First look: what’s on at Melbourne Design Week 2025

ArtsHub picks some program highlights at this year’s Melbourne Design Week, 15-25 May – 100 Lights, Beyond the Grave and more.
Melbourne Design Week 2025 lighting designs, featuring a photo of four design objects with lighting tubes that appear like furniture.

Melbourne Design Week 2025 returns from 15-25 May with over 350 events, exhibitions, talks and installations.

The exhibition is the largest and most ambitious project by Friends & Associates (Dale Hardiman and Tom Skeehan), which selected participants from an open call and seeks to design an experience like no other.

While the symposium will be held in May, the official Open House Melbourne Weekend runs from 26-27 July, with more programming details to come.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_