Object Density

Object Density is an Australian design studio founded in Eindhoven in 2019 by Nicola Charlesworth and Kim Stanek, who moved from Sydney to immerse themselves in Dutch design culture while setting up the practice. It creates artistic objects of use that draw on research and cultural narrative to communicate values of sustainability and community.

The studio often integrates waste or discarded materials, reinstating value through conscious process and material decontextualisation, and examines object typologies, materials and processes of past and future so that a designed object can be dense with the tacit knowledge of everyone who contributed to it. Recent shows include the Rigg Design Prize 2025 at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV, and the solo exhibition Proportions of Space at Melbourne Design Week 2024.