Vivid Sydney’s A New Normal Exhibition brought together more than fifty of Sydney’s most ambitious designers, architects, developers, technologists, brands and architects to actualise new solutions to solve some of the city’s most persistent challenges, with real solutions that will provide a blueprint for our cities in how to save water, lower emissions and minimise climate impact.

Andrew O’Donnell at AHMM collaborated with Solotel, one of Sydney’s leading hospitality groups, for the exhibition, creating a concept for ‘The Carbon Free Kitchen’, a cleaner, safer, healthier place for people to cook meals in a commercial kitchen environment. The proposal explored how to replace traditionally used gas appliances with fossil fuel free alternatives, addressing the wider shift in the catering industry that embraces local and best practice in sustainability.

The exhibition ran from 24 May to 15 June as part of the Vivid Ideas event.