 

Guest speakers Andrea Rossetto of Arper (Head of APAC, Arper), Ben Rennie, (Co-founder, and Managing Partner, Reny Chair, Australian chapter of Design Declares), Professor Veena Sahajwalla (2022 NSW Australian of the Year, ARC Laureate Fellow, Director, ARC Microrecycling Research Hub, Hub Leader, Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub, National Environmental Science Program Director, Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology) & Su-Fern Tan (Head of ESG, CBRE Pacific Region, Chair, Expert Reference Panel, Sustainable Fitouts GBCA) and moderated by Stylecraft’s Marketing and Sustainability Manager, Nicole Johnson.

Please join us at 11.00am on Level 24 in our Woolloomooloo showroom for the talk and we invite you to stay for lunch & prosecco afterwards as we celebrate our theme of THEN • NOW • NEXT, encapsulating the legacy of timeless designs, the latest collections to arrive in Australia as well as challenging us to imagine the possibilities for the future of materiality and design.