Australia Design Thinking SXSW Sydney Meetup

I’m stoked Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT) is part of SXSW Sydney again this year. This time with a twist 😃

We’re doing this one as the Australia Design Thinking (AusDT) collective!

A casual and interactive meetup for anyone interested in design thinking and design in general. A great chance to meet some people in and around the Sydney design community and beyond… catch up with old friends and make some new ones.

Tuesday, 14 October at 3:30pm. We’ll be in The Ideas Dome in the middle of Tumbalong Park.

Great news… this is a free event as part of SXSW Sydney Unlocked, so you DON’T need a SXSW Sydney pass to attend. Come and hang out!

Your hosts will be Tash Ballantyne from Adelaide Design Thinking, Will Stuart from Byron Design Thinking, Rach Zhang from Melbourne Design Thinking… and me from SydDT. We should have more of the organisers too.

Why not come for the whole week of SXSW Sydney? Check out the full SXSW Sydney program. Contact me for a 10% discount on your pass. See you there!

What is Australia Design Thinking (AusDT)?

It was only January this year I announced the beginning of the AusDT collective to be more inclusive of the community beyond Sydney – which is a community of 10,000+ that has been going for over 10 years.

AusDT is a collective of place-based design communities with 12,000+ members in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Byron, Melbourne – and online. More to come.

Our purpose is to build a connected community and ecosystem of people from a diverse range of design and business practices, industries, contexts, and roles… to learn, share, and get exposed to what’s possible.

This is with the vision that design thinking is used as a human-centred design and living systems approach to innovation and solving complex problems – to help create great outcomes for people, our planet, and business.

See you at SXSW Sydney 2025!

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