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Roberta Bernabei
Loughborough, UK
La Professoressa Roberta Bernabei è una ricercatrice leader nel campo della ricerca sul gioiello artigianale/di design. È professore associato di Studi Critici e Storici e Gioielleria presso la Loughborough University, Regno Unito. È Visiting Reader presso l'Institute of Jewellery, Fashion and Textiles della Birmingham City University, dove ricopre anche il ruolo di ambasciatrice internazionale dell'Istituto e del cluster Craft Cultures Research. Dal 2015 è impegnata con passione nella costruzione del campo della ricerca sul gioiello artigianale/di design, fondando e dirigendo il Journal of Jewellery Research. Ha acquisito una reputazione internazionale grazie al suo contributo alla ricerca in questo campo, con un libro monografico, articoli di riviste, capitoli e mostre. Il profilo di ricerca di Bernabei nell'ambito della progettazione di mostre di gioielli d'arte e del suo processo collettivo conta cinquantasette mostre fino al 2021. È a capo di sette ricercatori di dottorato nella ricerca sul patrimonio culturale, sulle nuove applicazioni delle tecnologie di stampa 3D nella gioielleria, inclusi i dispositivi indossabili come supporto al benessere, presso il JCR Lab (Jewellery & Craft Research Lab LU) della Loughborough University.
Dr. Roberta Bernabei is a leading researcher in the field of Craft/Design Jewellery Research. She is a Senior lecturer (professore associato) in Critical & Historical Studies and Jewellery at Loughborough University, UK. She is visiting Reader at Birmingham City University in the Institute of Jewellery, Fashion and Textiles, including the role as international ambassador of the Institute and the Craft Cultures Research cluster. Since 2015 she has been passionately active in building the field of Craft/Design Jewellery Research through instigating and leading the Journal of Jewellery Research. She has gained international reputation based on her research contribution in the field with a monographic book, journal articles, chapters and exhibitions. Bernabei’s research profile in art jewellery exhibition design and its collective process counts fifty-seven exhibitions until 2021. She is leading seven doctoral researchers in the research of cultural heritage, new application of 3D printing technologies in jewellery, including wearables as an aid for wellbeing at the JCR Lab (Jewellery & Craft Research Lab LU) at Loughborough University.
Jewellery for Life and its impact on People
Jewellery is not only an engagement ring! Jewellery is known to us with its multifaceted roles and values in our life but its implications in the complexities of our society mostly go unnoticed. Although jewellery is widespread in our collective imaginary, it is connected too often with pure embellishment of the human body, and surprisingly rarely reflected upon in design.
To reflect on jewellery often involves thinking about luxury jewellery or their mass-produced copies. Jewellery research is crucial in how jewellery in action in our lives is understood, designed, and researched. In these times of urgent re-considerations and reflections on our actions, researchers are encouraged to reflect upon the impact of their artefacts in society. Jewellery for Life provided opportunities to reflect on various possibilities of creating meaningful jewellery.
It offered a chance to explore multiple roles of jewellery across all areas of design, art and craft and their research. It instigated a discourse on jewellery as an aid for well-being, and as a cultural and participative design where the act of making becomes fundamental to bring participants’ knowledge expertise and experience to the fore front. It challenges preconceived ideas that jewellery is relegated to decorate the ‘female’ body as a trophy for the ‘male’ affirmation of his powerful status. Instead, Jewellery for Life showed this medium as a form of art that, for example, manifests political dissent.
Inevitably as jewellery has numerous roles in our lives, it brings joy, but it can also bring sadness as it is also associated to crime, and law. The so called ‘Jewellery law’ is an example of traumatic violence when the Danish authorities have the power to confiscate jewellery to arriving asylum seekers.
See link for further information:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/jewellery-for-life/
Dal 2022 Roberta Bernabei è vice presidente di AGC.
Since 2022 Roberta is deputy president and member of the AGC Board.
Esposizioni | Selected Exhibitions
