The DESIGN Canberra Festival 2021 was cancelled due to COVID-19 but we are back planning for 2022!

The 2021 theme Transformation will continue to be the theme for DESIGN Canberra 2022.
After world changing events, history has shown that citizens, business and communities have responded with a celebration of life and gratitude and a burst of entrepreneurial energy. We hope that 2022 creates momentum to build a more resilient, connected, creative and responsible way of living. The eighth edition of the DESIGN Canberra Festival asks what should we retain and what can we discard to connect more meaningfully as a community, to nurture wellbeing and health, celebrate creativity and reduce our burden on the environment? Can design foster a vibrant, equitable, sustainable and innovative society? As 2021 draws to a close and uncertainty remains, this vision for the next DESIGN Canberra Festival seems more timely than ever.

There are two main ways to get involved:

1. DESIGN Canberra Commission - Curated Programs and Call Outs
If you are successful in gaining a DESIGN Canberra Commission we will pay Artists fees, materials fees and exhibition fees. Amounts depend on the program you are part of and range from $250-$5000.
2. Cross Promoted programs
List your talk, tour, book launch or exhibition to be part of the DESIGN Canberra program.
Your proposal can include dates before or after 2-20 November 2022 but must have some overlap with DESIGN Canberra 2022 dates to be included in the program. Programs will be listed from 2 November 2022.
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In calling for proposals from across all design disciplines, we encourage a spirit of collaboration where Canberra’s creative community works together to showcase the best in contemporary design. We welcome proposals which align with the Festival values, ambitions, aspirations and theme including being contemporary, relevant, exploratory and authentic.

Whether you are an individual maker, a collective, a cultural or educational institution, a business, a researcher or a government agency, the Festival provides a platform for a multi-faceted exploration of design, arts and creative industries.