Silvia Faggiani’s (Rome, Italy, 1994) research focuses on immaterial design relating to social networks such as businesses and educational institutions. Through her close involvement with the working group Overgraduation, she has developed embodied and speculative approaches to organizational theory and self-development. Rejecting the position of individual artistic authorship after graduation, Faggiani’s contribution to the Challenging Jewellery exhibition at Het Hem consists of a live broadcast to her self-devised residency and workshop space in Italy, where audiences are able to follow Faggiani with her as she works, eats and studies with fellow colleagues and peers. By subverting absence and refusal of the thesis show, and rendering the artwork as a portal to the outside world, Faggiani asks questions about participation and the need to assert safe spaces within design education.

Collaboration(s): Seline Durrer, Gabriella Goldsmith, Ting Gong, Margaret Munchheimer, Marilyn Volkman, Joanne Vosloo