A mobile platform, developed at Monash University, for sharing ideas and projects all over the city during the Melbourne Design Week
UPSTART is a mobile platform, embodying both physical and intangible elements which aims to establish a system for sharing ideas and projects beyond the fixed scheduling of Melbourne Design Week.
The structure operates as a parasite, fostering dialogues, debates, and discussions and thriving on the organised schedule and audience of the Design Festival. For the duration of the event, UPSTART will be occupied by graduate and early career designers shifting the spotlight to unconventional design that defies conventional criteria for support.
In this public lecture Alessandro Mason, a multidisciplinary designer and co-founder of Studio GISTO, will address and explore themes and topics that have guided research developed by the studio including extra-activism, resources, property, value, risk, territory, and community. It will also be an opportunity to speak to his recent project UPSTART with designer and educator Warren Taylor.
The project serves multiple purposes, foremost among them being the provision of an opportunity for recent graduates, students, or individuals outside formal design channels to discuss their work. Equally significant is its role in fostering dialogues, debates, and discussions. Consequently, it becomes a lens offering a perspective on the vibrant new generation, poised to shape a novel world or, at the very least, address the challenges of our current one.
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In order to make this project a starting point, a possible platform for future events, we have come up with a phantasmagorical website containing all the basic information for future events.
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Studio GISTO in collaboration with Warren Taylor
Alessandro Mason, Naish Dare, Pietro Lora
Sean McKenna and Aiko Jasmine
Maxim Boutin-Reeve, Tobias Ttiz
Chloe Parkinson, Grace Robson, Naomi Dodd, Shu Loke, Sean McKenna, Aiko Jasmine, Warren Taylor
Merlin Sheldrake