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Webinar 3: The Role of Colour in Trauma Informed Design / 2 December 2025

The Role of Colour in Trauma Informed Design

Venue: Online via Zoom

Date: 2 December 2025

Time: 5:00 - 6:00pm (AEDT)

$59 +gst

About the webinar

This webinar will focus on Lymesmith projects in health care settings, and all project typologies. I’ll be sharing the experiences of my clients and their responses to living in or working in colourful environments. A growing awareness of how profoundly colour affects people has inspired my thinking about the need for skillful colour design in environments designed for diverse needs. Any person, at any stage of life can experience trauma, all environments should be designed

A recording will be made available to those who cannot attend in person.

Webinar 4: It's Not Black and White / 10th February 2026

It's Not Black and White: A Critique of Monochrome Architecture

Venue: Online via Zoom

Date: 10 February 2026

Time: 12:30-1:30pm (AEDT)

$79 +gst

About the webinar

In traditional architecture around the world, pure black and pure white surfaces are seldom seen. Yet in much contemporary architecture, black and white are championed for their uncompromising clarity and sharpness. What has led to this cultural shift, and has it improved architecture? The Webinar will include an exploration of different qualities of ‘whiteness’ and ‘blackness’ and how they can be used and misused in Architecture.

A recording will be made available to those who cannot attend in person.

webinar recordings

Webinar Recording: Don't Look Up! Do Ceilings Have To Be So Ugly?

Don't Look Up! Do Ceilings Have To Be So Ugly?

Recording Now Available - $59 + GST

Originally presented online via Zoom on 7 October 2025

About the webinar

We’ll explore one of the most overlooked yet psychologically potent design surfaces: the ceiling.

Once sites of narrative, ornamentation and spatial drama, today’s ceilings have been downgraded into blank expanses of plasterboard, littered with downlights and services. This session will explore how ceilings shape our experience of space, whether they’re 2.2 metres or 6. And yes, the issue of colour will be front and centre!

Watch anytime and explore how colour can transform the way you design ceilings.

Please note: Access to the recording is provided for individual viewing only. Lymesmith reserves the right to revoke access at any time if the content is shared, distributed, or used beyond personal educational purposes.

Webinar Recording: The Threat of Colour

The Threat of Colour

Recording Now Available - $59 + GST

Originally presented online via Zoom on 12 August 2025

About the webinar

There's a good reason that many architects feel reluctant to use strong colours in their buildings. Applied colour can manipulate and interfere with how a building or place is perceived. Yet, it's for exactly this reason that architects who learn to harness colour effectively will unlock new possibilities in their work. As Le Corbusier said, “Colour - a means as powerful as the ground plane and section".

Join me to explore the opportunities and challenges that colour offers to architecture.

Watch anytime and explore how colour can transform the way you design.