Home Grown 2011 is a DIA Queensland Branch project initiative partnered with South Bank Corporation to curate and deliver a collaborative exhibition of integrated public installations created by designers (from a range of disciplines), artists, design students, retail tenants and shopfitters working in teams, in the shop fronts of selected Little Stanley Street and Stanley Street Plaza retail outlets at South Bank in the lead up to Regional Flavours.
Homegrown Homebase,   Stanley Street Plaza
PUBLIC OPENING HOURS  Saturday 9, 16, 23, 30 July:
                      10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday 24, 31 July:   10:00am – 5:00pm

Homegrown Homebase is an educational venue for the Homegrown event and will host a number of associated workshops, design talks and exhibitions, inspiring all things ‘slow'.
Saturday 30 July 2011    11:00am – 11:30am  
 Design Process Talk          Design Team 8 – DM Restaurant Jazz Bar
The talk above is by the team I'm in at the venue of the project ... I will need to check my timetable to see if i can attend then... certainly hope so!
Photos of this will have to be added after I visit again to take some pics tomorrow on my way home from a workshop Im attending at the State Library. Plus with 4 others in my group there are photos they will have taken tonight that I will soon have. 



a few days ago we put together this postcard very quickly ... to provide context and inject some forward thinking into our project ... printing only 100 they worked out quite well... and seeing they are not for sale and we printed only 100 they wont last too long in the exhibition space! 
Incidently the shoe and string garden images were from people I wrote to ages ago about using their images of these ideas for my blog...I'll find those links again and connect the dots!


This copy is minus a few details about 3 members of the group... details that were added before they were printed by Kristen I must add.
I met some great people there tonight and had a lovely long chat to various ones I've gotten to know of late whilst sipping on some delicious NZ wine!
I have to thank Jay Dee Dearness for being the thoughtful friend who put me in touch with the delightful Kristen... Kristen Mather                                                                    
Bachelor of Design (Interior Design)                                            
Bachelor of Built Environment (Landscape Architecture)               
QUT     * Click on her  Tumblr to see what she's been exploring!!!




 I just found this on the program at the Design Institute of Australia website.




'Life in the SLow Lane': Meet team 8 - DM RESTAURANT JAZZ BAR

BY SCOTT BAGNELL, FOR THE DIA QLD BRANCH
'Life in the SLow Lane': Meet team 8 - DM RESTAURANT JAZZ BAR
Homegrown 2011 Exhibition
TEAM 8
Back to Basics
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
‘Back to Basics’ illustrates the process food takes in its journey from the farm to the kitchen to the plate, and suggests that we re-familiarise ourselves with local food varieties. The materials used to construct the installation, depict each phase of the journey.  The viewer is reminded that by returning to the virtues of ‘growing your own’, we can better engage with local food producers to enhance our own food experiences and preserve local food economies for future generations.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Reveal
The experience of circulation around the installation tells a story.  Each window reveals an intrinsic process in our everyday consumption of food that is often overlooked.
Expand
The installation creates new memories from found objects, to provoke new understanding of the importance of food sovereignty and security, and preservation of local food production into the future.
Reflect
The viewer reflects on the process from the farm to the kitchen to the plate, to redefine current food practices.
Engage
The viewer is informed of the benefits of shared knowledge and shared experiences in approaching the enjoyment of wholesome food, including live music performed at DM Restaurant Jazz Bar for the duration of the exhibition.
Participate
An interactive design is created using plant seeds and pods from local and Australian species that encourages participation and exploration, and results in the formation of new knowledge and shared experiences.
Evolve
The message of ‘Back to Basics’ transforms current thinking surrounding food, evolving into greater consciousness of the importance to create a sustainable, secure and democratic future for our food sources.
TEAM 8 –DM RESTAURANT JAZZ BAR
Amy Coats – Interior Designer
Anna Doody – Interior Designer
Kristen Mather – Interior Design Student
Jonathan Morehen – Architecture Student
Sophie Munns – Visual Artist
CONTRIBUTORS
DM Restaurant Jazz Bar
Queensland University of Technology
Lytbox Print & Sign Studio
This  exhibit below by team 5 includes Susan Loh,lecturer in Architecture at QUT whom I met through a friend last year. In March she asked me to come in the QUT and give talks to first year students on 2 occasions about my journal process and how that has informed my work over many years... a subject I'm quite passionate about. 
So it was exciting to see what her group had been up to as
Susan's work office reminded me of Hundertwasser there were so many plants growing in it.





'Life in the SLow Lane': Meet team 5 - SOUTH BANK VISITORS CENTRE

BY SCOTT BAGNELL, FOR THE DIA QLD BRANCH
'Life in the SLow Lane': Meet team 5 - SOUTH BANK VISITORS CENTRE
Homegrown 2011 Exhibition
TEAM 5 
Green Digital, Homegrown Variety
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
‘Green Digital, Homegrown Variety’ encourages people visiting or living in South Bank to be part of a wider community by participating in the slow enjoyment of growing and consuming locally produced plants, while socially interacting with others via physical and digital networks.  The installation is based on current research proposing interaction between people and plants via electronics to affect ecology, society and economics in a positive way.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Reveal
The ordinary kitchen herb, often overlooked amidst exotic species, is the conduit for experiencing the immediacy of our surroundings, while giving us the opportunity to experience a much bigger world.
Expand
The artifact of the small pot plant is expanded from its preconceived functionality to the digital realm through the intertwining of electronic media and the green plant.
Reflect
By nurturing the small plant and engaging with others in the community, the carer of the pot is involved in reflective change.
Engage
Ordinary people with ordinary herbs engage in growing, cooking and sharing of information with other ordinary people and the local growers of their plants.
Participate
Carers who take away a pot, grow the plants and use them in their cooking.  Through a web interface, they elect to share their experiences with others in the community who have also chosen to be carers and growers of the plants.
Evolve
Slowly, plant carers learn about the role they play within the bigger environment and community, by tending to the immediate small artifact they take home with them from South Bank.
TEAM 5 –SOUTH BANK VISITORS CENTRE
Susan Loh  – Architect
Yasu Santo – Architect
Kyle Bush  – Architecture Student
CONTRIBUTORS
South Bank Visitors Centre
Queensland University of Technology
Schiavello
Enviroganics

Well... with a workshop to attend tomorrow and one I'm teaching at Percolator Gallery, Saturday, there's lots happening!
Picture
There's a place left if you're keen... call me .... not on the number above which I now notice is wrong... but on 07 3262 4296
Bye for now,
        Sophie
ps get better really soon Jay Dee!!!