Meet the three inaugural members of our new @perthdesignweek Student Advisory Committee — ECU students Troy Ginbey, Scarlett Jones and Chloe CrawCour-Glenn. Chloe, Scarlett and Troy reached out to us during PDW this year with feedback and ideas, now they are helping us plan PDW 2027.
If you are a design student and interested in joining our Student Advisory Committee please send us an email at [email protected] with details of the design course you are enrolled in, a brief bio, and why you would like to be a part of the conversation at Perth Design Week. Applications open until Friday 12 June 2026.
We know the future of design lies with the next generation. That’s why Perth Design Week is committed to supporting young creatives.
Photo of Troy Ginbey, Scarlett Jones and Chloe CrawCour-Glenn at out 2026 After Party.
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Next week, join us for a panel conversation exploring how heritage, architecture and placemaking intersect — and what it really takes to preserve historic spaces while keeping them relevant for contemporary communities.
Details:
Thursday 21 May, 5.00 to 7.30pm
Old Court House Law Museum, Stirling Gardens
Book via link in bio!
Hear from:
• Darren Foster (Chair Heritage Council WA and Public Policy and Strategy Consultant)
• Sandy Anghie (Chair and Founder of @perthdesignweek and Deputy Chair of the @oldcourthouselawmuseum Foundation Committee)
• Christopher Paterson (Director, Christopher Paterson Heritage + Architecture, expert on the Old Court House)
• And moderater Sarah Booth CF (Community Development Lead, H-U; Director, SPACEMRKT)
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@perthdesignweek is proud to support a special Law Week event celebrating 190 years of Perth’s oldest building, the Old Court House. Join us for a panel conversation exploring how heritage, architecture and placemaking intersect — and what it really takes to preserve historic spaces while keeping them relevant for contemporary communities.
The ‘Enduring Walls, Evolving Stories’ panel conversation is taking place on Thursday 21 May. Limited spaces available. Book via link in bio.
Sandy Anghie (Chair and Founder of @perthdesignweek and Deputy Chair of the @oldcourthouselawmuseum Foundation Committee) will join the conversation with fellow panellists Darren Foster GAICD (Chair Heritage Council WA and Public Policy and Strategy Consultant), Christopher Paterson (Director, Christopher Paterson Heritage + Architecture, 3D Render project and expert on the Old Court House) and moderater Sarah Booth CF (Community Development Lead, H-U; Director, SPACEMRKT).
Event presented by Old Court House Law Museum, with support from The Law Society of Western Australia and Perth Design Week.
Images from last week’s celebration at the Old Court House Law Museum to mark the building’s 190th anniversary. Happy birthday Old Court House!
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How we can “stretch the day” in Perth, evolving into a city that is vibrant, connected and active around the clock? That was one of the topics we explored at PDW 2026.
Award-winning journalist and architecture and design advocate Claire Tyrrell guided an engaging with panellists James Sutherland (Arcade Agency), Jim Tsagalis (Lease Equity), Kyle Jeavons (Human-Urban), Natalie Busch (Hassell), Samantha Stewart (URBIS) and Sean Henriques (Edith Cowan University).
The discussion considered the many layers that shape a truly liveable urban environment — from major civic initiatives and education precincts to the everyday experience of retail, dining and well-designed public spaces. Panellists also reflected on Perth’s existing strengths — its climate, lifestyle, natural landscapes and evolving hospitality scene — and the need for greater coordination and critical mass to fully realise the city’s potential.
Thank you to @humanurban and @urbis_au for sponsoring the event enabling this important conversation. PDW is about design at all scales, all working to a common goal to improve how we all live and work here in Western Australia. Because design is everywhere and for everyone.
Photos by @davidbroadway
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Snapshots from the opening of our @perthdesignweek Local HQ 🪩 - Part 2
This year Perth Design Week took over the secret backrooms of The Liberty Theatre, with an interactive exhibition by local interiors manufacturers and suppliers. It was a coalition of organisations that represent the best of WA’s interior design industry.
Open to design enthusiasts, industry professionals, and anyone curious, the Local HQ Opening event was a celebration of design, and a chance to meet the exhibitors and discover the stories behind WA’s interiors industry.
Thank you to everyone who made our first HQ possible!
Photographed by Grace Sanders @graceisanders
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Snapshots from the opening of our @perthdesignweek Local HQ 🪩
This year Perth Design Week took over the secret backrooms of The Liberty Theatre, with an interactive exhibition by local interiors manufacturers and suppliers. It was a coalition of organisations that represent the best of WA’s interior design industry.
Open to design enthusiasts, industry professionals, and anyone curious, the Local HQ Opening event was a celebration of design, and a chance to meet the exhibitors and discover the stories behind WA’s interiors industry.
Thank you to everyone who made our first HQ possible!
Photographed by Grace Sanders @graceisanders
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@perthdesignweek 2026 concluded last week with our final conversation titled “Designing with Purpose.” This session highlighted individuals who create with intention, emphasizing that design should serve a deeper purpose beyond aesthetics. Design is a process that involves making choices that positively impact the world, focusing on sustainability, social justice, and cultural significance.
Key takeaways from our panelists included:
- Durability over cheap fixes: A preference for steel subframes and reparable, modular products to enhance longevity and reduce waste. (Chris Cooke)
- Social design delivers high value-for-money: Community-led, low-cost, locally sourced solutions yield meaningful outcomes. (Joni Sercombe)
- Climate-responsive housing matters: Simple principles like north-facing orientation and designing according to local sun and wind patterns significantly improve liveability and cost-effectiveness. (Matt Delroy-Carr)
- Market levers shifting: Banks, reporting, and emerging home energy ratings are beginning to reward well-performing designs, potentially disrupting real estate choices. (Karla Fox-Reynolds)
- Design for people, not aesthetics only: ‘Queer design’ framing focuses on creating spaces that support lived experiences rather than adhering to stereotypical aesthetics. (Matthew McGivern)
Thank you to our panellists and our moderator, champion for Perth, Paula Rogers, who expertly guiding this multidisciplinary panel.
This event was presented by @perthdesignweek with @kingliving
Thank you to Kahn Morkaya, Tom Acton and King Living. The financial and in-kind support of our sponsors and partners is vital for Perth Design Week to continue to exist and deliver on its primary mission to elevate Perth’s creative and design sector.
Photos by @davide.zamboni.photography for @davidbroadway
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It was standing room only for our “Living Large in Small Spaces” conversation at Perth Design Week, with a passionate conversation on apartment design.
Some of the themes we explored included:
- a shift in the Australian Dream, from people seeing apartment living as inferior to a four by two with a big backyard, to changing perceptions on what constitutes amenity
- the benefits and amenity of station precincts, and the need for a broad range of apartment typologies
- how modular can play a role in apartment construction, not just in student accommodation and co-living, but also build to sell apartments
- and the advantages of an architecture background in property development (Kellie and Liam both architects now working in development)
Thank you: to Minister John Carey MLA for taking the time to join us at PDW; to all of our panellists Megan Cordin, Kellie McGivern, Liam Wallis, Michael Fotis, Sean Morrison and Jessica Berry; and to everyone who attended.
This event was presented by @perthdesignweek with @ligneroset_perth
Thank you to Michael Fotis and Ligne Roset Perth. The financial and in-kind support of our sponsors and partners is vital for Perth Design Week to continue to exist and deliver on its primary mission to elevate Perth’s creative and design sector.
Photos by @davidbroadway
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Perth Design Week 2026 officially wrapped up 10 days ago. While we planned a “smaller” festival this year, the scope of our condensed, curated program ended up being our largest yet. This increased scale required a significant team effort, and I was fortunate to work alongside some very dedicated individuals. I would like to specifically recognise: - Eugene Hooks: For establishing PDW Local HQ and securing our 10 exhibitors. Local HQ was a first for PDW and it was great to have a headquarters for the festival. - Amy Clark: For stepping in for Eugene (now travelling for his Churchill Fellowship) and managing the logistics of Local HQ. Amy clocked some serious hours to get HQ up and running - getting ten exhibitors, with many truckloads of furniture, in and out of a theatre was not an easy task. - Fiona Kalaf: For joining us this year to write our newsletters and social media posts. Promotion of PDW is primarily via Instagram, which means many posts - this year over 120 in 5 weeks. - Amber Sheldon: For taking care of PR for us and faciltating coverage across a broad range of media, from WA Today and ABC Perth, through to national and international design magazines. Amber has been with PDW since the start. - Juliana Torres, Andree McIntyre, and Reinette Roux: For their strategic board leadership and hands-on event coordination. - Jason Bo and Tim Stacey: For volunteering their time to assist with coordination at Local HQ.
- And our unofficial PDW team member, Randal Humich, Liberty Theatre building owner: for always being around to lend a hand.
Thank you everyone!
Sandy Anghie
PDW Chair and Founder
Images:
1. with Amy Clark
2. with Fiona Kalaf and Andree McIntyre
3. with Amy Clark, Amber Sheldom and Andree McIntyre
4. with Jason Bo, Juliana Torres and Amy Clark
5. with Tim Stacey and Amy Clark
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Thank you to our Major Partner Block Branding whose creative partnership continues to shape the @perthdesignweek identity with clarity and impact. Block Branding has been supporting Perth Design Week since the start in 2022, when all we had was the beautiful logo they created for us and a dream!
For 2026, the identity has been evolved by Block Senior Creative Jack McAuliffe, translating the Design is Everywhere platform into a physical form.
At the centre was a perspex board – a transparent device that captures and refracts the city around it. Photographed by Olivia Pizzale-Bryce across urban Perth, the identity quite literally reflects the built environment. Light, colour and texture are not added – they are revealed.
As Braddock notes, “from the outset, Perth Design Week has been about making design visible – not as something applied, but as something already present,” with this year’s identity simply reflecting the city back to itself.
Thank you to everyone at @blockbranding
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Design is everywhere and for everyone, from the cities we navigate and the buildings we live in to the objects we use every day, yet its influence often goes unnoticed. @perthdesignweek exists to make design visible and accessible.
Thank you to Claire Tyrrell, Ella Loneragan, Nadia Budihardjo and Business News for covering our PDW 2026 conversations in this week’s @wabusinessnews magazine - helping us to convey the important role of design, and keeping the conversation going beyond the week.
Thank you also to Claire Tyrrell and Ella Loneragan for moderating conversations at Perth Design Week, volunteering their time to research and meet with panellists, and prepare questions ahead of the event. Perth Design Week couldn’t exist without the generosity of so many volunteers behind the scenes. Thank you!
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Thank you to our Major Partners.
Our Major Partners – including WA Museum Boola Bardip, State Buildings and Humich Group – play a vital role in bringing @perthdesignweek to life each year.
The WA Museum and State Buildings have been supporting Perth Design Week since the start, with the Humich Group and their Liberty Theatre coming on board this year.
We are so fortunate to have these incredible spaces in which to hold our events and exhibitions, and to bring people together to join us in conversations on design.
Thank you!
Images:
1. The Liberty Theatre
2. WA Museum Boola Bardip
3. State Buildings
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