Investors are sinking billions into high-tech agriculture systems, but farmers are still waiting for simple, adaptable and reliable tools.
- Senior Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
With the benefit of hindsight, we might finally see that the iPhone was the opposite of minimalism.
In the year since the resounding Yes vote in the same-sex marriage survey, the flag has clearly escaped the pole or the street bunting of pride festival times to become ever present in our cities.
The concept of “affordances” is used by product designers to capture the sense that an object seems to call for certain kinds of use. A handle affords holding, a button pressing and a KitKat breaking.
You might know expanded polystyrene as packing foam, but it’s a nightmare to recycle. Why not just turn it into something useful (or beautiful) instead?
Art can help us explore and understand some of the more abstract ideas in maths - such a topology.
Siri is sassy. But when does the tone of voice in digital help override usefulness?
Even our most anonymous objects, like the portable electric drill, are sources of cultural expression. It’s time to learn their history.
The work of Australian designer Berto Pandolfo shows how 3D printing can be claimed as a craft technology.
The Green Square urban renewal area – expected to be Sydney’s most densely populated area by 2030 – represents a new paradigm of urban living.
The Counselor is a collaboration between one of the last century’s literary greats, novelist Cormac McCarthy, and one of the filmmakers who has helped define contemporary, mainstream American cinema, director…
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