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SPECIAL STATE OF DESIGN FESTIVAL SATELLITE EVENT

MELBOURNE, Wednesday July 21, 2010, 6.30pm.


Open to Members and Non-Members
To be held as a satellite event of the State of Design Festival, the Retail Design Institute in partnership with Design Victoria and host RMIT Gallery would like to invite you to

CHANGE BY DESIGN - NEW DIALOGUES FOR RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS

The retail industry is vital for the well being of many communities both urban and regional. It is the largest employer in Australia. It is possibly also the sector supporting more SME’s than any other. In many cases larger retail sector players, for example shopping centres and retail store chains, are implementing new environmentally (ESD) and socially conscious designs (SCD) in answer to global design awareness, societal pressures and consumer recognition of growing concern.

photo by: Annie Harper

When Westfield redeveloped Doncaster Shoppingtown it did so mindful of big and small picture ESD concerns. GPT across its retail portfolio is well advanced in areas of retail engagement and education and is driving a myriad of tenant specific ESD initiatives, and ISPT’s brilliant groundbreaking adventure with Greenhouse Perth illustrates just how amazing the results can be if approached from outside the square and parameters which keep us designing ‘same old same old’ centres. And how well considered and crafted is Ryan Russell’s plywood and tiled store design developed for Aesop?

This seminar examines what is being done, what has been and is being considered, that will help shape the retail environment of the future? What are the forecasts, considerations and human impact of retail centres on communities and how can the various market players create an industry standard, and influence retailers at the coal face, many of whom are reticent to think sustainably for whatever reason?

Key speakers:
Deborah Pool, National Design Coordinator | Regional Manager Queensland & Victoria | Westfield National Shop Openings/Leasing
Steven Borin, Retail Development Manager, GPT
Renee Nutbean, Property Investment Manager, ISPT
Ryan Russell, architect, Russell & George

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Venue: RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston St Melbourne Victoria 3000
Partners: RMIT Gallery and Design Ready Program, Design Victoria
Date: Wednesday July 21
Time: 6.30pm for strict 7pm start. 8.30pm finish
Admission charge: members $10 and non-members $40
Booking & payment online essential

Deborah Pool
National Design Coordinator | Regional Manager Queensland & Victoria
Westfield National Shop Openings/ Leasing

Deborah Pool – National Retail Design Director for Westfield, has over 25 years experience in retail and hospitality design. Deborah was responsible for the shop design and fitouts of Westfield’s most recent Victorian redevelopments, Doncaster, Geelong and Plenty Valley, delivering over 650 shops in 2008 with a construction cost of over 1.2 billion dollars.

Her career has taken her to New York and the UK, working with such companies as Hambrecht Terrell/SDI, SITE Projects and Walker Group/CNI as well as lecturing at Parsons School of Design, NYC.

Corporate Profile
The Westfield Group is the world's largest listed retail property group by equity market capitalisation. The Group has interests in and operates a global portfolio of 119 high-quality regional shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, valued at more than $59 billion. Westfield works with over 23,700 retailers across more than 10 million square metres of retail space.

Westfield is a vertically integrated shopping centre group. It manages all aspects of shopping centre development, from design and construction through to leasing, management and marketing.

The Group creates value through intensive management at an operational level and an extensive development program which continually improves the quality of the portfolio to generate income and capital growth for investors.

Steven Borin
Retail Development Manager
GPT

Steven Borin Profile
Steven Borin is a qualified Civil Engineer who spent his earlier years with GHD in Melbourne and WS Atkins in London, both leading multi-disciplinary engineering consulting firms. Quickly tiring of the Engineering world, he pursued a career in Retail Design and Development and worked for Lend Lease and now GPT. He has played key roles in the development of Melbourne Central, Rouse Hill Town Centre, Highpoint Shopping Centre and is currently working on Charlestown Square in NSW. He is fiercely passionate about re-educating tenants to think about their impact on the environment and reducing waste in all areas of Retail Development.

Corporate Profile
The GPT Group (GPT) is one of Australia’s largest diversified listed property groups and is focused on active ownership of high quality Australian real estate in the Retail, Office and Industrial/Business Park sectors. GPT's Retail Portfolio has been built over more than 38 years and currently includes interests in 17 shopping centres.

As an owner, manager and developer, GPT is committed to improving the social, environmental and economic capital of the communities it touches. This commitment has led to the Group being recognised as the global leader in both the Environmental Real Estate Index and the real estate sector of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

Renee Nutbean
Property Investment Manager
ISPT

Renee Nutbean Profile
Renee joined ISPT in March 2007 to focus on developing the investment performance of ISPT assets, with an emphasis on translating retail trends into the strategic direction of both existing assets and developments.

Renee’s work has a strong focus on the overarching branding elements including design, retail mix and sustainable principles. Renee’s most recent project included enex100 in Perth (enex100.com.au and GreenhousePerth.com) which has been rated as one of Perth most exciting developments in recent times.

ISPT Profile
As one of Australia's largest superannuation investor owned property groups, ISPT invests the retirement savings of more than 40% of Australian workers in property.

Originally founded in 1994 as an unlisted property trust by four leading industry superannuation funds, ISPT is now the direct property investment vehicle of choice for many of Australia's industry superannuation funds.

ISPT is unique in returning all profits to working Australian's through our industry fund owners.

Ryan Russell AIA MDIA
M Arch, B Des St

Ryan’s experience as a designer has crossed the fields of architecture and interior design, industrial design, theatre and exhibition design.

In 2007, RYAN RUSSELL won both the National Interior Design Award for Emerging Practice and the national Idea Award for Retail, for Left, a cutting –edge fashion store situated on Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, one of Melbourne’s emerging inner city streets for art and fashion. As a retail space, Left demonstrated Ryan’s skilful manipulation of space, light and material surfaces to create stores which communicate the essence of the philosophy and products behind a brand, while engaging the customer with a unique shopping experience.

In the last two years, Ryan’s commissions have ranged from the design of Aesop stores throughout Australia and Asia, new offices complete with custom-designed furniture for Harvey Publicity, and the corporate pavilion for Qantas at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix, to exhibition and graphic design for the fashion exhibition retrospective at the National Trust’s Como House, on Melbourne couturier Robert Fritzlaff - the exhibition highlight of the 2009 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

Before starting his practice in 2006, Ryan was a Design Associate with Cox Architects and Planners responsible for the design, delivery and team management of projects from $100k to $1.5billion in project areas such as, sport and tourism, single residential, multi-residential, hospitality, retail, education and commercial, such as the Al Ain University in the UAE, 567 Collins Street, Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur Media Scape.

Ryan’s key strength’s lie in the rapid assessment and development of innovative design solutions, and a sound understanding of the essential interface between design and commercial viability. He is a registered architect and Member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

Practice Profile
Russell & George was created through the merger of the multi award winning businesses of Ryan Russell and Byron George Architects.

The goal of the practice is to create design solutions that extend thresholds and blur the line between different fields of design practice. This creates a dialogue between people and the places they inhabit and engage with. In this way interiors become urban design schemes, industrial design works become art pieces, architecture as industrial design pieces.

Venue: RMIT Gallery
344 Swanston St Melbourne Victoria 3000
www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery

Wednesday 21nd July, 6.30 for a 7.00 pm start
Event: 6.30-8.30pm

$10 MEMBERS & $40 NON MEMBERS
Booking & payment online essential