
What A Ripper! Live
Tim Ross celebrates Australia’s forgotten design icons, uncovering the stories, humour and nostalgia behind everyday inventions.
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Tim Ross celebrates Australia’s forgotten design icons, uncovering the stories, humour and nostalgia behind everyday inventions.
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Discover Victoria’s regional design talent in one place across three days of exhibitions, talks, products and innovation.
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Experience IO, a shimmering eco-futurist performance blending live coding, music and living systems.
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Explore Geelong’s women-led street art, celebrating creativity, identity, public spaces and stories through vibrant urban artworks.
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Explore Geelong’s transformed laneways, public spaces and cultural stories through design, art and urban vibrancy.
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Discover Geelong’s modernist and postmodernist architecture, uncovering the buildings, people and ideas shaping our UNESCO City of Design.
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Experience Norlane through young people’s eyes in an immersive public artwork blending storytelling, VR and place.
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Step inside a transformed Jan Juc home revealing how thoughtful architecture responds to place, climate and everyday life.
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Experience architecture through film, celebrating local designers, global ideas and the places that shape our communities.
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Learn how compostable fashion and circular design are challenging the wasteful fast-fashion model.
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What happens when filmmaking, design and community come together?
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Experience a new, sustainable community sports centre where design, inclusion and connection to Country shape a thriving new precinct.
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Go behind the scenes of Cats Fans Then & Now and discover exhibition design, stories and fandom.
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Visit Bell Park’s multicultural churches and learn how migration, architecture and community shape Geelong’s suburban identity.
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A collaborative screen-printing exhibition exploring colour, pattern, process and the creative exchange of ideas.
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Go behind the scenes of South Geelong Station's transformation, revealing how landscape design, Wadawurrung co-design and integrated art created a people-focused destination.
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Explore Biyal-a Armstrong Creek Library’s architecture, cultural elements, community spaces, technology and programs on this guided tour.
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Explore McGlashan Everist’s architectural legacy through archives, education, student perspectives and Geelong’s evolving built environment.
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How can we create gardens that develop stronger connection to Geelong and the greater region?
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Explore how First Nations co-design and Country-centred thinking challenge conventional design systems and practices.
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Experience how architecture shapes learning through innovative spaces, student voices and Geelong’s educational design legacy.
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Discover the design story behind Crowne Plaza Geelong through architecture, art, Country and waterfront-inspired interiors.
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Join Deakin for its Geelong Design Week program and the opening of three exhibitions celebrating architecture, design and place.
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Step inside Design Commons, explore a new creative hub and discover opportunities for designers, makers and collaborators.
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Explore how architectural archives inspire future design, learning environments and resilient places through shared knowledge and reflection.
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Design, build and test interactive game worlds where creativity, teamwork and problem-solving shape the experience.
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Create your own zine while learning design, storytelling, layout and self-publishing skills in a creative workshop.
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Learn how to design an AI operating model that moves beyond tools to business transformation.
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Discover how the City of Greater Geelong uses design and change practices to tackle complex challenges, improve services and create lasting community impact.
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Learn how researchers are redesigning textiles for a circular future through innovation, materials and sustainable solutions.
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Learn how nature-led design can create healthier homes, gardens and cities that support biodiversity and wellbeing.
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Hear how lived experience drives better design through collaboration, shared decision-making and community partnerships.
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Celebrate 60 years of decimal currency through Stuart Devlin’s iconic coin designs and Geelong creative legacy.
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Take a rare behind the scenes look into the Dowel Jones North Geelong Warehouse.
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Transforming discarded objects into habitat, DUMPED reveals hidden ecosystems and new possibilities for urban nature.
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Tour the adaptive reuse of the Returned Soldiers and Servicemen's Mill, where heritage, sustainability and community connect.
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Discover Elizabeth Bell Ceramics at Fyansford Paper Mills, and explore handmade pottery, sustainable making, craft, creativity and community.
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Learn why colour's environmental and social impacts matter, and how ethical colour can transform design.
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A live interactive video game concert where audiences shape the story through music, comedy and digital play.
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Discover the design behind Ocean Grove’s new ride centre, where trails, landscape and community combine to inspire adventure and connection.
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Tour Australia’s only cotton spinning line and discover sustainable fibres transforming fashion’s circular future today.
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Explore, connect and unwind at the Victorian Regional Design Fair after hours with music and creativity.
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Create a shared ceramic artwork using local materials, community stories and sustainable processes inspired by Geelong’s landscape.
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Join a walking tour of the historic Fyansford Paper Mill, exploring industrial heritage, circular paper-making and creative reuse.
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Explore 175 years of garden design, horticulture, plant collecting and conservation through three curator-led talks.
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A vibrant street runway celebrating Geelong fashion, designers, makers, music, performance, hospitality and creative community.
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Celebrating excellence in heritage, adaptive reuse and design that preserves Geelong’s stories while shaping its future.
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Hear how the Geelong Waterfront evolved through renewal, design leadership and future planning initiatives.
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Learn about Geelong-born designer Grant Featherston’s modernist legacy, innovative furniture and lasting influence on Australian design.
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Learn how Geelong is driving clean economy innovation through design, collaboration, research and sustainable solutions.
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Learn how Geelong designer Allan Cumming revolutionised ambulance design, transforming emergency healthcare across Victoria.
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See actual historic ambulances on display at the Waterfront and discover Geelong’s design innovation firsthand.
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Hear how caregiving, collective care and matriarchal thinking shape design, culture, community and connection.
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Explore the design behind Discovering the Impressionists through exhibition design, storytelling and cultural experiences.
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Discover the transformation of a historic wool store into Deakin’s award-winning waterfront campus through adaptive reuse.
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Discover student-led architectural visions exploring place, heritage, adaptive reuse and Geelong’s future through design experimentation.
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Create Indigenous grass seed balls and support local butterflies, biodiversity and connection to Country through hands-on making.
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Visit a community garden transforming Labuan Square through place-making, ecology, connection and shared local stories.
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Learn how artificial reefs reduce coastal erosion while creating habitat using sustainable recycled materials.
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A collaborative drawing installation using creativity, data and participation to explore how communities share space.
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A playful participatory installation connecting communities through creativity, cross-cultural exchange and shared experiences of neighbourliness.
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Neighbourhood Score: In Relation is an exhibition exploring how we live alongside others through politeness, proximity and reciprocal consideration.
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Hear the story behind Nyaal Banyul's design, from cultural vision to landmark waterfront destination.
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Explore Nyaal Banyul’s cultural stories, artworks and design, shaped through collaboration with Wadawurrung Traditional Owners.
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Explore transport design through an interactive journey of creativity, innovation, sustainability and future-focused ideas for all ages.
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A calming light installation transforming an urban space into an immersive experience of colour, reflection and stillness.
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Hear local architects share bold ideas, projects and insights shaping Geelong and Surf Coast’s future.
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Young people and designers co-create bold play spaces, exploring how children can shape their communities.
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Discover mobile pollinator gardens showing how thoughtful design can support biodiversity in homes, schools and communities.
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An immersive sound installation revealing Ngubitj Yoorree’s biodiversity, cultural significance and evolving relationship between nature and community.
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Learn how thoughtful procurement decisions create better design outcomes through collaboration, expertise and selecting the right partners.
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Get expert design advice on your property ideas through a practical health check with local designers.
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Students reimagine waste as resources through regenerative materials, innovative design and future-focused creative experiments.
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See how students transform textile waste into innovative design solutions challenging disposability and creating circular futures.
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A youth-led urban play experience reimagining neighbourhoods through creativity, connection, belonging and shared visions for place.
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Discover the design behind Rippleside’s inclusive playspace, where landscape, accessibility and community come together through the power of play.
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A collaborative artist publication exploring climate anxiety through writing, image-making, materiality and innovative book design.
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Hear artists explore digital media, identity and perception through experimental, interactive and algorithmic artworks.
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Discover sustainable art and design, natural making processes and collaborative creativity through cyanotype, pigments and eco-printing.
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Experience a striking digital projection exploring the intersection of nature, technology, sustainability and our shared future.
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Discover student-led architectural visions exploring place, heritage, adaptive reuse and Geelong’s future through design experimentation.
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Experience art, movement and architecture through Shelley Jardine’s inclusive performance and evolving painting response.
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Facilitated by Amanda La Bonte, this panel explores practical, sustainable design solutions for community theatre.
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A live conversation shaping a new festival idea through creativity, community voices and experimental thinking.
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Hear Andrew Maynard explore joyful, sustainable architecture addressing climate, housing and community challenges.
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Explore how art and interior design combine to create meaningful, personal spaces filled with creativity and story.
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An immersive garden installation exploring landscape design, biodiversity and wellbeing through a site-responsive retreat at Platform Arts.
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Discover bold student visions, celebrate the Mayor’s Prize winner, and imagine Geelong’s connected, creative future.
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Go behind the scenes at The Regent Theatre and discover its heritage restoration, challenges and exciting future.
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A sensory exhibition exploring sustainable design, coastal environments and creative connections between art, materials and place.
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Local creatives, artists and researchers explore textile waste, sustainable fibres and circular design through art, science and conversation.
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Discover Geelong’s Waterfront Bollards through stories of art, history and design shaping the city’s identity.
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Experience handwoven lighting design through an open studio residency celebrating craftsmanship, materials, creativity and regional making.
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Discover imaginary companions brought to life through community stories, illustration and character design at Yarra Street Window Gallery.
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Explore practical approaches to delivering distinctive, connected and high-quality suburban design across rapidly growing communities.
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Learn how radiant ceiling conditioning works, addressing efficiency, installation, performance and common misconceptions.
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