Australian Design Review (ADR)'s 2026 30UNDER30 cohort gathered in Bali this year for a three-day retreat alongside mentors, sponsors and senior voices from across Australia's architecture and design community, brought together for the kind of considered, unhurried conversation the industry rarely makes space for.
Returning as a major program sponsor, Krost’s presence was guided by a clear intention: to support a dedicated forum for dialogue, reflection, and shared experience. The retreat provided these emerging practitioners with a rare pocket of time to engage with peers, exchange ideas openly, and debate the evolving responsibilities of leadership and design direction. Throughout the program, sessions drifted fluidly between structured panel discussions and informal peer exchange, with sustainability emerging as a defining thread.
This focus on sustainable initiatives felt entirely organic to the cohort. For emerging designers and architects, lifecycle thinking and material responsibility are not separate considerations but part of how they approach the work, and the dialogue across the retreat reflected a generation prepared to lead on it.
For Krost, the true value of the retreat lies in this close proximity. Spending time with emerging professionals who will shape Australian commercial interiors over the next decade sharpens our own perspective on what we manufacture, who we create for, and how we support a more connected design community. In a room of this caliber, mentorship inherently runs in both directions.
Browse the gallery below for highlights from Bali.
