Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1996 and currently based in Rotterdam, I’m a practioner investigating eco-cultural transformations and climate change in coastal areas, deltas and wetlands through practice-based research and co-creation processes.
As a design researcher, filmmaker and visual artist my practice stems from investigating interdependencies between landscape transformations, economy, society and climate change, not only to understand these transformations, but also to develop collective tools and imaginaries to rethink and restore eco-cultural dynamics. I approach landscapes as places of coexisting heterogeneity being constantly reshaped by processual relations between the ecological, social, material and symbolic. As a practitioner I position myself within this context as a maker-thinker-storyteller that works through perception and action, investigating a context through a transdisciplinary approach and using film, poetic languages, material and symbolic actions and spatial installations both as inquiry and design tools.
In the past five years I grounded my practice in transitional areas between water and land: coastlines, wetlands, riverbanks and deltas, exploring the frictions that water creates in its extreme presence scenarios, either when it’s too abundant or too scarce and how water and its presence define and drives human activities within defined geographical areas.
I developed projects in Taiwan, the Netherlands, specifically in the Dutch Wadden Sea and Zeeland, and Italy exploring the transformation of their coastal areas in relation to climate change, shifting local and global activities and social transformations.
Within these projects I realised several short films and documentaries, site responsive sculptures and spatial installations, facilitated workshops for a broad public, developed co-creative projects with researchers from other fields, worked with local communities, and at times performed.
I’m currently part of ECOP Dutch Node: Early Career Ocean Professional, working towards bridging ocean literacy, design and art.
Beside doing research, I’ve been working as an indipendent photographer since 2015, working for different clients across fashion and documentary.
Since 2019 I’ve been involved in creating educational programs and workshops related to landscape and climate change for students in secondary school (aged 10 to 13) and appeared as a guest lecturer for MA students at Design Academy Eindhoven.
I exhibited in several institutions such as ADI Museo del Design Milano, HKDI Hong Kong Design Institue, TAC Eindhoven, Extrapool Nijmegen, Brutus Rotterdam, Parada Art Bienno and took part into severla editions of Dutch Design Week and Milan Design Week.
A portrait taken by my father in the wetlands in our hometown, Ravenna, Italy