Melbourne Design Week,15-25 May 2025, is an annual celebration of design comprising of talks, tours, exhibitions, launches, installations, and workshops. The ideas-driven program provides a platform for designers, educators, enthusiasts, and thinkers, to come together to consider how design can be used as a force for good in an increasingly complex and precarious world.

We’re participating in A New Normal, a 5-day exhibition and talk series presented by Finding Infinity. This unique experience brings together leading architects and creative practitioners from across Australia to showcase a range of projects in motion to help transform our cities.

On Tuesday 20 May, join OCULUS Associate Director Claire Martin on Wurundjeri Country for Day 2 of A New Normal, focusing on naturally enhancing the liveability (for human and non-human-life) and comfort of our cities through cultivating landscape, enhancing biodiversity and adopting water treatment to provide an unlimited supply for the future. Through expert talks, real-world case studies and interactive exhibits, this day showcases how architects, urban designers, and First Nations practices are working together to ensure our ecosystems thrive.

A New Normal takes the opportunity to lay down the required policy to transform Greater Melbourne into self-sufficiency by 2030. It is held in partnership with the Robin Boyd Foundation, Hope Street Radio, and Long Prawn. For more information and ticket bookings, please visit the event website.

Exhibitors include: Public Realm Lab, Baracco+Wright with Monash Architecture Students, Kosloff, MUIR, NMBW & Esther Stewart, NH Architecture, OPENWORK & Kerstin Thompson Architects & Josh Riesel, OCULUS, Winsor Kerr & SBLA, Breathe, and Architect Brew Koch.