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MEL
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12 – 22 MARCH
2020
MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK AND THE VICTORIAN DESIGN PROGRAM ARE INITIATIVES OF THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT.
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Installation view of In Absence, 2019 designed by Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office for the 2019 Architecture Commission at NGV International. Photo: Ben Hosking DESIGNWEEK.MELBOURNE
MEL
BOURNE
DESIGN
WEEK
CURATED AND PRESENTED BY THE MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK ADVISORY PANEL
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA ALICE BLACKWOOD, Indesign
TONY ELLWOOD AM, Director LIAM FENNESSY, RMIT University
ANDREW CLARK, Deputy Director PETER HANDSAKER, Creative Victoria
DON HERON, Assistant Director, Exhibitions DENISE NERI, Aesop
Management and Design SARAH LYNN REES, JCBa
DONNA MCCOLM, Assistant Director, Curatorial BREE TREVENA, Arup
12 – 22 MARCH
and Audience Engagement
EWAN MCEOIN, The Hugh Williamson Senior PROGRAM SUPPORTERS
Curator, Contemporary Design and Architecture
2020
Architecture Foundation Australia
SIMONE LEAMON, The Hugh Williamson Curator,
Australian Graphic Design Association
Contemporary Design and Architecture
Australian Institute of Architects
TIMOTHY MOORE, Curator, Melbourne
City of Melbourne
Design Week
Craft
MYF DOUGHTY, Assistant Curator, Contemporary
Deakin University
Design and Architecture
Department of Environment, Land, Water
JES WAWRZYNSKI, Public Programs Manager
and Planning
ZOE KIRKBY, Public Programmer
Design Institute of Australia
POLLY DYMOND, Public Programs Representative
LCI Melbourne
ALICE FAIRWEATHER, Program Assistant
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
Melbourne Museum
CONTACT
Monash University
designweek@ngv.vic.gov.au
Office of the Victorian Government Architect
Open House Melbourne
MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR RMIT University
Robin Boyd Foundation
MEGAN PATTY, Head of Publications,
Photographic Services and Library
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Swinburne University of Technology
DESIGNWEEK.MELBOURNE
ISABELLA FARCHIONE, Project Assistant
The University of Melbourne
The University of Newcastle
Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival
CONTENTS
FROM THE MINISTER: INTRODUCING MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK 2020 4
MARTIN FOLEY MP
MINISTER FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
NGV DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE 6
TONY ELLWOOD AM
DIRECTOR, NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA
MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK 2020 THEME: HOW CAN DESIGN SHAPE LIFE? 8
BIG IDEAS 10
WASTE 12
DESIGN CULTURES 14
DESIGN EVOLUTION 16
HEALTHY CITIES 18
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 20
MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR 46
MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK AT MERCEDES ME 50
WATERFRONT 52
MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK FILM FESTIVAL 60
EXHIBITIONS 70
PROGRAM CALENDAR 102
CONTRIBUTORS INDEX 151
FROM THE MINISTER:
INTRODUCING
MELBOURNE DESIGN
WEEK 2020
Melbourne Design Week returns in 2020 with its
most extensive program to date, exploring how
design can shape life.
From tackling e-waste to creating healthy cities
and driving sustainability, design has the capacity
to improve the way we live and address the
challenges of our times.
This year the program extends across Greater
Melbourne, with over 300 events spanning talks,
exhibitions, films, tours and workshops and
featuring the best in local and international design.
Melbourne Design Week is all about the power of
design to make a difference, and celebrating the
designers and innovators who are shaping our
lives – now and in the future.
Martin Foley MP
Minister for Creative Industries
Photo: Adrian Vittorio
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NGV DIRECTOR’S
MESSAGE
Melbourne Design Week is the country’s
largest annual international design event.
A testament to Victoria’s status as Australia’s
most design-focused state, this event has
experienced significant growth year on year
since it began in 2017.
This year Melbourne Design Week will
challenge and inspire us as we reflect on the
capacity of design to shape our city and the
world-at-large. How designers are engaging
with the world around us offers viewpoints
and solutions for tackling some of the world’s
most urgent challenges. This knowledge
offers us immense possibility and opportunity
to improve the way we live. This is why the
Victorian Government and NGV are dedicated
to investing in the design sector, including
through Melbourne Design Week.
Running for 11 days from March 12, this year’s
festival takes place across Melbourne and
Victoria in a range of spaces – from design
studios and cinemas to commercial and
public galleries, parks, trains stations and
waterways. Melbourne Design Week also
includes the Melbourne Art Book Fair, which
last year was the most attended publishing
event in the Asia Pacific region. By bringing
people together, new audiences are cultivated
in which to celebrate design and architecture
in Victoria today.
Tony Ellwood AM
Director, National Gallery of Victoria
Installation view of In Absence, 2019, designed by Yhonnie Scarce
Caption placement and Edition Office for the 2019 NGV Architecture Commission at
NGV International. Photo: Selina Ou
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MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK
2020 THEME: HOW CAN
DESIGN SHAPE LIFE?
VIEW THE FULL PROGRAM
In 2020, designers experiment with ideas, through continuing its exploration of Victoria’s AT DESIGNWEEK.MELBOURNE
materials, places and processes to respond to
the central question ‘How can design shape life?’
rivers, waterways and oceans with Open House
Melbourne under the Waterfront program. The AND BOOK YOUR EXHIBITION AND
We can spend decades feeling that the world
War on Waste continues with a special focus on
e-waste. Design Cultures looks at the objects,
EVENT TICKETS ONLINE.
stands still. But in an instant the world can change
experiences and beliefs that bind people together;
forever through catalytic events. As ecological,
Design Evolution highlights a new wave of design
economic and social issues converge, design can
thinking; while the mental and physical pulse of
help us mitigate and respond to these complex
our urban environment is checked in the thematic
problems by testing out possible scenarios,
Healthy Cities.
creating new ideas, and imagining the future
before it arrives. Design can give us hope and be This year Melbourne Design Week has expanded
part of a solution. to over 300 events, but it holds to its core a
Melbourne attitude rather than an aesthetic, in
In 2020, Melbourne Design Week explores the
this expansion. This attitude is a responsibility for
role of how design can shape life from big-picture
design to imagine and create better ways of doing
thinking around global events to transforming
things. You do not need to be a designer or from
the routines of everyday life. Melbourne Design
Melbourne or Victoria to have this attitude. Come
Week explores the potential of design to shape
along: talk, make, share, eat, discuss and listen.
life through four themes. Melbourne Design Week
And most importantly, imagine a better life today.
builds upon the success of its 2019 program
Subscribe to NGV Design eNews for
all Melbourne Design Week updates.
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BIG IDEAS Four themes emerged from the 300-plus programs presented as part of Melbourne Design Week 2020 that reveal the concern designers have for the world and the forces that shape it, and speculate on how we might mould it. The following pages provide a snapshot of these big ideas with highlights from the program. See designweek.melbourne for bookings. 10 11
WASTE E-WASTE CHALLENGE LIVE PITCH FINAL
VICTORIAN DESIGN CHALLENGE 2020
P. 26 REGENERATIVE BIODESIGN:
CO-EVOLVING SUSTAINABILITY
P. 113
Presented by NGV Presented by MPavilion
Climate change, waste and pollution are some of
the defining moral issues of our time, spanning BAS VAN ABEL: DARK MATTER P. 28 A WASTE SYMPOSIUM P. 122
geographies and scale from whole ecosystems to Presented by NGV, the EWaste Watch Institute Presented by Arup
individual consumer choices. This theme has a special and Design Institute of Australia
focus on e-waste: phones, toys, electronics, lighting, 9 HOUR FACTORY P. 142
anything with a battery or a wire. Follow the supply RE-MAKING E-WASTE LAB P. 43 Presented by New Model by Dowel Jones
chain – from the exploitation of natural resources to the Presented by RMIT School of Design and
meltdown, repair and recycling of consumer goods – Monash Design MELBOURNE 2030 – TRANSFORMING P. 144
in order to learn how to reduce waste. FROM A CONSUMER TO A PRODUCER
CODE BLACK COFFEE P. 76 Presented by Finding Infinity
Presented by Zwei Interiors Architecture,
Code Black Coffee and Four Seasons
Commercial Interiors
THE CONCRETE WASTE CHALLENGE P. 97
Presented by Curvecrete
(previous spread) Image courtesy of Mycelium Studios
(above) Photo: Bas Emmen on Unsplash
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DESIGN CULTURES FRANCIS KÉRÉ: ARCHITECTURE SHAPES LIFE P. 22
Presented by NGV with Architecture Foundation
TRANSCENDENCE
Presented by Modern Times
P. 99
Australia and the Futuna Lecture Series
Life is shaped by contexts, beliefs, backgrounds MULTIPLICITY OF PLAY/CE P. 106
and ideas that bring people together. How does NMBW: OBSERVATION MATTERS P. 32 Presented by RMIT University
design shape, and how is it shaped by, the multitude ROBIN BOYD ANNUAL KEYNOTE LECTURE
of cultures that exist in the world? How does design Presented by NGV and the Robin Boyd Foundation KEYNOTE LECTURE: FRANCESCO CARERI P. 125
champion diverse cultural perspectives, tacit Presented by Molonglo
knowledge and cultural practices? Design itself is LIFE AND DEATH P. 42
an act of cultural production. Presented by Friends and Associates THE RELATIVE RESTAURANT P. 138
Presented by Relative Projects
BLACK BAMBOO: CONTEMPORARY P. 74
FURNITURE DESIGN FROM MER, TORRES STRAIT
Presented by NGV
ELEGY P. 78
Presented by Gallery Funaki
(above) Image courtesy of Mark Richardson
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DESIGN EVOLUTION ELLEN BROAD: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE |
MADE BY HUMANS
P. 24 ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH
Presented by Melbourne Design Week
P. 62
TELSTRA CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION SERIES and curated by Richard Sowada
How will design transform our ways of life in the Presented by Telstra and NGV
future? Designers are reimagining buildings, FUTURE PROTOTYPING P. 80
vehicles, products and garments made possible IN CONVERSATION: DR VICKI COUZENS P. 30 Presented by Melbourne School of Design
by innovative supply chains and groundbreaking WITH MYLES RUSSELL-COOK
materials. From speculative structures, systems and Presented by NGV MYCODOME P. 87
materials, to breakthrough approaches to practice, Presented by Mycelium Studios
urban resilience and social impact, this theme AURUM P. 42
advocates a new wave of design thinking. Presented by Georgia Nowak and GEOGRAPHIES OF GOLD P. 119
Eugene Perepletchikov Presented by Monash Architecture
VORES VÆVNINGER: OUR WEAVINGS P. 42 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN: P. 127
Presented by Tove Papp Lindkvist in collaboration DESIGN EVOLUTION IN THE ARCHIVES
with the weavers from the Danish Institute for the Presented by RMIT Design Archives
Blind and Partially Sighted
(above) Image courtesy of NASA/Chris Gunn
16 17HEALTHY CITIES TRANSFORMATIVE LANDSCAPES:
RESHAPING THE CITY THAT SHAPES US
P. 34 DESIGN PRACTICES FOR
MORE THAN HUMAN COMMONS
P. 120
Presented by Foreground, Vic Health and NGV Presented by The University of Newcastle and
More people live in cities than ever before. Cities RMIT University
offer profound economic and social opportunities MAKE GOOD: THE FITZROY HOUSING P. 84
but they also come with challenges, including REPAIR ADVISORY SERVICE GOOD DESIGN AND HERITAGE: P. 133
social inequality, human isolation and housing Presented by Very Little Architecture WHEN NEW MEETS OLD
unaffordability. Design increasingly takes on the role Presented by Heritage Council of Victoria and
of redressing the problems of the city and proposes COMBATING BURNOUT IN THE DESIGN P. 104 Office of the Victorian Government Architect
ways to improve health – both mental and physical – INDUSTRY
for humans, animals, plants and beyond. Presented by Comuniti ALEX STITT AND EXERCISEMENTS: P. 134
COMMUNICATION DESIGN AND
WALKSCAPES: TREEGAZING, P. 107 HEALTH PROMOTION
FITZROY GARDENS Presented by RMIT Design Archives
Presented by Heather Hesterman and
Amanda Hawkey HUMAN EXPERIENCES. HEALTHY P. 135
ENVIRONMENTS
MTALKS: DENSITY, PUBLIC SPACE P. 117 Presented by ID-LAB
AND HAPPINESS
Presented by MPavilion
(above) Image courtesy of Melbourne Water
(following spread) Smoking Ceremony held at Bolin Bolin Billabong. Image courtesy of Open House Melbourne
18 19PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS See designweek.melbourne for bookings. 20 21
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
FRANCIS KÉRÉ: ARCHITECTURE SHAPES LIFE SPEAKER
Architect Francis Kéré was born in the small
Presented by NGV with Architecture Foundation
West African town of Gando in Burkina Faso.
Australia and the Futuna Lecture Series
After being awarded a scholarship to apprentice
TUE 17 MAR, 6.30–7.30PM
in Germany, Kéré garnered critical praise when
Responding to the 2020 Melbourne Design
he was awarded the prestigious Aga Khan
Week theme ‘How can design shape life?’,
Award for Architecture (2004) for his first ever
internationally acclaimed architect Francis Kéré
building – a primary school he designed, raised
delves into his own journey – revealing how
the funds for and realised in collaboration with
architecture has shaped his life and sharing his
the residents of his native Gando.
vision for how architecture that is collaboratively
realised, rooted in traditional knowledge and
specific to its context will contribute to a positive
and dynamic future for Africa.
Cost $28 NGV Member / $35 Adult /
$32 Concession, bookings required
Venue Great Hall, Ground Level, NGV
International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
This is an Auslan interpreted program
(above) Francis Kéré. Image courtesy of Kéré Architecture
Supported by RMIT University School of Architecture (background image) Gando Primary School.
and Urban Design Photo: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
ELLEN BROAD: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | SPEAKER
MADE BY HUMANS Ellen Broad is an industry leader in the design,
TELSTRA CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION SERIES development and communication of technology.
With a career spanning policy, standards and
Presented by Telstra and NGV
engineering, Broad has held positions including
THU 19 MAR, 6.30–7.30PM
Head of Technical Delivery for the Consumer
Artificial Intelligence (AI) influences our lives
Data Standards program with CSIRO’s Data61,
whether we notice it or not. From scheduling
Head of Policy for the Open Data Institute
public transport to financial management and
(ODI), ministerial adviser on data to senior
national security, automated systems are doing
UK cabinet minister Elisabeth Truss and
everything from repetitive administrative tasks
Manager of Digital Policy and Projects for the
through to providing perceived impartiality
International Federation of Library Associations
in morally complex decision making. But
and Institutions in the Netherlands. Broad is
who designs them, and who decides their
Senior Fellow with the 3A Institute, founded by
influence? Does it matter whether we notice
Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, within
the influence of AI or not? Ellen Broad, Senior
the College of Engineering and Computer
Fellow at the 3A Institute of the Australian
Science at Australian National University. She
National University, explores the choices
is a member of the Australian government’s
designers face and the trade-offs they make
Data Advisory Council and author of Made by
in crafting AI systems that shape the lives
Humans: the AI Condition (Melbourne University
of citizens.
Publishing, 2018).
Cost $28 NGV Member / $35 Adult /
$32 Concession, bookings required
Venue Great Hall, Ground Level, NGV LIMINAL
International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Presented by Eugenie Kawabata
18 – 24 MAR, 10AM–5PM
This is an Auslan interpreted program Closing party: SAT 23 MAR, 5–7PM
Inspired by Lake Tyrrell, this collaborative
installation experiments with product design,
visuals, soundscapes and materiality to explore
a world where transient moments reshape our
design experiences.
FREE ENTRY
The Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series is an initiative Venue
of Telstra and NGV, an annual presentation that showcases
the work of world-leading innovators. (above) Ellen Broad. Photo: Amanda Thorson
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E-WASTE CHALLENGE LIVE PITCH FINAL SHORTLIST
VICTORIAN DESIGN CHALLENGE 2020 PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY
Derek Oskar Raj Zari
Presented by NGV
CECIL
WED 18 MAR, 10AM–3.30PM
Relectrify
Creative Victoria and NGV are offering a
Sam Barrett
$20,000 major prize for the best design idea
Vert Design
in the Professional category and $5000 in the
Bryan Chung
Tertiary category in a challenge addressing one
of the world’s fastest growing waste problems –
TERTIARY STUDENT
e-waste. Teams in each category will have to
Henry Blain, RMIT University
convince the Challenge jury, chaired by Craig
Circo, RMIT University
Reucassel from the ABC’s War on Waste,
MangoMen, Monash University
that their idea is the best solution to tackle the
Phoebe Richardson, RMIT University
40 million tonnes of e-waste produced globally
every year. The E-Waste Challenge aims to
PRIMARY/ SECONDARY STUDENT
highlight the capacity and responsibility of
Finlay Van Lieshout
designers to contribute to shifting behaviour,
Mill Park Library Makers Club
raising awareness, redesigning products, or
devising smart end-of-life solutions that reduce
JURY
the negative impacts of e-waste.
Craig Reucassel
FREE
Jury Chair, Presenter, ABC’s War on Waste
Venue Great Hall, Ground Level,
Bas van Abel
NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Founder and former CEO, Fairphone,
the Netherlands
Rose Read
Director and Co-founder, Ewaste Watch Institute
Richard Hoare
Design and Innovation Director, Breville
Group Ltd
Ewan McEoin
The Hugh Williamson Senior Curator,
Contemporary Design and Architecture, NGV
PRESENTED BY SUPPORTED BY
The NGV Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture is generously supported by The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation.
The Victorian Design Challenge is endorsed by the Design Institute of Australia, Australian Graphic Design Association,
Victorian Tech Schools, and the Design and Technology Teachers’ Association Australia.
(background image) Formafantasma, 2017, Taxonomy, 01_05_58'' from Ore Streams. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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BAS VAN ABEL: DARK MATTER SPEAKER
Bas van Abel is a social entrepreneur and
Presented by NGV, EWaste Watch Institute
innovator. He founded Fairphone, the producer
and Design Institute of Australia
of the world’s first sustainable, modular
WED 18 MAR, 6.30–7.30PM
smartphone and the fastest growing tech
We live in a world of hyper-communication.
start-up in Europe. For Fairphone, van Abel
And yet our current communication
led the largest ever European crowdfunding
infrastructure, in particular mobile phones,
campaign (7.5 million euros).
holds a fascinating paradox. The mobile phone
is a symbol of instant connectivity, but it’s
clear that we’ve lost any connection with the
source of how it is made, who made it, where it
comes from and the social and environmental
consequences of the production process.
Every pixel you see and every byte you send
has a whole world of minerals, factories,
recycling and distribution behind it. Fairphone
aims to surface the dark matter of their
production systems and make it human again.
This keynote lecture by Fairphone founder
Bas van Abel is a unique chance to think
about the ways that design-led business can (above) Bas van Abel. Photo: Frank Bauer
transform the environment and economy. (background image) Fairphone
Image courtesy of Bas van Abel
Cost $28 NGV Member / $35 Adult /
$32 Concession, bookings required
Venue Great Hall, Ground Level, NGV
International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
PRESENTED BY SUPPORTED BY
MEDIA PARTNER
The NGV Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture is generously
supported by The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation.
28 28 2929PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS IN CONVERSATION: DR VICKI COUZENS IN CONVERSATION: LISA WAUP WITH MYLES RUSSELL-COOK WITH HANNAH PRESLEY Presented by NGV Presented by NGV WED 18 MAR, 6.30–7.30PM THU 19 MAR, 6.30–7.30PM Multi-media artist and Senior Knowledge Holder Award-winning artist and designer Lisa Waup of Language and Possum Cloak Story, Dr Vicki discusses design and collaboration with NGV’s Couzens speaks with NGV’s Curator of Indigenous Curator of Indigenous Art, Hannah Presley. Art, Myles Russel-Cook about the reclamation and FREE bookings required revival of Possum Skin Cloaks in the South East. Venue NGV Members Lounge, Ground Level, FREE bookings required NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Venue NGV Members Lounge, Ground Level, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne (above) Vicki Couzens, Thanampool Tyamateeyt Koormookyan Women’s Law Cloak, 2019. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (above) Lisa Waup in her studio, Melbourne, 2019. Photo: Selina Ou 30 30 3131
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
SPEAKERS
NMBW: OBSERVATION MATTERS NMBW FOUDING DIRECTORS
ROBIN BOYD ANNUAL KEYNOTE LECTURE
Marika Neustupny, NMBW Founding Director
Presented by NGV and the Robin Boyd Foundation
Marika Neustupny’s research and project
WED 18 MAR, 6.30–7.30PM
work emphasises a strong understanding of
In an era of global sameness, can architectural
social and cultural rituals of urban life. She has
processes create the time and space to engage
a Master of Architecture from Tokyo Institute
meaningfully with local traditions and enrich the
of Technology (Japan) and a PhD from the
culture of the everyday? This lecture breaks down
University of Queensland. She has authored
NMBW’s projects into a series of tangible pieces
Curtain Call: Melbourne’s Mid-century Curtain
that articulate how decisions have been made
Walls and co-authored By-Product-Tokyo with
and values embedded.
Nigel Bertram and Shane Murray.
Cost $10 NGV Member & RBF Friend Member /
$15 Adult / $8 Concession, bookings required Lucinda McLean, NMBW Founding Director
Venue Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, Lucinda McLean explores the possibilities
Ground Level, NGV International, for design to shape relationships between
180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne architectural, urban and landscape strategies
that work to increase landscape specificity and
PRESENTED BY local identity. She has twenty years’ experience
teaching design and urban research at RMIT
University, holds a Master of Architecture
from Stäedelschule (Germany) and is a PhD
candidate at RMIT University. Currently she sits
on the Design Review Panel for the Office of
the Victorian Government Architect.
Nigel Bertram, NMBW Founding Director
Nigel Bertram has a range of experience
working with government and university
bodies at different scales on NMBW’s urban
and institutional projects. He is a Practice
Professor in Architecture at Monash University,
and holds a Master of Architecture and a
PhD from RMIT University. He has authored
several research publications, including
In Time with Water: Design Studies of 3
Australian Cities, edited with Catherine Murphy,
and Suburbia Reimagined: Ageing and
Increasing Populations in the Low-Rise City
with Leon Van Schaik. He is currently a Design
Review Panel member for the Office of the
Victorian Government Architect.
(above) Marika Neustupny, Lucinda McLean, Nigel Bertram.
Images courtesy of NMBW
(background image) Photo: Lucinda McLean
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SPEAKERS
TRANSFORMATIVE LANDSCAPES: Lily Jencks
RESHAPING THE CITY THAT SHAPES US Lily Jencks is the principal of Lily Jencks Studio,
Presented by Foreground, Vic Health and NGV an award-winning design firm based in the United
THU 19 MAR, 8.30AM–1PM Kingdom that integrates architecture, landscape
The way we design and plan our cities, parks and and art to improve the environment of our cities
places has profound effects on our health and and surroundings. Jencks is the daughter of the late
wellbeing. In this symposium, design and health Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick Jencks,
experts explore the role of landscape architecture, founders of the Maggies Centres. Jencks is a designer
urban design and planning in making healthful of the landscape and gardens of several of the
urban environments. Maggies Centres and remains deeply involved with
Cost $40 Adult / $25 Student, bookings required the charity.
Venue Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, Dr Paul Torzillo
Ground Level, NGV International, Dr Paul Torzillo is one of the founding directors
180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne of Healthabitat, a not-for-profit company aiming
to improve the health of people living in poverty
throughout the world, primarily through facilitating
improvements to housing and living environments.
Torzillo is the Medical Director of the Nganampa
Health Council in the north west corner of South
Australia, Head of Respiratory Medicine and a
senior Intensive Care physician at the Royal Prince
Alfred (RPA) Hospital in Sydney, Clinical Professor
of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Clinical
Director of critical care services for the Sydney Local
Area Health District.
Claire Martin
Claire Martin is Associate Director of Oculus, where
she is responsible for the direction, management and
delivery of complex public realm and infrastructure
projects. Claire is a Board Director of the Australian
Institute of Landscape Architects, a contributing editor
of Landscape Architecture Australia, and a member
of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect’s
Victorian Design Review Panel and RMIT University’s
Landscape Architecture Industry Advisory Committee.
Professor Billie Giles-Corti
Professor Billie Giles-Corti is a Distinguished Professor
at RMIT University and directs the Healthy Liveable
Cities Research Group at RMIT’s Centre for Urban
Research. Her work focuses on the impact of the built
environment on health and wellbeing. Giles-Corti is
Director of RMIT’s Urban Futures Enabling Capability
Platform and a National Health and Medical Research
Council (NHMRC) Senior Principal Research Fellow.
She currently leads a National Health and Medical
Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research
Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities.
(background image) Victorian Health and Human Services
Building Authority (VHHSBA). Image courtesy of Foreground
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AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE DESIGN AWARD 2020 EXHIBITION
Presented by NGV and Stylecraft
12–20 MAR, MON–FRI, 8.30AM–5PM & SAT, 10AM–4PM
The Australian Furniture Design Award (AFDA) is one
of Australia’s most significant furniture design awards,
recognising excellence in Australian furniture design
and its contribution to design discourse and Australian
culture. In response to the Melbourne Design Week
theme ‘How can design shape life?’ the 2020 AFDA
asks designers and makers to consider the broader
implications and opportunities of furniture design.
From the many entries received five finalists will present
their realised designs for exhibition and judging in the
Stylecraft Melbourne showroom during Melbourne
Design Week.
FREE
Venue Stylecraft, 145 Flinders Ln, Melbourne
FINALISTS
Design King Company with Dr Christian Tietz
Marta Figueiredo
Supercyclers with Seljak Brand
Michael Gittings
James Walsh
JURY
Tony Russell
Brand Director, Stylecraft
Simone LeAmon
Jury Chair, The Hugh Williamson Curator,
Contemporary Design and Architecture, NGV
Brian Parkes
CEO, JamFactory
Helen Kontouris
Designer and Creative Director, LEN
PRESENTED BY
AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE DESIGN AWARD
(background image) Stylecraft Melbourne. Photo: Nicole England
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METAHAVEN: FIELD REPORT The exhibition consists of Arrows, a new series
of woven tapestries, and Eurasia (Questions
Presented by RMIT Design Hub Gallery and
on Happiness), their immersive 2018 film
Melbourne Art Book Fair
installation. Eurasia is a cinematic assemblage
12–22 MAR, TUE–FRI, 10AM–5PM & SAT, 12–5PM
of landscapes of the south-eastern Ural
The Cold War’s information shortages have
(Russia) built around an associative narrative
been replaced by ever-accessible information
of political fragmentation in Europe. Like many
overloads. Everybody becomes a broadcaster,
of Metahaven’s other works, Eurasia is itself
designer, filmmaker, prosecutor, judge, key
a field report on the incongruences of lived
witness, perpetrator and storyteller. This is not
experience through media stacks, in which
merely a political and social fact, but also an
the steppe interjects with soft, heavenly
aesthetic and cinematic regime. Propaganda
nothingness — a space vast, tender and
becomes a lived reality, necessitating novel
forgiving, without dimension or aspect ratio.
forms of media literacy.
FREE
The work of Amsterdam-based artists,
Venue RMIT Design Hub, Level 2, Building
filmmakers, and designers Metahaven occupies
100, cnr Victoria St and Swanston St, Carlton.
the intersection of poetry and storytelling, and
Enter via the Victoria St forecourt
engages propaganda, interface, and physical
Guest exhibition curators
geography and its imaginaries. Metahaven: Field
Brad Haylock (RMIT University) and
Report is their first solo presentation in Australia.
Megan Patty (NGV)
Exhibition program curators
Kate Rhodes, Fleur Watson and Nella
Themelios (RMIT Design Hub Gallery)
(background image) Metahaven, Eurasia (Questions on
Happiness), 2018. Installation view at Institute for Contemporary
Arts, London, 2018. Photo: Mark Blower @ Mark Blower 2018
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DESIGNWORK 04: DALE HARDIMAN AND STEPHEN
ROYCE | DANIELLE BRUSTMAN
Presented by Sophie Gannon Gallery
12–22 MAR, TUE–SAT, 11AM–5PM
OPENING: SAT 14 MAR, 3PM
Designwork 04 is the fourth exhibition in
an ongoing series dedicated to presenting
the best contemporary Australian design.
Designwork 04 features presentations by
Melbourne-based designers Dale Hardiman
in collaboration with Stephen Royce exploring
light through common handheld devices, and
Danielle Brustman encompassing interior,
furniture, lighting and object design.
FREE
Venue Sophie Gannon Gallery, 2 Albert St,
Richmond
(background image) Danielle Brustman, Designwork 04:
Chromatic Fantastic, 2019, image courtesy of the artist and
Sophie Gannon Gallery. Photo: Jonathon Griggs
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VORES VÆVNINGER: OUR WEAVINGS
Presented by Tove Papp Lindkvist with the weavers
from the Danish Institute for the Blind and Partially
Sighted
12–21 MAR, TUE–FRI, 12–6PM & SAT 1–8PM
A tactile textile exhibition showcasing the weaving
of blind and visually impaired weavers of the Danish
Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted.
FREE
Venue Ladder Art Space, 81 Denmark St, Kew
AURUM
Presented by Georgia Nowak and Eugene
Perepletchikov
SAT 14 MAR, 11AM–6PM & SUN 15 MAR, 11AM–5PM
Aurum is a moving-image installation that examines
the complex relationship of humans with gold, and
its power to transform societies.
FREE
Venue ANZ Gothic Bank, 388 Collins St, Melbourne
(corner Collins and Queens Streets)
LIFE AND DEATH
RE-MAKING E-WASTE LAB
Presented by Friends and Associates
Presented by RMIT School of Design and
12–21 MAR, 10AM–5PM DAILY
Monash Design
OPENING: FRI 13 MAR, 6–10PM
OPENING FORUM: MON 16 MAR, 5.30–7.30PM,
Urns made from soil, screens made from urine fed
bookings required
bacteria, chandeliers made from cracked phone
WORKSHOPS: TUE 17, WED 18 & THU 19 MAR,
screens and sending artworks into space: this
10AM–4PM, bookings required
exhibition presents projects by Australian creative
EXHIBITION: FRI 20 MAR, 4–7PM
practitioners exploring life and death.
Re-Making E-Waste is a ‘speculative repair’ lab
FREE
that invites participants of Melbourne Design
Venue Meat Market Stables, 2–8 Wreckyn St,
Week to shape new lives for old e-things.
North Melbourne
FREE bookings required
Venue Building 45, RMIT University,
61/89 Lygon St, Carlton
(top to bottom) © Tove Papp Lindkvist; Image courtesy of NASA/Chris Gunn; Image courtesy of Mark Richardson.
(opposite) Photo: Juan Sanin (top to bottom)
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
PARTU (SKIN) BY JOHNNY NARGOODAH
AND TRENT JANSEN
MELBOURNE
Presented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert and
Arc One
13–22 MAR, TUE–SAT, 11AM–5PM
OPENING: FRI 13 MAR, 6–8PM
FLOOR TALK: SAT 14 MAR, 3.30–4.30PM
ART BOOK
Partu (Skin) is the latest collaboration between
remote cattle-station saddler Johnny Nargoodah
and conceptual object designer Trent Jansen: an
experiment in avant-garde furniture design resulting
from the coming together of their oddly mismatched
FAIR
sensibilities and skills in working with animal skins.
FREE
Venue Arc One, 45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne
WHICH MIRROR DO YOU WANT TO LICK?
Presented by Åbäke, Sofie Dederen, Radim Peško
and Brad Haylock
18–22 MAR, 10AM–6PM DAILY
OPENING: TUE 17 MAR, 6–8PM
Departing from the assumption that when some-
thing is printed it becomes more real, this exhibition
of speculative and experimental graphic design
explores the slippery line between reality and fiction.
FREE
Venue At the Above, Level 1, 198 Gertrude St,
13 –15
Fitzroy
MARCH
PRESENTING PARTNER MAJOR SUPPORTER DESIGN PARTNER EVENT PARTNER
(top to bottom) Trent Jansen and Johnny Nargoodah, Ngumu Jangka Warnti Chair. Photo: Abraham Markos; © WMDYWTL? 2017
THE CORNISH
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MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
The annual Melbourne Art Book Fair returns for Sticky Institute returns with the Australian Zine
its sixth year in 2020. From 13 to 15 March the Library – an exciting display of the work of over
Fair assembles publishers, artists, designers and 200 zine makers. Atomic Activity Books showcase
writers from around the globe. The Fair presents the Library of Nonhuman Books involving a series
over forty events, including lectures, workshops, of publications designed by an artificial intelligence
book launches and performances discussing after reading physical books. Purchase these
contemporary publishing practice in all its forms. books via a vending machine installed by the
Key guests include Metahaven (Amsterdam), the artist-duo. Ladies of Leisure bring you Friendship
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design Speed Dating, a rapid-fire new pal making session
(Moscow), Fully Booked (Dubai), the Singapore designed to break down social awkwardness and
Art Book Fair and over 100 exhibiting publishers discuss like-minded creative interests.
and artists. See ngvartbookfair.com for the full program.
ACTIVATION: PIRATE RADIO ACTIVATION: KIDS’ OWN ART BOOKS
Presented by Liquid Architecture, De Player, Presented by Kids’ Own Publishing
Ben Landau, Field Theory and The Good Copy FRI 13 – SUN 15 MAR, 10AM–5PM
FRI 13 MAR, 6–10PM, SAT 14 & SUN 15 MAR, Kids’ Own Publishing, along with guest artists,
9.30AM–5PM will host a space in which children and families
Turn on and tune in, Melbourne. NGV hosts Pirate can be immersed in the art of bookmaking, the
Radio, a weekend broadcast from the Melbourne craft of producing an art book and the democratic
Art Book Fair with readings, reviews, music, a and performative act of publishing. Melbourne
cavalcade of literati drop-ins, and banter with artist Michael Camilleri is in charge.
passing trade. Melbourne sound studio Liquid FREE
Architecture and Rotterdam’s De Player greets Venue Great Hall, NGV International,
SYMPOSIUM: THE NEW NORMAL: THE CORNISH FAMILY PRIZE FOR guests with performances at NGV Friday Nights; 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
THE CITY AS SYNTHETIC CINEMA ART AND DESIGN PUBLISHING Artists Ben Landau, Jalen Lyle-Holmes and Sarah
Presented by Melbourne Art Book Fair and Prize announced 13 Mar Walker interact with gallery visitors in the morning;
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and The Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Field Theory takes the mic on Saturday with its
Design, Moscow Publishing is the most significant prize of its gonzo book club; The Good Copy hosts Sunday’s
THU 12 MAR, 1–5PM kind, and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to programming with a tell-a-thon about the art of
Symposium: The New Normal invites a recognise the book in its entirety, aiming to writing. Visit the NGV International forecourt or
conversation around the City as Synthetic acknowledge publishing as a key critical practice stream the antics via ngv.melbourne
Cinema. Speakers include Amsterdam based around the world and support innovation in the FREE
collective Metahaven working between filmmaking, field. The NGV sincerely thanks the Cornish Venue Forecourt, NGV International,
writing and design; speculative architect and Family for their outstanding support of this 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
director Liam Young; Nashin Mahtani, Director of important prize.
PetaBencana.id; and Strelka Institute’s Varvara
Melnikova, Nicolay Boyadjiev and Olga Tenisheva.
Cost $45 NGV Member / $55 Adult /
$50 Concession, bookings required
Venue Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, Ground
(opposite) The New Normal Symposium, 2019, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, image credit Dmitry Smirnov.
Level, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, (left to right) The Field Theory participating in their Endless Romantica Endurance Broadcast event, 2018, The Field Theory,
Melbourne image credit Bryony Jackson; Bookmaking workshop, 2019, Kids' Own Publishing, image credit Abbotsford Convent Foundation.
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DEBBIE MILLMAN: COURAGE VS CONFIDENCE SPEAKER PHILIPPE BLOCK: THE FUTURE MASTER BUILDER SPEAKER
Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator, Philippe Block is Professor at the Institute of
Presented by Creative Women’s Circle Presented by Melbourne School of Design
curator and host of the podcast Design Matters. Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich, where
SUN 15 MAR, 5–7.30PM MON 16 MAR, 7–8PM
In her role as host, Millman has interviewed nearly he co-directs the Block Research Group (BRG)
Sometimes finding the confidence in yourself As construction methods are increasingly
500 artists, designers and cultural commentators together with Dr Tom Van Mele. He is director
to take the next step in life is daunting. Debbie understood to be one of the key drivers of climate
over the show’s fourteen-year history. In 2011 of the Swiss National Centre of Competence
Millman, design expert and host of the podcast change, Philippe Block and his team at ETH
Design Matters won the Cooper Hewitt National in Research (NCCR) in Digital Fabrication, and
Design Matters, champions the idea of shaping Zurich are experimenting with new materials,
Design Award and in 2015 Apple named it one founding partner of Ochsendorf DeJong & Block
one’s own definition of success through focussing geometry, and digital design and fabrication
of the best overall podcasts on iTunes. Millman (ODB Engineering). Block’s multi-disciplinary
on courage rather than confidence. ‘Courage is to shape the future. In this lecture, Block talks
has authored six books, including How to Think research interests span graphical design and
the foundation for authentic confidence’, Millman about the role of the future master builder in this
Like a Great Graphic Designer, and is currently analysis techniques, computational form finding
says. ‘Taking the first step creates courage which complex world.
working on a new book titled Why Design Matters, and optimisation, structural and architectural
will grow with every repetitive step you take.’ In FREE bookings required
to be published by HarperCollins in 2020. Her geometry, digital fabrication and appropriate
this presentation, Millman speaks about how she Venue B117 Theatre, Melbourne School of
illustrations have been published in The New York construction.
has intentionally shaped her life to fit her personal Design, University of Melbourne, Masson Rd,
Times, New York Magazine, Design Observer and
definition of success. Debbie Millman will be Parkville
Fast Company. Millman is the President Emeritus
signing copies of her books after the presentation.
of AIGA and is one of only five women to hold the This event is made possible by the Treseder Fellowship.
Cost $40 Adult + booking fee, bookings required
position in the organisation’s 100-year history.
Venue Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, Ground
Level, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd,
Melbourne
(above) Photo: John Madere Photography (above) Philippe Block. Photo: Juney Lee
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MELBOURNE DESIGN 2020 MELBOURNE NEW MOBILITY THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
WEEK AT MERCEDES ME DESIGN WEEK AWARD Presented by Mercedes-Benz and NGV
MON 16 MAR, 6.30–8PM
Presented by Mercedes-Benz and NGV
THU 19 MAR, 6.30–8PM
Join Mercedes-Benz experts for a thought- Join Alice Blackwood, editor, journalist and
Responding to the 2020 Melbourne Design Mercedes-Benz and the National Gallery of provoking conversation examining the communications strategist, as she brings
Week provocation, ‘How can design shape Victoria are pleased to present the inaugural constantly evolving and ground-breaking world together a panel of experimental designers
life?’ these thought-provoking evening talks Melbourne Design Week Award, which will of automotive design. At the cutting edge of working at the intersection of design, biology
explore design from different perspectives – recognise the outstanding contributions of a car design, performance, wellbeing, safety and science. As design shapes the world around
set within the award-winning interior of the participating designer or presentation to the 2020 and innovation must converge and deliver. But us, this event will reveal the exciting potential of
Mercedes me Store Melbourne. Melbourne Design Week conversation. how are cars designed today and what are the design and material ecology to turn problems
Throughout Melbourne Design Week a group of primary motivations, needs and prompts that into solutions.
selectors, including Oli Stratford, Editor in Chief inform and stimulate the design agenda? Venue Mercedes me, 525 Collins St, Melbourne
of Disegno (UK), NGV curators Ewan McEoin Venue Mercedes me, 525 Collins St, Melbourne Cost $10 NGV Member / $12 Adult, price
and Simone LeAmon, and Timothy Moore, Cost $10 NGV Member / $12 Adult, price includes a welcome drink and grazing table on
Curator, Melbourne Design Week will be on the includes a welcome drink and grazing table on arrival, bookings required
search for the stand-out exhibition, event, object arrival, bookings required
or presentation that adeptly responds to the
provocation, ‘How can design shape life?’
The prize, a Mercedes-Benz Design Experience
in Stuttgart, Germany will be announced and
presented at the close of Melbourne Design
Week at the award-winning Mercedes me
Store Melbourne.
(above) Mercedes me x Melbourne Design Week 2019. Photo: Tobais Titz
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WATERFRONT
The waterways of Melbourne and Victoria are under
increasing pressure, including from rapid urban
development, extreme weather and invasive species.
Created by Open House Melbourne, this theme explores
the role that design plays in framing our relationship with
water. Join in on boat tours, walks, bike rides, talks and
special events that champion the cultural, ecological and
recreational value of Victoria’s rivers, bays and oceans.
Environment,
Land, Water
and Planning
This program is supported by the Victorian Design Program, an initiative of the
Victorian Government and Program Partner Liveability Victoria International |
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.
(background image) Image courtesy of Melbourne Water
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OCEAN OSMOSIS: DESAL TOUR
Presented by Open House Melbourne
and Watersure
SAT 14 MAR, 10AM–12PM, 12–2M & 2–4PM
FORGOTTEN ECOLOGIES OF BIRRARUNG
Visit the Victorian Desalination Project, home
to the largest green roof in the southern Presented by Open House Melbourne and
hemisphere and capable of providing 150 Melbourne Architours
billion litres of water to Melbourne a year. SAT 14 MAR, 10AM–1PM
FREE bookings required Explore the oft-forgotten ecologies of Birrarung
Venue Victorian Desalination Plant, (Yarra River), stopping along the way for
400 Lower Powlett Rd, Wonthaggi conversations about the river’s future.
Cost $35, bookings required
Venue 154 Alexandra Ave, South Yarra
DEEP DIVE: SEA URCHIN SNORKEL TOUR
Presented by Open House Melbourne
SAT 14 MAR, 10.30AM–12.30PM
Deep Dive is a snorkel tour in Port Phillip Bay
with Dr. Pirjo Haikola that reveals the exploding
population of sea urchins living below the surface
of the bay.
FREE bookings required
Venue Port Phillip Bay,
see openhousemelbourne.org for details
HYBRID COASTAL DEFENCE
Presented by Open House Melbourne, National
Centre for Coasts and Climate and Reef Design Lab
SUN 22 MAR, 10AM–12PM
Discover how design and sustainable methods are
used to protect coastal communities from erosion
on this tour.
FREE bookings required
Venue Altona
Departure times according to tides,
see openhousemelbourne.org for details
(top to bottom) Image courtesy of Open House Melbourne; Photo: Pirjo Haikola; Photo: Alex Goad
(opposite) Photo: George Apostolidis
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FROM POOP TO PARK
Presented by Open House Melbourne
and Melbourne Water
TUE 17 MAR, 10AM–12PM
RIVER RIGHTS: YARRA BEND
This tour will explore how transforming
Presented by Open House Melbourne and the a decommissioned sewer may enhance
Yarra Riverkeeper Association community wellbeing.
SAT 14 MAR, 11AM–1PM FREE bookings required
A river ramble exploring waterfront access, Venue Meet at cnr Lukis Ave and
development and the river as public space. McLachlan Dr, Williams Landing
FREE bookings required
Venue Meet at Dights Falls Reserve Car Park,
off Trenerry Cr, Clifton Hill
PROTECTING URBAN WATERWAYS
Presented by Open House Melbourne and the
Yarra Riverkeeper Association
SUN 15 MAR, 10AM–12PM
Hear a discussion about urban water advocacy
onboard a boat.
Cost $10, bookings required
Venue Meet at Federation Wharf,
15–19 Princes Walk, Melbourne
THE WESTERN TREATMENT PLANT
Presented by Open House Melbourne and
Melbourne Water
WED 18 MAR, 10AM–12PM & 1–3PM
Much more than a ‘poo farm’, the Western Treatment
plant is a place of historic, environmental and cultural
significance. Join Open House Melbourne and
Melbourne Water for a two-hour bus tour to the plant.
FREE bookings required
Venue Melbourne Water Discovery Centre,
Lot 1, New Farm Rd, Werribee
(top to bottom) Image courtesy of Yarra Riverkeeper Association; Image courtesy of Open House Melbourne; Image courtesy of
Melbourne Water.
(opposite) Image courtesy of Melbourne Water
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GREENING SEAWALLS
Presented by Open House Melbourne, Reef Design
Lab and Sydney Institute of Marine Science
SAT 21 MAR, 10AM–12PM
This boat tour features a discussion about creating
coastal habitat infrastructure and artificial reefs.
Cost $10, bookings required
Venue Meet at Federation Wharf,
15–19 Princes Walk, Melbourne
WATER REGIMES OF BOLIN BOLIN:
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE I’M ON A (PORT OF MELBOURNE) BOAT!
Presented by Open House Melbourne Presented by Open House Melbourne and
and Melbourne Water Port of Melbourne
TUE 17 MAR, 10AM–12PM SUN 22 MAR, 10–10.45AM, 11–11.45AM, 12–12.45PM,
Hear how the Bolin Bolin Billabong is being 1–1.45PM, 2–2.45PM & 3–3.45PM
rehabilitated for future generations on a tour Step aboard and see Australia’s busiest port from
of the ancient site along Birrarung (Yarra River). a whole new angle.
FREE bookings required Cost $5.50, bookings required
Venue 191 Bulleen Rd, Bulleen Venue 55 Victoria Harbour Prom, Docklands
WATERING THE GARDENS FINDING THE RIVER: LIVING WITH WATER
Presented by Open House Melbourne and Presented by Open House Melbourne and
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Jane’s Walk
FRI 20 MAR, 5–7PM & SAT 21 MAR, 4–6PM SUN 22 MAR, 2–3.30PM
This event is a guided tour around the gardens and This walk for World Water Day, from Montague
on the lake exploring water conservation in the city’s (Fishermans Bend) to Birrarung (Yarra River),
Royal Botanic Gardens. explores the theme of water in the landscape.
Cost $30, bookings required FREE bookings required
Venue Meet at Gate C, Royal Botanic Gardens Venue Fishermans Bend,
Victoria, Melbourne Gardens, Anderson St, see openhousemelbourne.org for details
South Yarra
(top to bottom) Smoking Ceremony held at Bolin Bolin Billabong. Image courtesy of Open House Melbourne; Photo: Adrian Vittorio (top to bottom) Image courtesy of Open House Melbourne; Photo: J Withers; Image courtesy of Jane’s Walk Melbourne
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FILM FESTIVAL
MELBOURNE DESIGN
WEEK FILM FESTIVAL
The Melbourne Design Week Film Festival traverses All feature films are screening at: PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE
the globe with films that project environments, cities, Lido Cinemas Australian Premiere
infrastructures and buildings, and the people that 675 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn LIDO: FRI 13 & SUN 22 MAR, 7PM
design and inhabit them. Eleven feature films are Classic Cinemas CLASSIC: SAT 14 MAR, 7PM
accompanied by two design short-film programs 9 Gordon St, Elsternwick Palace for the People tells the stories of five
with new shorts dealing with the challenges facing Cost $18.50 NGV Member and Concession / emblematic buildings of socialist times: The National
architects and designers. The program expands $22 Adult, bookings required Palace of Culture in Sofia, Moscow State University,
from the cinema to Melbourne’s public spaces
See designweek.melbourne for bookings the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, the
with experimental architecture short-film program
Presented in association with the Lido & Classic Cinemas. Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, and the Palace of the
Urban Screening at Federation Square (Melbourne),
Melbourne Design Week Film Festival curated by Richard Sowada. Republic in Berlin.
Harmony Square (Dandenong) and Monash
Director Georgi Bogdanov, Boris Missirkov, 2018,
University (Clayton and Caulfield).
Bulgaria/Germany/Romania, 76 min
PUSH HOTEL YUGOSLAVIJA
LIDO: SUN 15 MAR, 4PM & WED 18 MAR, 7PM Australian Premiere
CLASSIC: FRI 13 MAR & SAT 21 MAR, 7PM LIDO: WED 18 & SAT 21 MAR, 2PM
Push is a new documentary from award-winning CLASSIC: SUN 15 MAR, 2PM
director Fredrik Gertten investigating why we can’t Erected in Novi Belgrade in 1969, the Hotel
afford to live in many cities anymore. Jugoslavija was a mythical place: both a symbol
Director Fredrik Gretten, 2018, Sweden, 76 min and a witness to the different moments that shaped
former Yugoslavia.
Director Nicholas Wagnieres, 2018, France/Serbia,
78 min
ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH GATEWAYS TO NEW YORK
LIDO: SAT 14 & FRI 20 MAR, 7PM Australian Premiere
CLASSIC: SUN 15 & THU 19 MAR, 7PM LIDO: SUN 15 & FRI 20 MAR, 2PM
The third in Baichwal and Burtynsky’s epic CLASSIC: MON 16 & SUN 22 MAR, 7PM
environmental trilogy, Anthropocene is both Gateways to New York is a story about the great
magnificent in scope and frightening in subject Swiss structural engineer Othmar Hermann Amman
as it explores human influence on earth. who emigrated to New York in 1904 to redefine the
Director Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, art of bridge building in America.
2019, Canada, 87 min Director Martin Witz, 2019, Switzerland, 88 min
(top to bottom) Palace For The People. Photo: Georgi Bogdanov; Hotel Yugoslavia. Photo: Nicholas Wagnieres; Gateways to New York.
(top to bottom) Push. Photo: Fredrik Gretten; Anthropocene, Photo: Edward Burtynsky Image Courtesy: Martin Witz
62 63FILM FESTIVAL IN ART WE TRUST EARTH (ERDE) Australian Premiere Australian Premiere LIDO: SUN 15 MAR, 7PM & SUN 22 MAR, 2PM LIDO: THU 19 & SAT 21 MAR, 7PM CLASSIC: SAT 14 MAR, 4PM & FRI 20 MAR, 2PM CLASSIC: SUN 15 MAR, 4PM & WED 18 MAR, 7PM In Art We Trust tells the course of an artist today, Earth is a portrait of the planet at seven locations from their beginnings to the end of their professional that humans have transformed on a grand scale. life. It is a living, playful and moving allegory on the Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2019, Austria, 115 min figure of the artist in contemporary society. Director Benoit Rossel, 2017, Switzerland/France, 75 min MANY UNDULATING THINGS THE HIDDEN CITY Australian Premiere LIDO: SAT 14 MAR, 2PM LIDO: SAT 14 & SAT 21 MAR, 4PM CLASSIC: TUE 17 MAR, 7PM & SAT 21 MAR, 2PM CLASSIC: WED 18 MAR, 2PM & SUN 22 MAR, 4PM This descent into the visceral depths of a European An ode to Hong Kong: a complex reflection city through the vast labyrinth of tunnels, sewage on its relationship between landscape, nature, pipes and subway stations forms an immense web urbanisation and society. on which the city rests and depends. Director Bo Wang, Pan Lu, 2019, US/South Korea/ Director Victor Moreno, 2018, Spain/France/ Hong Kong/China, 125 min Germany, 80 min THE NEW BAUHAUS RABOT Australian Premiere Australian Premiere LIDO: TUE 17 MAR, 7PM & SUN 22 MAR, 4PM LIDO: MON 16 MAR, 7PM CLASSIC: FRI 20, 7PM & SAT 21 MAR, 4PM CLASSIC: SAT 14 MAR & SUN 22 MAR, 2PM Then radical Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy Rabot tells the poetic and moving story of a social moved to Chicago in 1937 where he spearheaded housing block on the brink of demolition. The New Bauhaus, a movement descended from Director Christina Vandekerckhove, 2017, Belgium, the famous German school. 95 min Director Petter Ringbm, Erin Wright, Alysa Nahmias, 2019, USA, 89 min (top to bottom) In Art We Trust. Photo: Benoit Rosse; Many Undulating Things. Photo: Bo Wang; The New Bauhaus. Image courtesy of Petter Ringbm (top to bottom) Earth. Photo: Nikolaus Geyrhalter; The Hidden City. Photo: Victor Moreno; Rabot. Photo: Christina Vandekerckhove 64 65
FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN PROGRAM 1: PROGRAM 2:
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM THE LOWLINE LAB
Under the streets of New York’s Lower East Side
ARCHIPAPER – A SURREALIST STORY
ABOUT ARCHITECTURE
PROGRAM 1: lies a new project straight out of science fiction: ArchiPaper is a short animated film that tells a story
SAT 14 MAR & SAT 21 MAR, 11AM–12PM a former trolley terminal is in the process of being about architecture in an unconventional way. The
turned into the world’s first underground park. basis and starting point for this work was a physical
PROGRAM 2: Director Peter Ringbottom, 2017, 3 min model of a house designed by BXB Studio.
SAT 14 MAR & SAT 21 MAR, 3–4PM Director Rafał Barnaś, 2019, 4 min
WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A HOME
What does it mean to live in the city without a SCENES FROM A DRY CITY
Two special programs showcase brand
new international short films dealing with the place you can call your own? What role can Cape Town is closing in on ‘Day Zero’ when
challenges facing architects and designers, and architects have in addressing homelessness? citizens’ taps will run dry. Part biblical disaster,
the people who inhabit and use their designs. A And how can cities become a better home for all? part Thunderdome anarchy, this is what a world
different screening of short films will be presented Director Daniel Schwartz with support from CCA, without water looks like.
each Saturday during Melbourne Design Week. 2019, 28 min Director François Verster, Simon Wood, 2019,
FREE bookings required 13 min
PACIFIC
Venue NGV Australia Theatrette, Ground Level,
Looming twenty-five storeys high, an apartment CONCRETE NATURE: THE PLANETARY SAND BANK
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation
Square, cnr Flinders St and Russell St, Melbourne building in Brussels is known colloquially as the This film explores concrete buildings that were
‘Suicide Tower’ after a rash of jumping deaths. politicised before they were constructed, before
With an elegant and subtle survey of her an architect lent them their particular voice;
neighbours’ reactions, filmmaker and resident buildings whose political speech is now being
Angie Obeid shows how a building can manifest overwritten, rewritten, and erased, by the shifting
its inhabitants’ loneliness and fear of the other sands of ideology and environment.
into something deadly. Director Rikke Luther, 2019, 38 min
Director Angie Obeid, 2019, 23 min
(above) Photo: Sophie Couture (above) ArchiPaper. Image courtesy of Richard Sowada
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