Imagining the Future - Through Architecture and Design

Join the opening of the exhibition 'Imagining the Future - through Architecture and Design', where designers and architects depict the part they play in shaping the future by examining the present

What would happen if we dared to visualise a future scenario – not as science fiction, but as tangible, research-based proposals for new ways of living, dwelling and thinking?

The Imagining the Future exhibition presents 29 projects by architects and designers. The projects use current challenges and possibilities as their point of departure: new materials, new ways of dwelling and providing ourselves with shelter, new ways of envisaging community and sustainability.

Each project is an independent narrative, but in the aggregate, they point towards a future where human needs are put on an equal footing with planetary needs. For instance, is it possible for a dwelling to include species other than human beings? And how can technology and design help us envisage a future still unknown to us, but which is fit for the whole planet and its living beings? 

Join the opening of this year's theme exhibition that brings together the work of researchers, educators, and students from across the Academy. 

All are welcome at the opening.