With more than 60 events celebrating design excellence, innovation, creativity and community, Geelong Design Week returns this November.
This year’s program features a diverse range of events, workshops, experiences, tours, exhibitions and discussions that reflect how good design contributes to a more sustainable world.
Highlights include:
Do you want to build a fatberg? This hands-on activity will see participants create a giant reproduction fatberg – reflecting the masses of waste that block our sewage system, made up of items that shouldn’t be flushed or washed down the drain.
Eden Oak Tour & Mid-Century Adaptive Reuse Talk: An exclusive building tour of East Geelong’s Eden Oak retreat and discussion around the challenges and opportunities in preserving mid-century architecture while adapting it for contemporary use.
Light Letters: Back to Back Theatre is showcasing excerpts from two publications created by students at Nelson Park School around Geelong’s northern suburbs, with a map to direct community members.
Executive Director Placemaking Tennille Bradley encouraged community members of all ages and backgrounds to mark Geelong Design Week in their calendars.
“Geelong Design Week 2024 will cover a range of topics that appeal to many different interests, including sports curation, Geelong’s historic wool trade with Japan, biophilic design and one-on-one conversations with architects,” Ms Bradley said.
“We are excited to be bringing businesses, designers, creatives, students and the community together to showcase design projects, stories and talents from across our region and beyond.
“This festival embodies Geelong’s vision for design and its evolution as Australia’s only UNESCO City of Design.”
Geelong Design Week 2024 is from November 21 to 30 with more information at geelong.link/GDW2024
