NZ innovations @ The Cloud series launches today

26 September 2011

NZ innovations @ The Cloud series launches today

Works of innovation and creativity will be showcased in the “New Zealand innovations @ The Cloud” series with a different theme each week, beginning today in The Cloud, Queens Wharf, Auckland, with Design Days @ The Cloud.

NZ innovations @ The Cloud series:
26 – 28 Sept Design Days @ The Cloud The first exhibition in the series, with great design and innovation across a range of creative fields.
3 – 4 Oct Marine @ The Cloud New Zealand designed vessels and marine stars up close and personal.
5 – 10 Oct Celebrating Canterbury Celebrating the Canterbury spirit and innovation being created in this region.
11 – 13 Oct We, Robots
Find out what robots can do and watch them compete in the robotics arena. There’s also a job fair for those who want to work in the ICT industry.
17 – 18 Oct Film & Landspeed Get up close to a replica Jetblack Landspeed vehicle, designed by New Zealanders to break world speed records. Then experience green screen and prosthetics technologies.

17 – 18 Oct Agribusiness Join us for a panel discussion about one of our biggest exports, worth over $1 billion each year
19 – 20 Oct NZ Runway @ The Cloud
The Cloud plays host to New Zealand’s longest runway, to showcase current and future fashions from our internationally acclaimed top designers.

Visitors to The Cloud can participate in panel discussions, view examples of New Zealand innovation, and have opportunities to meet innovators, designers and industry experts.

“New Zealanders are known for a particular kind of innovation that is shaped by the challenges we face, our focus on solutions, our pragmatic business culture and the way we live in our unique environments. Innovation is widely recognized as the key to our future economic growth and is contributing increasingly to the New Zealand economy,” says Leon Grice, Director NZ 2011 Office.

The series begins with Design Days @ The Cloud, 26 – 28 September with several design events:
• Do you have the oldest piece of Crown Lynn in New Zealand? Bring it along and have it officially assessed by a ceramic expert today at 5:00pm in The Cloud.
• Join the Whakaara Design Panel Discussion 5:00pm on Tuesday 27 September featuring a great line-up of New Zealand design experts including David Trubridge and Peter Bromhead.
• Exhibition and displays, including the award-winning “Folding Whare”, designed by Callum Dowie, and the work of established and up-and-coming New Zealand designers such as AUT product design students.

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