when: 17 April 2025 - 30 May 2025 | venue: Tin Sheds Gallery | cost: Free | address: 148 City Road, Darlington NSW 2008 | website: https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/tin-sheds-gallery/a-good-idea.html | tickets: https://adp-comms.sydney.edu.au/pub/pubType/EO/pubID/zzzz67aea4049b2ac112/interface.html
published: 28 Apr 2025, 5 min read
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A Good Idea is a collaborative exhibition by Stand Van Zaken (BE), a state of play that brings together drawings by architects from around the world, serving as instructions for locally crafted artifacts. These peculiar objects, born of global imagination and local interpretation, are explicit in their construction yet indeterminate in their use, loosely exploring themes of domesticity and the often-overlooked rituals of everyday life.
Together, the sketches and objects temporarily camp in the gallery space, creating an austere yet joyous interior - a rich scenography crafted with care and mindful of waste. Here, architecture celebrates collaboration, directness, ingenuity, and the beauty of bringing ideas to life.
Stand Van Zaken (BE)
Theo De Meyer (BE)
Stefanie Everaert (BE)
GFA2 (ES/AU)
Desplans (FR/SE)
BAST (FR)
Erika Nakagawa + erikalab (JP)
Mike Hewson (NZ/AU)
Sam Chermayeff Office (DE/USA)
Ine Meganck (BE)
Acknowledgements
City of Sydney
Brickworks
TKD Architects
GHD
Candalepas Associates
Second Edition
Supercontext
Professor Carey Lyon
Eckersley O'Callaghan
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A Good Idea is a collaborative exhibition by Stand Van Zaken (BE), a state of play that brings together drawings by architects from around the world, serving as instructions for locally crafted artifacts. These peculiar objects, born of global imagination and local interpretation, are explicit in their construction yet indeterminate in their use, loosely exploring themes of domesticity and the often-overlooked rituals of everyday life.
Together, the sketches and objects temporarily camp in the gallery space, creating an austere yet joyous interior - a rich scenography crafted with care and mindful of waste. Here, architecture celebrates collaboration, directness, ingenuity, and the beauty of bringing ideas to life.
Stand Van Zaken (BE)
Theo De Meyer (BE)
Stefanie Everaert (BE)
GFA2 (ES/AU)
Desplans (FR/SE)
BAST (FR)
Erika Nakagawa + erikalab (JP)
Mike Hewson (NZ/AU)
Sam Chermayeff Office (DE/USA)
Ine Meganck (BE)
Acknowledgements
City of Sydney
Brickworks
TKD Architects
GHD
Candalepas Associates
Second Edition
Supercontext
Professor Carey Lyon
Eckersley O'Callaghan
Go see A Good Idea Exhibition 2025.
A Good Idea Exhibition 2025 is on 17 April 2025 - 30 May 2025. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Darlington. Call (02) 9351 3115 for details. Visit their website at https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/tin-sheds-gallery/a-good-idea.html.
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