Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures Design History Society Symposium
London, UK
May 2026
Renewable by Origin, Unsustainable by Design: Bio-based Plastics and Furniture from Brazil
Loughborough University guest lecture
Loughborough, UK
Feb 2026
Rethinking plastics in product design
ANU guest lectures and course tutor
Canberra, Australia
Feb-June 2026
The Past as Prototype: History, Ethics and Concepts for Design in the Twenty-First Century. Lectures on Scandinavian Modern, Postmodernism, and Automation.
Global Research & Innovation in Plastics Sustainability industry conference
London, UK
Jan 2026
Designing for future plastic sustainability.
ANU guest lecture
Canberra, Australia
Apr 2025
Ethics of material selection in product design.
ANU presentation
Canberra, Australia
Mar 2025
Rethinking plastics in product design – book launch presentation. Or listen to the (shorter) podcast version.
ANU guest lecture and course tutor
Canberra, Australia
Feb-June 2025
The Past as Prototype: History, Ethics and Concepts for Design in the Twenty-First Century. Lectures Bauhaus, Plastics in Design.
UTS guest lecture
Sydney, Australia
Oct 2024
Plastics in Design: Past and Present.
ANU guest lecture
Canberra, Australia
Sept 2024
Plastics and our natural environment.
ANU guest lecture
Canberra, Australia
Mar 2024
Ethics of material selection in product design.
ANU guest lecture and course tutor
Canberra, Australia
Feb-June 2024
The Past as Prototype: History, Ethics and Concepts for Design in the Twenty-First Century.
ANU acting convenor
Canberra, Australia
Sept-Nov 2023
Australian Interactions with American and European Art and Art‐Worlds During the Modernist Period (Masters).
ANU guest lectures
Canberra, Australia
Aug/Sept 2023
Featherston – Australian mid-century industrial designer/Plastics and our natural environment.
AAANZ panel session
Melbourne, Australia
Dec 2022
Art and design in the transition to a low-carbon future.
International Sustainability Transitions
Melbourne, Australia & Washington DC
Nov 2022
Confronting the plastic paradox.
ANU guest lectures
Canberra, Australia
Oct 2022
Design for the environmental emergency.
Featherston – Australian modernist.
UTS guest lecture
Sydney, Australia
Mar 2022
The search for sustainable plastics.
ANU guest lecture
Canberra, Australia
Oct 2021
Can plastics be the environmentally friendly choice?
Beyond Oil: Prioritising climate action
Bergen, Norway
Oct 2021
Confronting the plastic crisis.
ANU guest lecture
Canberra, Australia
Sept 2021
Grant Featherston – Australian modernist.
Swiss Design Network Conference
Bern, Switzerland
Mar 2021
Design as common good. Can plastics be ‘green’?
College Art Association (CAA) Conference
Chicago, USA
Feb 2021
Sustainable plastics in practice.
Plastics Historical Society AGM - Keynote Speach
London, England
Dec 2020
Featherstons’ plastics.
ANU guest lecture
Canberra, Australia
May 2020
Issues in Contemporary Craft and Design – Can plastic chairs adapt to our natural environment?
AAANZ Conference
Auckland, New Zealand
Dec 2019
Can plastic chairs adapt to our natural environment?
CraftACT Conference
Canberra, Australia
Nov 2019
Plastic Chairs: Addressing the environmental emergency.
Design Canberra Festival
Canberra, Australia
Nov 2019
Is Plastic Fantastic?