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Designing the Future of Education Presented by Hayball | Free entry Exploring the Design of New Regional Cities to Balance Victoria Symposium Presented by RMIT Urban Futures ECP and Balance Victoria | Free entry Inspecting the foundations: a guide to framing histories of the peripheral Presented by NGV and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | Free entry Brave Street: Suburban Symposium Presented by Brad Mitchell and Kerli Valk (Nüüd Studio), Emily Murray and Simon Drysdale (eight50eight) | Free entry Can Institutions redesign themselves? A Conversation with Christian Bason Presented by RMIT University | Free entry Book Launch: ‘Everyone is allowed in this book’: Three years of book art from The Grand Imaginarium. 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Presented by Open House Melbourne and Port of Melbourne | Book now The Experimental City Presented by Melbourne Design Week with Richard Sowada | Book now Watermark Presented by Melbourne Design Week and curated by Richard Sowada | Book now Relics of the Future Presented by Melbourne Design Week and Richard Sowada | Book now Renzo Piano: Architect of Light Presented by Melbourne Design Week with Richard Sowada | Book now Masterclass #1: Curating for Future Audiences (and Challenging Established Conventions) Presented by the NGV and RMIT University | Book now Generative Patterns x Escher Presented by Technecolour Workshops, Media Lab Melbourne and ACMI X | Book now River Rights: Yarra Bend Presented by Open House Melbourne and Yarra Riverkeeper Association | Free entry A Busy Intersection: Design and Education in Geelong Presented by The Gordon Institute of TAFE | Free entry Places for people and mixed mobility Presented by City of Greater Geelong | Book now When new meets old: Good design and heritage Presented by Heritage Council of Victoria, Open House and Office of the Victorian Government Architect | Free entry Architecture of Infinity Presented by Melbourne Design Week with Richard Sowada | Book now Material practice in Craft and Design Presented by RMIT University School of Art | Free entry Visions of Chinese Urbanism with Jing Liu & Beatrice Leanza Presented by NGV and the Australian Institute of Architects | Book now Break the Business Model: Melbourne Design Week at Mercedes me Presented by Indesign Magazine, Mercedes me Melbourne and NGV | Book now Design Experiments: Melbourne Design Week at Mercedes me Presented by Neil Hugh Office, Mercedes me Melbourne and NGV | Book now SO – IL: Viewing China Presented by NGV | Free entry Archaeology of Light: Architectural Photography by Erieta Attali Presented by NGV | Free entry Liquid Light: 500 Years of Venetian Glass Presented by NGV | Free entry John Wardle Architects: Somewhere Other Prsented by NGV | Free entry NGV Architecture Commission 2018: Doubleground by Muir + Openwork Presented by NGV | Free entry Contemporary Jewellery by Galerie Spektrum Presented by NGV International design store | Free entry Somini Sengupta: Hot Cities on a Hotter Planet Presented by The New York Times and NGV | Book now Book launch: An unreliable guidebook to jewellery by Lisa Walker, Edited by Kate Rhodes and Nella Themelios Free entry Book Launch, Panel and Signing: Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something Presented by NGV | Free entry Book Launch and Panel Discussion: Looking to regions, art outside the urban Free entry Short Talk: Making Public: a podcast episode on contemporary publishing Free entry Book Launch: ‘Ha Ha World’ by Regan Tamanui Free entry Book Launch: Interior Futures by Suzie Attiwill Free entry Book Launch: It’s a World Full of Lying Bastards’ by co-authors Aaron Beehre and Jon Campbell Free entry Making Art Public | Kiosk Free entry Australian Zine Showcase by Sticky Institute Free entry Book Launch: House of Fashion: Haute Couture and the Modern Interior by Author Jess Berry Free entry Panel Discussion: A Lens on Lenses: Publishing, A Current Landscape Free entry John Wardle on Somewhere Other Free entry Symposium: Graphic Fashion Presented by NGV and RMIT School of Design | Book now Panel Discussion: What is Critical About Critical Publishing? Free entry Panel Discussion: Expanding the Perceptual Space of Publication Free entry Book Launch: Permission To Belong by Tammy Law Free entry Book Launch: 19 Desires and One Belief by Angela Brennan Free entry Workshop: P.S. Documents Attached by Publication Studio Rotterdam x Publication Studio Pearl River Delta Free entry Innovation in Furniture Design: Schulin Krimper Free entry Designing Women in Conversation Free entry Talk & Tour: MUIR architecture and OPENWORK on Doubleground Free entry Erieta Attali In Conversation and Book Launch Free entry Lee Darroch in Conversation Free entry Reframing the Past Through Design Book now Co-Designing the Futures of Aged Care Presented by MAP and Umps Health | Free entry Refik Anadol: In the Mind’s Eye – Telstra Creativity & Innovation Series Presented by Telstra and NGV | Book now