Latest Melbourne Design Week News
Why design is diving beneath the waves for answers.
March 29, 2021Beneath the waves lies a material that is prolific to the future of design: you can wear it, mould it, eat it, even eat off it. It may even contribute to solving a startling number of complex societal challenges: global warming, the world food crisis and landfill. The mysterious… Read More
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A New Normal walks the walk as they turn Melbourne into a self-sustaining city.
March 29, 2021A movement is emerging from Melbourne that many are looking to as the benchmark for radical action in the built environment profession. ‘A New Normal’ is a collaboration between fifteen leading architecture and design firms with one united goal: to battle climate change, one audacious design project at a… Read More
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Living closer together: The future of ‘home’ in post-pandemic Melbourne.
March 24, 2021To tell the story of housing is to tell the story of a city’s history. Melbourne’s famous terrace homes speak to the Gold Rush population boom of the late 19th century; while the apartments of Southbank track the late 90’s residential shift into the CBD precinct. The places we… Read More
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Waste not: how Australian creatives are breathing new life into the by-products of design.
March 23, 2021Design is an industry that thrives on challenges. Restrictions can be the catalyst for innovation: give an architect or designer a small space or a particular material, and inspiration can flourish. One such challenge being embraced on the design scene is the use of waste generated from daily practice. Read More
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Designing with the environment: the role of more-than-human subjects in Design
March 17, 2021Whether it’s a city tower or an artificial coral reef, design has the opportunity to enhance experiences for all living creatures. Melbourne Design Week features several events that display how designers are working with nature in their latest projects — and why empathy for our natural environment is the… Read More
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Water sustains our cities, but will future cities sustain our water? Melbourne Design Week has a simple answer: it must
March 15, 2021‘Water-sensitive urban design’ has become a global focus in 2021. As climate change continues to shift our natural environment, and our urban centres face further densification, consideration of how we work with water must also evolve. Since European settlement in Australia, water has often been viewed as a resource… Read More
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Welcome to Melbourne Design Week 2021: Design The World You Want
March 15, 2021Normal is over. The tumult of 2020 continues to demonstrate how the issues of our time – climate, public health and social justice – are intertwined. Let’s look towards the world we might make together through design. It was the year that changed everything. Here in Melbourne, it began… Read More
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A New Normal
March 14, 2021A New Normal is a series of installations, programs and talks curated by Finding Infinity that takes over the top floor and roof top of a Melbourne office building. A group of Australia’s leading architectural practices present working prototypes for projects that demonstrate how we can transform Melbourne into an… Read More
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Waterfront
March 4, 2021The Waterfront program, presented by Centre for Architecture Victoria | Open House Melbourne, offers an extensive program of guided and self-guided tours, talks, workshops and exhibitions concerning Melbourne’s water sources and how to engage with them through design. In 2021, Waterfront expands to East Gippsland to explore the area around Lakes Entrance and Lake Tyers through a series of walks, tours, talks, kayak and boat trips. Read More
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MDW Film Festival
October 31, 2020Curated by Richard Sowada, the 2021 Melbourne Design Week Film Festival focuses on the spectrum of human relationships that exists between natural and built, technological and computational, community and communal, family and individual and spiritual and primal. Read More
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