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. My latest projects seek to activate simple gestures of collective care, which translated into tools and workshops.

EXPERIENCE
2021 · Researcher in residency at the School of Commons
2014—ongoing · Freelance designer
2014—ongoing · Graphic and industrial designer, Studio Veronika Wildgruber, 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

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

WORKSHOPS & TALKS
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

EXHIBITIONS
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

AWARDS
2016 · Targa Giovani ADI, Associazione Italiana per il disegno industriale

PUBLICATIONS
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