Melbourne Design Week 2019 Encourages New and Better Ways to Design
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The 2019 Melbourne Design Week, which started on March 14 and will run through March 24, addresses how experimentation with new materials and disruptive approaches can improve the urban environment and sharpen our social consciousness. As stated on the oMelbourne Design Week 2019 Encourages New and Better Ways to Design
The 2019 Melbourne Design Week, which started on March 14 and will run through March 24, addresses how experimentation with new materials and disruptive approaches can improve the urban environment and sharpen our social consciousness. As stated on the official website of the event, “Melbourne Design Week was established to shine a light on our local design community, explore the role design plays in everyday life, and showcase the ways design is helping to tackle the challenges of the future.” In line with this vision, this year’s event, which marks the third edition of the event, “encourages participants to demonstrate cultural and historical awareness in their design – to delve into social and cultural history, peel back the layers of design and articulate that the future is informed by the past,” states the website. The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) forms the event hub, where visitors experience pioneering design concepts and encounter cutting-edge technologies. The festival includes 47 exhibitions, 16 film screenings, 81 talks, 33 tours, and 18 workshops. As per the design week’s website, some of the major exhibitions at the event include the following: “Designwork 03: The Supply Chain” : Curated by Guy Keulemans, this exhibition at Sophie Gannon Gallery challenges leading Australian designers including Henry Wilson and Elliat Rich to address the value of rejected prototypes, and how industrial supply chains are affected by labour offences, environmental crimes, and sovereignty. Here, paper artist Benja Harney turns offcuts into furniture, questioning how we can consider waste as a resource, while Luca Lettereiti uses his body as a material to ensure proprietary of the end product. The exhibition is on view through March 23. “Material Thought”: Showcasing the work of some of Australia’s most innovative furniture, lighting, and product designers, this exhibition will be on view through March 24 at Modern Times, a furniture showroom in Fitzroy. As described by the website, “Counteracting the simplistic and implied categorisation of materials – sustainable/unsustainable, natural/synthetic, handmade/factory-made, recycled/new – ‘Material Thought’ explores the history, constraints, and implications of the materials in play.” “100 Models”: This exhibition by BKK Architects celebrates new modes of digital thinking, a creative process made possible through the arrival of affordable and accessible 3D printing. 100 ideas are frozen in physical form as unpolished experiments, provocations, and follies, drawn from an eclectic mix of influences: culture, technology, science, philosophy, politics and urban form. “NowHaus: 72 Hour bauhaus” : On view through March 24, this exhibition presented by art and design school LCI Melbourne, showcases furniture, weaving, screen prints, and graphic and typography designs created during a 72-hour intensive workshop, inspired by the centenary of the influential Bauhaus school of art, design, and architecture. In the spirit of the Bauhaus’ response to the intensity of its societal context and a desire for an alternate future, artists and designers Neil Chenery, Michelle Mantsio, Mireille Oberholster, and Michael Peck interrogate the methods, processes, tenets and aesthetics of the design school. Melbourne Design Week 2019 is held at NGV International, NGV Australia, and other partner venues across Melbourne, Geelong, and Victoria through March 24, 2019. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more