My name is Matilde, I’m very curious and I eat a lot. I miss traveling, I like humans, I love creatures, I’m fascinated by what feels new and different. I enjoy drawing, storytellers, magic, miniatures, games, and tomatoes.
I am a social designer, artist and researcher, developing her practice by observing those ambiguous spaces that blur between realities and hide emotional friction. There, I experiment with visualization, manifestation and embodiment to investigate communication, aiming to reinforce empathetic capacity and deconstruct misunderstandings. Currently, I am diving into the mechanics of larp (live action role play) and layering them with object-making and participatory events – floating thanks to this methodology of ambiguity between fields such as psychology, ethnography and urban mapping, I explore narrational and experiential tools for co-creation.
Are you curious? Would you like to collaborate or have a chat?
Here is my email: mat.patuelli@gmail.com
Education
MA Social Design, Best Thesis Award
Design Academy Eindhoven, 2020
BA Industrial Design, Cum Laude
Università della Repubblica di San Marino, 2017
Congresses and Workshops
August 2022, Methodology of Ambiguity at LarpIT, Bologna, IT
May 2022, Workshop At the Threshold of a Digital Slip, embodiment in a trans-reality workshop
for Europe Day, Bibliotheek Kennemerwaard, Alkmaar, NL
September 2021, Workshop Reality/Fiction at San Marino Design
Workshop with Bianca Carague, University of San Marino, RSM
︎︎︎ podcast
August 2021, Workshop Portàli via di qua Habitat.rt
with Matilde Losi and Michela Casadio, Tredozio, IT
June 2021, Workshop Present by Nature, exploring the cosmology of a leftover land,
IABR-DOWN TO EARTH: WATERSCHOOL M4H+,
in colaboration with Studio Makkink & Bey and IABR, Rotterdam, NL
2021, ISPCAN, International Congress, Milan 2021
The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect
Exhibitions
2022, Drop City – Infiltrazioni, Tunnel 50
Salone del Mobile, Milano, IT
2022, Alcova/22 + Garden of Delights WATERSCHOOL M4H+
Salone del Mobile, Milano, IT
2021, ADI Design INDEX 2021
ADI Design Museum, Milano, IT
2021, Alcova/21
Salone del Mobile, Milano, IT
2021, ISPCAN, International Congress,
The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect
2021, IABR—DOWN TO EARTH: WATERSCHOOL M4H+
International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, NL
2021, "Moving in Stasis"
Gallery 3 By You, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2020, Dutch Design Week - GS20
2019, “I See That I See What You Don’t See”
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2019, Dutch Pavillion “I See That I See What You Don’t See”
Broken Nature, La Triennale di Milano, IT