The feature in 2008 will be an interactive and informative showcase of the latest and greatest sustainable products and services available for architects, interior designers, builders and specifiers and will be a platform for the display of contemporary, slick and stylish products solutions for today’s commercial and residential design environments.

 

We would like to offer you an exciting opportunity to become involved in Australia’s leading building, architectural and design event. After the successful introduction of the sustainability feature in 2007, designEX, Form & Function, and Sustainability Victoria have teamed up once again to bring you D4S.

 

D4S located in Hall 6 of the Sydney Exhibition Centre, will take up the whole hall and feature a bookshop, gallery and café central area which will have daily book signings from Australian authors.

Architext Bookshop Signings

 

 

 

Thu. 10 April	1.15pm - 1.45pm	Karen McCartney
	3.00pm - 3.30pm	Richard Watson - Future Files: A History of the Next 50
	3.00pm - 3.30pm	Beverley Garlick,  Guy Luscombe - TAKE 6 Beyond Beige: improving architecture for older people and people with disabilities
	4.45pm - 5.15pm	Brigitte Shim
Fri, 11 April	10.15am - 10.45am	Christoph Ingenhoven
	12.00pm - 12.30pm	Chris Wilkinson
	12.30pm - 1.00pm	Francine Houben
	12.45pm - 1.15pm	Jamie Durie - The Source Book
	3.45pm - 4.15pm	Michael Hensel
Sat. 12 Apri	10.15am - 10.45am	Qingyun Ma
	12.15pm - 1.00pm	Thomas Herzog
	3.45pm - 4.15pm	Billie Tsien

 

Principles of D4S feature:

Design for Sustainability (D4S) is about designing products in a way that reduces their environmental impact. The aim is to design products that are functional, cost effective, and have no harmful side effects for human health or the environment. For a sustainable future it is imperative that good design addresses environmental objectives.

Four Strategies of D4S Products

1. Efficient design: keep the material and resource inputs to a minimum. Do more with less.
2. Cyclic design: design to enable materials to be continuously cycled through natural or industrial systems.
3. Safe design: avoid toxic and hazardous substances and processes. Keep human health in mind as well as ecological impacts.
4. Communication: ensure product and packaging related communications are informative and accurate. Encourage responsible consumer behaviour.

How to become involved in D4S:

If you have a product that follows the principles of D4S listed above – simply fill in and return the application form. Once the application form is received it will be assessed by Sustainability Victoria for inclusion in the D4S.

D4S Application Form » 15kb

D4S Application Form » 28kb

We have put together a special exhibitor package for your inclusion in D4S following the principles listed above.

As part of this package, you will receive:

• 9 sq metres of space built with:-
• Walling system (made from Orientated Strand Board – produced from sustainably managed plantations)
• Lighting - 70w Enviro Spotlight - which offers a 42% reduction in power consumption compared to the normal 120w spot used
• Signage
• Power

Don’t miss the opportunity to become part of the latest addition to Australia’s ultimate design event.

 

Testimonial

The exhibition was a resounding success from our perspective in Melbourne last year, and the opportunity for companies to exhibit under the profiled Sustainability Victoria banner has resulted in increased media attention for the products they exhibited in mainstream media.

Sustainability Victoria.