• Michael Lech, curator of the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection (CSL&RC) at Sydney Living Museums, will give a presentation on the colour resources of the CSL&RC, titled "At Home with Colour". The CSL&RC is a specialist library with a focus on the history of house and garden design and interior furnishing in Australia. The collection includes historic furnishing samples, trade catalogues and sample books, personal papers and manuscripts, pictures and photographs. Color-related resources in the collection include many rare and unique items from the 19th and 20th centuries, including textile samples, original furnishing designs, paint charts, and specialist colour reference sources for home interiors. Michael Lech has written on various aspects of the history of houses, interiors and domestic furnishings in Australia, including a book on the extensive wallpaper collection at the CSL&RC. He curated the exhibition, "Marion Hall Best: Interiors", and co-curated with Megan Martin, "Dream Home Small Home", on Australia’s housing crisis following World War II. Michael is also engaged in ongoing research into the rise and development of Australia’s department stores and furnishing trade. To see the full program of our national conference "Colour Connections" and to register, please visit the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdAustralia2021 #interiordesign –#furnishings #paint #wallpaper #aic #internationalcolourassociation #sydlivmus @aiccolor @internationalcolourday @sydlivmus
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    Michael Lech, curator of the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection (CSL&RC) at Sydney Living Museums, will give a presentation on the colour resources of the CSL&RC, titled "At Home with Colour". The CSL&RC is a specialist library with a focus on the history of house and garden design and interior furnishing in Australia. The collection includes historic furnishing samples, trade catalogues and sample books, personal papers and manuscripts, pictures and photographs. Color-related resources in the collection include many rare and unique items from the 19th and 20th centuries, including textile samples, original furnishing designs, paint charts, and specialist colour reference sources for home interiors. Michael Lech has written on various aspects of the history of houses, interiors and domestic furnishings in Australia, including a book on the extensive wallpaper collection at the CSL&RC. He curated the exhibition, "Marion Hall Best: Interiors", and co-curated with Megan Martin, "Dream Home Small Home", on Australia’s housing crisis following World War II. Michael is also engaged in ongoing research into the rise and development of Australia’s department stores and furnishing trade. To see the full program of our national conference "Colour Connections" and to register, please visit the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdAustralia2021 #interiordesign –#furnishings #paint #wallpaper #aic #internationalcolourassociation #sydlivmus @aiccolor @internationalcolourday @sydlivmus
  • We are honoured to have Professor Maria João Durão from Portugal presenting a history of AIC International Colour Day at our conference, entitled "Celebrating the Harmony of Our Identities on the International Colour Day". As President of the Portuguese Color Association, Maria João presented the idea of an international day of colour to our parent body the International Colour Association (AIC) for approval at the 11th AIC Congress in 2009, hosted by the Colour Society of Australia in Sydney. The congress settled on the date of March 21 for the celebration: the equinox when night and day are equal, symbolically relating to the complementary nature of light and darkness. Our national conference "Colour Connections" is timed to conclude on International Colour Day, and will be our celebration of the event for this year. Out of the 28 AIC regular members, 23 have celebrated ICD at least once, and a list of AIC ICD events for 2021 from around the world can be found on the AIC website at https://www.aic-color.org/icd-2021 Dr Maria João Durão has been a Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa since 2001. She founded, directed and lectured in the world pioneer Masters Degree Course (MPhil) "Colour in Architecture" (FAUTL); she founded "Colour Lab-FA" and has directed it since 2004, supervising national and international masters, doctoral and post-doctoral projects. She has directed the “Research Group Colour and Light” (CIAUD/School of Architecture) since 2016, and founded and presided over the Portuguese Colour Association and is its Honorary President. She is scientific Council member of the Design Doctoral Degree Course (FAUL), Doctoral Course in Architecture lecturer (FAUL) and Masters in BES (University Salford). Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdAustralia2021 #coloureducation #colortraining #colourtraining #aic #internationalcolourassociation @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
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    We are honoured to have Professor Maria João Durão from Portugal presenting a history of AIC International Colour Day at our conference, entitled "Celebrating the Harmony of Our Identities on the International Colour Day". As President of the Portuguese Color Association, Maria João presented the idea of an international day of colour to our parent body the International Colour Association (AIC) for approval at the 11th AIC Congress in 2009, hosted by the Colour Society of Australia in Sydney. The congress settled on the date of March 21 for the celebration: the equinox when night and day are equal, symbolically relating to the complementary nature of light and darkness. Our national conference "Colour Connections" is timed to conclude on International Colour Day, and will be our celebration of the event for this year. Out of the 28 AIC regular members, 23 have celebrated ICD at least once, and a list of AIC ICD events for 2021 from around the world can be found on the AIC website at https://www.aic-color.org/icd-2021 Dr Maria João Durão has been a Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa since 2001. She founded, directed and lectured in the world pioneer Masters Degree Course (MPhil) "Colour in Architecture" (FAUTL); she founded "Colour Lab-FA" and has directed it since 2004, supervising national and international masters, doctoral and post-doctoral projects. She has directed the “Research Group Colour and Light” (CIAUD/School of Architecture) since 2016, and founded and presided over the Portuguese Colour Association and is its Honorary President. She is scientific Council member of the Design Doctoral Degree Course (FAUL), Doctoral Course in Architecture lecturer (FAUL) and Masters in BES (University Salford). Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdAustralia2021 #coloureducation #colortraining #colourtraining #aic #internationalcolourassociation @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
  • The long-term goal of the ISCC/AIC Color Literacy Project (CLP) is to provide an online color resource center with foundational educational material for teachers from kindergarten to university. This inter-disciplinary project was approved by the US Inter-Society Color Council in the summer of 2019, and by the International Colour Association in January of 2020. The first phase, including research into existing materials and resources and identification of core topics for color education at all levels, concluded in 2020. The goal of Phase Two of the CLP launched in January of this year, is to engage teachers in the process of evaluating new and existing materials for the future resource center. Chair and Co-chair of the CLP, Maggie Maggio and Robert Hirschler, will describe in their presentation the planning process for the first CLP professional development courses to be held later this year. Robert also chairs the AIC Study Group on Colour Education (with Maggie as Co-chair), and both have many decades of experience in colour education and in diverse aspects of colour design, colour science and colour technology. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdAustralia2021 #coloureducation #colortraining #colourtraining #aic #internationalcolourassociation @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
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    The long-term goal of the ISCC/AIC Color Literacy Project (CLP) is to provide an online color resource center with foundational educational material for teachers from kindergarten to university. This inter-disciplinary project was approved by the US Inter-Society Color Council in the summer of 2019, and by the International Colour Association in January of 2020. The first phase, including research into existing materials and resources and identification of core topics for color education at all levels, concluded in 2020. The goal of Phase Two of the CLP launched in January of this year, is to engage teachers in the process of evaluating new and existing materials for the future resource center. Chair and Co-chair of the CLP, Maggie Maggio and Robert Hirschler, will describe in their presentation the planning process for the first CLP professional development courses to be held later this year. Robert also chairs the AIC Study Group on Colour Education (with Maggie as Co-chair), and both have many decades of experience in colour education and in diverse aspects of colour design, colour science and colour technology. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdAustralia2021 #coloureducation #colortraining #colourtraining #aic #internationalcolourassociation @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
  • Dr Liz Coats is an abstract colour painter who has exhibited regularly since the mid-1970s in numerous galleries around Australia and internationally. In 2012 she completed a doctorate at the School of Art (ANU) including an exegesis on "Organic growth and form in abstract painting". Liz has been awarded numerous prizes and grants as well as fifteen Australian and international artists' residencies. An inclusive work history can be found at: www.lizcoats.com.au. In her talk “An Early Modernist Experiment with Colour Perception”, Liz will explore some little-known research into colour perception by the Russian artist, Mikhail Matyushin (1861-1934). Matyushin speculated on humans’ potential for expanding the periphery of vision, and proposed that the sensory body could be modified and strengthened with visual exercises. In 1933, with assistance from his students, he published a reference book of hand-painted colour samples to document their discoveries. While their conclusions were far-reaching, to avoid censorship and persecution the book was promoted to architects and designers as a guide to selecting harmonious colour schemes in buildings. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021#icd2021 #internationalcolourday #icdaustralia2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #colourtheory #oilpainting #abstractpainting #abstraction #colourperception #visualperception @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
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    Dr Liz Coats is an abstract colour painter who has exhibited regularly since the mid-1970s in numerous galleries around Australia and internationally. In 2012 she completed a doctorate at the School of Art (ANU) including an exegesis on "Organic growth and form in abstract painting". Liz has been awarded numerous prizes and grants as well as fifteen Australian and international artists' residencies. An inclusive work history can be found at: www.lizcoats.com.au. In her talk “An Early Modernist Experiment with Colour Perception”, Liz will explore some little-known research into colour perception by the Russian artist, Mikhail Matyushin (1861-1934). Matyushin speculated on humans’ potential for expanding the periphery of vision, and proposed that the sensory body could be modified and strengthened with visual exercises. In 1933, with assistance from his students, he published a reference book of hand-painted colour samples to document their discoveries. While their conclusions were far-reaching, to avoid censorship and persecution the book was promoted to architects and designers as a guide to selecting harmonious colour schemes in buildings. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021#icd2021 #internationalcolourday #icdaustralia2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #colourtheory #oilpainting #abstractpainting #abstraction #colourperception #visualperception @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
  • Juliet Albany worked as a teacher in remote Western Australia and Manus Island before completing a Design Degree at Curtin University and graduating to practice as an Urban Designer / Town Planner for nearly 20 years, working with both State and local governments, and the City of Perth. She ran ‘Townscape’, a State program assisting with regional towns' regeneration throughout Western Australia. Juliet's presentation "Seeing the Colours of Home" argues that seeing might be taught to give young people, particularly at primary level, confidence and understanding of their home territory. Since 2019 Juliet has been developing her idea for primary school education in presentations to the CSA Western Australian Division. This work arose from her paper "Between Glare and Abysmal Dark" presented at the 2009 AIC Congress in Sydney. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdaustralia2021 #colourinarchitecture #colorinarchitecture #phenomenology #environmentalcolors #environmentalcolour @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
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    Juliet Albany worked as a teacher in remote Western Australia and Manus Island before completing a Design Degree at Curtin University and graduating to practice as an Urban Designer / Town Planner for nearly 20 years, working with both State and local governments, and the City of Perth. She ran ‘Townscape’, a State program assisting with regional towns' regeneration throughout Western Australia. Juliet's presentation "Seeing the Colours of Home" argues that seeing might be taught to give young people, particularly at primary level, confidence and understanding of their home territory. Since 2019 Juliet has been developing her idea for primary school education in presentations to the CSA Western Australian Division. This work arose from her paper "Between Glare and Abysmal Dark" presented at the 2009 AIC Congress in Sydney. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdaustralia2021 #colourinarchitecture #colorinarchitecture #phenomenology #environmentalcolors #environmentalcolour @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
  • Joaquim Santos is a Professor at the Lusiada University, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Lisbon, where he lectures in History of Art and Theory of Architecture. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Research in Territory, Architecture, and Design (CITAD), where he incorporates the research group on Architecture and Design and the Colour Laboratory. Joaquim holds a PhD from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, where he wrote his dissertation on the iconic work of the Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. He has presented papers and posters at the AIC Congress 2013 Newcastle upon Tyne, AIC 2018 Lisboa and AIC 2020 Avignon. One of Joaquim’s main areas of research interest is the phenomenology of colour, and we are honoured to have him present at Colour Connections on the topic "Colour: Towards an Extensive Cultural Paradigm – Paradeigma". Photo: Johan Ludvig Runeberg statue, Helsinki (detail of base), Joaquim Marcelino Santos. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdaustralia2021 #colourinarchitecture #colorinarchitecture #phenomenology #environmentalcolors #environmentalcolour @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
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    Joaquim Santos is a Professor at the Lusiada University, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Lisbon, where he lectures in History of Art and Theory of Architecture. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Research in Territory, Architecture, and Design (CITAD), where he incorporates the research group on Architecture and Design and the Colour Laboratory. Joaquim holds a PhD from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, where he wrote his dissertation on the iconic work of the Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. He has presented papers and posters at the AIC Congress 2013 Newcastle upon Tyne, AIC 2018 Lisboa and AIC 2020 Avignon. One of Joaquim’s main areas of research interest is the phenomenology of colour, and we are honoured to have him present at Colour Connections on the topic "Colour: Towards an Extensive Cultural Paradigm – Paradeigma". Photo: Johan Ludvig Runeberg statue, Helsinki (detail of base), Joaquim Marcelino Santos. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #icdaustralia2021 #colourinarchitecture #colorinarchitecture #phenomenology #environmentalcolors #environmentalcolour @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
  • Most colour educators work in a non-collaborative setting, on a limited budget, and with limited time and resources in the classroom. There is a lack of affordable didactic materials to complement teaching, and of innovative and updated student-centred training methods. In addition, some teachers have access to only limited colour knowledge, much of which is superficial and outdated. Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic will give two presentations that relate to her doctoral research at the Politecnico di Milano, which proposes the development of a "Colour Design Training Itinerary" (CDTI), as a complete educational framework for the improvement of the teaching and learning of colour in the design discipline. The CDTI framework is being built through consultation, involvement and collaboration with colour teachers from different countries and backgrounds. Ingrid has been a full-time researcher in the field of colour for more than ten years. She is Assistant Professor in the Design Department of the University of Chile, a Member of the Editorial Board of Color Research & Application, and is active on numerous committees of the AIC, including as President of the Scientific Committee of the AIC2016 Interim Meeting: Colour in Urban Life". If you teach colour and would like to contribute to Ingrid's Archive of Colour Teaching and Learning Activities by sharing one – or more – of your successful colour exercises, please click here: http://tinyurl.com/m2haqz5u Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is now open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #icdaustralia2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #design #designeducation #coloureducation #colortraining #colourtraining #designresearch @aiccolor @internationalcolourday @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
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    Most colour educators work in a non-collaborative setting, on a limited budget, and with limited time and resources in the classroom. There is a lack of affordable didactic materials to complement teaching, and of innovative and updated student-centred training methods. In addition, some teachers have access to only limited colour knowledge, much of which is superficial and outdated. Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic will give two presentations that relate to her doctoral research at the Politecnico di Milano, which proposes the development of a "Colour Design Training Itinerary" (CDTI), as a complete educational framework for the improvement of the teaching and learning of colour in the design discipline. The CDTI framework is being built through consultation, involvement and collaboration with colour teachers from different countries and backgrounds. Ingrid has been a full-time researcher in the field of colour for more than ten years. She is Assistant Professor in the Design Department of the University of Chile, a Member of the Editorial Board of Color Research & Application, and is active on numerous committees of the AIC, including as President of the Scientific Committee of the AIC2016 Interim Meeting: Colour in Urban Life". If you teach colour and would like to contribute to Ingrid's Archive of Colour Teaching and Learning Activities by sharing one – or more – of your successful colour exercises, please click here: http://tinyurl.com/m2haqz5u Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is now open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #icdaustralia2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #design #designeducation #coloureducation #colortraining #colourtraining #designresearch @aiccolor @internationalcolourday @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
  • Eva Fay has taught colour and design in Sydney since 1979 at various TAFE colleges, the University of Sydney, UTS, and the School of Colour and Design, which she co-founded in 1983. She is a founding member of the Colour Society of Australia and was awarded Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia in 2012. Lately Eva has been experimenting with colour and atmosphere in painting and exhibits regularly. In her presentation "Colour Education from The Shillito Design School, Sydney", Eva will present and describe the development and theory of colour exercises and projects that she produced as a student at the highly influential Shillito Design School in Sydney in 1976-1977. Phyllis Shillito’s eclectic curriculum borrowed progressive ideas from design schools in Ulm, Munich, Stockholm and Paris as well as from art educators H. Barrett Carpenter (UK) and Maitland Graves (USA). Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is now open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #icdaustralia2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #design #designeducation #shillito #shillitodesignschool #coloureducation #coloureducationsydney @internationalcolourday @aiccolor
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    Eva Fay has taught colour and design in Sydney since 1979 at various TAFE colleges, the University of Sydney, UTS, and the School of Colour and Design, which she co-founded in 1983. She is a founding member of the Colour Society of Australia and was awarded Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia in 2012. Lately Eva has been experimenting with colour and atmosphere in painting and exhibits regularly. In her presentation "Colour Education from The Shillito Design School, Sydney", Eva will present and describe the development and theory of colour exercises and projects that she produced as a student at the highly influential Shillito Design School in Sydney in 1976-1977. Phyllis Shillito’s eclectic curriculum borrowed progressive ideas from design schools in Ulm, Munich, Stockholm and Paris as well as from art educators H. Barrett Carpenter (UK) and Maitland Graves (USA). Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is now open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #icdaustralia2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #design #designeducation #shillito #shillitodesignschool #coloureducation #coloureducationsydney @internationalcolourday @aiccolor
  • Derek H. Brown is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience and Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He works in philosophy of mind and perception, with particular interests in philosophy of colour, perceptual constancies, ‘indirect’ approaches to perception, imagination, projection in perception, and perceptual demonstratives. He recently co-edited, with Fiona Macpherson, "The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Colour". In his presentation "The Reality of Colour Illusion and Nearby Misperceptions", Derek will argue that some so-called colour illusions deserve to be classified as such and some do not, and will begin to outline a theory of colour illusion that accommodates this picture. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is now open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #icdaustralia2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #philosophyofcolor #philosophyofcolour #illusion #illusions #opticalillusion #colorillusion #perception @aiccolor @internationalcolourday
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    Derek H. Brown is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience and Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He works in philosophy of mind and perception, with particular interests in philosophy of colour, perceptual constancies, ‘indirect’ approaches to perception, imagination, projection in perception, and perceptual demonstratives. He recently co-edited, with Fiona Macpherson, "The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Colour". In his presentation "The Reality of Colour Illusion and Nearby Misperceptions", Derek will argue that some so-called colour illusions deserve to be classified as such and some do not, and will begin to outline a theory of colour illusion that accommodates this picture. Registration for the conference "Colour Connections" is now open on the CSA website at https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4165226 #colour #color #coloursocietyaustralia #colourconnectionssydney2021 #internationalcolourday #icd2021 #icdaustralia2021 #internationalcolourday2021 #philosophyofcolor #philosophyofcolour #illusion #illusions #opticalillusion #colorillusion #perception @aiccolor @internationalcolourday