Deakin University Geelong Design Week Launch

Celebrate Geelong Design Week with Deakin University at a joint launch party for seven different projects across two galleries: Radial Recycling and Project Space: Design and Place. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

This event is part of Geelong Design Week 2024, an initiative of Geelong UNESCO City of Design and the City of Greater Geelong.

Displaying from 25–29 November 2024, drop in between 10am–1pm or 2–5pm each day

We need you! Deakin Library’s Waterfront Gallery and atrium of Deakin’s Sally Walker building will be transformed into a space that invites the public to collaborate, co-design and make something new in response to the provocation: What if we already have enough?

Thousands of discarded objects, mainly made from plastic, will be used as potential material for an emergent collective design in the gallery space. This will be facilitated by Dr Merinda Kelly and Dr Fiona Phillips alongside a collective of arts practitioners and arts educators from Deakin’s Faculty of Arts and Education.

Displaying from 21–30 November 2024, 10am–4pm each day

This exhibition brings together six different projects across disciplines including fashion, art, manufacturing, industrial and object design, and architecture:

Kip & Co: Jenny Kee + Ken Done Collaborations

Jenny Kee is an icon of Australian art and design, successfully translating the vibrancy and energy of the Australian landscape into art and onto textiles for half a century. The optimism, colour and irreverence of Jenny’s art have been an inspiration for generations of Aussies. We’re incredibly excited to share our Kip&Co x Jenny Kee homewares and apparel collaboration - a celebration of both Jenny and the unique and wondrous Australian environment her art has championed for over fifty years.

Walter Walter Workshop: Longevity

Walter Walter is exhibiting material research via a range of crafted vessels. We invite you to interact with and interrogate our experiments, to explore the potentials of the material we come into contact with the most in our daily lives; plastic. We are at a pivotal moment where we need to question consumption alongside endurance. When considering materials that last generations, we think of stone, metals and concrete, but what about more recent materials? What about plastic? It is time for us to reassess our preconceptions of materials in concert with our relationship to our changing environment.

Ball & Doggett: The Future isn't Black & White with Colorplan

Is the world getting less colourful? Perhaps this question is super simple… Yes/No? And the truth is, we don’t know, but we’re here to find out.

Please join Ball & Doggett & G.F. Smith as we present a keynote talk & The Future isn't Black & White & quote to explore and present findings on this hypothesis. Visit the Project Space and be immersed in Colorplan’s iconic palette of rich & vibrant colours with the Colour Wall paper installation.

Jacinta Kay & Colin Tretcher: Arch Hive

This project celebrates Geelong’s rich culture of design, art, architecture and industry from past to present through an exhibition and workshop of new creative works created using scans and photographs of artefacts from The Geelong Heritage Centre Archives coupled with contemporary design ephemera. Using qualitative and semiotic analysis, these works playfully combine, juxtapose, compare, re-purpose, re-frame and re-imagine these elements to create new works that observe, comment, critique and consider the evolution of the Geelong region through its design output over the 175 years.

Deakin University: Tran2located

TRAN2LOCATED saw 19 Australian students, from Deakin University, translocate innovations from Geelong to Nagoya, that explore the connection between the two cities’ design and manufacturing industry—and their contemporary art, design, and technology culture. Showcasing six areas of innovation currently being explored in the Geelong region, the students critiqued the cross-cultural context of these innovations and produced contemporary artworks that reflect this journey in an exhibition in Nagoya. The Geelong Design Week exhibition brings these reflections back to a local audience to further develop and strengthen the relationship between our two Creative Cities of Design.

Shelley Jardine: Navigating Design

Navigating Design is a collection of artworks created through the use of intricately applied paint in the visual form of hard-edge geometric abstraction. The works were completed during Jardine's recent PhD (Deakin University) and investigate notions of embodiment, space and movement whilst responding to the design of exhibition space(s). The artworks are separate objects, yet work together as an exhibition installation. The implementation of intricate nuances within the paint seek to encourage movement and provide reflective opportunities to be viewed and experienced. Jardine hopes the audience will contemplate the design of the artwork and the design of the space.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Sally Walker Building, Deakin University Waterfront Campus, Geelong, Australia