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EMERGENCY | Signal, Repair, Adapt | Exhibition

Craft + Design Canberra

We are living through overlapping emergencies, ecological collapse, housing insecurity, geopolitical conflict and systemic inequality. For many, emergency is not a singular event but an ongoing condition.  EMERGENCY: Signal, Repair, Adapt is a major exhibition presented as part of the 2026 Craft and Design Canberra Festival. Bringing together artists and designers working across ceramics, glass, textiles and media, the exhibition examines what it means to make objects in a time of disruption.  Craft and design operate at a different tempo to the speed of political rhetoric and digital information cycles. Materials hold memory, clay records touch, glass responds to force, fibres stretch, fray and mend. Through these processes, making becomes a form of critical inquiry, revealing the pressures and systems shaping both matter and society. In an age of mass production and disposability, work made locally, by hand and at a human scale, becomes its own form of resistance, a refusal of the standardised and the instant in favour of the considered, the repaired and the lasting.  Drawing on the 2026 festival theme of Dissent,  EMERGENCY |  Signal, Repair, Adapt asks how making can function as a form of critical action. At its heart, the exhibition affirms the power of creative thinking to meet problems that resist easy answers, to imagine alternatives where established systems have failed.
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An artwork of ceramic objects assembled together to look like bones
When
05 November, 2026
Venue
Craft + Design Canberra
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Location and Directions180 London Circuit Canberra Australian Capital Territory 2601 Australia
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Dates
  • Thursday 05 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 06 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 07 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 08 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Monday 09 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 10 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 11 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 12 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 13 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 14 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 15 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Monday 16 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 17 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 18 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 19 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 20 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 21 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 22 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Monday 23 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 24 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 25 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 26 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 27 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 28 November, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 29 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Monday 30 November, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 01 December, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 02 December, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 03 December, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 04 December, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 05 December, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 06 December, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Monday 07 December, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 08 December, 2026 - Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 09 December, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 10 December, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 11 December, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 12 December, 202612:00 - 16:00Confirmed Event

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