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Melbourne Design Week 2024 – Program Launch

14 Mar, 2024

Australia’s largest and leading annual design festival — Melbourne Design Week — presents its eighth edition in 2024 with 11 days of 300+  innovative exhibitions, displays, symposiums and talks throughout metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.  Highlights in the 2024 program include a keynote from Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo, a symposium…

Design Tasmania | Waverley Mills 150 Year Exhibition

14 Mar, 2024

Tasmania’s first commercial woollen factory will celebrate 150 years of weaving quality textiles in an exhibition at Launceston’s Design Tasmania. Waverley Mills was founded in 1874 on the banks of Distillery Creek, and is the last remaining manufacturing facility of its kind in Australia.  Its rich history includes weaving products…

Visnja Brdar: Design Exalted – Exhibition by Australian Design Visionary

14 Mar, 2024

Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA has announced the debut exhibition of Australian-born, New York–based designer Visnja Brdar. Visnja Brdar: Design Exalted will be Australia’s first significant exhibition of a female graphic designer and will profile the remarkable thirty-seven-year career of a design visionary in an exhibition exclusive to…

GBCA and Hassell Launch Social Value in the Built Environment Paper

13 Mar, 2024

Hassell and the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) announce the release of their discussion paper, ‘Social Value in the Built Environment’. This comprehensive document addresses the growing need to report and measure the positive impact on people’s quality of life when buildings, places, and infrastructure support their social, environmental,…

Issue 96

2 Mar, 2024

Issue 96 comes out 4 March Order on its own or as part of a subscription. The makeup of housing is changing in our cities, we are seeing a gradual progression towards medium density. We are also seeing alternative approaches to the traditional home. In this issue we look at…

Dutch Designer Christien Meindertsma Awarded the 2024 Mecca X NGV Women in Design Commission

29 Feb, 2024

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has announced Netherlands-based designer and innovator Christien Meindertsma as the recipient of the 2024 MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission, a major series inviting globally renowned female designers to create groundbreaking new work for the NGV Collection. Meindertsma is the third recipient of the annual, five-year commission…

Invasive Weed Could Be Turned into a Viable Economic Crop

27 Feb, 2024

One of the most invasive Australian weeds is being touted as a potential economic crop, with benefits for the construction, mining and forestry industries, and potentially many First Nations communities. The prickly paddy melon weed, which costs the agricultural industry around $100 million a year in lost grain yields, cattle…

First-Of-Its-Kind Heritage Townhomes in Brunswick to Implement Circular Living at Scale

27 Feb, 2024

In a positive stride towards a sustainable and environmentally responsible housing solution, leading Melbourne property developer Beulah’s latest project Brunswick Established will become the first heritage townhome community to implement circular living in Brunswick. Designed by leaders in social and sustainable architecture, Six Degrees, Brunswick Established has been designed around…

MiCRO – Exploring the Big Ideas Behind Small Spaces

20 Feb, 2024

MiCRO, the first in a three-part series of Regional Architecture Association Experiences for 2024, will be held in Mudgee, a burgeoning tourism town that has experienced considerable post-covid growth in terms of population and tourism visitation. It is also home to a growing wine region. MiCRO will be held in…