SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
The Victorian Design Challenge invites design professionals and students to tackle one of the great challenges of our time – waste. The Challenge aims to inspire impactful and implementable solutions that demonstrate the value of design and creativity to the creation of a better future. Join Craig Reucassel from ABC’s War on Waste and the Challenge jury as teams live pitch their design ideas. Each team will have to convince the jury that their idea is the best way to reduce, recover or eliminate waste. Who will be the Waste Challenge Champions?
The Live Pitch Final will result in winners from each category being crowned 2019 Victorian Design Challenge Champions
9AM, PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS, bookings required
11AM, SCHOOLS PRESENTATIONS
11.30AM, TERTIARY PRESENTATIONS
1.30PM, WINNERS ANNOUNCED
SHORTLIST
PROFESSIONAL
Studio Periscope
Studio Edwards
Ideat Studio
Curvecrete from The University of Melbourne
TERTIARY
Leixin Du, Pak Ying Tsang, Swinburne University of Technology and IaaC Global Summer School
Maddison Ryder, RMIT University
Joshua Wait and Phoebe Richardson, RMIT University
SCHOOLS
Mill Park Library Makers Club
Katinka Weber, Northcote Highschool
Alia Ferdowsian, Preshil
JURY
Craig Reucassel, Jury Chair, Presenter, ABC’s War on Waste
John Gertsakis, Director and Co-founder, E-waste Watch Institute, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures UTS
Tamsin O’Neill, Editor and Director, Green Magazine
Rebecca Gilling, Deputy CEO, Planet Ark
Abigail Forsyth, Managing Director and Co-founder, KeepCup