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Selected projects

 

 

Weaving people, places and the living world.

Drawing from the richness of cultures and diverse ways of knowing.

Bridging science, art, and lived experience into relation.

Engaging the senses.


Opening space for awareness to emerge.

Finding ways within different types of post-activism.

Listening across worldviews, learning, co-designing.

Living the questions.​

Breathing.

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"Worldviews", as part of the ETH DRRS CAS in Regenerative Systems, Ostana, Italy, 2025
 

For: Systemic Design Labs ETH ZurichMonViso Institute

Role: art curation, production, facilitation, communication

Featuring: New York-based interdisciplinary artist and environmental scientist,
Willow Gatewood, and local Occitan musicians, Serena Giraudo and Andrea Reineri,


An artistic experiment exploring sound as a living connection with nature and human culture, reaching beyond national boundaries. Embodying global science and regenerative design through artistic inquiry and local practice. A journey through an ever-changing soundscape that opens a multisensory, immersive space to learn about transformations and complex systems.

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Regenerative Practices at ETH Zurich: pitching MAS Quest projects, Zurich, Switzerland, 2025
 

For: Systemic Design Labs ETH ZurichMonViso Institute

Role: co-organisation, art-science curation, wooden artworks design, culinary framing


The ETH Zurich Alumni Pavilion transformed into an immersive space for the DRRS programme, guided by the “Systemic Design Wheel of Inquiry” framework. Physical “memory stations” traced the two-year MAS journey — from MOOCs through CAS 1–3 to the MAS cohort — with artifacts, prototypes, and living-systems demos. Slow, bioregional, vegan tasting, social silence, inner connection, and gentle reconnection with others turned the meal into a reflective, multisensory journey of (self-)regeneration.

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Forum Ö "Wandel geht nur kollaborativ" ("Change is only possible through collaboration"), Zurich, Switzerland, 2022
 

For: öbu - Swiss Business Council for Sustainable Development

Choreography and music: Bheki Ndlovu

Role: concept, art curation, production, facilitation

Participatory, immersive format on sustainable business practices through embodiment, non-verbal expression, and sound-and-movement activation for the annual conference. Introducing embodied experience into the discussion on planetary challenges, with focus on collaboration within circular economy, SDGs, spontaneity, self- and meta-awareness, alternative decision-making.

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Sandscape mapping, as part of the Bioregional Sensing unconference, Venice Lagoon, Italy, 2024
 

For: Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS) and MonViso Institute in partnership with Camping Ca'Savio

Role: concept, art curation, production, facilitation
 

Sunrise at Adriatic beach. From the Dolomites valleys to Venice Lagoon waters: embodying the bioregional Systemic Cycles bike tour map. Digging, watering, arranging, walking, observing. Tansforming cartographic data and embodied memories of the cycling journey into ephemeral material compositions. Exploring mapping as a sensorial, situated and collective practice. Tactile and spatial translation of movement, affect and landscape through sand, water and found materials.

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Multisensory synthesis / Zurich, Switzerland, 2024

For: sanu - Bildung und Beratung in der Nachhaltigkeit

Role: concept, art curation, production, facilitation
 

Embodying the knowledge acquired during the course Experte / Expertin für gesundes und nachhaltiges Bauen. An invitation to explore how principles of healthy and sustainable construction can be integrated, translated and applied in real-world contexts through embodied perception, spatial imagination and collective sense-making. A space for accessing pre-structural sources of creation: intuitive, tactile and relational ways of knowing that precede fixed forms and solutions.

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Herbarium, Ostana, Italy, 2025 - present
 

For: MonViso Institute

Role: concept, process design, artisanal making
 

A micro-seasonal herbal mapping process and herbal knowledge hub, bringing together situated plant knowledge, dried-plants herbarium practices and sensory engagement with the local landscape. Artisanal tea crafting with locally hand-picked herbs, accompanied by responsibly sourced tea packaging as a small-scale material expression of care, seasonality and ecological awareness.

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Map design for regeneration across governance scales and bioregional weaving perspectives, 2023 - present. Four bioregional contexts: High Po River Valley in Piedmont, Italy; Hemsedal and Trondheim, Norway; Mallorca, Spain; and Venice Lagoon, Italy.

For: ETH Zurich, Systemic Design Labs, MAS executive program in Regenerative Systems

Role: concept, visual identity, experience design, production
 

A bioregional map design tracing bio-physical assets, relational data and situated patterns of interdependence through an 8-scale Fibonacci-based spiral. Visualising bioregional weaving as a way of sensing, connecting and orienting towards more circular and regenerative cultures. Evolving pedagogical tools, continuously updated and used CAS/MAS students to train systemic approach and support bioregional learning.

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Embodied Pathways of Social Transformation, Zurich, Switzerland, 2024
 

For: Art Now, Planting Seeds
Role: concept, art-science framing, facilitation
Guest Artist: Aleksandra Denda

 

Exploring dynamics of behavioural change in the context of contemporary social transformation. Using sound painting as an artistic catalyst. Investigating how non-verbal expression, sensory perception and embodied interaction can support adaptive capacity, relational awareness and processes of transition.

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Art and the Ethics of Resonance, Zurich, Switzerland, 2022
 

For: Art Now, Planting Seeds
Role: concept, communication, production, artistic framing, facilitation

Guest Panelists: Daniel Hellmann aka Soya the Cow, Panayotis Antoniadis / president of L200 Association, Valérie Caminada / Planted, Mark Damon Harvey / interventions, arts & permaculture

Guest Artists: Aline Telek / fil-rouge.ch, Constantina Dimitrakaki


Exploration of temporary and long-term impacts of artistic experience on memory, identity formation and relational awareness. Mapping of attention, perception and affective resonance in encounters with artworks. Reflection on art as a catalyst for cognitive, emotional and social transformation.

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