events

Platform –redesigning our transportation systems

07 October 2010 QLD

The Creative Industries Innovation Centre is proudly supporting Platform, a think tank that will harness design thinking to propose ways to radically improve the accessibility, usability and safety of public transportation.

Platform is part of Queensland’s Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific, which aims to connect design thinkers with community, government, education and industry leaders to find creative solutions for the big picture challenges in our region.
 
This full-day workshop is for designers, entrepreneurs and decision makers from the ecosystem of urban transportation, mobility and digital connectivity.

Led by Dr. Michael Trudgeon of Crowd Productions, and a multi-disciplinary team of specialists, this workshop will focus on how we can redesign transportation systems to create digitally connected user-friendly systems.

Platform examines how information functions within the public transport network could blur the lines between public and private space, rewriting the role of transportation infrastructure in the civic realm.

Attendance at this workshop provides access to the Unlimited Business Seminar and lunch and refreshments

The Creative Industries Innovation Centre (CIIC) helps creative companies improve their operations, productivity, competitiveness and innovation by providing business advice and support. It is an Australian Government initiative and is hosted by the University of Technology, Sydney.

Event speakers

Dr. Michael Trudgeon – Designer & Architect
Founding director of Melbourne based studio Crowd Productions, Michael Trudgeon has over 23 years’ experience in industrial design, architecture and media design. He is a trans-disciplinary designer and architect.

He focuses predominantly on research in new technologies and industrial design for architecture to create powerful new customer experiences. Recent projects include concept-store design for National Australia Bank, flagship cinema complexes at Melbourne Central and Blacktown for Hoyts Corporation, and Digital Cinema capsules for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Oliver Freeman - Strategic Advisor
Oliver Freeman is Australia’s leading scenario planner. He has recently completed an assignment for the Design Research Institute at RMIT on their strategic future and is an enterprise partner with the Creative Industries Innovation Centre at UTS.

In 2009, Oliver was engaged by the State Library of NSW, along with futurist Richard Watson, to complete scenarios for the future of public libraries. He is also the co-founder of homepagedaily.com, with his business partner Richard Neville and Michael Killalea.