Workshop by Emmelunga, Italian company and Industrial Disegn Faculty of Florence. New product range design about house furnishing.

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1 Alice Cappelli Curriculum Vitae With a degree and a master in product design, I work in the field of international cooperation in the developing world, taking part in projects relating to the handicraft sector reality. I have worked in Brazil, Morocco and Rwanda from My final Master thesis was a research focused on the strategic role of design as a potential tool to recover and retrain the handicraft inheritance in developing country. This bring me to work as project manager, researcher and trainer in the Atelier Rwanda project, a long-term workshop focused on research and innovated design in Africa organized in collaboration with the Iuav University of Venice and the Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Kigali, Rwanda. With Atelier Rwanda I have found also an opportunity to work and make experience in the educational field. So after that I held a professorship in the department of Creative Design at KIST, Rwanda and as assistant lecturer in the Master of Design for Cooperation and Sustainable Development at Iuav of Venice in Italy. From I have been working on a project in Rwanda financed by the UNESCO. The goals were training focused on technical innovation to improve local manufacturing skills with the preservation of Rwandan traditional craft. So at the end in born nyanzabijou, a new Rwandan brand of jewellery made by crafts women of Agatako Rwanda and CAMK cooperative specialized on that. I am working like brand designer, product designer and project manager for Agatako Rwanda cooperative. I am proud to note that our first jewelry collection was awarded by the Rwandan government as the Best Cooperative in its category. As an easy-going person, I adapt myself to different realities and use this ability to research and discover ways to proceed with the development design steps. I believe that design can really create different networks of social relations and improve societies because it is a cultural vehicle to update knowledge and learn to know the other. Address Date of birth My visual story Website Skype Mobile Language Idea De Leeuw van Vlaanderenstraat 29/ CR Amsterdam Netherlands 19th March, com/ me@alicecappelli.com cicecap Italian French (fluent); English (fluent). Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Education Master Degree in Product Design, Iuav University of Venice, Faculty of Design and Art. Final degree mark: 110/110. Thesis title: Co-creation Project. Re-qualification of Rwandan craftsmanship. Workshop Un gioiello nel verde, IUAV University of the Republic of San Marino. Application of traditional techniques for products with high commercial value. Workshop Light Take Away run by the supervision of designer Denis Santachiara. IUAV University of Venice Bachelor degree in Product Design, University of Florence, Faculty of Industrial Disegn. Final degree mark: 110/110 cum laude. Thesis title: Elles Peuvent. Development Project of Drâa Valley craftsmanship in Marocco. Workshop by Emmelunga, Italian company and Industrial Disegn Faculty of Florence. New product range design about house furnishing. Workshop: Design Possivel. Collaboration project between Italy and Brazil at Industrial Disegn Faculty of Florence and McKanzie University of Sao Paulo. Italian and Brazilian students design products realized by a NGO that works in the slums of Sao Paulo.

2 2 Professional Experience Atelier, social enterprise in Florence, Italy Product Designer and Consultant on a Tuscan Region project to innovate the products of the social enterprise Atelier. Nyanzabijou, Rwanda Brand designer and project manager of a new rwandan brand of jewelry made by Agatako Rwanda and Camk cooperatives, Rwanda UNESCO and Club Soroptimist, Republic of San Marino Product designer and trainer of traditional techniques innovation for developing new jewels collection with Agatako Rwanda cooperative, Rwanda Project funded by UNESCO and Soroptimist Club of San Marino Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice, Italy Coordinator and curator of the final exhibition: Tradition and innovation in vegetable fibres design showing the Atelier Rwanda Workshop outcomes, in the Rwanda pavillon in the 12 Architecture International Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Atelier Rwanda, Venice, Italy Co-editor of Rwanda: Tradition and Innovation in Vegetable Fibres Design, published by Iuav University of Venice in occasion of the Republic of Rwanda participation at 12 Architecture International Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Producer of YEGO! video documentary about Rwanda by Leandro Lisboa. Project manager of the 2º workshop about vegetable fibres and traditional local techniques in Kigali, Rwanda. Duration: 3 months. Project manager of the 1º workshop about vegetable fibres and traditional local techniques in Kigali, Rwanda. Duration: 14 days. Bottega Solidale di Genova, Fair Trade of Genova, Italy Design researcher and trainer on traditional techniques innovation at Copabu Cooperative of Butare, Rwanda. Project in collaboration with Bottega Solidale di Genova, Italian importer of Copabu products. CSM, Centro Sperimentale del Mobile e dell Arredamento, Florence, Italy Product designer at the international cooperation project between Italy and Morocco for the palm-tree craftsmanship. Project commissioned by the Tuscany Region in collaboration with University of Florence and Adedra (NGOs Zagora, Morocco).

3 3 Professional Experience Design Possivel, Brazil NGO, Brazil-Italy Exhibition Designer for Design Possivel exhibit at Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milan. IBRIT space. Design Possivel, Brazil NGO, Brazil-Italy Product designer of Design Possivel, collaboration project between Industrial Design University of Florence, Italy, and McKanzie University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.. Final products realized by Recycles Jeans, NGO working in the slums of Sao Paulo. Teaching Experience ISIA, Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche, Florence, Italy Lecturer for the lesson Shared Design. The value beyond the product by the use of Human Centered Design (HCD) practice. Iuav University of Venice, Italy Assistant lecturer at the Master s Degree in Design for Cooperation and Sustainable Development. Project manager of the workshop for the Master degree, located in Rwanda. KIST, Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda Lecturer at the Department of Creative Design, FAED (Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design), KIST, Kigali. Courses: Fibre & Fabric and Design and materials. Iuav University of Venice, Republic of San Marino Lecturer in the didactic workshops Education and handicraft production in Congo. Project funded by UNESCO and Soroptimist Club of San Marino. Assistant lecturer and trainer focused on traditional techniques innovation for the 2 research workshop about vegetable fibres and traditional local techniques in Kigali, Rwanda. IUAV University of Venice, Italy Assistant lecturer at the Iuav summer workshop. Designing of the Rwanda pavilion for 12. International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Assistant lecturer and trainer on traditional techniques innovation during the workshop about Rwanda craftsmanship innovation and diversification for female artisans held in Kigali, Rwanda. ManiTese ONG, Florence, Italy Assistant lecturer on the theory and practice of reuse materials workshops Il laboratorio delle alternative possibili organized by the University of Florence in collaboration with ManiTese of Florence.

4 4 Publishing A quatre mains et plus. Design per la ceramica della regione di Tanger-Tétouan in Marocco, Edizioni ETS, collana Progetti-Saperi-Pensieri, Pisa,. Essay: Les mains et l intellect Rwanda. Tradition and Innovation in Vegetable Fibres Design, published by Iuav University of Venice, ISBN ,, in occasion of the Republic of Rwanda partecipation at 12. International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Essays: The Luxury of the Fibres and Sharing Design, Updating, Rwanda s crafts. Elles Peuvent. Progetti per gli artigiani della valle del Draa in Marocco, Edizioni ETS, collana Progetti-Saperi-Pensieri, Pisa,. Essay: Un diario tecnico - sentimentale. Projects Published Rwanda. Tradition and Innovation in Vegetable Fibres Design, published by Iuav University of Venice. Vogue, Alcantara: Spostamenti Quotidiani, September. Extraordinary, Every Day Travel Contest, Alcantara LAB Il letto di Ulisse, Giuseppe Lotti, Editore Gangemi, January Elles Peuvent. Progetti per gli artigiani della valle del Draa in Marocco, Edizioni ETS, collana Progetti-Saperi-Pensieri, Pisa Il design italiano cresce, catalogo Emmelunga, Florence. Ottagono n 182, July Interni, Design Possivel, July/August Un tavolo a tre gambe, Legnante Enzo and Giuseppe Lotti, Editore Alinea, Collana Design e Scarti, Graficalico, Calenzano, Florence 2002 Casa Toscana n 3, Quando l impresa investe nel sociale, April Awards ADD_OFF: Extraordinary, Every Day Travel Contest,. Special mention; Tazza centenario: Design Inter International Contest. 2 prize; A-Saggio. Choc-à-Porter Contest by Industrial Chamber of Craftsmanship and Agriculture of Turin,. 4 prize. qb. Workshop Italian design is growing by Emmelunga in collaboration with DI Florence,. Special mention.

5 5 Exhibitions TERRA FUTURA Exhibition. May, Florence INTARATARA Design. Gioielli dal Rwanda. Galleria Cassa di Risparmio. September, Republic of San Marino Creating Design in North Africa, Progetti con i Sud del mondo. Costante Cambiamento, International festival. September, Florence Mobius, exhibition Tradition and innovation in vegetable fibres design. Republic of Rwanda participation at 12 Architecture International Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Rwanda, un gioiello nel verde, Fondazione Claudio Buziol. July, Venice Choc-à-porter, CioccolaTò. November, Turin. Riplastica, Ecomondo. November, Rimini. Abitare il tempo. September, Verona. Design Possivel. Salone Internazionale del Mobile. April, Milan L Oréal e DI per Victor & Rolf. Milan