Auckland Design Week | Architecture Now

The seven day occasion gives a stage for designers spanning numerous disciplines — spatial, architectural, interiors, product, trend and extra — from throughout Tāmaki Makaurau.

Flipping the normal honest mannequin, ADW will host a collection of speaker occasions, excursions, workshops and screenings, culminating in a safari-style occasion in partnership with furnishings, interiors and product showrooms.

Installations will mix numerous design disciplines to create dynamic and immersive experiences for attendees, while demonstrating the prowess of our design group. Alongside this, there might be a concentrate on revolutionary, moral and sustainable options shaping the way forward for our areas and communities.

ADW director, Jen Jones is a passionate design advocate having, for over 10 years, labored alongside main designers to develop and ship a various vary of design and construct initiatives with industrial companies together with Auckland Airport, BNZ, Flight Centre and Lumino; in addition to a portfolio of high-end residential shoppers. This expertise has led Jen to develop a deep appreciation and understanding of the ability of design to remodel the character of place, area and our experiences inside them. 

“Regardless of being a metropolis that loves design — and our tendency to punch above our weight on the worldwide stage — the occasions that champion native and worldwide design are few and much between. The calendar for design occasions in New Zealand are both extremely specialised or completely for professionals. Auckland Design Week might be a window into our tradition, to our work, and an open and inclusive invitation to return on in.”

There might be three Design Districts as a part of the primary ADW. Gray Lynn, Parnell, and Mt Eden /Uptown, enabling guests to discover installations a brief strolling distance from one another, with an annual overarching curatorial theme. A central hub, the Design Depot at Ponsonby Central’s Sapphire Room will present an area for manufacturers and designers from exterior the Districts to exhibit — with a biophilia-inspired idea, the Depot will replicate manufacturers with a concentrate on sustainability and people with a connection to nature.

2024’s ‘Daring & Courageous’ urges a departure from the prevailing white-on-white aesthetic and encourages vibrant expression by daring selections in color, form and materiality. Greater than visible, Daring & Courageous extends affect to environmental duty — calling for designers to problem the established order of how we design. To prioritise the usage of recycled and sustainable supplies that reveal innovation and optimistic environmental impression.

Auckland Design Week 2024 will run from Sunday 10–Saturday 16 March 2024. Tickets can be found for buy right here. Observe @aucklanddesignweek for updates.

Extra details about the occasion together with companion showrooms, exhibition showcases, installations, and programme may be discovered at aucklanddesignweek.com. Particular point out to Resene, Forté Flooring and Cosentino for being early supporters of the ADW idea.

Be aware from AGM, the writer of Structure NZ, ArchitectureNow and Urbis

If this occasion sounds very acquainted to you then you’re proper, the thought, construction and idea are all copied from Urbis Designday and Designday Professional. A collection of occasions AGM ran for a decade. Sadly, when Urbis ceased publishing, the occasion was additionally mothballed. The concept was good then, as it’s now, and we, the workforce at AGM, want the organisers and individuals success and importantly, sunny climate!