Overlay: A New Australian Heritage | Melbourne Design Week 2024

There is a tension in the Australian design industry. The desire to preserve and celebrate our heritage architecture is reckoning with a worsening housing crisis, a changing climate and the increasingly urgent call to find more sustainable ways to live. In Overlay: A New Australian Heritage, 15 creatives including architects, interior designers and object designers examine the ways in which a heritage aesthetics may be re-imagined to better reflect our climate and context.

Overlay makes its debut appearance at Melbourne Design Week for this three-day exhibition and has been selected as a 2024 highlight by the National Gallery of Victoria’s NGV Magazine.

Opening Night 6pm Thursday May 23
Location 181 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Exhibition Runs Friday May 24 to Sunday May 26

Overlay is presented as part of Melbourne Design Week. Melbourne Design Week and the Victorian Design Program are initiatives of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

Participants

• A.mi
  A.mi as an interior design practice interested in how space can effect one’s emotional wellbeing.
• Austin Maynard Architects
  AMA create resilient, highly sustainable, beautiful and robust, long-lasting architecture.
• Brave New Eco
  A studio with a holistic approach, integrating the built, interior & ecological environments.
• Chan Hung Hin
  Hin creates sustainable products that challenge assumptions of traditional materials.
• Dillon Webster
  An architectural heritage consultant, he unpacks the embedded procedures of the design industry.
• Ivan Rijavec
  A prolific architect, Rijavec’s work has been highly awarded, widely exhibited & published.
• Joanne Odisho
  Odisho’s objects focus on material selection, waste minimisation and environmental impact.
• Justin Hutchinson
  An industrial designer, lecturer, urban innovator and believer in the positive value of design.
• Locki Humphrey
  Locki (they/them) re-interprets traditional forms and methods with a playful, fresh perspective.
• Maryam Moghadam
  A furniture designer and maker specialising in experimentation and pushing the boundaries.
• Natalie Murray
  Natalie examines how architecture can achieve both social & environmental sustainability.
• Studio Co & Co
  A studio fascinated by how light, colour, and layout effect how people feel, learn, work & move.
• Studio Edwards
  Established in 2016, Studio Edwards is dedicated to pioneering projects with challenging sites.
• Themeda Studio
  A landscape architecture practice focused socio-cultural equality & ecological sustainability.
• Tom Fereday x Rakumba
  Fereday develops unique designs originating from an intrinsic inquiry into the role of objects today. Rakumba’s luxury collections forge a design legacy of iconic lighting pieces.

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