Giulia (b. 1997, Italy) garnered experience from working and living across Italy, Japan, and The Netherlands. She is currently working as a researcher at ICA Kyoto, and as a ceramic artist at Liquid Rituals.
By using design as a tool to explore prevailing relationships among individuals, architecture and urban infrastructures, Giulia aims to comprehend how humans interact with and shape their environment, which becomes a reflection of society at large. Her approach is centred on analysing and exploring real-life case studies and sites that are integral to her surroundings.
Experimenting with various mediums, she has developed a methodology centred around field research, interviews and writing. This approach gave her the opportunity to tackle her work by alternating between an objective and a more subjective perspective.
“My design practice aims to comprehend social systems and their ramifications into the physicality of spaces through an embodied observation of urban settings and aesthetic manifestation of architecture within them. This involves understanding and exploring the intricate relationships existing between objects, systems and territories. In my vision, landscape is a physical and non-physical space, representing the aesthetic and intangible manifestation of relationships between humans and systems of production. The expansion and transformation of space, culture and architecture in relation to industrial manufacturing - whose hunger of capitalist consumption sees in the landscape a supplier of raw materials - is a fundamental point of interest in my latest work.”
Work experience:
(Oct. 2024 - Present) Research Fellow, ICA Kyoto, JP
(Sept. 2024 - Present) Graphic design and ceramic production at Liquid Rituals, NL/JP
(2022 - Present) Independent design and artistic practice
(2019) Project collaborator for the exhibition “Human Habitat” with Acropoli Trento, IT
Education:
(2021 - 2023) Master The Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
(2016 - 2020) Bachelor Product Design, Cum Laude, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, IT
(2018) Exchange student, Kyoto University of the Arts, JP
Exhibitions:
(2024) Liquid Rituals at SectieC during Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
(2024) States of motion at DeFabriek, Eindhoven
(2023) DAE Graduation Show at
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
(2021) Design off-line at Milano Design City Scalo Lambrate, Milan
(2021) The Lost Graduation Show at Salone del Mobile, Milan
Contributions:
(2023) The Tip of the Tongue of the Tip, published by Design Academy Eindhoven
(2022) De*Cheap Journal, published by Design Academy Eindhoven
(2021) Ways of Making, published by Design Academy Eindhoven
(2020 - 2021) Statale 467, independent magazine
Awards & Grants:
(2024) Snelgeld Grant, Cultuur Eindhoven
(2024) EU-Japan Fest Mobility Support
(2023) Nominee for Gijs Bakker Award with the project In a grain of sand I see a town
(2019) Selected project for the contest “Call for ideas #StoneIsBetter” by PNA - Pietra Naturale Autentica
Lectures:
(2024) Combining research and artistic practice, MA Interaction Design at UAL, London