Text: Rebirth-Trauma as performative process
Image: Ph. Ilenia Tesoro

Roberta Di Cosmo is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher currently based in the Netherlands. She started her career as a product and interior designer studying and working in Florence and Milan. After completing a master’s degree in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven, she explored new methodologies of approach for future scenarios by bringing together design, art, urban spaces and rural landscapes.

Her multidisciplinary practice investigates social aspects, using ethnographic processes, performance and poetic interventions in the field of design and architecture. Currently interested in the notion of trauma and its performative aspects and the relationship between landscape and community: how to interpret trauma as a regenerative source?