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  • Chris Bangle (Italy) on the Future of Personal Mobility - Melbourne

    Chris Bangle (Italy), ex BMW Design Director, will provide his insights into current and future trends in mobility.

  • Chris Bangle (Italy) on the Future of Personal Mobility in Bendigo

    Chris Bangle (Italy), ex BMW Design Director, will provide his insights into current and future trends in mobility.

  • Creative Industries Innovation Centre: The Timely (Design) Doctor

    Two businesses go under the microscope and emerge genetically re-designed for superhuman performance.

  • Decoration + Design

    Bringing together exciting ranges of soft furnishing and interior suppliers from around Australia and the world.

  • Demystifying Design Exhibition

    Housed within Furnitex, Demystifying Design showcases a multitude of ways businesses are using design for competitive advantage.

  • Design Victoria: Designing an Exit Strategy

    Build it up, then sell it! Planning strategies for exiting your design business.

  • Design Victoria: Get Funded

    Grant funding is out there – you just need to know about it.

  • Design Victoria: Get Noticed - It’s Called PR Darling!

    Don’t get too caught up in the 'making' and forget about the marketing.

  • Design Victoria: Green Growth Markets

    Green and sustainable are the buzz words of the moment, what is behind these trends?

  • Design Victoria: Hello World – Exporting Design

    Could you be a bigger fish in a bigger pond? Design growth opportunities are offshore.

  • Design Victoria: Reinventing Retail - Beyond Bricks and Mortar

    Be the master of your own marketing strategy – get your design product OUT!

  • Design:Made:Trade

    An inspiring trade exhibition space including some of Australia’s leading furniture, fashion and industrial design brands.

  • Experience Corner

    e2 presents an industry debate about what 'experience' means to brands in the current market.

  • Furnitex

    Showcasing the latest designs from Australian furniture manufacturers and importers.

  • Furnitex Seminars: Colour Trends Spring/Summer 2011

    London’s creative colour consultancy presents Spring/Summer 2011’s trend forecast.

  • Furnitex Seminars: Design Thinking: The Good Word on Good Design Now

    Hear about the current design landscape and the issues of today and tomorrow.

  • Furnitex Seminars: Five Best Design Decisions

    Leading Australian designers share their insight, inspiration and individual journeys.

  • Furnitex Seminars: Lighting The Way Forward

    An insight into lighting design, new technologies and Green Star ratings.

  • Furnitex Seminars: Redefining Modern

    Discover cultural influences and historical themes that are now re-defining 'modern'.

  • Hermit Crab Organisation

    The hermit crab: A conceptual model for organisation lifecycle and spatial needs.

  • Idea Land

    A space for professional industry associations and membership bodies to connect with exhibitors, industry and visitors.

  • Lightsource

    Lighting companies, brands and manufacturers showcase their latest product and technology innovations.

  • Making the Invisible Visible

    Converting digital information into a commercial outcome. Learn what having a digital strategy really means.

  • Materia

    An international exhibition of innovations in materials and their applications for architecture and design.

  • Melbourne Design Embassy

    A central zone where industry can meet with Victorian design talent to relax, network and do business.

  • Mobility, New Thinking Demonstrator: 5 Steps

    A workshop focusing on near future scenarios for our use of urban mobility systems.

  • Philips Workshops

    Get along to one of these two, specially designed workshops by lighting experts Philips.

  • Retrofitting the Grid: New Designs for Old Buildings

    Our panel discusses the sustainability and business case for retrofitting.

  • Sprawling Questions: How to Transition to a City Transformed?

    Thought leaders consider how to transform Melbourne for a sustainable future.

  • Sustainable and More Profitable

    Innovations in medium to high-density design and construction.

  • Sustainable Materials to Inspire – Els Zijlstra (The Netherlands)

    Be inspired by sustainable materials and projects well beyond your imagination.

  • The ARBV Melbourne Open House Speaker Series - House This! Density in Melbourne

    Key urban planners discuss strategies for growing our city in a sustainable fashion.

  • The Long Table

    Running the length of the Royal Exhibition Building, the Table is programmed with workshops, discussions, a design mini library and a café.

  • The Power of More: When Collaboration Is Better Business - Axel Enthoven (Belgium)

    Learn how designers assisted manufacturers to increase innovation.

  • The Reinvention of Punt Road

    An opportunity to contribute your ideas towards developing sustainable urban communities through the art of drawing.

  • The Secret Life of Things Launch

    The launch of series of short animated videos that explore the hidden environmental impacts of everyday things.