CLIMARTE’s highly anticipated festival of provocative climate change related arts and ideas, ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017, has now launched its website. Running from 19 April – 14 May across venues in Melbourne and regional Victoria, ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 provides a platform for the discussion of the challenges, opportunities, impacts, and solutions associated with…
The City of Stonnington has announced the construction of a landmark new public urban park and two-level underground car park creating a vibrant cultural heart for residents, traders and visitors. The visionary project will provide a legacy to the community for generations to come. At over 9,000-metres-square, the project, dubbed…
The truth is that Australians are now spending the majority of their time indoors, so it’s more important than ever to bring nature inside. Planet Ark’s update to their Wood: Housing, Health, Humanity Report is a compelling testament to the many and varied benefits of incorporating nature into our built…
The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), the leading international trade association for the American hardwood industry, has unveiled its ‘Seed to Seat’ furniture collaborative at Design Days Dubai, and is due to run until March 17. Given an open brief and asked to design ‘something to sit on’, the designers…
Why do we hold onto objects? How do objects and memories connect? What happens when a treasured object breaks and how can we repair it? Australian Design Centre is pleased to present, Object Therapy, an exhibition and project by Hotel Hotel exploring creative transformation and notions of value and repair,…
The inaugural Melbourne Design Week is navigating the concept of Design Values. The theme has been challenged in a multi-artist exhibition in an unusual location: an old watchmaker’s shop in Collingwood. Folk Architects have thoughtfully re-designed the derelict space, the starkness of which is perfectly complimented by multiple reflective panels. Vintage…
A new partnership between the National Gallery of Victoria and RMIT will combine academic research and student work with curatorial excellence to strengthen Victoria’s design industry. As NGV Design Partner, RMIT will collaborate on the inaugural Victorian Design Program to be delivered by the Gallery, in partnership with the Victorian…
Two small, Melbourne-based businesses, One Fine Print and Anaca Studio have teamed up to present a refreshing retail concept, Considered Aesthetics: An Autumn Showcase, running in Fitzroy throughout April to June. ‘Considered Aesthetics’ is a temporary retail showcase of finely-crafted furniture, earthy artisanal objects, and intriguing photo-graphic artworks, designed and made…
Thirty-five provocative and eye-catching contemporary chairs, from a stool coated in Chilean volcanic rock to a hanging seat shaped like a killer whale, are being displayed in the National Gallery of Victoria exhibition Creating the Contemporary Chair: The Gordon Moffatt Gift. All recently acquired by the NGV through the support of…
The complex alteration of a modest four-unit, beachside structure by Genton Architecture has taken top honours at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 Newcastle Architecture Awards. The high number of entries in the 2017 Awards program along with the quality of the projects reinforces the strength of the Newcastle architectural…
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