Benedetta Pompili – Ceramic & Social Designer in Amsterdam
Benedetta PompiliDesign, ceramics, editorials

CV & studio detailsBenedetta Pompili (IT, 1995) is a social designer based in Amsterdam. She is founder of vuur collective and care-taker of the ceramic workshop of Gerrit Rietveld Academie. 
A dedication to materials identifies her practice, intertwining the cultural background they carry, as well as their environmental impact. To research & design becomes a way to learn technique, retrace tradition, and share knowledge by thinking and acting in an interdisciplinary way.


In Presence of Your Absence
  • ADI Design Museum
  • Lamp, porcelain, glaze
  • made of treated asbestos,
  • steel beam, LED, perspex
  • tube. 33x33x20 cm.



In Presence of Your Absence is a lamp-assemblage, composed by a translucent porcelain diffuser and upcycled architectural parts. It invites to look through the core of the project: a ceramic glaze made by treated asbestos.
The design promotes circular modes of production while supporting the research to counter the issues related to asbestos. The asbestos-cement, composing the 70% of the glaze, becomes inert through a low-temperature treatment, which in turn reuses local chemical waste. The patented process is the result of a collaboration with the research center Asbetter Holding (Rotterdam, NL), focusing on reducing the toxic impact of asbestos fibres.




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