Put your creativity and imagination to the test in the Light Ideas Design Competition, an initiative of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science. The first prize is $5000! What is Exciton Science? Funded by the federal government and based across five top universities, the Centre’s mission is to help Australia achieve a renewable energy future….

Aboriginal Housing Victoria, Australia’s largest registered Aboriginal Housing Agency, has teamed up with ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects and Indigenous landscape designer Charles Solomon to transform ageing units on a 1000-square-metre site in suburban Dandenong as part of its first moves into multi-residential apartment development. Funded as part of the Victoria Government’s $2.7…

The NGV Triennial is a large-scale exhibition of international contemporary art, design and architecture that explores some of the most globally relevant and pressing issues of our time, including isolation, representation and speculation on the future. Featuring 86 projects by more than 100 artists, designers and collectives from more than…

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria, announced that from 8 January 2021, MPavilion will take residency at the architecturally significant Parkade Carpark designed by Melbourne architect Peter McIntyre AO at 34 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. As an extraordinary contribution to the City of Melbourne’s recovery strategy, MPavilion Parkade, will be…

When thinking of wine-on-tap, what comes to mind is cheap, poor quality rubbish. Collingwood’s latest wine store, Glou, is determined to change this perception by pouring some of Australia’s best sustainable wine – and at a damn good price. Blurring the boundaries between retail store and tasting room, the Berlin-inspired…

SHELTER is the new home of inspiring design and architecture content. The global streaming service’s content encompasses everything from stories of design, to a deep dive into sustainability, history, and real-life aspirational stories. It offers audiences a range of fascinating ‘must-watch’ options from feature length films to television series; short…

Artspace Sydney and Create NSW announced Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding as the recipient of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (valued at $30 000), making him the first Aboriginal artist to win in the award’s over 100-year history. Golding’s winning work Cast in cast out reflects on his childhood…

UPTOWN: an art exhibition for our city transforms the top of Bourke Street into a 24/7 outdoor art gallery – a uniquely Melbourne experience that combines art, architecture, and streetscape by matching 26 contemporary artists with vacant shops, restaurants, store windows, building exteriors and laneways. Curated by Fiona Scanlan and…

2020 has been a challenging year and in a bid to see some good come from this sh*t, 2020 Pure Sh*t launches out of Melbourne – a completely organic, dry, odourless manure with 100 per cent of profits given to those deeply affected by the events of this year. Ideal…