garibaldi.eva1@gmail.com
(b. 1996) Ljubljana, Slovenia
based in Rotterdam, Netherlands
open for collaboration
is an independent designer and published researcher from Slovenia, based in Rotterdam.
Her practice is critical and multidisciplinary, engaging with topics focusing on environmental issues. Through her projects, she uncovers local vernacular stories to address broader issues related to ecological collapse with a focus on unstable landscapes such as swamps, river banks and caves.
Together with Ana Laura Richter she is the founder of Swamp_Matter a critical research, art and design practice based between Rotterdam and Ljubljana.
Her graduation project ‘The Unstable Ground’ was a finalist for the WdKA Master Research Award.
Her written work has been published in several publications (Pekinpah, MIARD Piet Zwart Institute). She has presented her design work at multiple design weeks (Milan, Eindhoven, Berlin) and BIO27 in Ljubljana.
education
2019 – 2021 MA Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design (Cum Laude), Piet Zwart Institute, Willem do Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL)
2014 – 2018 BA Industrial design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (SI)
awards/grants
2022 Elena candleholder, Young Balkan Designers 2022 Winner
2021 The Unstable Ground, WdKA Master Research Award 2021 Finalist
2020 Paper + Bioplastic, Made in Slovenia – badge for design exellence,
Centre for Creativity
2019 Paper + Bioplastic, Winner open call Creative & Circular (org. Centre for Creativity & Circular Change)
2019 Scholarship for Specialized Professions in Culture for Postgraduate Studies Recepient, Ministry of Culture (SI)
2018 Utopia by Design, University of Ljubljana Award for Special Achievements and Active Participation in Extracurricular Activities
selected exhibitions / residencies
2023 The River Knows (Swamp_Matter), PifCamp 2023 residency, Projekt Atol & Zavod Ljudmila, Bovec (SI)
2022 Elena candleholder, Christmas Design & Craft Market, Huiden Club, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Elena candleholder, Young Balkan Designers 2022, Milan Design Week 2022 (IT)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, Future of Living (org. Centre for Creativity), Dutch Design Week 2021, Eindhoven (NL)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, [Tunel XXIX] Design for a Post-Apocalyptic World (org. Centre for Creativity & Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana), SUPERSTUDIO PIU, Milan Design Week 2021 (IT)
2021 The Unstable Ground, The In-Between: MIARD21' Graduation Show, Art Rotterdam (NL)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, Future of Living (org. Centre for Creativity), Berlin Design Week 2021 (DE)
2020 Tree as Archive, The Social Body (org. MIARD), Rotterdam (NL)
2020 Intertidal Object, Domestic Territories (org. MIARD), Digital Exhibition
2020 Paper + Bioplastic, [Tunel XXIX] Design for a Post-Apocalyptic World (org. Centre for Creativity), Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana (SI)
2019 T.1883.1411, Borderland (org. MIARD), WIJKcoop, Rotterdam (NL)
2019 Marx after Marx: Kunst-Marx (org. Academy of Fine Arts and Design and Goethe Institute), Ljubljana (SI)
2019 Paper + Bioplastic, Paperology, Ljubljana Town Hall (SI)
2017 Screening of Utopia by Design, The National Celebration of the Day of Independence and Unity of Slovenia and broadcast on Radio-Television Slovenia
2017 Chair 6683, Top Ideas, Furniture Fair Ljubljana (SI)
press/publication/writing
2023 The Unstable Ground in Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis 5.0: SWAMPED! Overwhelming Affects and Environments of Decay (forthcoming)
2023 The Unstable Ground in Abbasi, G., Dittel, K. (ed.) in Extraction - A trans-scalar inquiry, Rotterdam
2022 DAMN Magazine, The Unstable Ground research image, part of MIARD feature (link)
2022 Art&Education, The Unstable Ground image on MIARD Call for applications feature (link)
2021 published Paper + Bioplastic recipe book in collaboration with Pekinpah
2021 e-Flux, [Tunel XXIX] Design for a Post-Apocalyptic World (link)
2021 The Unstable Ground, #HeyDDW feature (link)
2021 e-Flux, The In-Between MIARD’21 Graduate Exhibition (link)
2021 Interview, Cafe com Europa by EUNIC Brasilia, University of Brasilia and Istituto Europeo di Design (dubbed Portuguese) (link)
2020 Paper + Bioplastic published as a case study of academic paper by Predan, Barbara. "Circular Design in Design Education: A Case Study on the Use of Paper in Interior Design." The International Journal of Design Education 14 (4): 47-59. (link)
2019 Paper + Bioplastic in Predan, B., 2019. Papiro-logía: circular design and the use of paper in interior design. Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana. pp 89 - 95
talks
2022 BIO27: Current Vernaculars, panel Supervernacular movement: New Generation of Designers - Issues of Local Communities and the Environment, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (SI)
2021 6th Symposium of Slovenian Researchers Abroad 2021, panel Sustainability in Art and Design, online
2021 Interview, Cafe com Europa by EUNIC Brasilia, University of Brasilia and Istituto Europeo di Design (dubbed Portuguese)
2019 Speaker, Paper + Bioplastic, European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform - ECESP - Annual Conference 2019, Brussels (BE)
education
2019 – 2021 MA Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design (Cum Laude), Piet Zwart Institute, Willem do Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL)
2014 – 2018 BA Industrial design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (SI)
awards/grants
2022 Elena candleholder, Young Balkan Designers 2022 Winner
2021 The Unstable Ground, WdKA Master Research Award 2021 Finalist
2020 Paper + Bioplastic, Made in Slovenia – badge for design exellence,
Centre for Creativity
2019 Paper + Bioplastic, Winner open call Creative & Circular (org. Centre for Creativity & Circular Change)
2019 Scholarship for Specialized Professions in Culture for Postgraduate Studies Recepient, Ministry of Culture (SI)
2018 Utopia by Design, University of Ljubljana Award for Special Achievements and Active Participation in Extracurricular Activities
selected exhibitions / residencies
2023 The River Knows (Swamp_Matter), PifCamp 2023 residency, Projekt Atol & Zavod Ljudmila, Bovec (SI)
2022 Elena candleholder, Christmas Design & Craft Market, Huiden Club, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Elena candleholder, Young Balkan Designers 2022, Milan Design Week 2022 (IT)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, Future of Living (org. Centre for Creativity), Dutch Design Week 2021, Eindhoven (NL)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, [Tunel XXIX] Design for a Post-Apocalyptic World (org. Centre for Creativity & Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana), SUPERSTUDIO PIU, Milan Design Week 2021 (IT)
2021 The Unstable Ground, The In-Between: MIARD21' Graduation Show, Art Rotterdam (NL)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, Future of Living (org. Centre for Creativity), Berlin Design Week 2021 (DE)
2020 Tree as Archive, The Social Body (org. MIARD), Rotterdam (NL)
2020 Intertidal Object, Domestic Territories (org. MIARD), Digital Exhibition
2020 Paper + Bioplastic, [Tunel XXIX] Design for a Post-Apocalyptic World (org. Centre for Creativity), Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana (SI)
2019 T.1883.1411, Borderland (org. MIARD), WIJKcoop, Rotterdam (NL)
2019 Marx after Marx: Kunst-Marx (org. Academy of Fine Arts and Design and Goethe Institute), Ljubljana (SI)
2019 Paper + Bioplastic, Paperology, Ljubljana Town Hall (SI)
2017 Screening of Utopia by Design, The National Celebration of the Day of Independence and Unity of Slovenia and broadcast on Radio-Television Slovenia
2017 Chair 6683, Top Ideas, Furniture Fair Ljubljana (SI)
press/publication/writing
2023 The Unstable Ground in Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis 5.0: SWAMPED! Overwhelming Affects and Environments of Decay (forthcoming)
2023 The Unstable Ground in Abbasi, G., Dittel, K. (ed.) in Extraction - A trans-scalar inquiry, Rotterdam
2022 DAMN Magazine, The Unstable Ground research image, part of MIARD feature (link)
2022 Art&Education, The Unstable Ground image on MIARD Call for applications feature (link)
2021 published Paper + Bioplastic recipe book in collaboration with Pekinpah
2021 e-Flux, [Tunel XXIX] Design for a Post-Apocalyptic World (link)
2021 The Unstable Ground, #HeyDDW feature (link)
2021 e-Flux, The In-Between MIARD’21 Graduate Exhibition (link)
2021 Interview, Cafe com Europa by EUNIC Brasilia, University of Brasilia and Istituto Europeo di Design (dubbed Portuguese) (link)
2020 Paper + Bioplastic published as a case study of academic paper by Predan, Barbara. "Circular Design in Design Education: A Case Study on the Use of Paper in Interior Design." The International Journal of Design Education 14 (4): 47-59. (link)
2019 Paper + Bioplastic in Predan, B., 2019. Papiro-logía: circular design and the use of paper in interior design. Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana. pp 89 - 95
talks
2022 BIO27: Current Vernaculars, panel Supervernacular movement: New Generation of Designers - Issues of Local Communities and the Environment, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (SI)
2021 6th Symposium of Slovenian Researchers Abroad 2021, panel Sustainability in Art and Design, online
2021 Interview, Cafe com Europa by EUNIC Brasilia, University of Brasilia and Istituto Europeo di Design (dubbed Portuguese)
2019 Speaker, Paper + Bioplastic, European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform - ECESP - Annual Conference 2019, Brussels (BE)