Cecilia Casabona

Finally posting some precious moments @ginevraarvenig and I shared around a project very important to us. A research we were able to present and share at @mediamatic_ just yesterday (thank you, it was lovely). Here some hints of what we did in ArtVerona last October as well and of when everything started to take shape in our minds, thanks to a lot of conversations, a lot of care, and some crying too. (Here also showing the very First pic ever taken together by @doideluise ) Link to website: http://www.funeralfordigitaldata.xyz/

This is an appreciation post. When the Dutch gov gives you money to make an exhibition but along the way you discover that your true vocation is driving big trucks across Europe. Thank you Stimuleringfonds to make all my Dreams come true, once again. (Just kidding, I will submitt my accountability report ASAP) & real pics of the exhibition will follow eh Special thanks goes to @sass_scimiro and @gaiadrr for physical and psyco support. I own you a big one 💞 And for those who know ALL the behind the scene, a proper T-shirt might come. Stay tuned! (Transporting in total 16 projects from NL to Milan & back featuring the following MDW24 locations: Base, Isola, Dopo? and more. All this made possible thanks to @stimuleringsfonds What a Life to be alive.)

Back in Milan for MDW24 in collab with @dopo.space From NL with house stress </3 Thank you @stimuleringsfonds for supporting 'The Dutch Embassy of Living' and other great projects and friends too like @elevator.radio We will be there with @flora_manon @jonashejduk @pekin_roasted_duck @hugobeheregaray @teun.zwets @audreylrg @nedkaar @whywhynot.space Their interior objects will give shape to a temporary living space ready to host young designers in need of free accomodation during the soon-to-happen and too-expensive-to-deal-with Milan design week. If you are interested in experimenting in communal living and addressing the current housing crisis get a spot @dopo.space (in their bio you can find the open call!) see you all very (too) soon (no time for fancy post because production stress) Thanks @sofietopi for your photoshop skills

throwback collaborations 2023 pt2: with Onomatopee et al. HistoricALL! A collective rewriting of design history. Workshops, exhibition and publication (jan-june 2023) It was precious to be able to work together with: Alvin Arthur, Mayar El Barky, Annika Frye, Kilian Frieling, Noam Youngrak Son, Maya Ober, Margarita Osipian, Leanne Wijnsma, Maxime Benvenuto and Martina Eddone. @maya__ober @mayar.elbakry @alvinarthur.cr @annikafrye @noam_yr @margaritaoooo @yeast.computer @the.hmm @maximebenvenuto @maredd__ (you can find the amazing riso-printed publication designed by Martina Eddone on Onomatopee website, colleting texts and archiving the workshops! And read the stories produced during Maya's workshop Resistance Stories of Design on @futuress_org website!) special thanks to all participants: Aditi Ruiz, Boye Leborg, Fedora Boonaert, Filip van der Vegt, Florencia Fontenla, Helle Lindskog, Iany Gayo, Iskander Guetta, Josymar Rodriguez Alfonzo, Jue Yang, Klara Debeljak, Laura Dreesen, Lola Gonzalez, Manuela Porceddu, Marija Mitić, Meii Soh, Napisa Leelasuphapong, Nóra Békés, Nur Horsanalı, Pamela Nelson, Rachel Refael, Shaz Jameson, Susanne Janssen, Teresa Carvalheira, Tino, Xiaotong Li. And thank you Onomatopee's team!! Collages by @maredd__ Pic by Els Castlijns a project funded by @stimuleringsfonds and @onomatopeenet

time for some 2023 throwbacking 🤭 beautiful collaborations pt1: with DOPO?, Ortica Studio and BASE during Milan Design Week 2023 Designers From the Flatland. An exhibition about Dutch design without any Dutch designers @dopo.space @orticastudio + Design in Conversation @base_milano All involved: @mmirabitoo @bbaietto @ramonatorium @for.opacity @zwrzin @martariospiza @scylla.works @studio_watershore @vaslik_kiki @enissay.b @akinathais @flora_manon @lisa_errtel @janniszell @eleonoratoniolo Selected pics: Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas photo Francesco Stelitano, courtesy DOPO? Flora Lechner Bruno Baietto special thanks to @stimuleringsfonds and @onomatopeenet for supporting 💸✨

Today Designers from the Flatland opens the doors at @dopo.space and @orticastudio (killer headline: an exhibition about dutch design without any dutch designers) curated by me and great co-curator (and more) @for.opacity graphic design (and way way more) by @mmirabitoo Big thanks to DOPO? and Ortica Studio who are hosting us during this @fuorisalone Join us on Wednesday 19th at 19 at DOPO? to see performances and works by Amazing @scylla.works @martarrrrios @ramonatorium @for.opacity @studio_watershore @zwrzin + @bbaietto (who you Will find at Ortica Studio all week! And everywhere around the city too!) IMPORTANT DAYS: join us Friday 21st from 20 at Ortica Studio with book presentation Bring It Home curated and edited by @mmirabitoo contributions by @__vaslikiki @akinathais and Yassine + great party curated by Ortica Boys with Amazing video installations by @nico_carugo // to end the week in big we wait for u all @dopo.space on Saturday 22nd for a cool closing party #milandesignweek #fuorisalone #dutchdesign biggest applause goes to @stimuleringsfonds which made all this possible!

more visual references from my text "the urn is dead! long live the urn!" for Urne.rip @vduchamp333 #deathdesign #urn @urne.rip “The container is a universal symbol – it holds and pours all fluids, stores food and contains everything from our final remains or flowers.” ( A. C. Danto, J. & B. Schwabsky, Betty Woodman, 2006) [ image archive: 1. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, , Le Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities), vol. 2, ca. 1756 2. Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Vases, ca. 1785–1800 (British, Etruria, Staffordshire) 3. Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Vase, ca. 1775. 4. Picasso's ceramics produced in Madoura workshop from 1946 to 1971 (France) 5. Pablo Picasso, Femme du Barbu, pottery pitcher, Madoura stamp 6. Betty Woodman, HIS / HERS, vases 7. Betty Woodman, Arezzo, Urn and stand sculpture, 1984 8. Agostino Iacurci from his solo exhibition "Tracing Vitruvio. An Oneiric Journey through the Pages of De Architectura" Musei Civici, Pesaro, 2019 9. Thomas Schütte, Die Fremden (The Strangers), a sculptural ensemble on the portico of the SinnLeffers fashion house at Friedrichsplatz since documenta 9 in 1992 10. Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 ]

"By designing, humans tirelessly redesign themselves - especially when it comes to matters related to death. By rethinking our relationship with death through objects, is it possible to imagine a way of redesigning human life while designing for the dead?" Dispatch research around death & design for Urne.rip, a text written by me is coming out soon! @vduchamp333 #theurnisdeadlonglivetheurn @urne.rip [1. Roman tureen from a funerary monument on the Via Laurentina, Tre Fontane, Roma, excavated 1957; 2. Etruscan canopo, VII sec b. C., Chiusi; 3. Etruscan canopi, VII sec b. C.; 4. Etruscan canopo from the chamber tomb of Macchiapiana, VII sec b. C.; 5. Roman cinerary urn, marble, 1st century CE 6. Pomeranian face urn, 3rd century b. C, North Poland; 7. Funerary urn with jaguar, 600-900 b. C., pre-hispanic art, Maya culture 8. Funerary urn, noelithic banshan pottery, c. 3000 b. C., from Yangshao, China]

In conversation with /Vittorio Bottini During #ddw I exhibited my project and together I decided to share part of my conversation about taxonomy and language with my dear friend @vittobotto hopefully we will do something about it soon and maybe bringing our collaboration to the next level graphic design: me text editing: obviously Vitto To discover more about the project, visit my website! #plant #language #taxonomy #name #nonhuman #designresearch #inconversation

Some pics from #ddw 2021 with my project and installation "How a plant comes to plant" for @designacademyeindhoven at Gradutation Show Always grateful @orticastudio and @vittobotto #nonhuman #plant #language #taxonomy #designresearch

Still on show at Graduation Show my project "How a plant comes to plant" /Beursgebouw 19th-24th October /Come to visit us! “How a plant comes to plant” investigates how language enables dominant narratives to grow stronger and disables other realities to emerge.
The film questions the power of words in relation to our heritage and system of values through the act of comparing the origin of her name with the one given to a plant. The narration highlights our understanding of the world in the anthropocene and calls to reiterate alternative ways of living together with non-human entities. Great pics by @ivoovi95 filming and editing by @orticastudio #ddw #nonhuman #designresearch #artisticresearch #dutchdesignweek #graduationshow @designacademyeindhoven @thecriticalinquirylab

"If we are to survive the planetary-scale exhaustion that seems to be the inevitable ends of the logic of the Anthropocene, humans need to find different ways of thinking in order to develop different ways of living. Cecilia Casabona uses participatory performance methodologies to research ways of escaping traditional logics of being human. How a plant come to plant is a film made in collaboration with a plant from Tanzania, given a Latin name by a German botanist, and now a mainstay in Dutch supermarkets. The film is a meditation on how contemporary humans have become illiterate to the agency of the natural world." Text: Nadine Botha @designacademyeindhoven @thecriticalinquirylab A film made in collaboration with the great duet of Ortica Studio. @orticastudio Hello! My work will be exhibited at Graduation Show next Saturday during #ddw together with a tons of amazing projects made by really talented designers and friends. #heyddw #designacademyeindhoven @dutchdesignweek