Melbourne Design Week 2024 as soon as extra provokes the design group in Australia to ‘Design the world you need’. The eighth version stretches throughout 11 days (till 2 June 2024) with over 300 exhibitions, shows, symposiums and talks all through metropolitan Melbourne and spreading into regional Victoria. Alongside large identify audio system together with Alice Rawsthorn and Tosin Oshinowo, the tenth annual Melbourne Artwork E book Truthful and a pop-up merchandising machine serving a wide range of insect-based snacks offered by lead associate NGV, Melbourne Design Week contains a wealth of exhibitions scattered throughout the town, ready to be found.
Right here is our record of the most well liked exhibitions in essentially the most fascinating venues to seek out.
Uncover Melbourne Design Week 2024
(MATTERS) at Villa Alba
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Situated within the leafy suburb of Kew, the late nineteenth century Villa Alba Museum has turn out to be a staple vacation spot of Melbourne Design Week. This yr’s presentation brings collectively a few of Australia’s most interesting designers together with Tom Fereday, Adam Goodrum, Object Density, Kate Benazi and Studio Tops, alongside the exhibition (SOME THINGS) showcasing materials samples, interpreted instruments and experimental kinds.
Till 27 Might
44 Walmer St, Kew VIC 3101
Want x Design at Helpful Objects
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Situated at new Melbourne Design Week hub 47 Easey Road – a not too long ago accomplished Collingwood warehouse conversion by BAR Studio housing a spread of inventive studios – Helpful Objects is a brand new gallery devoted to collectible design. Its inaugural exhibition for Melbourne Design Week is exploring design’s relationship to need. Via supplies, concepts and kinds, a bunch of designers together with Danielle Brustman & Edward Linacre, Dean Toepfer and Elliot Bastianon query whether or not the article of need is the catalyst or endpoint of the human impulse to devour.
Till 15 June
47 Easey Road
Squiggles and Cubes on the Tie Manufacturing unit
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Via site-specific interventions, Melbourne-based artwork Meagan Streader works with mild to discover its function in how we expertise and navigate area. For Melbourne Design Week she has collaborated with furnishings designer Billy Horn to put in a group of purposeful sculptures within the Tie Manufacturing unit, a historic Carlton warehouse.
89 Faraday St, Carlton VIC 3053
Nostalgia at Abbotsford Convent
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Melbourne-based inventive studio Misc Objet are returning to Melbourne Design Week with a presentation of 13 rising artists and designers with numerous backgrounds in conventional and unconventional makes use of of supplies and processes. Situated within the Oratory within the historic Abbotsford Convent, the exhibition poses the query: How does trying again encourage and form the longer term?
1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford VIC 3067
Till 26 Might
A&A at Tolarno Galleries
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Mercedes-Benz Australia offered the fifth annual Melbourne Design Week Award to A&A, a collaboration between Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum and French marquetry artisan Arthur Seigneur, quick changing into common fixtures at Melbourne Design Week. The Kissing Cupboard presents A&A’s newest work, a visually intriguing cupboard rendered within the centuries-old craft of straw marquetry that reveals hidden kinds and secret compartments upon nearer inspection.
stage 5/104 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Supply: Wallpaper
