Join us at the FB IDEAs Hub for casual end-of-year drinks and celebrate being part of the community.

FB IDEAs is proud to host the next come-together of the new Women of Fishermans Bend Social Circle, facilitated by Hub Member Helena Chen Erck. This initiative creates a safe, supportive space for local women to connect, share experiences, and build community.

Join Pianos Recycled to celebrate circular design + music. We invite everyone with an interest in creativity, climate action, and sustainability to come along and look, feel and play musical instruments made using unwanted piano elements, plus share ideas for speeding up progress towards circularity through music (and imagination).

Join ANAT for a short, online lunchtime conversation to explore the nature and nuances of multidisciplinary collaboration featuring the artists, researchers and partners of ANAT programs in 2025, including the ANAT Bespoke :: Re-cultivate project that FB IDEAs supported in partnership with South East Water.

Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices.

FB IDEAs is proud to host the next come-together of the new Women of Fishermans Bend Social Circle, facilitated by Hub Member Helena Chen Erck. This initiative creates a safe, supportive space for local women to connect, share experiences, and build community.

Join our punch needle tufting workshop, at Romulus Folio Gallery in South Melbourne.

Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices

Create Your Own Wearable Art In Just 1 Hour

Join artist Andrea Vargas for a fun workshop creating stylish and original jewellery.

Come along to Fishermans Bend on Saturday 22 October for the Westgate Park Volunteer day & BBQ. Join Westgate Biodiversity for a morning of volunteering, helping care for the park and local habitat followed by a sausage sizzle.

Join us to hear about the study results of ESI’s thermodynamic study and explore the impact which retrofitting existing buildings with triple glazing solutions in Fishermans Bend could have - Dr Yakow Elgart presents the FB IDEAs project under local property partnership.

Join artist Gerard Russo for a gentle introduction to observational drawing

Celebrate National Recycling Week and join us for a day of creativity, community and circular innovation as we celebrate the makers turning waste into wonder at the Circular Design Collective.

oin us for the Opening Night of the Observer Exhibition.

Through painting, sculpture, fibre and mixed media, Observer considers the act of looking, not as passive seeing, but as a relationship between the viewer and the viewed. Each artist reveals what happens when perception meets emotion, and observation becomes expression through action.

Join us for the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn session with Hub Member PCO Engineering. Resident algorithm and control systems expert Philip Oefner will share insights on how systems thinking connects with digital twins called functional mockup units - used to analyse and simulate real world behaviour.

Join the Victorian Cleantech Cluster for a chance to connect with Victoria's peak body for cleantech networking, collaboration and innovation. 100% for the sector, by the sector. Celebrate the PowerOn Incubator Participants and discover future opportunities.

Join a compelling line up of First Nations urban culturalists, Stevie Thorpe, Bianca Easton and Merilyn Merm Duff for a unique intercultural art parade, yidaki healing, film screening, exhibition and yarn. Together we commemorate the delicate dance of decolonizing a community of practise into a culture of care.

FB IDEAs is proud to host the new Women of Fishermans Bend Social Circle, facilitated by Hub Member Helena Chen Erck. This initiative will create a safe, supportive space for local women to connect, share experiences, and build community.

Join us for the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn session with our Hub Member honepd. Resident product design expert Andrew Jack will share insights on moving from prototype to physical product - covering key principles and pitfalls in developing engineered, mass-manufacturable goods, based on honepd’s decade of experience designing and delivering millions of units.

Come along to Fishermans Bend on Sunday 26 October for the Westgate Park Volunteer day & BBQ. Join Westgate Biodiversity for a morning of volunteering, helping care for the park and local habitat followed by sausage sizzle and tasting of local wines.

Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices.

Join our punch needle tufting workshop, at Romulus Folio Gallery in South Melbourne.

Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices

Join the Fishermans Bend Business Forum for an important community briefing on the evolving plans for Fishermans Bend.

Join us to explore new forms of collaboration where art meets engineering in Fishermans Bend - and the value of industry partnerships that make it happen.

What do you see? Have you got an idea that could transform this waste into a circular design product?

In partnership with CBCo Brewery, No Bull Cause is hosting a design challenge competition to inspire more circular thinking in design. 

Join us at the Fishermans Bend Circular Design Collective for a series of three monthly design sessions - or create-tanks - to reimagine what these unused cans and plastic beer tops from CBCo could be transformed into.   The only limits are your imagination!  

Come along to Fishermans Bend on Thursday 16 October for the official launch of Worms at Work, a new initiative where urban worm farms are transforming food scraps into nutrient-rich compost – hidden inside specially designed community benches.

Hub member Studio MK creates inclusive urban designs through community-led consultations - reshaping Melbourne’s major park projects. Join us for this Lunch & Learn session and hear about challenges & triumphs imagining resilient urban futures.

"Echoes" is a captivating exhibition featuring the works of Arabella Strachan, Lynda Sterns, and Fiona Johnston. Together, their diverse practices resonate like overlapping voices, exploring memory, presence, and transformation.

Branding isn’t just a logo — join us for this FB IDEAs lunch & learn session and learn how to create clarity, trust, and traction. Host Justin Taylor brings strategic marketing experience with a startup founder’s perspective to the table.