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The ninth edition of Melbourne Design Week will bring 11 days of exhibitions, talks and workshops to the city in late autumn. More than 350 inventive events will be presented during the festival, cementing its status as Australia’s largest annual design event.
Each year brings a new theme for Melbourne Design Week and this year’s is ‘Design The World You Want’. The theme is designed to encourage people to express, question, propose and test ideas about the world around us. Projects involved might offer solutions that heal, replenish and enable life, revealing design as an act of repair and transformation.
Highlights include A New Normal, an exhibition featuring a collection of designs to make Melbourne a self-sufficient city by 2030; a retrospective of lighting designer Volker Haug; a spectacular showcase of 100 dazzling and avant-garde contemporary lights at North Melbourne's Meat Market Stables; and presentations by leading showrooms, studios and makers like Trent Jansen, Jessie French, Fiona Lynch, Cult and more.
The Melbourne Art Book Fair will also be celebrating its 11th year, and will run its popular stallholder fair in the NGV’s Great Hall from May 15-17.
Melbourne Design Week is presented by Creative Victoria and delivered by the NGV. You can view the full festival program and book tickets here.
