RE/DISCOVER your City | Program Archive
The Open House Melbourne Weekend 2024 invited you to rediscover your city—to seek out new places and to reconnect with old favourites.
View Program Archive
Regional Tour 2024
Learn about the challenges and opportunities facing our regional cities through the lenses of sustainability, housing, heritage and place and discover how design can address critical issues shaping their form, identity, and future.
View Program Archive
Six Feet Under: Design + Death
Explore the intersection of design and death and discover how the spaces we associate with death and dying are, surprisingly, not so much about death but instead more about life and how we live.
View Program Archive
Geelong Design Week 2023
A series of programs for Geelong Design Week exploring how good design is shaping Geelong
View Program Archive
The Weekend 2023 | Collective City
The Weekend program explored perspectives and projects that speak to the power of collective, adaptive and responsive design approaches focused on creating a more equitable, accessible and inclusive city.
View Program Archive
Open Nature 2023
Wind your way through our 2023 Open Nature program of walks, talks, tours and events connecting you with the natural environment in pockets all across our city through listening, learning and movement.
View Program Archive
Stroll the City Tours
Explore our 2022/23 summer walking tours program, delivered with the support of City of Melbourne.
View Program Archive
The Weekend 2022 | Built/Unbuilt
The Weekend 2022 was one of the largest programs in Open House Melbourne’s history and the first in-person in three years.
View Program Archive
Open Nature 2022
Open Nature explores a growing movement towards ecologically responsive, ‘more than human’ design practice that recognises the complex interrelations between humans and non-humans.
View Program Archive
Weekend 2021 | Virtual Program
Focusing on the central theme, Reconnect, this year Open House Melbourne asks us to reconsider the way we will occupy our city and to envisage new ways of designing and adapting our buildings and infrastructure as we continue be grapple with the impact of COVID-19.
View Program Archive
Waterfront 2021
Waterfront 2021 offers diverse water-themed events for all to enjoy. Take to the water to explore the role design plays in shaping a positive and more sustainable future for our creeks, rivers and oceans.
View Program Archive
Weekend 2020 | Virtual Program
Our 2020 program engaged design and architecture enthusiasts in web-based events. Celebrate one of the world’s most liveable cities – from the comfort of your own home.
View Program Archive
Urban Tactility 2019
Urban Tactility highlighted how public art and design can make a significant contribution to conversations around important urban issues such as social inclusion, social connectivity and the building of community around a public design project.
View Program Archive
Open House Bendigo 2019
Dive into Bendigo city’s architecture and heritage at the second Open House Bendigo.
View Program Archive
The Weekend 2018
Delve deeper into the make-up of our city with the Weekend 2018 to learn about how we can create a better Melbourne.
View Program Archive
The Australian Ugliness 2018
The Australian Ugliness was delivered as part of the Weekend 2018 program. Installed at the Melbourne School of Design, the exhibition was presented alongside a month-long program of related talks and events. It paid homage to modernist architect Robin Boyd (1919–1971) and his book of the same name.
View Program Archive
