Please Refer to your Canvas Shells for MDW2022 special edition workshops, excursions and studios visits are demonstrating in ATC103 with industry guests and Paul Goudie, our Director of BDMICT will visit our Art & Design classes. Art & Design students will have their opportunities to ask, share and reflect their learning curves with our invited guests.

NOTE: Some regular classes might be effected in timetable in week 4 due to the availabilities of resources, equipment, requirement and restrictions. Please refer closely to the Canvas announcement from all of your teachers.If you have any queries, please email Verges Chan - vergeschan@swin.edu.au for more information.

( ARTICLE IS FROM https://designweek.melbourne/about/ )

Melbourne Design Week (MDW) celebrates design in an annual 11-day program of talks, tours, exhibitions, launches, installations and workshops across Australia’s design capital.

The program champions design through promoting its broad array of disciplines, including: communication design, industrial design, service design, gaming, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design, fashion, craft and functional art. What also unites these disciplines in MDW is a focus on experimentation, innovation and ideas that enrich the world. 

MDW is a platform for designers, educators, enthusiasts, thinkers and businesses 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. 

The curation of the program is led by the NGV Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture team; Ewan McEoin, Simone LeAmon and My Doughty alongside Timothy Moore, Director of Sibling Architecture. 

The program is curated into two streams. There is a stream of local and international exhibitions and presentations organised by the National Gallery of Victoria, which includes the Melbourne Art Book Fair and the Melbourne Design Fair. There is also the satellite program of events and exhibitions organised by the design community. The satellite program makes up approximately 90 per cent of the program with events held at ateliers, studios, retail spaces, universities, galleries, gardens and public spaces throughout Melbourne and regional Victoria. Participation in the satellite program is via an expression-of-interest. Applications for Melbourne Design Week 2023 will open in August, 2022. 

MDW is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and delivered by the NGV. The program is built on the enthusiastic engagement and participation of the design sector and the general public. Since 2017 the program has grown in scope and scale from just under 100 programs in 2017 to over 300 in 2022 making it Australia’s leading and largest design event.

A Second Chance Project is an exhibition held between five closely situated sites in Melbourne’s CBD from March 17-18 at:

• Kit Espresso, Royal Arcade, Shop 48/148 Elizabeth St;

• Cafe l’incontro, 133 Swanston St;

• Waffle On Shop 9 Degraves St;

• Federation Square;

• and Kiosk Corner, the fruit stand on the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke St, from March 17-20.

Each location will feature a QR Code that can be scanned by passers-by, allowing access to the design responses from A Second Chance Project: Additions & Alterations to an Existing Folly – all while asking the viewer to consider what the concept of home means to them.

Host by Verges Chan, Course Coordinator of Interior Design, mentor of Sulagna Nanda, Design Matters Awards winner 2022 and Mohammad Al- Badri, introducing mentoring program and Rex Hirst, KBDI representative, introducing their educational partner and Design Awards 2022 entry to Interior Design and Building Design students.

Verges Chan takes the opportunity acknowledging Angela Cazenave, Joshua Reitano and Amy Lindner for their contributions to the Design Residential Interiors project 2021. Interior Design students will be shortlisted to entry KBDI Design Awards 2022 entry voted by 2nd year Interior Design students.

NOTE: This session is private for Industry and invited guest only. Not for general admission.

Design Series 1 - Industry Collaboration The Advanced Diploma of Interior Design presents A Second Chance Project 2022 with Industry based designers, celebrating and sharing the outcome of their works - Alterations and additions to an existing folly. Graduates casually discuss their ideas and concepts and receive feedback from our invited guests.

NOTE: This session is private for Industry guests only. Not for general admission.