Design Market Place

Overview

Brisbane Open House is back for another year, letting you creep around the city's various nooks and crannies during daylight hours. But that's not all that's on the two-day festival's agenda. It's running an after dark program for the first time ever — including a weekend-long design market with daytime talks, workshops, art and stories, plus an evening laneway party.

Head to Burnett Lane from 10am on both Saturday, October 13 and Sunday, October 14 for chats about design, the importance of place and how different generations see the same space. There'll also be drawing and label-making lessons, a walking session on typography in Brisbane and class dedicated to the laneway's Parkitecture installation. Or, you can hear a storytelling group share tales about heritage buildings and places around the city.

From 6pm on the Saturday, the lane will also become one big party. Think soul and funk beats spun by Watch Your Step, beer and street food by Funny Funny Korean BBQ and Pho City, a long laneway table to sit and hangout at, and outdoor projections by artist James Voller. And if you're particularly interested in design and history, you'll be able to view footage of Brisbane from way, way back when, as pulled from the city archives.

Image: Jenny Humberstone.