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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

 






OBJECT DENSITY
A Sydney-based design studio established by Nicola Charlesworth and Kim Stanek. Object Density creates artistic objects of use, drawing upon research and cultural narrative to communicate values of sustainability and community. Often integrating waste or discarded materials, they seek to reinstate value through conscious process and material decontextualization.

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(MATERIALITY) MATTERS
Object Density is passionate about materiality - the tactility, the processes, the properties, and the systems materials create in society. Here we see the potential of experimenting with anodising to transform existing, discarded aluminium by enhancement of the surface features, textures, colours and qualities.
        We are intrigued about how we can manipulate the techniques to be more expressive, blurring boundaries with oil and watercolour painting. We envision this to both be able to amplify features of the aluminium and/or form, and reveal aspects of the anodising process itself, creating, even if in unconscious ways, human connection between object and process.
(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.