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Issue 62 - Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62

Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62 is the first issue of the year and always a great time to put our best foot forward. With Adam Goodrum, the loveliest man in design, as Guest Editor, we draw on his insights as a furniture designer, artist and educator to look at the makers shaping our design world. Sustainability has never been more important, and increasingly this is a consideration from the start with projects designed to address their immediate environment as well as the longevity of the planet. From the coldest winters to the most tropical of summers, addressing how we live in the environment is crucial to creating the perfect home.

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‘Constructions’ by Make.Shift
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‘Constructions’ by Make.Shift

Sydney-based designers Armando Chant, Donna Sgro and Olivier Solente are set to launch their collaborative practice Make.Shift Collective with the group’s first exhibition ‘Constructions’. Stephanie Madison reports.


A collaborative research practice, Make.Shift enables the designers to explore practice-led trans-disciplinary crossings between fashion, textiles, art and architecture effectively pooling the talents and expertise of textile designer Chant, fashion practitioner Sgro and design architect-creative art director Solente which when combined, are expanded into something new.

The idea to form the collective originally evolved from the group’s various collaborative activities and will provide a broader platform for creative exploration.

“Make.Shift Collective has become the framework through which we can collectively define our common goals, in terms of the larger concerns we have as individual practitioners coming together. Our mutual interests and collective differences create something bigger than each of us individually could form alone,” the Collective says.

The trio says to “expect the unexpected” from Make.Shift, a name they say, is as it implies, all about “making and shifting” – creating knowledge through making.

“As collaborative researchers, we are exploring what happens when you make and continually shift what each other brings to the individual projects, through the incorporation of other points of view. In the future we hope to engage with other practitioners that come from outside our own disciplinary areas to further develop this idea of shifting through collaborative making,” the Collective says.

Upcoming exhibition Constructions is the group’s debut collaborative series – a range of installations including two to three-dimensional pieces such as artworks, digital imagery, garments and sculptural items based on exploring the forms, structures and textures of nature.

“Continually looking to engage the creative process, Donna is researching the metamorphic butterfly life-cycle, whilst Armando is researching Australian flora, and Olivier explores the concept of nature as space. These explorations have started from observational photography and drawing series, however, have been creatively transformed throughout the process of making.” 

Constructions will be on show at Damien Minton Annex Space, 583 Elizabeth Street, Redfern, New South Wales from October 30 to November 3.

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Issue 62 - Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62

Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62 is the first issue of the year and always a great time to put our best foot forward. With Adam Goodrum, the loveliest man in design, as Guest Editor, we draw on his insights as a furniture designer, artist and educator to look at the makers shaping our design world. Sustainability has never been more important, and increasingly this is a consideration from the start with projects designed to address their immediate environment as well as the longevity of the planet. From the coldest winters to the most tropical of summers, addressing how we live in the environment is crucial to creating the perfect home.

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