Design The Future: Don’t Waste Time
17 September > 27 November 2022
Design Fringe
Welcome to Design Fringe 2022 – a place for the ambitious, the innovative, the shape-shifting and the
magic-making. Design Fringe holds a (very artistically designed) mirror up to the who’s who and what’s what of the design
industry and celebrates innovation across design of all kinds.
Continuing the legacy of its first iteration as Fringe Furniture, Design Fringe honours the legacy of the last 35
years of the program while continually reimagining the future of design. This exhibition celebrates the changing face of design and the
work of ambitious new design leaders.
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Be bold
IMAGE > [top] Kaspian Kan, What's
the Takeaway?,
2021, Takeaway containers, paper, steel, paint, broken lamps, 65 x 80 x 60 cm.
Image courtesy of the artist.
IMAGE
> Design Fringe, Design The Future: Don't Waste Time, installation view at Carlisle Street Art Space, 2022.
Photograph: Theresa Harrison Photography.
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first nations commission
Design the future:
don't waste time
This year, Design Fringe asks participating designers to ‘Design the Future: Don’t Waste Time’. Linked to the major global
challenge of sustainability, the exhibition encourages both designers and visitors to rethink our relationship with objects, as well as
raising awareness to help us to make better choices about what we buy in order to reduce the amount of waste we produce.
This year’s exhibition will take over all our gallery spaces, as well as Carlisle Street Art Space located in the St Kilda Town Hall. The
accompanying program will stretch beyond the galleries and exhibitions with a suite of events, workshops and artist conversations that
explore the design world of the future.
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Be brave
IMAGES > [top and above] Design Fringe, Design The Future: Don't Waste Time, installation view at Linden New Art, 2022.
Photograph: Theresa Harrison Photography
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For 36 years, Design Fringe (as it’s now called) has always been about more than Furniture. It’s about new generations of designers and
new possibilities in design and it’s no accident that it has survived against all the odds to be one of the most important showcases of
emerging de- signers in Victoria. After all these years, it’s still proudly open access – we exhibit every entry we receive – so you can
be the judge of its quality, innovation or relevance. Leaving judgement at the door has been the hallmark of its success for four decades.
Thank you to all the artists, to our partners at Linden New Art and to our many funders and supporters – together, let’s design the
future.
Simon Abrahams, Creative Director and CEO, Melbourne Fringe, 2022
IMAGE > Design Fringe, Design The Future: Don't Waste Time, installation view at Linden New Art, 2022. Photograph: Theresa
Harrison Photography.
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This exhibition is presented in partnership with Melbourne Fringe & Carlisle Street Art Space.
Project Partners:
Design Fringe is supported by
