This special edition is a place to promote Australian scenographic practice, theory and research and to reflect on evolutions in our approaches that have taken place in the ten years since a journal focused on this topic. It’s aim is to highlight issues and challenges faced by current and future scenographers, and to celebrate the innovations that are taking place within the diverse community of practitioners, educators and researchers that fall under the banner of ‘Australia’ while problematising the notion of a national scenography identity. In this role as guest editor it has been my goal to bring in a diversity of perspectives, voices and knowledges of what we could consider aspects of ‘Australian’ performance design. The resulting eight papers explore the ever-evolving nature of scenography within the diverse collection of cultures and design styles that is contemporary Australia. Be it the dialogues between design elements and designers or the social/material contexts which birth a given scenographic approach – new materialism, ecoscenography, queer scenography – the recurring theme of this edition is the expanded ways in which scenography is now examined and presented within the Australian context. While I have written on notions of national scenographic identity prior to this collection (Rixon and Winter 2020), the intention of this special edition is not to provide one definition or defining characteristic of Australian scenography, but rather to celebrate its plurality.