Witness the future at this year's Melbourne Design Week at the National Gallery of Victoria from the 23rd of May until the 2nd of June
Mark your calendars design admirers! From the 23rd of May until the 2nd of June, Melbourne Design Week is coming back to the city with the theme Design The World You Want.
Presented by Creative Victoria and delivered by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne Design Week is a vital platform for emerging and established creative practitioners, offering the Australian design community and audiences the opportunity to engage with a diverse program of talks, tours, exhibitions, installations and workshops.
Melbourne Design Week 2024: Design the World You Want
- Melbourne’s biggest design festival
- 23 May to 2 June
- Bookings will be available online from 11 April 2024
Explore Melbourne’s latest arts and theatrical events, exhibitions, productions and performances here.
Design The World You Want is all about using energy, ethics and ecology to encourage positive change.
Dissecting the theme itself, the word ‘energy’ represents the use of design in promoting a transition from non-renewables to renewables, ‘ethics’ demonstrates how design can be guided by values held by society and ‘ecology’ will be a call for designers to demonstrate new ideas that complement the physical nature of our environment.
Tosin Oshinowo
Following the recent success with curating the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo will feature in the program to discuss socially responsive solutions to urbanism as well as design concepts that cater to the necessary issues of the modern cultural and climatic sphere.
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Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts
A public symposium will be held as a forerunner of the upcoming NGV exhibition Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070. It will feature eight leading Australian landscape architects tested with developing extreme conjectural designs that reinvent sites along Birrarung (the Yarra River) opening at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia in August 2024.
Rubbish on the Shore
NGV and Agency Projects will present Rubbish on the Shore, examining the intersection of culture, creativity and sustainability and investigating design solutions for ghost nets and associated marine debris impacting Sea Country across Northern Australia.
Katy Hessel and The Melbourne Art Book Fair
As part of Melbourne Art Book Fair’s tenth year, UK-based Katy Hessel, esteemed curator, art historian and author of The Story of Art Without Men, presents a keynote talk in partnership with The Wheeler Centre.
In addition, Melbourne Art Book Fair’s 2024 program includes artist and designer activations, workshops, plus the popular stallholder fair in the NGV’s Great Hall on the opening weekend. The program also features satellite events along Victoria’s surf coast with programming in Geelong, Barwon Heads, Torquay and Ocean Grove, adding to events in Ballarat and Castlemaine.
Dr Christine Checinska
Lastly, Victoria and Albert Museum’s Senior Curator of Africa and Diaspora Textiles and Fashion, Dr Christine Checinska will be presenting the divergent fashion culture of the African continent in celebration of the creativity, innovation and eternal global impact of African fashions from the mid-twentieth century.
All huge program also features free and ticketed exhibitions, films, presentations and more – have a look so you don’t miss out!
The full program and bookings will be available from April 11 through the Melbourne Design Week website.
