ROUND ONE JURY – ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Sue Carr is the Founder and Principal Director of Carr, a Melbourne-based studio representing over 40 years of project success. Since co-founding her first design practice in 1971, Sue’s name has been synonymous with design in Australia. Sue is a thinker, innovator, designer and teacher, synonymous with the evolution of interior design in Australia. Sue’s work as a practitioner and indefatigable educator has been instrumental in redefining the role of interior design and its power to make a positive difference to people’s lives.
Sue describes herself as an agitator for change – always seeking the new, the different, the unique but with an innate understanding and knowledge of what makes a project truly great. This influence and experience saw Sue awarded the prestigious The Australian Financial Review – Westpac ‘100 Women of Influence’ Award recognising Australia’s next generation of outstanding women.
Sue’s vast experience includes landmark projects – across all sectors – such as the highly awarded Jackalope Hotel Mornington Peninsula, Westin Hotel Melbourne, Australian Stock Exchange, University of Sydney Business School, National rollout Norton Rose Fulbright Law Tenancies, Boston Consulting Group and its innovation arm BCG Digital Ventures, interiors of the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest residential skyscraper, Australia 108, as well as a multitude of renowned bespoke residential and multi-residential projects throughout Australia.
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Bren Imboden and Luis Viale
makebardo
ROUND ONE JURY – COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Bren Imboden graduated in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires, and she also studied Stage Design at the Colón Theatre in Argentina. Her love for illustration allowed her to collaborate with many publishers—primarily for children’s books industry— and fashion labels from around the world. Her curious spirit led her to live in different countries and to use that multicultural background as an inspiration for her constant search for profound and meaningful design concepts.
Luis Viale graduated in Architecture from the UM University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has worked as a designer in various design studios across Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and Melbourne. With a multidisciplinary profile, Luis loves to work in teams and is always ready to face new challenges. He is not only an Architect by training; he has multifaceted skills because of his background. His line of work is based on experimentation and research in the field of architecture, industrial, and graphic design.
Together they run makebardo, a creative design studio based in Queenstown, New Zealand. The studio specializes in branding and packaging design. Their work has been awarded and published worldwide.
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Professor Erwin Viray
Singapore University of Technology and Design
ROUND ONE JURY – ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Professor Erwin Viray is the Head of Pillar of Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
He was Global Excellence Professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology and Head of the Graduate School of Architecture and Design from 2012 and Chief Communications Officer for the Kyoto Design Lab.
Erwin served as a member of the Singapore President’s Design Awards Jury since 2012 and the Chair of the Jury since 2013. He also served as an Awards Ambassador for the LafargeHolcim Awards in Asia Pacific, was a Jury Chair of archiprixSEA 2012 and 2016 and Jury Member of TRANSFER Architecture Video Award 2019. Among other prestigious design awards, he served as a Jury member for the India Institute of Architecture (Kerala) Architecture Awards 2017, Association of Siam Architects Design Awards 2018, Taiwan Architecture Award 2018.
Professor Erwin is the Lead Curator of the Singapore Pavilion for Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 and Member of Management Board the TOTO Gallery MA in Tokyo. He sits on the Advisory Council for the Barcelona Institute of Architecture and has been Editor of the influential magazine, a+u (Architecture + Urbanism) since 1996. Erwin Viray has produced publications on Peter Zumthor (a+u, 1998); Herzog & de Meuron (a+u, 2002 & 2006 & 2018); Studio Mumbai: Praxis (Toto, 2012); Christian Kerez: Uncertain Certainty (Toto, 2013); and The Asian Everyday: Possibilities in a Shifting World (Toto, 2015).
He is author of Beauty of Materials: When Surfaces Start to Move (Kyoritsu, 2002) and Contemporaneous Architecture (Urban Redevelopment Authority Singapore, 2019) showcasing 70 architectural projects that have shaped Singapore’s landscape in the last 15 years. He is one of the world’s ten critics for Phaidon 10x10_2 (on 100 of the world’s most exceptional emerging architects).
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Anthony Batley
Howard Wright Limited
ROUND ONE JURY – PRODUCT DESIGN
Anthony is the Research and Development Manager at Howard Wright Limited, a leading medical bed and stretcher designer, manufacturer, and marketer based in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Anthony is a Mechanical Engineer with 20+ years of experience.
He has led many projects and worked hands-on in major product developments from concept through to manufacture.
Howard Wright has won a number of design awards for their products, most notably Australia’s Good Design Awards – Australian Good Design Award of the Year in 2010 for its M8 Intensive Care Bed, more recently a Good Design Award Gold 2018, and a New Zealand Best Award – Gold Pin 2018 for its M10 Medical bed.
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Professor Mark Armstrong
Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design, Monash University
ROUND ONE JURY – PRODUCT DESIGN
Mark Armstrong is a Practice Professor in Design, a Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia and an inductee into the Design Hall of Fame. In 2019, Mark was honoured with Good Design Australia’s Australian Design Prize in recognition for his contribution to the Australian design profession.
The Design Department at Monash University has a strategic focus on the Medtech sector with a newly formed ‘Health Collab’, a design research group focused in the area of Health and Wellbeing.
Professor Armstrong provides industrial design expertise to a variety of medical device projects, working very closely with clinicians and engineers from the University and partner hospitals to produce improved designed outcomes for patients and clinicians. Professor Armstrong currently supervises three Industrial Design PhD candidates in the Health and Wellbeing space.
Mark is recognised as one of Australia’s foremost designers. He applies a collaborative multi-disciplinary process of studio-based research to achieve design excellence and innovation.
As well as a Practice Professor at Monash University, he was Founder and Director of Blue Sky, one of Australia’s leading design consultancies. Over the last decade, Mark has steered Blue Sky to meet new challenges in the Australia design landscape.
His clients include Qantas, Cochlear, ResMed, Omega, Breville, Telstra, Coles, Electrolux, Commonwealth Bank, Philips, Caroma, Victa, United Nations, Olympus and SOCOG.
There is a close working relationship between Professor Armstrong and the other investigators. This has enabled regular exchanges of thinking and the development of methodologies that follow world’s best practice in terms of ideation, experimentation, testing and prototyping.
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Dr Rod Farmer
McKinsey Digital
ROUND ONE JURY – DIGITAL DESIGN
My professional career of 15+ years has been guided by a passion for designing with people in mind and how technology can transform businesses, industries and communities.
Through a human-centred design lens, I help clients build new businesses and capabilities, deliver new products and services, establish new ways of working, and drive design-led transformations. In my current role, I lead McKinsey Design across APAC region and co-lead our Customer Experience practice for McKinsey Digital. As a Digital Expert Partner, I work at both strategic and executional levels across a wider range of issues related to digital strategy, transformation, innovation and customer experience. As the leader for McKinsey Design in APAC, I work to grow our world-class Design capability and bring the best of the Firm to our clients. McKinsey Design helps clients drive growth by delivering breakthrough products, services, customer experiences, and design-led innovation. We take a unique, multidisciplinary approach bringing top design talent from award-winning studios (like LUNAR, Veryday, and McKinsey Digital Labs) together with McKinsey & Company’s deep industry expertise. This combination of analytical rigor and breakthrough creativity helps clients across private, public, and social sectors innovate at scale and speed.
Outside of McKinsey, I actively support socially-oriented businesses in a pro-bono capacity to help build stronger Australian communities. I am a proud Board Member of SANE Australia helping Australians affected by complex mental illness.
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Ray Labone
Purposeful Partners
ROUND ONE JURY – DESIGN STRATEGY
Ray has deep experience in design capability integration and business culture and strategy development.
Having led a New Zealand Government taskforce on design, he was a key architect in the creation of the Better by Design program in New Zealand and of Federal and State design integration programs in Australia.
More recently his focus has been on facilitating strategic vision and purpose and guiding organisations through transformation. By aligning culture and strategy to intentionally evolve their business models, Ray helps organisations stay relevant and valued.
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Christy McLeod
Bank of Queensland
ROUND ONE JURY – DIGITAL DESIGN
Christy is the Head of Digital Design at the Bank of Queensland. She is a passionate yet pragmatic award-winning innovation professional with 20 years of digital and human-centered design experience.
Christy is driven by the desire to improve people’s lives and solve complex organisational and strategic problems through collaborative design methods. She has designed and delivered enterprise innovation frameworks and design thinking programs for and with large corporates, complex government departments, consultancies, and startups. Her work has been published in national journals and she is the founder of an award-winning startup.
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Dr Leah Heiss
RMIT Wearables and Sensing Network
ROUND ONE JURY – PRODUCT DESIGN
Dr Leah Heiss is an award-winning designer and Co-Director of the RMIT Wearables and Sensing Network. Her wearable health technologies include Diabetes Jewellery; swallowable devices to detect disease; biosignal sensing emergency jewellery; and cardiac monitoring jewellery.
Facett, the world’s first modular hearing aid that Leah designed for Blamey Saunders hears won many awards including the 2018 Australian Good Design Award of the Year and CSIRO Design Innovation Award.
Leah’s design work is part of Museums Victoria heritage collection and she has exhibited at galleries locally and globally. She teaches through the RMIT Master of Design Futures and her teaching practice focuses on health sector innovation and design leadership.
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Ian Wong
Monash University
ROUND ONE JURY – STUDENT DESIGN
Ian Wong is a designer, collector, curator and senior lecturer at Monash University.
Ian has been invited to curate exhibitions about his research on Australian Design in; Milan, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tianjin, Sydney, Adelaide, and his home town of Melbourne. Exhibitions have included 100 Objects | Australian design in the home, I-CONIC Australian Design, 60 Years of Good Design, BlackBOX – Design and Innovation | Melbourne Australia, Innovators – Australian Design and Innovation, Zmood – Designing Holdens, and 150 Years of Design in Victoria.
The Ian Wong Collection has been a work in progress associated with his research and currently has over 1600 objects designed by Australian designers.
Products designed by Ian as a director of EJO Design have ranged from one-off objects like the RMIT University Ceremonial Mace to brain scanning equipment, Antarctic sleds, and million-dollar high-speed agricultural sorting equipment. Ranges like the pak range for Silvan Australia have recently been reported as the ‘hills hoist’ of rural Australian farm life. This range continues to create significant commercial success for Silvan. Ian’s first product for Silvan, the trukpak, designed in 1989, is still a very successful product and most farms in Australia would have a product designed by Ian.
Ian is currently Director of the Monash Art Design and Architecture Industrial Design Centre (Kunshan) and Program Director – Master of Industrial Design at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Monash University. This double Master’s degree is delivered at the Southeast University-Monash University Joint Graduate School Suzhou in China.
Ian is President of Melbourne Movement and currently the China representative for the Design Institute of Australia.
Ian’s research into the history of Industrial Design in Victoria is documented in his blog and Instagram @ispyid.
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Stephen Horner
Rush Digital
ROUND ONE JURY – DIGITAL DESIGN
Steve helps brands and organisations imagine, design and bring to life better experiences for their customers.
The champion of the user in the design process for over a decade, he has shaped and delivered award-winning digital experiences and products in Europe, North America, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Past clients include Auckland Transport, Deutsche Post, EROAD, Expedia, Google, HBO, Lexus, Red Bull, Rugby World Cup 2011, Spark and Z Energy.
Today he leads the design team at RUSH, an integrated design and technology studio in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Jefa Greenaway
Greenaway Architects
ROUND TWO – ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Jefa Greenaway is founding Director of the award-winning practice – Greenaway Architects (est. 1998), a University of Melbourne senior academic of two decades standing, and a regular design commentator on ABC Radio Melbourne.
He’s championed Indigenous-led design thinking for over 25 years as a registered architect in NSW and VIC, including as co-founder of Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria (not-for-profit), as co-author of the International Indigenous Design Charter, and as Regional Ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Network).
He’s a founding signatory of Architects Declare Australia an initiative foregrounding architecture’s role into tackling the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, is co-curator (with Tristan Wong) of the Australian exhibition at La Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2020/21 and was recently included in the Qantas 100 Inspiring Australians and was honoured to be inducted into the Design Institute of Australia’s (DIA) 2020 ‘Hall of Fame’ signifying an outstanding body of work, contribution to Australian design and/or achievement in furthering the profession.
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John Gertsakis
Ewaste Watch Institute
ROUND TWO JURY – PRODUCT DESIGN
John is an experienced sustainability, policy and communications practitioner working across diverse industries, sectors and portfolios. He served as Executive Director of Product Stewardship Australia representing global consumer electronics brands in the design of the Commonwealth Product Stewardship Act.
John is also Director and Co-Founder of the Ewaste Watch Institute, and he co-authored Australia’s first report on e-waste recycling in 1995 titled: Short Circuiting Waste from Electronic Products.
His work covers appliances, electronics, batteries, furniture, floor-coverings and textiles. Design management has often been at the centre of these engagements including greater attention to how we transition to a circular economy. John’s early work on cradle to cradle thinking represents a pioneering phase at RMIT’s Centre for Design. He has written and presented widely on sustainable product design, product stewardship, extended producer responsibility and the need for smart policy to drive industry reform.
John is an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS and is senior policy adviser to the Design Institute of Australia. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia.
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Kimberley Crofts
UTS – Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building
ROUND ONE JURY – DESIGN STRATEGY
Kimberley is a strategic designer with over 25 years experience in design in Australia, Asia, and the UK.
Formerly a Principal at Meld Studios, one of Australia’s leading service and strategic design agencies. She is currently undertaking a PhD in participatory methods to enable sustainable transitions.
Kimberley sits on the Advisory Board for UTS’ Transdisciplinary Innovation Faculty, the Waverley Council’s Public Art Committee, and volunteers for the Coalition of Everyone, an organisation dedicated to the growth of participatory democracy.
Kimberley holds a Master of Information Design, a Graduate Certificate in City Planning, and a Bachelor of Visual Communication.
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Libby Christmas
Cobalt Design
ROUND ONE JURY – STUDENT DESIGN
Libby Christmas is an Associate Principal at Cobalt Design, Melbourne’s multi-award winning product development agency. With 15 years of consulting expertise including prior roles at Catalyst Design Group, Knog and Tiller Design, she has brought exceptional technical knowledge and strategy-driven design solutions to projects across the industry.
A graduate of Industrial Design at The University of Canberra, Libby has lectured and taught at RMIT, Swinburne and Monash Universities, and continues to offer her knowledge and support toward the design community.
Libby’s recent major projects at Cobalt include the One299 adjustable backpack frame for Australian Defence Forces, the Dermapen 4 microdermabrasion device and the eShepherd virtual herding solution.
These and other products have received both local and international accolades, including the Australian Good Design Award of the Year and numerous Australian Good Design Awards.
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ROUND ONE JURY – SERVICE DESIGN
Ben Hamley is the Asia-Pacific Lead, Future of Work at JLL. He is a Strategy Designer and Researcher of people, culture, technology and design.
ben has a passion for understanding the mechanisms of creativity and innovation in society and this is grounded in his love of cognitive science, philosophy and network theory. He is intensely interested in disruptive technology and design principally because of their ability to traverse disciplinary boundaries.
Ben likes to work at the boundaries of disciplines and with people who have never previously worked together; as both a bridge and a translator.
Ben has worked in both the design and delivery of tertiary education programs and believes that the most effective education is that which is based in economically sustainable and collaborative work.
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Michelle Berryman
Capgemini Invent
ROUND ONE JURY – SERVICE DESIGN
When it comes to creating great experiences, Michelle believes in the power and elegance of simplicity, and that interactions should be authentic, meaningful and pleasurable. Michelle is a passionate designer, strategist, and innovator with a background in Industrial Design, user-centered design, research, innovation, experience strategy and brand management.
Currently, Michelle is Principal at Fahrenheit 212 (a part of Capgemini Invent), and Head of the Studio in Atlanta. Her team focus on overcoming challenges and delivering solutions for a range of Fortune 500 clients across various industries, including healthcare, retail, consumer products, automotive and warehouse management.
She loves tackling a complex challenge and finds it rewarding to discern signal from noise.
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Peter Elliott
Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design
ROUND TWO JURY – ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Peter Elliott is a Melbourne architect who commenced practice in 1975. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Monash University.
In 2015 he was awarded a Doctor of Architecture honoris causa by the University of Melbourne.
He has a special interest in the design of the public realm and has lectured and written extensively on contemporary architecture and urban design. In 2015 he authored a monograph book titled “Episodic Urbanism – RMIT Urban Spaces Project 1996 – 2015’ published by URO Publications.
The work of the practice has won more than 70 National and State architectural and industry awards. This includes an Order of Australia in 1987 for services to architecture (public housing), the RAIA Victorian Architecture Medal 1991 for the Carlton Baths and Community Centre. Projects include; Spencer Street footbridge, the Robert Clark Horticultural Centre Ballarat Botanic Gardens, Observatory Gate Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, RMIT University City Campus Urban Spaces Project, Deer Park Bypass and M80 Ring Road upgrade.
In 2015 he was commissioned for a major new extension to Parliament House in Spring Street and the redevelopment of the Alexander Theatre into a performing arts complex at Monash University Clayton campus.
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ROUND ONE JURY – DESIGN STRATEGY
Sam heads up the strategy team at strategic design agency Today and oversees the direction of Today’s projects.
A couple of his projects include Speckle, an ethical lending platform and 2018 Good Design Award Winner, and Study Melbourne’s Unlock Melbourne app which helps students discover and stay safe in the city.
He’s been a leading force for clients working in government, not-for-profits, major global brands and start-ups.
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Tanyaradzwa Sahanga
37Thanks
ROUND ONE JURY – FASHION DESIGN
Tanyaradzwa Sahanga is a leading voice and proponent of change in all aspects of product creation.
Innovative in her approach, over the last decade Sahanga has regularly challenged the status quo and this has resulted in ground-breaking and award-winning product and processes developed globally for some of the world’s most iconic organisations, most notably the circular product: FUTURECRAFT.LOOP
Tanyaradzwa Sahanga is a believer that problems are simply questions seeking answers, and she avidly lives by this philosophy. Sahanga is a motivator, a storyteller, a thought leader and a strategy shaper possessing a strong solution-orientated mindset. Sahanga has recently launched the transformation platform 37Thanks, where she now serves as the Transformation Lead, with the mission to engage with the full value chain to make tangible, sustainable product creation the norm.
Sahanga is an internationally respected speaker on sustainability, product creation and the transformation necessary to advance the industry. Sahanga speaks to audiences of product creators and industry experts, as well as educating broader audiences of non-industry backgrounds.
She speaks globally from Asia to America for audiences ranging from tens to thousands. Sahanga is a resonant communicator and inspiring storyteller.
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Virginia Dowzer
virginia dowzer
ROUND ONE JURY – FASHION DESIGN
Virginia Dowzer is a curator, creative and lecturer who works predominantly in the space of fashion and related fields.
Virginias’ interests lie at the intersection of fashion, art and craft and she is drawn to the skill and qualities of the handmade.
She has a keen interest in observing cultural anthropology alongside popular culture and has a history in biological sciences.
Her time working in the Textile and Dress Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London was instrumental in guiding her career path.
Virginia has a BA in design majoring in technical bodywear.
@virginiadowzer
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