Exploring and embracing diversity can offer unique opportunities to engage with new identities and experiences. But diverse stories are not often told in mainstream media or represented in mass-produced products. Valuing difference and finding ways to genuinely engage with and represent diversity is both a challenge and an opportunity for our age. Here, we speak to four Melbourne creatives who are doing just that. With culturally diverse backgrounds and a unique approach to design and storytelling, they speak to the power and capacity of difference.
Esteemed designer Pascale Gomes-McNabb grew up in a culturally diverse community in Australia and abroad, where she was blissfully unaware of her differences. Stepping outside these familiar circles, she harnessed her individuality to ambitiously develop a design practice and restaurant business in parallel – owning, designing, establishing and running front of house restaurants for over 15 years.
Responsible for some of Melbourne’s most loved and awarded venues, including Cumulus
