“There's an old Chinese proverb that says that your house is never finished until you die," says Rosslyn de Souza.
Ian is one of Fremantle’s most celebrated artists, while Ros was recently named 2025 Community Citizen of the Year for her generous contributions to Fremantle's cultural landscape. Together, they live a life of creativity and agency.
We invite you to enjoy this iconic Fremantle home through a new (wintery!) lens. Share wine and conversation around the fire as Ian and Ros discuss the evolution of their space, how they inhabit it, and how we might live more fully without regard for convention.
Your ticket includes a glass of wine and nibbles.
About DesignFreo
DesignFreo celebrates design and designers in the port city of Fremantle / Walyalup and beyond.
We’re a not-for-profit founded by a group of local designers, makers and doers. We love design, we love our town and we care about its future. We’re interested in how design can bring joy to the everyday and also in how design can tackle the bigger issues facing our communities and planet.
Through our events, including the biennial Fremantle Design Week, DesignFreo creates opportunities to see what designers do, hear their ideas and join a broader conversation about why it’s important. Good design. Bad design. Who cares and why does it matter? Let’s talk.
