Chiara Scarpitti, designer and PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Design at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli." Since 2006 she has been working in the field of design and jewellery at an international level, obtaining numerous awards and exhibiting her works in galleries and museums including Triennale Design Museum in Milan and MAD Museum of Art and Design in New York. Coordinator of the Commission “Design for the Person” of ADI Design Index 2024/25 for Compasso d'Oro, she has been a Member of the Board of Directors of AGC - Association for Contemporary Jewellery from 2019 to 2024. She has taught jewellery at Milano Fashion Institute and IED Moda, in Milan, the Academy of Fine Arts, in Naples, and Tari Design School, in Caserta. She is the Author of numerous essays and two monographs, and she has scientifically coordinated several academic design-funded projects. Her practice-based research activity is characterized by the speculative hybridization of advanced manufacturing processes, digital technologies, and contemporary philosophies related to design objects and jewellery.

My work comes from a research both theorethical than experimental. Every piece is the final result of a complex process of thinking, design and production. The aim is to reflect, from an antropological point of view, about the sense of materials, tecniques, shapes. Each collection buds from a crossbreeding of materials and techniques, both digital and handcrafted: a research between past and future. This kind of research opens the door to a new vision, which blends disciplines of humanities, such as philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology along with scientific disciplines such as engineering materials, new machinery and technologies. All is finalized to investigate a new kind of design as an intersection point between craftsmanship and industry, humanity and technology.