Melbourne Design Week x BETA BY STH BNK
18 - 28 May
Melbourne Design Week 2023
BETA By STH BNK joins Melbourne Design Week as a proud participant, hosting and running a number of activities that will allow participants to visualise the future of retail and hospitality. This year’s theme, ‘Design the World You Want’ focuses on the importance of human ingenuity and experimentation. From exhibitions to experiencing the future supermarket there’s so much to see and learn.
UPCOMING EVENTS

WORKSHOP 01
18 – 28 May 2023
WORKSHOP 01 is an exhibition-as-provocation. Showcasing new work by eleven emerging designers with wildly diverse outlooks, under the curatorial direction of Julian Leigh May, Tess Pirrie, and Ella Saddington, they are united by a desire to push boundaries beyond the aesthetically consensual.
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Retail x Experiment = REVOLUTION?
18 May 2023
Join us on a floor talk that showcases a series of experimental spa-al prototypes from the RMIT Master of Interior Design with panel discussions by Professor Michael Trudgeon, Associate Professor Fleur Watson, Dr. Anthony Fryatt and students from the Master of Interior Design at RMIT.
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Project Replay: Designing Out E-waste
19 May 2023
E-waste is growing at a rate that is 3 x faster than general municipal waste in Australia. Come along to this workshop to learn how we can rethink our approach to the design, reuse, repair and recycling of electronics.
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Imagining Our Future
19 May 2023
Imagining Our Future is an educational event organized by Sustainability Victoria to help participants learn about future thinking in a creative and interactive environment alongside experts in foresight.
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Future From Waste Lab Open Studios
25 – 27 May 2023
Enter The Future From Waste Lab, a disruptive, experimental fashion and retail space that turns textile waste into want through washing, dyeing, cutting, sewing and selling. Facilitated by BETA By STH BNK, and creative directed by KITX, the Lab works with iconic labels with a sustainable focus to create small runs of garments and accessories entirely from waste.
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Gloop: Exploring Urban Food Systems in 2049 (Part 1)
25 – 28 May 2023
Explore the future of urban food systems through a tour of a “Gloop” Factory in 2049, in a world that has reached 1.5 degrees, where global food systems are under strain, with a population nearing 10 billion and a rapidly altered planet.
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The Future Supermarket
27 May 2023
The Future Supermarket is imagined at BETA By STH BNK through a conscious market day with Melbourne’s most innovative local food, drink, wellness and home offerings, all of which operate with social, environmental and cultural currency in mind.
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Circular Basket Weaving Workshop
27 May 2023
Come spend a relaxing afternoon immersed in making colourful sculptural forms from post-consumer materials. Created from largely recycled and reclaimed materials, Sienna Barton will teach participants how to make a small coiled basket using her lovingly curated colour palette.
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