Download our latest newspaper for highlights from our touring speaker series spotlighting fast furniture as a growing environmental crisis, unpacking how ADA members invest in tools that help consumers and specifiers track carbon emissions.

Investing in authentic furnishings from reputable brands is the most sustainable choice to minimise environmental impact; join us to learn how.

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Highlights include content from our speakers series that questions if we are part of the problem or the solution when purchasing and specifying furniture.

We also review our recent events, including:

Melbourne Design Week // IP workshops in partnership with IP Australia, the first in a series we will roll out nationally and online during 2024.

Design Show // With Living Edge, Space Furniture and Circular Design Thinking, the panel led by the ADA unpacked how specifying and purchasing authentic furnishings from reputable brands is the most sustainable solution.

Vivid Design Comp //Our ongoing sponsorship includes the ADA Award of Merit, presented to support early-career development since 2017.

Green Design Show // As part of our new partnership with GDS, we presented the ADA talk with panellists Green Magazine and Circular Design Thinking on ‘How to Spot Greenwashing’ when buying or specifying furniture.  We also partnered with Cultivated, the refurb and restoration buy-back program from Cult.

Design Fringe Mentor Program // Since 2020, the ADA has led the Design Fringe gender equality initiative supported by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, with ADA Director AMS mentoring early-career female and non-binary creatives.

ADA Member Events // Including the Milan exhibitions by Articolo Studios, Christopher Boots, and Volker Haug; Melbourne Design Week showcases by Tait and Beeline Design; SBW‘s inclusion in Melbourne NOW at the NGV; and the recent award recognition of Franco Crea.

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If you want to learn more about joining the ADA as a financial member or reaching out with strategic partnership ideas, you can find us through the contact form below or email us here.