**I am sorry to inform you that the City of Greater Geelong has decided to cancel the Geelong Design Week to minimise the potential of spreading Coronavirus ( COVID-19)**

This event is part of Geelong Design Week 2020, an initiative of Geelong UNESCO City of Design and the City of Greater Geelong.

In 2019 the School of Lost Arts in association with Deakin University hosted Geelong’s first Biophilic Design event during the Melbourne Design Week.

Earthed Not Wired will continue this concept at a time of new focus on our relationship with nature and the way we live in cities. It is a one-day examination of the importance of the deep connection we have to the natural world and how recognising that helps us design better homes, schools and workplaces that support our natural affinity with the natural world.

The principles of biophilic design will be looked at through an all-day offering of practical design workshops, talks, installations and panel discussions from leading exponents in the field of design, planning, urban farming, art, architecture and urban and landscape planning. The event will take place at the unique location of a restored 1850s house with one-acre urban farm.

It is aimed to challenge participants to think deeply, recognise the urgency of our situation and see the design possibilities of our urban environment with a fresh perspective.

This event will be a one-day symposium and immersive experience of the importance of biophilia, our innate and fundamental need to be in nature. How we design our homes, workplaces and cities to include more of it and be better places in which to live.

Using the unique location of a restored 1850s house with one-acre urban farm, the importance of biophilia will be explored though direct sensory experience, design experimentation, indoor and outdoor installations, talks and panel discussions. The historic perspective of our changing urban garden landscape and the way it impacts our lives will be put into context.

The inaugural Geelong Nature Forum is an initiative of the Geelong Field Naturalists Club, in partnership with City of Greater Geelong, which aims to showcase our natural wonders to the community through a series of short talks from local biodiversity experts. The Forum will also have activities for kids (and adults) and stalls promoting our amazing environment groups and volunteers.

The School of Lost Arts will be attending the event with some of our birds from our public art project, “Now You See Us”

Check out the day's program here.

Christmas is fast approaching but the solution to your gift worries is here at the School of Lost Arts Christmas Artists Market!

Join landscape designer Stephen Read and owner Mary-Jane Walker for an evening in the grand dining room at ‘Chesterfield‘, one of Geelong’s oldest surviving Georgian homes and surrounded by a beautiful garden. Held as part of Garden DesignFest 2016, the Chesterfield soirée includes a talk by Stephen and Mary-Jane about the historic property.