The Project - in more detail...

Set to bring a whole new level to Saturday in Design, get ready for the inclusion of The Project this year, where for the first time, the audience becomes part of the content. Members of Australia’s best architecture, design and creative firms have partnered up with participating SiD showrooms, and will be creating installations and innovations, using and inspired by showroom product.

Similar to the Milan fair, design locations at SiD will be transformed for the occasion with the designers taking inspiration from product to create installations of every kind, shape and colour, as part of The Project. This is the first time ever that designers have played such an instrumental role in an Australian design event, so immerse yourself in the best that they have to offer, around town at Saturday in Design.

These locations are sure to be hot spots on the SiD map - keep an eye out for The Project collaborations in the precincts below:

Carlton/Fitzroy/North and West Melbourne

· 'Underground at the Meat Markets' - Mariachi Design with the following companies have re-created London’s Underground tube system at the Arts House Meat Markets curated venue:

· Amalgamated Marble with Christopher Elliot Design
· Arthur G
· ECF
· Elite Space
· Ilve
· James Richardson (also working with Baenziger Coles are having a chair structure made out of re-usable chair elements)
· Ontera Modular Carpets
· Silent Gliss
· Uplifting Solutions
· Whitecliffe Imports

· Gray Puksand show us that ‘Some Things Are Better in Black’ at UCI, who are launching the cool Black Book Collection

· Melbourne Museum  - Woven Image and bangdesign have teamed up to create a curated design for the Launch Pad Finalist exhibition at the Melbourne Museum

Flinders Quarter/CBD

· Burgtec, Macquarie Textiles and NSW Leather Co. with SKM

· Centra Commercial Interiors with Resource

· Corporate Culture with Ferguson Design Studio will be ‘Lounging Around at Corporate Culture’ where you can rest your feet and experience the latest design

· Euroluce Lighting Australia have teamed up with Bates Smart to create settings visitors can naturally interact with

· GGI Office Systems with Woodhead

· Häfele Australia are collaborating with Geyer

· What is the 5^th Wall? Find out who Siren Design are working with for The Project

· Geyer have created ‘Suspended Animation’ to showcase Stylecraft’s range

· Systems Supply with Artillery

Richmond/Abbotsford

· Woods Bagot will create a new interior display using Instyle Contract Textiles, Contemporary Leathers and Wovin Wall’s new collections.

· Cunsolo Architects are helping Insitu launch the Myto chair by Konstantin Grcic for Plank

· Baenziger Coles will creatively express the three elements of James Richardson’s business, along with an island of Milan product.

· Jardan Australia and Kvadrat Maharam are working with Jackson Clements Burrows

· Exponential Design have designed a new branding for Living Edge

· Planex with Alexander Lotersztain

· Rugs Carpet & Design have teamed up with Black Milk

Southbank/South Melbourne

· A shipping container is transformed by Tony Camilleri to showcase ‘Tomorrow’s Kitchen’ by Fisher & Paykel

· Hettich Australia with German designer Thorsten Rosenstengel

· Hassell takes us on a journey to an environment that will delight the senses and stimulate the imagination. The forest will come to life and reveal Schiavello’s wild side.

And, check out ‘The Perfect Packages’ around town, representing the key attributes of Rim Fabrics.