Explore the big questions. Question assumptions, exchange perspectives and debate the issues shaping our future through three major symposiums. Explore how we measure our city, design as a tool for change, and how the arts can challenge convention and create more accessible and inclusive spaces.
6 November 2026 | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
In line with the Craft + Design Canberra Festival theme of Dissent, this conversation asks whether we are measuring the things that matter most. As Canberra grows and changes, are we optimising for the metrics that are easier to count, or for the things that make our city a better place to live? This discussion will explore how the measures we choose influence the places we create, and whether it is time to broaden the way we define success.
12 – 13 November 2026 | Canberra Museum and Gallery
BOLD Dissent is a two-day conference featuring leading dancers, designers and thinkers from across Australia and the world bringing a focus on dissent. Shaking up the way we create and present performing arts and the ways in which organisations and artists can create more accessible and inclusive environments for the future.
6 November 2026 | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Dissent by Design explores creativity as a form of dissent: the ways artists, designers, activists and storytellers use their practice to resist, imagine and rebuild.
