Cantilever Interiors' curated Melbourne Design Week guide
Melbourne Design Week highlights the prescient conversations of our design community. Learn, explore, enjoy a curated selection of events that speak of environmental care, and design-led practice.
15th - 25th of May 2025
Blurring Boundaries Workshop - Presented by Monash Design
Considering how a home can be designed to enhance care, a series of workshops for designers and health professionals enable conversation between diverse practice
Caulfield East | 15 May (10am-1pm)
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100 Lights - Presented by Friends & Associates
100 LIGHTS features the work of over 110 Australian creatives, studios, architects and practices all exploring lighting as a medium, and showcases the talent of our local industry.
North Melbourne | 15 - 18 May (10am-8pm)
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Creating Identity in High-Density Living - Presented by Woods Bagot & Milieu
Exploring examples of design-led dwellings, a panel discussion advocates the proven possibility of meeting community needs in medium and high density residential contexts.
Elsternwick | 19 May (6-7:30pm)
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Fumbling Towards Change - Presented by home language, grounded studios
5 designers, thinkers, scholars share their approach to integrating varied cultural heritages and perspectives of place, in the face of persistent ambivalence toward indigenous recognition.
Brunswick | 22 May (6-8pm)
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Slow Colour - Presented by Australian Tapestry Workshop
Australian Tapestry Workshop brings together artists exploring botanical and mineral colourants within textiles, objects and expanded sculptural practices. Often deeply connected with familial knowledge, and culture, these artists embed biological traces of time and place into fabric
South Melbourne | 16 May - 24 May (10am-5pm)
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Regenerate - Presented by Tait
A variety of activity exploring the value of our native grasslands, accumulates at Tait Showroom in Collingwood. The aim is to raise awareness of the importance of rejuvenating native grasslands, which have diminished to less than 1 percent of their natural coverage.
Fitzroy | 15 May - 24 May (9am-5pm)
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A New Normal - Presented by Finding Infinity
Boyd Baker House, Long Forest hosts A New Normal. Through expert talks, real-world case studies and interactive exhibits; A New Normal explores pathways toward enhanced biodiversity of our cities.
Long Forest | 20 May (8.30am-6pm)
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Rewilding Melbourne - Presented by Collectivity Talks
A forward-thinking panel brings together experts and innovators to explore how indigenous plants and traditional land management approaches can transform our cities into resilient, biodiverse environments
Melbourne | 22 May (6-7:30pm)
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Speculative Future - Presented by Craft Victoria
Speculative Future is an exhibition by Billy Crellin showcased in Craft’s Vitrine Gallery. It explores the disruption that synthesised versions of natural materials evoke, through glass.
Melbourne | 15 May - 24 May (11am-5pm)
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Nau Design x Artedomus - Presented by Artedomus & Nau Design
A rarely seen urban warehouse space in Flemington sites an exhibition showcasing new work of Nau Design, in company with Artedomus stone.
Flemington | 15 May - 24 May (10am-5pm)
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Dancer Editions - Presented by Coco Flip