Geelong Design Week details revealed

THE City of Greater Geelong has released some details about this year’s edition of Geelong Design Week.

More than 60 events will be held between November 21 and November 30 that celebrate design excellence, innovation, creativity and community across the region.

This year’s program is shaping up to be the biggest Geelong Design Week yet, featuring a diverse range of events, workshops, experiences, tours, exhibitions and discussions that reflect how good design contributes to a more sustainable world.

Highlights include:

• Do you want to build a fatberg? This hands-on activity will see participants create a giant reproduction fatberg – reflecting the masses of waste that block our sewerage system, made up of items that shouldn’t be flushed or washed down the drain
• Eden Oak Tour & Mid-Century Adaptive Reuse Talk: An exclusive building tour of East Geelong’s Eden Oak retreat and discussion around the challenges and opportunities in preserving mid-century architecture while adapting it for contemporary use, and
• Light Letters: Back to Back Theatre is showcasing excerpts from two publications created by students at Nelson Park School around Geelong’s northern suburbs, with a map to direct community members.

The city’s executive director of placemaking, Tennille Bradley, encouraged people of all ages and backgrounds to mark Geelong Design Week in their calendars.

“Geelong Design Week 2024 will cover a range of topics that appeal to many different interests, including sports curation, Geelong’s historic wool trade with Japan, biophilic design and one-on-one conversations with architects,” Ms Bradley said.

“We are excited to be bringing businesses, designers, creatives, students and the community together to showcase design projects, stories and talents from across our region and beyond.

“This festival embodies Geelong’s vision for design and its evolution as Australia’s only UNESCO City of Design.”

For more information, including the eventual posting of the full program, head to geelong.link/GDW2024