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Melbourne Design Week is Australia's leading annual international design event which will be held on March 12-22, 2020. In 2020, designers experiment with ideas, materials, places and processes to respond to the central question "How can design shape life?". 

The event will house 85 exhibitions, 94 talks, 15 films, 22 tours and 16 workshops celebrating the best of local, national and international design.

This year Melbourne Design Week has expanded to over 300 events, but it holds to its core a Melbourne attitude rather than an aesthetic, in this expansion. This attitude is a responsibility for design to imagine and create better ways of doing things. Melbourne Design Week explores the potential of design to shape life through five themes.

You do not need to be a designer or from Melbourne or Victoria to have this attitude. Come along: talk, make, share, eat, discuss and listen. And most importantly, imagine a better life today.

See detailed program of talks here. 

The event is curated and presented by the National Gallery of Victoria.

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