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Exhibitions

  • 175 Years of Design

    Part exhibition, part open forum. The installation reflects on Victoria’s design history and encourages visitors to share their stories.

  • 3D Stencil Project

    Trent Jansen goes to the street with his 3D stencil.

  • Anno Student Design Competition

    A digital exhibition of winning student design work from around the world.

  • Character 6 - Typeface

    Typeface – A new film celebrating the revival of letterpress printing.

  • Cindy-Lee Davies: Tis Knot

    Cindy-Lee Davies recycles post-consumer waste into occasional seating and domestic objects using traditional craft techniques.

  • Clean Lines

    An exhibition of adaptive design strung throughout the new Mercator Studios at the Abbotsford Convent.

  • Counter Point Exhibition

    The Department of Counter Culture presents exchange alternatives within a place of consumption at Melbourne Central.

  • Creating Liveable Cities

    A fascinating and experiential exploration of how city dwellers can develop a more intimate and responsible relationship to the precious resource.

  • Design:Made:Trade

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

  • Dirty Puppet at The Signet Bureau

    A series of animated stories that bring to life the design inspiration of The Signet Bureau Designers.

  • Empowering Communities through Design

    Demonstrating the role and power of communication design in planning for bushfires.

  • Festival Hub at City Square

    The Festival Hub at City Square is the information resource centre of the Festival.

  • Glenn Murcutt: Architecture for Place

    Showcasing the architecture and drawings of Glenn Murcutt with photos and models.

  • King Furniture Charles Wilson Range

    Australian Designer Charles Wilson presents a new sofa with King Furniture.

  • Light + Shade Exhibition

    Light + Shade is an exhibition of experimental works by 25 designers exploring light as a theme.

  • Lightsource

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

  • Look.Stop.Shop.

    Look.Stop.Shop is a design-led walk through Melbourne’s city centre.

  • Matchpoint.Melbourne

    Could our everyday social sports help to meet local and global challenges of urban design?

  • Off Grid/On Grid: ARKit's Guide to Sustainable Living

    ARKit constructs a full-scale prefabricated house – the EcoStudio.

  • one TWO one

    A series of flat-packable urban structures constructed from recycled laminate sheets are installed throughout the city.

  • Performance: Lace by Design

    A Portable Fashion House by MATERIALBYPRODUCT

  • Preston Zly and the Red Shoes

    A screening of the 1948 British film The Red Shoes.

  • Raising the Bar

    A licensed bar fitted out by 10 architects working with 10 products/recycled materials.

  • Ride-On-Design: Realising Sustainable Transport Exhibition

    Exhibition of cycling and other developments around sustainable, eco friendly transport that is changing communities.

  • Scale vs. Status

    green magazine presents an exhibition of three dimensional models by 20 architects.

  • SOL.a

    A kinetic sculpture actuated by the sun's solar energy specific to its location at Federation Square's Plaza.

  • Surviving Sustainability

    A collaborative design project, three dinners, an exhibition and a publication.

  • The Aesthetics of Saving (part 2): Exhibition

    An exhibition celecbrating the craft of Jeannette Mayne, Jonathan Keely and Adam Stewart.

  • The Australian Pavilion in Shanghai World Expo 2010

    'Visit' the Australian Pavilion in Shanghai during the 2010 Expo via this special exhibition.

  • The Gertrude Street Projection Festival

    Animations, stills, and digital art is projected onto the pavements, buildings and walls of Gertrude Street.

  • The Secret Life of Things Screening

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

  • Thinking about Architecture, Thinking about Architects: 2000-2008 Ideograms by Leon van Schaik AO

    A travelling exhibition of 79 ideograms.

  • Vision: Broadmeadows 2032

    Eco-Acupuncture: New directions and sites of intervention 2010

  • Zmood - Designing Holdens

    An exhibition of archive material from General Motors Holden’s first Australian Head of Design Phillip Zmood.