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Want to participate in Melbourne Design Week 2025?

Melbourne Design Week (MDW) is an annual 11-day program of talks, tours, exhibitions and workshops that celebrate and interrogate design in Australia’s design capital through its varied disciplines, including: communication design, industrial design, service design, gaming, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, fashion, craft and functional art. The program provides a platform for designers, educators, businesses and the community to come together to share ideas, show and sell new work, and consider how design can be used as a force for good in an increasingly complex and precarious world.

MDW is one of the Asia-Pacific’s largest design festivals with over 1,300 designers, 400 events and exhibitions, and 100,000 visitors across Melbourne, its suburbs and the regions. In 2025, MDW returns for its ninth year to celebrate design from 15-25 May.

Individuals and organisations can apply to participate in the Melbourne Design Week 2025 satellite program by submitting an expression-of-interest.

Expressions-of-interests are now open and close on 20 January 2025.

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Expressions-of-interest open: November 2024
Expressions of interest close: 20 January 2025
Expressions-of-interest applicants notified of outcome: 3 February 2025
Final satellite event assets required: 3 March 2025
Melbourne Design Week: 15-25 May 2025

If you have a story to tell, new work to unveil, an idea to discuss, an issue to debate – Melbourne Design Week is made for you.  Melbourne Design Week is Australia’s leading international public design event, delivered each year by the teams at Creative Victoria and NGV working in close collaboration with a broad network of institutions, media organisations, and industry partners. Our objective is to provide a compelling annual platform, backed by the expertise and reach of the NGV, for participants to engage a broad audience with their work and ideas. 

• Melbourne Design Week is Australia’s annual opportunity to connect with the design community, be inspired, network and do business.
• Participants can reach a broad public audience in Melbourne, regional Victoria and online.
• It is free to present an event during Melbourne Design Week. No registration fees apply. 
• The MDW program receives significant marketing, media and curatorial support from the NGV. 
• Marketing and media activities reach an extensive audience in the lead up to, and during MDW. Now entering its ninth year, Melbourne Design Week 2025 builds on the success of previous years, engaging with diverse industry sectors and an active design community to offer an ever-expanding program of exhibitions, launches, talks, tours, workshops and more.