PERSPECTIVES
PERSPECTIVES
celebratING 10 years of perspectives
EVENING SESSION
6PM - 9PM
1 JUNE 2026
01/06
ILUMINA, 1 ELIZABETH STREET SYDNEY 2000 // ACCESSIBLE VIA MARTIN PLACE METRO STATION
LEGACY
To leave behind // To carry forward // To move with time // TO CHALLENGE, QUESTION OR FOLLOW
What we leave behind, and what we carry forward. The ideas, spaces and relationships that live beyond us. Legacy explores practice as a continuum, shaped by those who came before, and to be reimagined by those who follow.
It considers the impact of our work over time. How values are embedded, how stories are told and how influence is passed on.
Join us as three leading creatives from different industries reflect on what legacy means for them.
Held at ILUMINA, above the Martin Place Metro Station in the heart of Sydney’s CBD, LEGACY is a special event in our 2026 Perspectives series, celebrating 10 years of conversations, community, and creative exchange.
speakers
adam haddow
Partner at SJB and National President of the Australian Institute of ArchitectsAdam is the National President of the Australian Institute of Architects and a Partner at the multi-disciplinary design firm, SJB. He is a champion of good design and a strong advocate for the value Architecture brings to communities throughout Australia and the world. Adam is a firm believer that the future will be better where architecture and design thinking are prioritised, and that good design can deliver both economic benefits and improved health and wellbeing outcomes.
With over 30 years’ experience across diverse scales and typologies, Adam’s contributions to architecture are recognised both nationally and internationally. His work reflects the belief that architecture should provide an armature for community life; that the activities buildings facilitate are just as important as the physicality of the buildings themselves. He remains curious and driven by a passion for creating cities and spaces that serve the community and shaping a profession that supports its contributors.
Dana Tomić Hughes
Dana Tomić Hughes is one of the world's most trusted design voices. An interior designer turned publisher, she has spent sixteen years building Yellowtrace — a platform that has shaped how the design industry sees, thinks, and talks about itself. Along the way, she's earned recognition from top global publications as one of the most visionary female creatives on the planet.
Through Yellowtrace, her TEDxSydney talk, and her Sightline briefing series, Dana has built a reputation for translating complexity into clarity — bringing the same rigour, warmth, and irreverence to the stage that she brings to everything else.
The last time Dana spoke at Perspectives, she explored Time. She returns — a decade later — to reflect on Legacy. It feels, she says, like the only possible subject.
Founder and Editor of Yellow Trace
Founder and Creative Director of Studio LibroMary libro
Mary Libro is the founder and creative director of Studio Libro, a Sydney-based design studio that has spent three decades quietly building some of the most enduring visual identities in the country.
She came to design sideways — through a Fine Arts degree at COFA (now UNSW Art & Design), a self-directed journey through her twenties, and zero formal design training. What she did have was an instinct for the powerful and beautiful essence of visual identity: how typography, colour, pattern and form can say something true and lasting about a business, a place, a culture.
Over thirty years, Studio Libro has crafted distinctive brands across hospitality, retail, arts, culture, architecture and design — projects that span print, digital, three-dimensional, product and environmental platforms. Working closely with clients, the studio's approach brings together the client's vision, functional needs and the specific brand environment to unify content, concept and design. The result is brands that don't just look good — they endure. Many of them are so woven into the fabric of Sydney life that you've almost certainly encountered them without knowing Mary was behind them.