Echoes of Elsewhere

What does it mean for design to be multicultural?

Naarm/Melbourne's design scene has long been shaped by its multinational character, where migrants—whether trained designers or everyday makers—draw from diverse cultural inheritances to create work that speaks to both singular and collective experiences. From hand letterings, signages to textile works, they reveal how design becomes a language for negotiating belonging, honoring heritage, and imagining new forms of cultural expression. Together, they map the contours of a design practice rooted in multiplicity, where hybridity is not fragmentation but richness, and adaptation is an ongoing creative act that defines our city's design landscape.

Step inside Echoes of Elsewhere and explore how designers translate fragments of culture, community, and personal identity into visual and material form. Through installations exploring food, fashion, dwelling, storytelling, and ancestral artifacts, the exhibition documents and celebrates a shared yet multiple way of being—multi-identity as resilience, adaptation as creativity, and cultural hybridity as strength.

Official opening night: 10th October, 5 PM

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