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The National Gallery of Victoria has launched the program for the 2024 Melbourne Design Week, which will focus on energy, ethics and ecology.

A collection of design events to stir the imagination, provide a source of inspiration and present a new perspective.

The 2024 program comprises more than 80 events, including exhibitions, films, talks and experiences.

The festive holiday period may have ended but there are still plenty of cultural affairs to keep you amused this month. Here are some of the insightful events that have us inspired this February.

The inspiration behind the When Robin Boyd Went to Japan exhibition lies in Boyd’s fascination with the country during the period he was frequently visiting, observing, thinking and writing about Japanese architects and architecture.

As the year comes to a close and the holiday season approaches, a number of cultural events have emerged to keep you busy this festive season.

As the year draws to a close, a host of cultural activities have cropped up to get you through the year. From ceramic workshops to regional design festivals, we’ve composed a list of events we’re eager to attend.

Open House Hobart is back in 2023 with more than 70 building inspections, walking tours, architectural drawing workshops and speaker series to be held across November 11 and 12.

Presented by the Museums of History NSW, Sydney Open 2023 offers visitors a chance to marvel at some of the most loved and hidden architectural gems across the city.

Arts fairs, festivals and exhibitions to keep you entertained this October.

The 2024 Melbourne Design Week and Melbourne Art Book Fair is open for submissions.

Arts fairs, festivals and exhibitions to keep you entertained this September.

Themed “How can design shape life?” Melbourne Design Week 2020 will explore the ways in which design can reimagine our quality of life from healthy cities to the challenge of e-waste.

ArchitectureAU selects some of the architectural highlights of the seventh Open House Hobart program.

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation is seeking expressions of interest from people with ideas for events for a six-month program to accompany the Glenn Murcutt-designed MPavilion.

Speakers from the UK and France will join Glenn Murcutt, Christopher Hawthorne and Mabel O. Wilson at the 2019 Living Cities Forum in Melbourne and Sydney.

The 2018 instalment of ACCA’s annual lecture series includes a talk on the role of architecture in shaping national identity.

The founders of American-Italian practice Lot-ek are the final speakers to be announced as appearing at The Architecture Symposium 2018 on 16 March.

British architect and Stirling prize winner Peter Clegg will be among the speakers at the Architecture Foundation Australia’s March conference.

ArchitectureAU rounds up the architectural highlights from the 2018 Sydney Design Festival program.

A number of film screenings, tours, and panel discussions at the 2018 Perth Writers Week will have an architectural slant.

The first events to be held as part of the 2018 Sydney Design Festival have been announced.

Heinrich Wolff of Wolff Architects, South Africa will give a keynote lecture on ‘network systems’ at this year’s Australian Urban Design Awards.

The global Open House movement comes to the Sunshine Coast for the first time on 21 October, with 30 buildings opening their doors for the architecturally curious.

A forum about the future of design in education, Old School/New School will bring together an international line-up of speakers from the worlds of architecture and education.

A one-off symposium will see peers, colleagues and students of the late architect Peter Corrigan explore his influence of architecture and theatre design.

Architects and designers are invited to participate in Design Canberra and to submit work for inclusion in an exhibition responding to the architecture of Roy Grounds’s Shine Dome.

An exhibition on Indigenous land rights, office tours and a walk from Bondi to Bronte are among the events offered in the 2017 Landscape Australia Conference fringe program.

The National Trust has unveiled the more than 180 events that will take place in Victoria over five weeks as part of the annual Heritage Festival.

Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art will host a lecture series exploring the recent architectural, urban and cultural history of some of the world’s most inspiring cities.

Eleven of the Asia Pacific’s most lauded, experimental and socially conscious practitioners will come together for a one-day symposium on the role architecture plays in the future of the region.

The 2016 Health Care / Health Design forum will feature a keynote address on the growing field of neuro-architecture.

AA Roundtable will explore Brisbane’s subtropical urbanity, promoting debate and discourse around key issues shaping the city today.

Our pick of the best of the 2015 Sydney Architecture Festival events.

Five entries shortlisted in the competition to select a creative director for New Zealand’s exhibition at 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Landscape Architecture Australia to participate in the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture.

Staking a claim at La Biennale Architecttura 2014, is New Zealand’s first ever pavilion – Last, Loneliest, Loveliest.

Ideas from Artichoke Night School No. 13.

An exhibition celebrating the creatives shaping Melbourne’s cultural and urban landscape.

Andreas Gjertsen of Norway’s TYIN tegnestue Architects gives the keynote at Affirmative Architecture 2013.

An exhibition at the Sydney Opera House celebrates Danish design.