FDW 2024
Fremantle Design Week is a biennial festival of design and design ideas.
The second Fremantle Design Week brings seven days of exhibitions, conversations, tours, workshops, films, open studios and special events to Walyalup from 18 – 25 October 2024.
Immerse yourself in the port city. Meet local designers, explore Fremantle’s design spaces and places and see the world through new eyes!
The theme for Fremantle Design Week 2024 is transition. In challenging times, how do we transition the way we think about our world to design a positive future?
Transition is a movement from one state to another. It’s constant as we adapt and respond to environmental, technological, social and economic changes. To design the present and future we need to embrace the new and also revisit the old – FDW2024 brings together an exciting and wide range of people and ideas to explore this theme.
Our exciting and diverse program has a local focus and a global outlook, showcasing the talented local design community whilst sharing design ideas from around the world.
Liam Young: Planetary Transition - Exhibition opening night
How might the world look if the entire planet united to radically transition in the face of the climate crisis? Fremantle Design Week is proud to bring the evocative video works of Liam Young to Perth audiences for the first time.
Planet City and The Great Endeavor speculate on the impact of the Anthropocene at scale and where it might lead. Reassembling the familiar into unfamiliar worlds, these entrancing multi-sensory journeys are provocations that prompt us to think about our place and responsibilities within a vast yet finite ecosystem.
Planet City explores the productive potential of extreme densification, where the entire population of the earth retreats into one hyper-dense metropolis and surrenders the rest of the planet to a global wilderness.
In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics.
The Great Endeavour
In order to reach current climate targets, we cannot rely solely on slashing future emissions. The Great Endeavour visualises the construction of the largest engineering project in human history, designed to remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground at gigatonne scales.
Featuring workwear created in collaboration with Hollywood costume designer Ane Crabtree and set to the score of a new planetary workers’ song composed by vocalist Lyra Pramuk, the film celebrates a new technological sublime, chronicling the coordinated action to decolonise the atmosphere in our last great act of planetary transformation.
Late opening times have been programmed to allow visits after work – follow with dinner at one of the many great local restaurants.
Open times:
Opening Night, Friday 18 Oct, 6pm – 9pm
Saturday 19 Oct, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday 20 Oct, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Monday 21 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Tuesday 22 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Wednesday 23 Oct, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Thursday 24 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Friday 25 Oct, 12:00pm – 9:00pm
PechaKucha FDW closing party
PechaKucha returns to Fremantle Design Week!
10 people will respond to the Design Week theme of transition, with each speaker presenting 20 slides for 20 seconds. The event will be a fast-paced feast of ideas, opinions and stories. Where will it take us? We don’t know, except that it will be a journey of creativity, imagination and surprises!
The event will take place in the beautiful PS Art Space alongside the exhibition Liam Young: Planetary Transition as we celebrate the conclusion of Fremantle Design Week.
Running times:
5:00pm – Doors open
6:30pm – Presentations commence
Students and concession card holders can use code FDWCONCESSION for 10% off tickets.
The second Fremantle Design Week brings seven days of exhibitions, conversations, tours, workshops, films, open studios and special events to Walyalup from 18 – 25 October 2024.
Immerse yourself in the port city. Meet local designers, explore Fremantle’s design spaces and places and see the world through new eyes!
The theme for Fremantle Design Week 2024 is transition. In challenging times, how do we transition the way we think about our world to design a positive future?
Transition is a movement from one state to another. It’s constant as we adapt and respond to environmental, technological, social and economic changes. To design the present and future we need to embrace the new and also revisit the old – FDW2024 brings together an exciting and wide range of people and ideas to explore this theme.
Our exciting and diverse program has a local focus and a global outlook, showcasing the talented local design community whilst sharing design ideas from around the world.
FDW24 at PS
Liam Young: Planetary Transition - Exhibition opening night
How might the world look if the entire planet united to radically transition in the face of the climate crisis? Fremantle Design Week is proud to bring the evocative video works of Liam Young to Perth audiences for the first time.
Planet City and The Great Endeavor speculate on the impact of the Anthropocene at scale and where it might lead. Reassembling the familiar into unfamiliar worlds, these entrancing multi-sensory journeys are provocations that prompt us to think about our place and responsibilities within a vast yet finite ecosystem.
Planet City explores the productive potential of extreme densification, where the entire population of the earth retreats into one hyper-dense metropolis and surrenders the rest of the planet to a global wilderness.
In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics.
The Great Endeavour
In order to reach current climate targets, we cannot rely solely on slashing future emissions. The Great Endeavour visualises the construction of the largest engineering project in human history, designed to remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground at gigatonne scales.
Featuring workwear created in collaboration with Hollywood costume designer Ane Crabtree and set to the score of a new planetary workers’ song composed by vocalist Lyra Pramuk, the film celebrates a new technological sublime, chronicling the coordinated action to decolonise the atmosphere in our last great act of planetary transformation.
Late opening times have been programmed to allow visits after work – follow with dinner at one of the many great local restaurants.
Open times:
Opening Night, Friday 18 Oct, 6pm – 9pm
Saturday 19 Oct, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday 20 Oct, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Monday 21 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Tuesday 22 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Wednesday 23 Oct, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Thursday 24 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Friday 25 Oct, 12:00pm – 9:00pm
FDW CLOSING EVENT
PechaKucha FDW closing party
PechaKucha returns to Fremantle Design Week!
10 people will respond to the Design Week theme of transition, with each speaker presenting 20 slides for 20 seconds. The event will be a fast-paced feast of ideas, opinions and stories. Where will it take us? We don’t know, except that it will be a journey of creativity, imagination and surprises!
The event will take place in the beautiful PS Art Space alongside the exhibition Liam Young: Planetary Transition as we celebrate the conclusion of Fremantle Design Week.
Running times:
5:00pm – Doors open
6:30pm – Presentations commence
Students and concession card holders can use code FDWCONCESSION for 10% off tickets.