PROGRAM COMING SOON…

Melbourne Design Week returns in 2021 with its largest program to date hosting 11-days of national and international designers in 300+ series of talks, tours, films, workshops, exhibitions and launches.

In 2021, designers come together at Melbourne Design Week to explore the theme: ‘design the world you want’ through the lenses of care, community and climate. Participants will explore how the design community can work together to create a better, healthier future for the planet and its inhabitants.

Join Australia’s design community from the 26 March to 5 April across Melbourne and Victoria’s ateliers, showrooms, galleries, gardens, waterways and rooftops or online with its expanded digital presence with exhibition tours, talks and reportage.

About

Melbourne Design Week is an annual 11-day program of talks, tours, exhibitions and workshops that celebrate and interrogate design in its broadest sense. The program offers an opportunity for designers and businesses spanning the many and varied disciplines, to come together to share ideas, show new work and consider how design can be used as a force for good in an increasingly complex and precarious world.

An initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and delivered by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), the inaugural Melbourne Design Week was launched in 2017. Curation of the program is led by the NGV Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture team; Ewan McEoin, Simone LeAmon and Myf Doughty alongside Timothy Moore, Director of Sibling Architecture.

Melbourne Design Week is curated into two streams; core programming of local and international exhibitions and keynote presentations hosted by NGV, and the Satellite program which is made up of events and exhibitions independently organised and hosted by the broader design community. The Satellite program makes up 90% of the Melbourne Design Week program with events held at ateliers, studios, retail spaces, universities, galleries and public spaces throughout Melbourne and greater Victoria. Prospective participants develop submissions in response to a provocation set by Melbourne Design Week curators that addresses key issues facing designers and populations around the world. In 2021, Melbourne Design Week asks the industry to propose events and exhibitions that respond to the provocation: Design the world you want. Participants are called to consider how we might work together to create a better, healthier future for the planet and its inhabitants.

The program is built on the enthusiastic engagement and participation of the design sector and the general public. Since 2017 the program has grown in scope and scale from just under 100 programs in 2017 to over 300 in 2020 making it Australia’s largest international design event. We look forward to another four years of talking, making, sharing, imagining and listening.

Contact

If you have any questions or would like more information about Melbourne Design Week please contact:

designweek@ngv.vic.gov.au

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Melbourne Design Week and the Victorian Design Program are initiatives of the Victorian Government.
The NGV Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture is generously supported by The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation.