Melbourne Design Week 2020

As a precautionary measure, and to assist public health services in their efforts, NGV are closing to the public effective today Monday 16 March until and including 13 April.  This effects both NGV International and NGV Australia.

In 2020, Australia’s leading annual international design event, Melbourne Design Week, presents its largest program to date, with more than 300 events over 11 days. Programmed around the theme ‘How Can Design Shape Life?’ the festival comprises 85 exhibitions, 94 talks, 15 films, 22 tours and 16 workshops celebrating the best of local, national and international design.

The theme will be explored through five thematic pillars: Healthy Cities, Design Cultures, Waterfront, Waste and Design Evolution.

Keynotes will be presented by internationally renowned architect Francis Kéré; design polymath and host of the podcast Design Matters, Debbie Millman; Fairphone founder Bas van Abel and award winning Australian architecture studio NMBW. Comedian and design nerd Tim Ross premieres his new live show Designing a Legacy that takes audiences on an architectural adventure into some of Australia’s most significant modernist houses. Amsterdam-based artists, filmmakers, and designers Metahaven will present a keynote lecture at the NGV and their first solo exhibition in Australia Metahaven Field Report.

The annual Melbourne Art Book Fair will return, from 13-15 March, assembling publishers, artists, designers and writers from around the globe for over forty events including lectures, workshops, launches and performances.