The Identity Box
July 2020
︎︎︎ designmuseum.org/digital-design-calendar/learn-with-the-design-museum/make-it-public
︎︎︎ identityrca.cargo.site
July 2020
︎︎︎ designmuseum.org/digital-design-calendar/learn-with-the-design-museum/make-it-public
︎︎︎ identityrca.cargo.site
The Identity Box is a podcast series with designers, artists, scholars and professionals from around the world, discussing various aspects and perspectives around the concept of 'identity', curated as part of the Royal College of Art Make it Public virtual exhibition, in collaboration with the Design Museum, London.
I interviewed Umberto Giovannini – an Italian printmaker and founder of Opificio della Rosa, a low environmental impact printmaking centre, hosting and supporting artists of different nationalities and backgrounds engaged in experimental projects. Working between England and Italy, Umberto uses woodcut as a travel diary, as well as an intimate yet powerful form of reportage to investigate this changing, floating contemporary world through his highly sensitive personal perceptions.
In this conversation, Umberto and I discussed work, process and experience as creative practitioners during the Covid-19 lockdown, as well as understandings towards the relationship between the act of image-making and social crisis.
I interviewed Umberto Giovannini – an Italian printmaker and founder of Opificio della Rosa, a low environmental impact printmaking centre, hosting and supporting artists of different nationalities and backgrounds engaged in experimental projects. Working between England and Italy, Umberto uses woodcut as a travel diary, as well as an intimate yet powerful form of reportage to investigate this changing, floating contemporary world through his highly sensitive personal perceptions.
In this conversation, Umberto and I discussed work, process and experience as creative practitioners during the Covid-19 lockdown, as well as understandings towards the relationship between the act of image-making and social crisis.