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(SOME THINGS) 2024
 (NO THINGS) 2023
 
18–24 May

Villa Alba Museum
44 Walmer Street
Kew 3101

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During MDW 2023, the first of three instalments, (NO THINGS) MATTERS occupies the ground floor of Villa Alba Museum. Hosting a tactile cornucopia of material samples, interpreted tools, experimental forms, and visual documentation. Inviting audiences to engage with design thinking from its infancy and to follow along on the journey as participants' works manifest into reality.
(NO THINGS)
MATTERS

 






DNJ Paper
A collaborative research project and micro-label that uses handmade recycled rag paper and Japanese paper (washi) to create paper clothing, accessories, and objects in response to pressing social, aesthetic, and conceptual questions.

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(MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION) MATTERS
Paper as a vehicle for Material Transformation.
        Our proposal for this exhibition is to explore our ongoing research into material transformation by exploring natural dyeing with Eucalyptus and hand papermaking using rags and waste fabrics.
        Both are forms of material transformation that take one seemingly immutable form—a leaf, or a garment—and reduce it to a stew, a goo, a pulp, a fibrous mass. At this point, the raw, fluid matter can feel limitless.
        We want to explore these limits.
        We intend to make material, garment, body accessory, and object prototypes that express different material interactions.
(NO THINGS)
MATTERS
 
18–24 May

Villa Alba Museum
44 Walmer Street
Kew 3101

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During MDW 2023, the first of three instalments, (NO THINGS) MATTERS occupies the ground floor of Villa Alba Museum. Hosting a tactile cornucopia of material samples, interpreted tools, experimental forms, and visual documentation. Inviting audiences to engage with design thinking from its infancy and to follow along on the journey as participants' works manifest into reality.
For everybody, (something) matters. Established in 2023 by Marlo Lyda and Jordan Fleming, MATTERS is an emerging collective platform that advocates for time and intention in the process of designing. Created as an outlet for topics relevant in today’s world, MATTERS aims to highlight design as a shared philosophy that is experienced within the community. Prompted by the question ‘what MATTERS to you?’, a notable collection of Australian and international designer-makers have been invited to explore ‘process’ as the key instigator for new design possibilities. Curated by Australian-born designer Marlo Lyda as part of Futures Collective, each practitioner’s concept is gradually developed, and the results are presented in 3 exhibitions, spaced over 3 years: (NO THINGS), (SOME THINGS), and (EVERYTHING) MATTERS. During MDW 2023, the first instalment, (NO THINGS) MATTERS occupies the ground floor of Villa Alba Museum. Hosting a tactile cornucopia of material samples, interpreted tools, experimental forms, and visual documentation. Inviting audiences to engage with design thinking from its infancy and to follow along on the journey as participants’ works manifest into reality. The exhibition display for (NO THINGS) MATTERS is created entirely from reclaimed materials, as part of an ongoing collaboration between MATTERS and Second Edition, a Sydney-based spatial studio advocating for resource recovery through thoughtful demolition. This sustainable display is sourced from discarded packaging, primarily packing sheets, single use crane slings, and cardboard shipping tubes.