Living in an increasingly digital world marked by mass production and overconsumption, the exhibition Tactile Dialogues, for Melbourne Design Week 2025 challenges audiences to reconsider the role of physical objects and the potential to foster moments of human connection. Curated and directed by Ryan Fernandes within the Made by Morgen showroom, this showcase offers a rich and tactile experience through mixed materiality from textiles, wood, wool, metal, leather, glass, and paper.

Tactile Dialogues serves as a platform for experimeCurated by Ryan Fernandes. Hotsed by Made by Morgen, Brunswick ntation by established makers through exploring the ties that bind us to physical spaces and community, celebrating the power of craft to comfort, surprise, and inspire joy. Each work prompts a reflection on how materials are sourced and processed and reconsidered through the act of making, repair and transformation.

May 2025