NGV and Melbourne Art Foundation have officially launched their full 2022 Melbourne Design Week program between March 17 and 27 this year.
Marketed as Australia’s leading annual international design event, Melbourne Design Week is set to return for its sixth iteration.
Spearheaded by the NGV but held across venues in Melbourne and regional Victoria, the event will run over 11 days with a series of exhibitions, talks, films, tours and workshops. These will include the biennial Australian Furniture Design Award, and a program of design showroom activations that respond to the theme ‘Design the world you want’.
Melbourne Design Week 2022 highlights
- Melbourne Art Book Fair, bringing together a diverse range of art publishers, artists, and designers worldwide
- Blak Jewellery, a contemporary jewellery design exhibition by Victorian First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants from the inaugural year of the Koorie Heritage Trust’s Blak Design Program
- Zero Footprint Repurposing by Revival Projects x Grimshaw, the world’s first ‘free repurposing hub’ in the heart of Collingwood
- NGV Architecture Commission pond[er] by Taylor Knights and James Carey, an architectural installation, replete with a pink pond evocative of Australia’s inland salt lakes at NGV International.
2022’s Melbourne Design Week steps it up a notch in combination with Melbourne Art Foundation, holding the inaugural Melbourne Design Fair between 16 – 20 March. The purpose of the Design Fair is to showcase Australia’s most innovative and talented commercial designers, with all products available for purchase.
Other events held as part of Melbourne Design Week include:
- A House – The 50th Anniversary Of The Hugh Buhrich House In Castlecrag, which revisits one of Australia’s most startling feats of modernist architecture
- Lumina Flora: Media Architecture + Biophilic Design, which investigates the potential of merging media technologies with horticulture, growing native flora and fauna like artworks in concept display rooms.
- Designing The Nightclub: A panel discussion of where design meets commercialism and counter-culture in the world of nightclubbing and nightclub design
Melbourne Design Week features a whopping 96 different events, for the full program, head here.
