Mundane Matters

Can we use creativity to inspire thoughtful reflection and change the way we interact with our environment?

This is the question Mundane Matters asks.

Mundane Matters is a Sydney-based multidisciplinary
creative practice. Voicing for ethical eating,
plastic-free living, minimal waste living and renewable
energy, Mundane Matters collaborates with artists,
designers, event organisers, businesses and
government organisations to inspire positive
behavioural changes for the future.

Design & content creation

One sculpture a day.
720 sculptures and still counting.

(May 2015 - Feb 2017)

An accidental discovery in 2014, Mundane Matters’ founder,
Danling Xiao has developed this impromptu practice into a way to
nurture mindfulness. The daily practice is to create one piece of fruit
and vegetable sculpture, accompanied with writing, tapping into
issues such as organic farming, ethical eating and animal protection.
All sculptures are eaten after photographed.

Launched in May 2015, The photography and animated videos of these
sculptures have been well received globally - trended in several viral
websites and featured on more than 30 magazines and TV channels.
They have been exhibited in Sydney, Paris and New York, featured on
advertising campaigns and have been selected for the City of Sydney’s
artist hoarding project, set to change Sydney’s cityscape.

The other key component is Danling’s writings that accompany the
visual. Through writing, Danling has inspired and encouraged people
who resonate with her words. They are friends, family, audiences and
participants from her talks and workshops, and a growing audience of
40,000 fans on Instagram.

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Get in touch for print purchase, image licensing, media enquiry, brand consultancy or collaboration.

Edutainment

Mindfulness workshops

A collaboration with artist and designer Liane Rossler, our
workshops are dedicated to creating an accessible, equal and
thought-provoking creative experience, that reconnects ourselves
with nature through creativity.

The two-hour zero-waste workshops start with art and design
appreciation, sustainable living knowledge, followed by technique
demonstrations, mystery box challenge and a photography session.

Launched in May 2016, we have hosted private workshops at Liane’s
Superlocalstudio and Danling’s artist residency at William Street
Creative Hub; customised workshops at Sherman Contemporary Art
Foundation (SCAF), Powerhouse Museum as part of Sydney Design
Festival, Juniper Hall as part of Purpose Festival. All workshops have
resulted in joyful and inspiring experiences for participants from all
walks of life.

Learn more at workshops.

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Get in touch for customised workshop for festivals, organisations, businesses, universities and schools.

Experiential design

Current project:
Waste Land

In Australia, we celebrate multiculturalism with food from almost
every country in the world; we celebrate our biodiversity with freshly
grown produce ranged from Northern Territory to Tasmania. However,
we rarely question how much waste we generate as a country, from
daily food waste, plastic waste, to energy waste in growing our
beautiful produce and breeding the cattle.

Using food waste as the primary materials, Waste Land is an immersive
art installation and interactive experience that aims at raising
awareness to food waste and climate change around the world.

Joining this project are some of the
best talents in Sydney, including the award-winning industrial design
house, Vert Design, established artist duo The Operative, photographer and multimedia producer Lisa Clarke, chef and forager Mathew van Leyen.

For donation, sponsorship or volunteer work for this project,
please contact Danling at danling[at]mundanematters.co

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Get in touch if you would like us to create meaningful,
experiential design and event for your brand.

Talks

Upcoming talks:
Evolving a tasty niche

As part of Vivid Sydney 2017, Evolving a Tasty Niche is in response to the global phenomenon of creative food careers, from food photography, cake design, dining experience, to food art, fueled by the power of social media. It is a world injected with robusting, novel energy everyday. Today’s niche easily becomes tomorrow’s cliché.

So how do leading creatives innovate consistently to stay on top of the game? What are their growth strategies? What are their fears? How do they learn from failures? We will find out from this panel discussion.

Speaker lineup include Automata Head Chef Clayton Wells, Time Out Sydney Editor Emma Joyce, Mundane Matters Founder Danling Xiao,
cake creative Katherine Sabbath, photographer Nikki To, facilitated by
digital content specialist and musician
Cam MacKellar.

10% of proceeds will be donated to Oxfam Australia. Presented by Mundane Matters, with media support from Time Out Sydney. Purchase tickets at Vivid Sydney 2017.

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Get in touch if you would like Danling to speak at your event.

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Talks

animal protection, conscious leadership,
ethical eating, environmental protection,
food security, green tech, health and nutrition,
marine life protection, sustainable agriculture,
sustainable living, social enterprise,
zero-waste living

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Design & content creation

(May 2015 - Feb 2017)

As seen on

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Edutainment

Segment 3/4

Experiential design

Segment 4/4

Talks

animal protection, conscious leadership, ethical eating, environmental protection, food security, green tech, health and nutrition, marine life protection, sustainable agriculture, sustainable living, social enterprise, zero-waste living

Free monthly tips

animal protection, conscious leadership,
ethical eating, environmental protection,
food security, green tech, health and nutrition,
marine life protection, sustainable agriculture,
sustainable living, social enterprise,
zero-waste living