Studio SILT — Benedetta Pompili

Design

Ceramics

Material research

Editorials

About

Benedetta Pompili (IT, 1995) is a social designer based in Amsterdam. A dedication to materials with a focus on their narratives and environmental impact identifies her practice. She retraces the know-how of materials and their aesthetics toward circular making. Her research aims to learn, retrace, and share knowledge by thinking and acting in an interdisciplinary way.

Education

Master’s, Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), Gijs Bakker Award nominee, 2019–2021.
Erasmus, Peter Behrens School of Architecture and Design, Düsseldorf (DE), 2017–2018.
Bachelor’s, Industrial Design & Advanced Ceramics, ISIA Faenza (IT), Cum laude, 2014–2018.

Recent work

Ceramic workshop specialist, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL), 2023–ongoing.
Designer in residency, Creative Residency Arita (Japan), January–March 2024.
Main lecturer in Natural Materials in Ceramics, The Material Way, January–June 2024.
Fellow Researcher, LINA x TU Wien, Vienna, October 2023–August 2024.
Tutor, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL), September 2023–June 2024.
Ceramic researcher, Bruno Baietto’s In Bones We Dwell, Dordrecht’s Museum (NL), 2023.
Ceramic workshop specialist, KABK, The Hague (NL), January–August 2023.

Selected shows

Conversing with Matter, WaterSpiegelingen, Cuyperhuis, Roermond (NL), June 2024–ongoing.
RAW.obj, Pioneers in Ceramics, Prinsenhof Museum Delft (NL), February 2024–ongoing.
Conversing with Matter, Princessehof Museum Leeuwarden (NL), November 2023–ongoing.
In Presence of Your Absence + RAW.obj, Open Studios, Rijkskademie, Amsterdam (NL), 2024.
In Presence of Your Absence, Hong Kong Design Institute (CH), January–May 2024.
In Presence of Your Absence, Milan Design Week, ADI Design Museum, Milan (IT), 2023.
Vestiges, Alcova, Milan Design Week, Fuorisalone, Milan (IT), 2023.
In Presence of Your Absence, Material District, Utrecht (NL), 2023.
Raw.obj, The Future of Art Making, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (NL), 2022.
Ciona Are Doing Well, SVA Bio Art Lab, New York, 2022.
SPAZIO 1/2: Worskshop “Clay Dialogues”, Drop City, Fuorisalone, Milano (IT), 2022.
Sea Silt, collaboration with Humade, Ceramics Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden (NL), 2022.
Conversing with Matter, DAE75!, Fuorisalone, Milano (IT), 2022.
Conversing with Matter, Rethinking Plastic, Yksi Expo , Eindhoven (NL), 2022.
Conversing with Matter, Design Fest Gent, Design Museum Gent, Gent (BE), 2022.
Conversing with Matter, From the Ground Up, Material Source Studio, Manchester (UK), 2022.
Conversing with Matter, Design Open, Kazerne, Eindhoven (NL), 2021–2022.
Conversing with Matter, Dutch Design Week 2021, DAE Graduation Show, Eindhoven (NL).
Ciona Are Doing Well, Interspecies Futures, by Oscar Salguero, NY Center for Book Arts, 2020.

Publications

Conversing with Matter, Design Unlimited Turkey, October 2023.
In Presence of Your Absence, Italy: A New Collective Lanscape, Mousse Magazine Ed., 2023.
Conversing with Matter, DAMN Magazine, Issue N° 82, June 2022.
Conversing with Matter, Plural Magazine, 2022.
Conversing with Matter, Elementa Oslo, 2022.
Conversing with Matter, The Color Association, 2021.
Conversing with Matter, Het Financieele Dagblad, Culture section, 2021.
Conversing with Matter, Wallpaper Magazine, Design section, 2021.
Ciona Are Doing Well, Design Parallax, curated by Angela Rui, MDFF Greece, 2020.

Recognitions

Grant, Starting Design Grant, Stimuleringsfonds, The Netherlands, 2023 - 2024.
Award, Young New Talent, Material District, Utrecht (NL), 2023.
Grant, Creative Residency Arita, Japan, Stimuleringsfonds, 2024.
Grant, Building Talent, Stimuleringsfonds, The Netherlands, 2021.
Nominee, Gijs Bakker Design Award, Design Academy Eindhoven, 2021.

Studio details

KvK 84375779

The font in use is Authentic Sans in support of fonts drawn by womxn designers.

Collaborations

Currently, the studio is in close collaboration with the ceramic workhop of Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, the Dutch Craft Council, SusPhos, and Asbetter Holding.

For collaborations, workshops, courses, talks, or informal chit-chats feel free to contact me at:
info@benedettapompili.com

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Branding for Studio SILT

Developed with Eleonora Toniolo
Landscape Architecture Studio SILT (Ferrara, IT)

Branding project developed for the omonymous architecture studio based in Ferrara, Italy. As the studio focuses on holistic ways of approaching the discipline of architecture, the naming and the logo aimed at enhancing the link with the territory and the ground.