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5 program highlights of Melbourne Design Week 2024

Melbourne Design Week 2024 will run across 23 May to 2 June with over 300 events – here are some highlights.

15 Mar 2024 9:59

Celina Lei

DAAR’s Concrete Tent for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023, curated by Tosin, who will be delivering a keynote for Melbourne Design Week 2024. Photo: Edmund Sumner. A large tent structure in a desert environment at night with people sitting on tapestry , hanging out.

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DAAR’s Concrete Tent for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023, curated by Tosin Oshinowo, who will be delivering a keynote for Melbourne Design Week 2024. Photo: Edmund Sumner.

ArtsHub received a glimpse of Melbourne Design Week’s 2024 program at the media launch on 14 March; here are our top picks.

Lagos-based Nigerian architect and curator of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Tosin Oshinowo, will be delivering a keynote talk during Melbourne Design Week this year.

Oshinowo started her career working across London and Rotterdam, before moving back to Nigeria where she worked for James Cubitt Architects before establishing her own Oshinowo Studio, which sought to address ‘global social and environmental challenges’ at its core.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. 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. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_