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Updated 04/09/2022
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05/03/2025

SEAWEED

When you skip by seaweed on the beach or crunch into nori wrapped sushi rolls, you're interacting with something that also exists as billion-year-old fossils. In Australia, palawa people have crafted bull kelp water carriers for millennia, and from Ireland to Japan, seaweed’s been a culinary ingredient, a cough remedy and a way to pay taxes. Nowadays, this versatile alga gets shaped into sushi rolls, musical instruments, plastic alternatives, and could be a powerful tool in combating climate change. This episode features co-founder of South Coast Seaweed, Sarah Thomas; food writer, photographer and award-winning author, Emiko Davies; composer, instrumentalist and composer, Yyan Ng; performer and marine scientist, Emily Sheppard; and marine ecologist and founder of Venus Shell Systems and PhycoHealth, Dr Pia Winberg. A special thanks to 100 Climate Conversations; the National Film and Sound Archive; the Tasmanian Archives; and Uluu. Listen to Dr Pia Winberg on 100 Climate Conversations here. This episode was inspired by items from the Powerhouse Collection, such as a 19th century tin of Irish moss and 1879 bottled nori from Japan. Culinary Archive Podcast is a Powerhouse series hosted by Lee Tran Lam. Listen to season 1 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Image: Alana Dimou

05/03/2025

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31 min
06/10/2022

032 | 100 Zoltan Csaki: Remaking fashion

Determined to curb carbon emissions, Citizen Wolf co-founder Zoltan Csaki rejects the relentless fast fashion cycle, which annually sends almost a third of unsold clothing to landfill. Combining an on-demand manufacturing model and proprietary technology that ensure the perfect fit, Csaki is challenging cheap mass production and our shopping habits.  Zoltan Csaki is recorded live in conversation with Yaara Bou Melhem at Powerhouse Ultimo. For more information go to 100climateconversations.com/zoltan-csaki

06/10/2022

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37 min
05/05/2022

010 | 100 Veena Sahajwalla: Green manufacturing

Visionary inventor Professor Veena Sahajwalla sees waste as an opportunity. Through her work as Director of the Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT) Centre, UNSW, she engineers new ways to combat and find value in waste that drive down manufacturing’s carbon footprint. Veena Sahajwalla is recorded live in conversation with Rae Johnston at Powerhouse Ultimo. For more information go to 100climateconversations.com/veena-sahajwalla

05/05/2022

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33 min
24/11/2022 · BONUS

Special episode: Powerhouse Climate Action Plan

Sustainability is integral to the Powerhouse renewal, which presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to embed low carbon solutions into Powerhouse infrastructure to reduce its operational environmental impact and improve its responsiveness to climate, season and sustainability. Following an introduction by Powerhouse chief executive Lisa Havilah, a panel featuring Powerhouse First Nations director Emily McDaniel, First Nations collaborator Terri Janke, and Powerhouse sustainability manager Carmel Reyes discusses the Powerhouse inaugural Climate Action Plan and its commitment of achieving net zero operational carbon emissions by 2025. This panel was recorded live at Powerhouse Ultimo. For more information about the Climate Action Plan go to maas.museum/climate-action

24/11/2022 · Bonus

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31 min
22/09/2022

030 | 100 Joëlle Gergis: Tracing Australia’s climate history

Climate scientist Joëlle Gergis formulated an unprecedented perspective of Australia’s climate history, uncovering how human activities have disrupted long-established patterns. Through a firm understanding of the past, Gergis presents a clear path toward a sustainable future. Joëlle Gergis is recorded live in conversation with Marian Wilkinson at Powerhouse Ultimo. For more information go to 100climateconversations.com/joëlle-gergis

22/09/2022

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42 min
09/06/2022

015 | 100 Clover Moore: Climate ready Sydney

Australian cities are where the nation’s majority live, eat and emit. Combatting the emissions that accompany these highly urban environments, Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore established some of Australia’s most ambitious climate initiatives including plans for net zero by 2035, reducing waste and increasing green space. Clover Moore is recorded live in conversation with Benjamin Law at Powerhouse Ultimo. For more information go to 100climateconversations.com/clover-moore

09/06/2022

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34 min
SEASON 1 TRAILER

OSCILLATIONS TRAILER

From heartbeats to brainwaves, economic cycles to cosmic orbits, oscillations can be found everywhere. These seven stories bring Dakota Feirer, Alexandra Spence, Jinghua Qian, John Jacobs and Jane Curtis, Miyuki Jokiranta, Omar Musa and Sally Olds into Powerhouse’s Collection of over 500,000 objects to explore the stories behind them. Ranging from the poetic to the musical, the journalistic to the personal, these audio works offer stories, interpretations and investigations, bringing new light and sound to the Powerhouse’s Collection. Presented by Jon Tjhia and sound design by Erin Hyde (Sig Nu Gris). Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Still from the beginning, the middle, the end, 2021, video, single channel, 15 mins and 1 second. Image: Zan Wimberley.

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2 min
04/09/2022

Resistance/Resilience

What does traditional land management in our changing climate teach us about the vulnerability of eucalypts, and the significance of their survival?  Featuring Dean Nicolle, founder and manager of Currency Creek Arboretum; Oliver Costello, Bundjalung man and co-founder of Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation; and hosted by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Powerhouse Artistic Associate and co-curator of Eucalyptusdom. Eucalyptusdom (11 October 2021 – 28 August 2022) is accompanied by a publication which expands upon the research and creative output of the exhibition, showcasing more than 20 creative practitioners commissioned to produce new works in dialogue with 500+ objects from the Powerhouse Collection. The series is programmed by Rebecca Gallo, produced by Ayeesha Ash and Cara Stewart, edited by Mara Schwerdtfeger, and sound designed by Jane Sheldon.

04/09/2022

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22 min
04/09/2022

Alchemy

Alchemy is at once a medieval science, a speculative philosophy, a force that transforms matter in mysterious ways, and a metaphor for transformation. We look at how plants and trees become forces for symbolic and material transformation in Western art and culture. Featuring Gina Buenfeld-Murley, curator at Camden Art Centre; Janet Laurence, contemporary Australian artist; and hosted by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Powerhouse Artistic Associate and co-curator of Eucalyptusdom. Eucalyptusdom (11 October 2021 – 28 August 2022) is accompanied by a publication which expands upon the research and creative output of the exhibition, showcasing more than 20 creative practitioners commissioned to produce new works in dialogue with 500+ objects from the Powerhouse Collection. The series is programmed by Rebecca Gallo, produced by Ayeesha Ash and Cara Stewart, edited by Mara Schwerdtfeger, and sound designed by Jane Sheldon.

04/09/2022

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21 min
28/07/2022

022 | 100 Ninotschka Titchkosky: Carbon conscious architecture

Tackling issues of climate through the application of new techniques in digital fabrication and principles of circular economy, architect Ninotschka Titchkosky leads the decarbonisation of the Australian architecture and building industries. Ninotschka Titchkosky is recorded live in conversation with Paddy Manning at Powerhouse Ultimo. For more information go to 100climateconversations.com/ninotschka-titchkosky

28/07/2022

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38 min

Audio stories from Australia’s contemporary museum for excellence and innovation in applied arts and sciences. Our venues include Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Observatory and Museums Discovery Centre. We are uniquely placed to demonstrate how technology, engineering, science and design impact Australia and the world.

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SEAWEED

032 | 100 Zoltan Csaki: Remaking fashion

010 | 100 Veena Sahajwalla: Green manufacturing

Special episode: Powerhouse Climate Action Plan

030 | 100 Joëlle Gergis: Tracing Australia’s climate history

015 | 100 Clover Moore: Climate ready Sydney

OSCILLATIONS TRAILER

Resistance/Resilience

Alchemy

022 | 100 Ninotschka Titchkosky: Carbon conscious architecture

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