Redesigning Designs Forum – Melbourne Design Week 2021

While Australian designers contribute more than $67 billion to the economy each year, design protection is not widely understood or used. The Australian Government is exploring what role intellectual property (IP), especially registered design rights, can and should play to best support the Australian design community.

In this online event, IP Australia will present and discuss findings from their review of the design economy and provide an update on the next steps. This event is for anyone with a stake or interest in the Australian design economy and the role of IP protection in business development and growth.

This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2021, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.

The Australian Design Index exhibition features more than sixty objects selected as good design for the Australian Design Index.

The index was an initiative of the Industrial Design Council of Australia to record products awarded Good Design Awards. In the 1960s and 1970s these award winning products were displayed at Australian Design Centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Curated by Ian Wong from Monash University and funded by a research grant from The Alistair Swayn Foundation, the exhibition will be 3D scanned and presented as a 3D virtual exhibition and permanent online archive.

Partnered by Robin Boyd Foundation and the Design Institute of Australia.

More information here.