Blueprint For Living - Full program
Arts:Performing Arts
If you are dressed head to toe in black, polyester, nylon or some combination thereof, you may need a dress doctor. Linda Przybyszewski - Dress maker, historian and author of The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish - discusses the history of the dress doctors who helped women design, make and choose clothing for the workplace and home. She explains the design principles that guided the Dress doctors and their legacy in contemporary fashion and design.
A walk through the National Arboretum, the Anatomy of Colour, Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental, and the design history of The Pedal Bin
Connecting ideas of identity and place, a winter walk with Tim Entwisle, the path to Bundian Way, and the Rotary Clothes Hoist
British Dandies, puff pastry, a sentimental journey of motels, and The Great Bed of Ware
More escapism, Garden Rudimental, Australia's oldest community cookbook plus, and pioneering women designers
The perfect potato cake, a peek inside the National Archives, the origin of the match, and copying nature to build our lives
Genealogy for homes, design to the rescue, Anna Wintour, and the history of the public loo.
Besha Rodell on food critics, Australia's newest herbarium, the Gothic Revival, and potatoes
Luxury Indigenous tourism, urban farms, and the English country home's post-war revival
Ancient odours, wilding your garden, the art of preserving, and the history of voting booths
Lake Pedder, potato perfection, Confucius wisdom, and wombat time of year
Bruce Pascoe's farm and design after disaster
Katherine Tamiko Arguile, Vita Sackville-West, and protecting Ukraine's cultural heritage
Timothy Morton on the hyper-object, pesticides and food, plus typography and gender
Friendly design, forensic architecture, and Australia's Vietnamese garment outworkers
Flower power, the hot cross bun, and why the city is not a computer
Eric Wareheim's tall order, style on screen, and urban designers raise their voice
Fuchsia Dunlop's portraits of Sichuan, meeting the Yarra's riverkeeper, and Paul Bangay's tips for water in gardens
San Francisco's quest for the perfect bin, beyond the selfie, and fruit chutney
Cheap furniture and Romanian old growth forests, on 'plant-based', feeling safe in our cities and Colin Bisset on Mole Antonelliana
Examining private conservation models, cities and the human body, what to do about tomatoes and a ride on the Ferris Wheel
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