Geelong Design Week 2023 returns this October to celebrate and showcase design excellence, innovation and creativity across the Greater Geelong region.
The program features more than 40 exhibitions, talks, film premieres, and unique experiences that will surprise and delight audiences.
The annual event will bring together local Geelong designers, industry leaders, and design enthusiasts from across Victoria from 19 to 29 October 2023.
This year’s diverse program not only highlights Geelong’s notable design heritage, ingrained in the fabric of our daily lives, but also shines a spotlight on our local design talent and the best of Geelong as a UNESCO City of Design.
Highlights from the program include:
- Tim Ross ‘Designing a Legacy’ live show
- Dell Eco Reef Snorkelling
- ‘Earth from above’ pop up 360° film
- Local designer showcasefeaturing Kip&Co, Sundown Lighting, Ross Thompson & Two Lines Studio
- Greenhouse Interiors small business design challenges panel
- Customs House architects hub
- ‘The Housing Question’ exhibition and talk
- House of Fast Fashun installation
- Perpetual Pigments exhibition
- Barwon Water design + place excursion
- Creative City: Kids & family workshop
- Urban design walk
- Interior & architecture renovation workshop
- DIY or Die Fashun Show & Cocktail party
- ‘Modern Melbourne’ regional film premiere
- First People’s culture in design
- Human-centred design by Deakin design students
- Jewellery design exhibition
- Design Futures Lab bio material installation
Explore this year’s exciting Geelong Design Week program on the website.
Mayor Trent Sullivan
The program has come together through the ideas, partnerships, collaborations and creative minds of designers, makers, the City, businesses, community groups and organisations.
We are back with an exciting program of events that reflects the region’s clever ideas, creativity and strong desire to create a better future through design.
