The inaugural Festival of Architecture and Design in Adelaide has proved to be a huge success with over 1,000 people attending events and a significant number of the general public in attendance. The feedback from a wide variety of people has been extremely positive and encouraging. The team of staff and member volunteers worked tirelessly to deliver an exciting program in a spectacular Hub venue. It is remarkable that so much was achieved in such a short time frame.

Delivering the Festival gave us the opportunity to collaborate with key participants, who are suggesting ways of strengthening the program and engagement with other stakeholders in 2015. Clearly this was the right time to commence FAD with an expectation it will return in 2015 bigger and bolder. The Festival was all about engaging the public about the value of architecture and design and that’s just what it did. The program was diverse and engaged a wide variety of people and ages, with much of the driving force coming from the younger members of our community, as they look for active and creative ways in which to talk about our profession.

We congratulate all the organisers and contributors and thank all our sponsors who made the Festival possible and to those of you who attended. If you didn’t get there, then talk to those who did, log onto www.fad.org.au or follow #adlarchigram on Instagram to see what you missed. This stands to become a future cultural festival in South Australia and is the most significant initiative the SA Chapter has undertaken within the architecture and design community.

– Richard Hosking, State Manager