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Melbourne Design Week

300+ talks, exhibitions, tours and workshops explore how design can shape life

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Highlights

Light+Life Presented by Brightspace
12am, 1 Jan | Free entry Palace for the People Presented by Melbourne Design Week, curated by Richard Sowada
12am, 1 Jan | Book now
Earth (Erde) Presented by Melbourne Design Week, curated by Richard Sowada
12am, 1 Jan | Book now A&A: Exquisite Corpse/Cadavre Exquis Presented by Tolarno Galleries
12am, 1 Jan | Free entry Partu (Skin) by Johnny Nargoodah and Trent Jansen Presented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert and ARC ONE Gallery
12am, 1 Jan | Free entry Designwork 04: Dale Hardiman & Stephen Royce | Danielle Brustman Presented by Sophie Gannon Gallery
12am, 1 Jan | Free entry

All Events | Exhibitions | Talks | Tours | Films | Workshops | Melbourne Art Book Fair | Free

Big Ideas

The following programs provide a snapshot of the themes and big ideas that have emerged from the 300+ programs.

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THE GUIDE TO COLLECTABLE DESIGN AT MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK 2020

Presented by Habitus Magazine

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AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE DESIGN AWARD 2020

Presented by NGV and Stylecraft
James Walsh has been awarded the Australian Furniture Design Award for 2020 for his entry Anthropic bench

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Melbourne Design Week Film Festival

The Melbourne Design Week Film Festival traverses the globe with films that project environments, cities, infrastructures and buildings, and the people that design and inhabit them. Eleven feature films are accompanied by two design short-film programs with new shorts dealing with the challenges facing architects and designers. The program expands from the cinema to Melbourne’s public spaces with experimental architecture short-film program Urban Screening at Federation Square (Melbourne), Harmony Square (Dandenong) and Monash University (Clayton and Caulfield).

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