I am an interdisciplinary designer—in the midst of social, graphic and product design—with an inclination toward creating relational experiences. A natural collaborator and aggregator myself, I strive to understand ways of doing and living together, so my work is often entangled with community building and maintainance processes.
EXPERIENCE
2022—ongoing · MVH Facilitator, The Hologram
2021 · Researcher in residency at the School of Commons
2014—ongoing · Freelance designer
2014—ongoing · Graphic and industrial designer, Studio Veronika Wildgruber / Veronika Wildgruber Eyewear, Berlin
2017—ongoing · Member and co-organiser of cultural collective Gelegenheiten eV, running a not-for-profit space in Berlin
2016—2019 · Co-founder and Art Director of Lahar Berlin, fiction and illustration magazine, Berlin
2011 Oct—2012 April · Graphic and product design Intern, Diego Grandi Office, Milan
OTHER LEARNINGS
2026 Feb—Mar · I took the “Woodworking with hand tools” course at the VHS Mitte, Berlin
2025 Oct—Nov · I took the Big Beef & Beyond course about conflict transformation for groups and collectives
EDUCATION
2019—2021 · Social Design Master, Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2009—2013 · Industrial Design and Visual Communication, Bachelor with honours, IUAV, Venice
2011—2011 · Erasmus Semester, IADE University, Lisbon
EXHIBITIONS
2024 · Italy: A New Collective Landscape, Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong
2023 · Italy: A New Collective Landscape, ADI Design Museum, Milan
2021 · DAE Graduation Show, DDW, Beursgebouw, Eindhoven
2020 · The Object is Absent, DDW, MU Space, Eindhoven
2020 · Ciona Are Doing Well, Design Parallax, MDFF Greece, Athens
WORKSHOPS & TALKS
2025 March 5th · NOI game session at Casino Cafe for Social Medicine, within the Tiny University peer-to-peer learning framework organized by Gabriel Hensche and Bain
2023 October 8th · Open Circuits, a play and read session on explorative ways of knowing organized with Mujgan Abdulzade at Backhaus Projects, Berlin
2023 April 19th and July 2nd · The Desert It Opposes workshop at ADI Design Museum, Milan
2023 March 31 · Serious Games with Gabriel Hensche at COMMOPOLY curated by CCPA, Brach/Fläche Berlin Marzahn
2023 January/February · Sliths In The Monolith, a reading group about institutional critique, organised with Mio Kojima, Mujgan Abdulzade and Neige Sanchez, Berlin
2022 December 4 · The Learning Commons: Experimental Pedagogies in Practice; Podium Conversation with Mujgan Abdulzade, Marea Hildebrand, Kit Kuksenok, Engy Mohsen; with digital moderation and (poetic) transcription by Lili Huston-Herterich, School of Commons gathering at ZHdK, Zurich
2022 December 3 · Conversation game NOI with Engy Mohsen and Gabriel Hensche, How To Love Many In Many Ways, School of Commons gathering at ZHdK, Zurich
2022 October 29 · Question Closely with Danah Abdulla at Onomatopee, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
2022 April 7—8 · Arranging conversations / When not to design, Drop City, Fuori Salone, Milan Design Week
2022 March 13 · The Desert it Opposes mini workshop, School of Commons, online
2021 October 28 · The Desert it Opposes [ silence as listening ], HKU, Utrecht
2021 October 3 · [ arranging conversations ] with Jonathan Lorand, dojodojo, Zurich
PUBLICATIONS
2023 · How To Love Many In Many Ways zine by HumDrumPress
2023 · Italy: A New Collective Landscape Catalogue, edited by Mousse Magazine
2022 · When you say nothing at all [ listening as care ], School of Commons Issues
2020 · Ciona Are Doing Well, Ocean Archive
2020 · Ciona Are Doing Well, Design Parallax, curated by Angela Rui, MDFF Greece
2014 · Iole, ADI Design Index
LANGUAGES
Italian · mother tongue
English · C1
German · C1
AWARDS
2016 · Targa Giovani ADI, Associazione Italiana per il disegno industriale