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That’s me
I am a woman.
I have a body.
My body
‘is a social
construction
rather than
a naturally
given datum.’
Simone De Beauvoir
I am a woman.
I have a body.
My body
‘is a social
construction
rather than
a naturally
given datum.’
Simone De Beauvoir
Receiving the STARTS Prize from Roberto Viola
(Director General DG Connect , European Commission) at the Gala of Ars Electronica 2018
Interaction designer and educator committed to female’s healthcare and its innovation, combining biotechnology and interactive wearables. Founder of ALMA Futura.
CV
AWARD & GRANT
2024
*Fellowship OSHWA Open Source Hardware Summit
*Selected as 35 designer, under 35, Fondazione Symbola / Milano. IT
2023
*S+T+Arts Cross Fertilization, first prize
with ALMA Toolkit / Linz. AT
*Pathfinder Design Age Institute with Tides / London. UK
2021
*McKinsey Venture Academy - with ALMA / Cambridge. UK
*Vision Health Pioneers Incubator - with ALMA / Berlin. DE
2020
*World OMOSIROI Award 6th / Osaka. JP
*WORTH Project, EU Horizon - with Rethinking the Bra / EU
2019
*Re-FREAM Project - EU Horizon with ALMA / Berlin. DE
2018
*S+T+Arts 2018 Grand Prize Artistic Exploration, EU Horizon / Linz. AT
*Selected as 10x10 Emerging Designer - The Design Museum / London. UK
*Biomaker Spirit Award - with ALMA / Cambridge. UK
*Biomaker Challenge Grant - with ALMA / Cambridge. UK
2016
*Nominated for Young Talent Award - at DDW / Eindhoven. NL
CURATION
2023/ 2024
*MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, at Mangrovia | IT
2022
*LOUISA SPEAKS: Intimate Dialogues on Language, Technology and Biohacking, solo exhibition curated by Arianna Forte at MZ*Baltazar’s Laboratory for the Feminist Hacker Festival / Vienna. AT
*BIOFILIE, solo-exhibition for abFestival at Mole Vanvitelliana (video) / Ancona. IT
2019
*Textile Biophilia, organised in collaboration with Near Now at Broadway Gallery / Nottingham. UK
EXHIBITION
2023
*Gallleria+ in Wonderland, Future Flora at Gallleria+ / Bologna. IT
*Designing foir our Future Selves, Tides at The Design Musuem / London. UK
*Testa e Croce, Future Flora at ADI Museum / Milano. IT
2022
*BEYOND BINARIES, curated by Erinni at Albumarte / Roma. IT
*Hacking Marea, at Ars Electronica / Linz.AT
*LOUISA SPEAKS: Intimate Dialogues on Language, Technology and Biohacking, solo-exhibition curated by Arianna Forte at MZ*Baltazar’s Laboratory for the Feminist Hacker Festival / Vienna. AT
*BIOFILIE, solo-exhibition for abFestival at Mole Vanvitelliana (video) / Ancona. IT
2021
*Re-Fream Final at AHOY with Fraunhofer IZM / Berlin. DE
*Surface Tension World at Londonf Design Festval / London. UK
*HFF2020 3rd Nature Fiber Library (interview) / Taipei. TW
*Rethinking the Bra, digital exhibited at Fuori Salone / Milano. IT
2020
*STARTS Methodologies (Virtual exhib) at University of Wolverhampton (article) / UK
*Making FASHION Sense, at HeK / Basel. CH
2019
*Vienna Biennale for Change, Design Labour - FUTURE FLORA ON PERMANENT COLLECTION - at MAK / Vienna. AT
*Gluon Night, Our medical future?, at Orsi Academy / Bruxelles. BE
*GiriGiri/On the edge at Tokyo Midtown, Ars Electronica / Tokyo. JP
2018
*Open Technology Workshop at the Biomaker Fayre / Cambridge. UK
*STARTS Prize, at Frankfurter Buchemesse / Frankfurter. DE
*Attempts, Failures,Trails and Errors at Kibla Multimedia Center / Maribor. SL
*London Design Festival LDF, at Open Cell / London. UK
*STARTS Prize ‘18 & Tendencies, at Bozar / Bruxelles. BE
*Error the Art of Imperfection - STARTS Prize at Ars Electronica 2018 / Linz. AT
*Creative Reactions, Pint of Science / Nottingham. UK
*Attempts, Failures, Trials and Errors at Salonul de proiecte / Bucharest. RO
2017
*Dutch Design Week 2017 / Eindhoven. NL
*CUNT - Laundry Service, at KK Outlet / London. UK
*OFFF London 2017, at Here East / London. UK
*E-Textiles Summer Camp 2017 / Poncé sur le Loir. FR
2016
*Most Contagious / London. UK
*Operae / Turin. IT
*Press Dinner DDW, at Bart Hess Studio / Eindhoven. NL
*Manifestations, at Dutch Design Week 2016 / Eindhoven. NL
*E-Textiles Summer Camp 2016 / Poncé sur le Loir. FR
*Material Futures Degree Show at CSM / London. UK
*Milan Design Week 2016 / Milan. IT
*Wip Show, at Central Saint Martins / London. UK
2015
*E-Textiles Summer Camp 2015 / Poncé sur le Loir. FR
*LAGOStudio at LAGO srl / Villa del Conte. IT
2014
*Maker Faire Rome 2014 / Rome. IT
*Smart Textiles, at the Europen Patent Office / Dan Haag. NL
*Io sono makers, at Fuori Salone / Milan. IT
2013
*Smart Textiles Salon vol.3 / Ghent. BE
*Hack Reality 2, at WhyMCA / Milan. IT
*Open Day, at NABA / Milan. IT
WORKSHOP - TEACHING
2024
*Oltrepelle, OSHWA Summit Festival / Montreal. CA
*Coded Biophilia, Milieux Institute of Arts, Cultiure and Technology / Montreal. CA
*Individual Mentoring, Semester of Bits and Atoms, Trasmedia Research Institute / Fano. IT
*External Mentoring, Biodesign Chaellenge
*Coded Biophilia Module, FAT, UFG / Linz. AT
*Tipologia dei Materiali Sostenibili Module, MA + BA Product Design, ABA / Perugia. IT
*Hack Eroticism, iii instruments inventors / Den Haag. NL
*Sx-Pleasuration, MU Hybrid Art House / Eindhoven. NL
*Oltrepelle, Guest Guest Symposium, HSLU / Luzern. CH
*Design Della Comunicazione Module, MA UX Design / NABA. IT
*Innovation in Materials and Technology Module, MA Design Innovation, Domus Academy / Milano. IT
*Sx-Pleasuration, Witches are Back, Forte Prenestino / Roma. IT
2023*External Mentoring, Biodesign Chaellenge
*Coded Biophilia Module, FAT, UFG / Linz. AT
*Tipologia dei Materiali Sostenibili Module, MA + BA Product Design, ABA / Perugia. IT
*Hack Eroticism, iii instruments inventors / Den Haag. NL
*Sx-Pleasuration, MU Hybrid Art House / Eindhoven. NL
*Oltrepelle, Guest Guest Symposium, HSLU / Luzern. CH
*Design Della Comunicazione Module, MA UX Design / NABA. IT
*Innovation in Materials and Technology Module, MA Design Innovation, Domus Academy / Milano. IT
*Sx-Pleasuration, Witches are Back, Forte Prenestino / Roma. IT
*Innovation in Materials and Technology, aMA User Experience in DOMUS / Milano. IT
*Biofilie Lab with Makeaware, at Fablab SUPSI / Lugano. CH
*Female Biophilia, at Studi Politiche di Genere a Roma Tre / IT
*Speaking Bitterness, at Trenta Formiche /Roma. IT
*Oltrepelle, at Observatorio del placer / Barcelona. ES
*Oltrepelle, at Arse Elektronika Festival / Linz. AT
*Speaking Bitterness, at Ars Electronica Festival / Linz. AT
*Oltrepelle, at TRI Summer School / Fano. IT
*ALMA Toolkit, at Waag Society / Amsterdam. NL
*ALMA Toolkit, at Caza Feu / Bussoleno. IT
*Coded Biophilia, at FAT / Linz. AT
*Biohacklab, with Bruixes_Lab / Las Palmas. ES
*Chi è Louisa?, with Amuse Gallery / Turin. IT
*Coded Biophilia, at John Cabot University / Rome. IT
*ALMA*The Voice, with The Voice Community / Newcastle. UK
**Fabricademy Mentoring / ES
**Hong Kong Polytechnic University Mentoring / HK
2022
*Biohacklab, with Bruixes_Lab at Witches are Back, Forte Prenestino / Rome. IT
*Coded Biophilia, at NABA / Milan. IT
*Coded Biophilia, assisted by Gabriela Fabro Cardoso at Politecnico MA Fashion System / Milan. IT
**Coded Bodies, at TU Delft / NL
*Hacking Marea, assisted by Valentina Carnali in collaboration with Cosmob FabLab Pesaro and Transmedial Research Institute with Fablab Pesaro / Fano. IT
*Chi è Louisa? - Beyond Binaries residency / Roma. IT
*Coded Biophilia, at Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory / Vienna. AT
*Coded Biophilia, at Fashion Technology in UFG / Linz. AT
*Coded Bodies, at Head / Geneva. CH
*Coded Bodies, at MUSE Museo della Scienza / Trento. IT
2021
*Nessun Esclus, at Liceo Scientifico / Pesaro. IT
*Coded Bodies, at Fusion Lab for 1Msottolametro / Rome. IT
**Coded Bodies, assisted by Stefano Parisi at Politecnico MA Fashion System / Milan. IT
**Coded Biophilia (zine) at School of Machines / Berlin. DE
*Make/Care at UFG / Linz. AT
**E-textile sensors at MA Soft Systems RCA / London. UK
**Coded Biophilia at UniBiz / Bolzano. IT
*Nessun Esclus, with Truth Inside Females at Biblioteca San Giovanni / Pesaro. IT
**BioDesign Challenge Course at IxD Umea Institute of Design (video) / Umea. SE
**Laborworche at HFG_Gmund / DE
**Thinking through Making: Coded Bodies at Modern Museum / Istanbul. TR
**Context Future Project, at Royal College of Arts / London. UK
**DIY e-Textile Sensors, with Atenea Platform (video) / ES
2020
**Coded Bodies, assisted by Stefano Parisi at Politecnico MA Fashion System / Milan. IT
**Coded Bodies, for Cipke at Rampa Lab / Lijubiana. SL
**Alma meets Flora, at kons Festival / Lijubiana. SL
**Coded Bodies, at Reutlingen University / Reutlingen. DE
**Intimate Technology, with Alice Stewart at Media Design HEAD / Geneve. CH
**Alma incontra Flora, for [e]Design Festival / Treviso. IT
**Alma incontra Flora with Prime Minister / Favara. IT
**Coding Wearables, After School Club at STORE STORE / London. UK
**The New Normal - Covid-19 and after at DOMUS Acdemy / Milan. IT
*Coded Bodies, at Adiacenze Gallery / Bologna. IT
*#5 Alma meets Flora, at HeK / Basel. CH
*Coded Bodies, at FHNW MA Studio Design / Basel. CH
*#4 Alma meets Flora Workshop, at Women’s Center for Change / Penang. MY
2019
*#3 Alma meets Flora Workshop, at FREC Bangkok / Bangkok. TH
*Coded Bodies, assisted by Stefano Parisi at Politecnico MA Fashion System / Milan. IT
*Teaching at MA Design for fashion System at Politecnico / Milan. IT
*#2 Alma incontra Flora, at WeMake / Milan. IT
*Coded Bodies, at Laborwoche, HFG_Gmund / DE
*Living Design: Biophilia+ Food, Culture and Autonomy with Arabeschi di Latte, Materia Brasil, Centro de Carioca Design and British Council at ESDI / Rio de Janeiro. BR
*#1 Alma meets Flora, at Olabi / Rio de Janeiro. BR
*Biofabricating Matter with Anastasia Pistofidou at the eTextile Spring Break, Wassaic / NYC. US
*The Way They Were Then - Creative process with ‘Faltonia’ by Feet Off the Ground at Dance4 / Nottingham. UK
2018
*Kodierte Korpe, at Laborwoche, HFG_Gmund / DE
*Bioutopia Workshop “How can bio-textiles empower tribes to become nomadic citizen scientists?”, at the E-Textiles Summer Camp 2018 with Pauline Vierne / Miaoli. TW
*Coded Bodies, at Nottingham Trent University / Nottingham. UK
2017
*The Future of Biohacking , Skinjobs, at Broadway Gallery / Nottingham. UK
*Crafting Impossible Textiles at the E-Textiles Summer Camp 2017 with Sasha de Koninck, Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes / Poncè sue le Loir. FR
*Guest Lecturer - Coded Bodies is a serie of workshops on soft
wearable and wearable tech, at the University of Creative Arts / Epsom. UK
2016
*Bio Textiles Workshops at the E-Textiles Summer Camp 2016
with Pauline Vierne and Svenja Keune, Paillard Centre d’Art
Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes / Poncè sue le Loir. FR
2014
*Open Lab, co-founder E.E.A.T. at Baltan Lab / Eindhoven. NL
RESIDENCY - CONFERENCE
2023
*Biofilie Lab at Hangar.org / Barcelona. ES
**Non-governmental Matters - NGM 全文, with Tribe Against Machine (report) / TW
2022
*Beyond Binaries invited by Erinni, in Torpignattara / Rome. IT
2020
**Having Friends in the Future 2020, Tribe Against Machine / TW
2019
*FEMeeting, Women in Art, Science and Technology / Portugal. PT
*eTextile Spring Break, Wassaic / NYC. US
2018
*Tribe Against Machine, E-Textiles Summer Camp 2018 / Miaoli. TW
2017
*CUNT - Laundry Service, at KK Outlet / London. UK
*Fabricademy, Fablab Barcelona / Barcelona. ES
2016
*Internet of Women Things, at Tetem / Enschede. NL
*E-Textiles Summer Camp 2016 / Poncé sur le Loir. FR
2015
*E-Textiles Summer Camp 2015 / Poncé sur le Loir. FR
*LAGOStudio at LAGO srl / Villa del Conte. IT
PUBLICATION
2022
*Institute of Italian Culture, Vienna (it)
*DAC, Designer Against Coronavirus - Un libro per ricominciare with Nuovo RInascimento Mag / IT
2020
*Alma is part of ‘Arte e Tecnologia del Terzo Millennio: Scenari e Protagonisti’ by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Valentino Catracalà by Collezione Farnesina and Ministero degli Affari Estero (e-book) / IT
*Coding the Future, Textiles and Biology in Symbiosis - The Slow Grind by the Laundry Arts (e-shop) / London. UK
*Empowerment and Self-Care: Designing for the Female Body by Giulia Tomasello and Teresa Almeida - in the book Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications. Editors: Katherine Townsend, Rhian Solomon, Amanda Briggs-Goode, Bloomsbury Visual Arts / Nottingham. UK
2019
*Wilful Technologies: Rage and Resilience - Madeline Balaam & Lone Koefoed Hansen / Arnhus. SW
2018
*STARTS Catalogue 2018 by Ars ELectronica / Linz. AT
2017
*TNUC zine, by Giulia Tomasello & Ahaad Alamoudi, for The Laundry Arts Project ‘Cunt’ / London. UK
DOCUMENTARY
2023
*Touch. Il futuro a portata di mano, RAI Play
2022
*SOS Giulia Tomasello & Arianna Forte (video),
2020
*In brief: The Underwear of Things? Tech tackling Vaginal Infections_by Tomorrow Unlocked
2017
*Girl Biophilia_ by Maja Zupano (on request)
PRESS
2023
*Atp Diary (it)
*Officina Corpi e Cura by Clizia Moradei (it)
*Dezeen
*Eurocomunicazione (video) (it)
2022
*Non-governmental Matter (tw)
*Obsolete Studio - Louisa
*Vivere Sani e Belli (it)
*Exibart (it)
*Open Cell - Femcare
*Primo (it)
*The Wom (it)
*Art Tribune (it)
*Italia che cambia (it)
*Ancona Today (it)
*LifeGate (it)
2021
*Digicult (it)
*Going Global / VHP Blog
*ALMA / VHP Blog
*NARA
*(e)Textiles New Materialities by Teresa Almeida
*Lampoon Magazine (it)
*B-o-l-d, Technology gives women new freedom (jp)
*ConversRAI - Tech for good: la tecnologia per il sociale di Nesta (it)
*STARTS Methodologies Exhibition, Future Flora / Intellect Books
2020
*High-Tech Fashion _ Art and science for the clothes of tomorrow
*Alma / Re-Fream Blog
*Connecting Females and their bodies / Re-Fream Blog
*Technology over text - The challenges of research during a global pandemic / Re-Fream Blog
*Co-Design - the Ecodesign Prototype halfway / Re-Fream Blog
*Alma and Females / Re-Fream Blog
*Female Bodies - Intimate Health Care / Re-Fream Blog
*Alma - monitoring vaginal fluids / Re-Fream Blog
*TrevisoToday (it)
*Bossy (it)
*AD Italia (it)
*STARTS
*Treizhebdo (fr)
2019
*Rebelling with care. (eng) (it) Design Social Innovation for Europe
*Elle Decor Italia (it)
*Starts Prize - Identifying succesful Starts methodologies
*Soldes (fr)
*Wired Japan (jp)
*Stylus
*Axismag (jp)
*DesignHub (jp)
*Medium (jp)
*Digicult (it)
2018
*Sporobole (fr)
*The Future Laboratory
*Dazed Beauty
*Creative Applications Network
*Synthetic Biology in Cambridge
*Ars Electronica Blog
*Resto del Carlino, Pesaro [01.09.2018 - 14.09.2018] (it)
*ICON Design - BOOK CLUB (June 2018) (it)
*STARTS Prize
2017
*It’s Nice That
*Bricks Magazine
*New Scientist
*Catalogodiseno
*HANGRY, The Blog
2016
*Dezeen
*Elle Decor Italia
*LS:N Global
*Design Indaba
*Konbini
*Fast Company
*The Funambulist
*Interlaced
*Material Lab
*Manifestations
2013
*Arduino Blog
LECTURE - PANEL
2024
2023
*How to stay away from the gyneacologist’s office? at MAID i SUPSI / CH
*FEMMEETING / Malta
*Biofilie, at Future Fermentation Festival / CH
*Biofilie Lab (video) at Hangar.org / ES
*Creative Collision with Yuima Mizutani, at Ars Electronica Festival / Linz.AT
*Creative Collision with ISALA Project, at Ars Electronica Festival / Linz.AT
*Laser Talk, The microbiology and art of vaginal health, (video) at Waag / NL
*Female Biophilia, at Rassegna Giardina / Crevalcore. IT
*Female Biophilia, at Trinity College / Rome. IT
**Female Biophilia, at SUPSI / Lugano. CH
*Female Biophilia, at John Cabot University (video) / Rome. IT
*Female Biophilia, Inclusive innovation, at Peckham Digital Festival/ London. UK
2022
**Female Biophilia, at Good Design Izmir / TR
**Female Biophilia, at IED Milano / IT
*Biofilie / Art+b=Love (video) at Mole Vanvitelliana / Ancona. IT
2021
**How to create worlds from scratch?, (video) University of the Underground / NL
*Gender Medicine Symposium, ALMA presenting at Bielefeld University / DE
**GAIA , Una nuova idea di ecologia. Interaction design, scienza e filosofia applicate al benessere per Green Table (trailer) / Perugia. IT**ALMA e Innovazione Inclusiva, Re-Fream & ARCA (video) / Palermo. IT
*Le Alleanze dei Corpi, at BASE Milano / Milan. IT
*Coded Biophilia with 2050+, Slam Jam at Milan Design Week / IT
**ALMA co-design with FLORA for Re-Fream / Berlin. DE
**ALMA x IVAM /DE
**Interview for HFF2020 (video) / Taipei. TW
*Green Table Conversation at BASE Milano / Milano. IT
**Vision Health Pioneers - ALMA Pitch (video) / Berlin. DE
**Wear it Live: Fashion Tech / Berlin. DE
2020
**Life Like, Design Multispecie, with Mali Weil at MUSE / Trento. IT
**Crafting Futures - Female Intimate Care, at MA Design at Kunstuniversität Linz / Linz.AU
**Contamination between arts, science and technology: new pathways of innovation, (video) with Nesta Italia e STARTS / Torino. IT
**STARTS Journey, On a Journey with Alma (video), at ARS / Linz.AU
**Online Talk Fashion, Technology, Responsibility, at ARS / Linz. AU
**Online Talk STARTS Methodologies Roundtable, at ARS / UK-AU
*Female Biophilia: Educazione, Innovazione e Tecnologia at [e] Design Festival / Treviso. IT
**Online Talk ALMA in conversation with FABRICADEMY - Mapping the Future of Fashion, (video)
**Online Talk La Moda del Futuro: Sostenibilità, Tecnologia e Manifattura urbana, (video) with Arca Consorzio e Re-Fream / IT
**Online Talk Textiles and Technology, (video) at LUARTS / UK
**Online Talk CREATIVE MORNINGS TURIN / Torino. IT
**Online Talk BAR ARDUINO / IT-US
**Online Lecture DXARTS 200, at UW / Seattle. US
**Online Talk (video) RE-FREAM, Electronic Textiles and Fashion Webinar
**Online Talk Globalspeak, How are we dealing with Covid-19?
**Online Talk studio IDEO London / UK
*World OMOSIROI Award Ceremony, Knowledge Capital / Osaka. JP
* Video - Re-Fream Art/Tech Co-Creation Journey
2019
*DeFine - Fashion Tech Info Day Milan, at Polifactory / Milan. IT
*Crossing Boundaries, at Speculative Stuttgart /Stuttgart. DE
*Art&Tech Meetup / Female Biophilia, at Poligon / Ljubljana. SI
*Female Biophilia:Crossing Boundaries, at Kikk Festival / Namur. BE
*Female Biophilia, Entremeios Autonomia e Design at IED Rio / RJ. BR
*Designing the Self, MAK FUTURE LAB, at MAK / Vienna. AT
*Laboratory of the Future, at Ars Electronica / Linz. AT
*Co-Thinking the Renewal of Fashion, Ars Electronica / Linz. AT
*SxTech-ON Conference, ‘SEx tech/FEM tech - The future is sustainable’ panel / Berlin. DE
*Medimeisterschaften Festival, XPOMET / Mühlhausen. DE
*Fraunhofer / Porto. PT
*In dialogue with our bodies:becoming embodied knowers, with Teresa Almeida at FEMeeting / Milfontes. PT
*Talk at NYU MAGNET - Media and Games Network / New York. US
*Decolonization and the Nonhuman, (audio file) for the Design Trouble Symposium at the University of Washington / Seattle. US
*Talk at University of Washington / Seattle. US
*The Art & Science Soirée at the OtherSyde / Cambridge. UK
*Gender in art/tech: inclusivity and power of digital transformation at Triennale Design Museum for Milan Digital Week / Milan. IT
*39th metaPhorest seminar at Waseda University / Tokyo. JP
*Challenge to the GiriGiri at Tokyo Midtown / Tokyo. JP
*Biennal Ciutat i Ciencia: Future Flora, Celebrant la Biofìlia Femenina at La Pedrera / Barcelona. ES
*Conferencia de la diseñadora de interacción Giulia Tomasello at Elisava / Barcelona. ES*Biosensors: from women’s health (Alma) by Tommaso Busolo at Cafè Synthetique / CA. UK
2018
*Visiting Lecturer Soft Systems at Royal College of Art / London. UK
*10x10 Design Connections with British Council at the Design Museum / London. UK
*Interview (video) for Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa en Uruguay-Global Network / Linz. AT
*STARTS Talk_Embracing the Risk (video) at Ars Electronica / Linz.AT
*Trust in Invisible Agents (iot) Roundtable with Futureverything at Ars Electronica / Linz. AT
*Interactive Wearables and BioTextiles at TTRI, Taiwan Textile Research Institute / Taipei. TW
*Future Flora Talk (video) at OpenCell / London. UK
*STARTS Talk, We Make The City, at Circl / Amsterdam. NL
*STARTS Talk, CEBIT 2018 / Hannover. DE
*Creative Reactions, Pint of Science / Nottingham. UK
*Future Now, at Rough Trade / Nottingham. UK
*Nottingham Trent University / Nottingham. UK
2017
*OurBodies, Our Selves:We, at Hin Bus Depot Art Centre / Penang. MY
*The Science of Blade Runner, at Broadway / Nottingham. UK
*Female Biophilia - The potential of wearing microorganisms, at the E-Textiles Summer Camp 2017 / Poncè sue le Loir. FR
*Ourbodies, Ourselves: Female Taboos for a collective empowerment, (video) at Creative Morning / Turin. IT
*Visiting Lecturer, at the University of Creative Arts / Epsom. UK
2016
*Crafting Complex Materials, CreateOutLoud, at MU Gallery / Eindhoven. NL
*Dare Festival / Antwerp. BE*Makerversity / London. UK
2023
*Touch. Il futuro a portata di mano, RAI Play
2022
*SOS Giulia Tomasello & Arianna Forte (video),
2020
*In brief: The Underwear of Things? Tech tackling Vaginal Infections_by Tomorrow Unlocked
2017
*Girl Biophilia_ by Maja Zupano (on request)
PRESS
2023
*Atp Diary (it)
*Officina Corpi e Cura by Clizia Moradei (it)
*Dezeen
*Eurocomunicazione (video) (it)
2022
*Non-governmental Matter (tw)
*Obsolete Studio - Louisa
*Vivere Sani e Belli (it)
*Exibart (it)
*Open Cell - Femcare
*Primo (it)
*The Wom (it)
*Art Tribune (it)
*Italia che cambia (it)
*Ancona Today (it)
*LifeGate (it)
2021
*Digicult (it)
*Going Global / VHP Blog
*ALMA / VHP Blog
*NARA
*(e)Textiles New Materialities by Teresa Almeida
*Lampoon Magazine (it)
*B-o-l-d, Technology gives women new freedom (jp)
*ConversRAI - Tech for good: la tecnologia per il sociale di Nesta (it)
*STARTS Methodologies Exhibition, Future Flora / Intellect Books
2020
*High-Tech Fashion _ Art and science for the clothes of tomorrow
*Alma / Re-Fream Blog
*Connecting Females and their bodies / Re-Fream Blog
*Technology over text - The challenges of research during a global pandemic / Re-Fream Blog
*Co-Design - the Ecodesign Prototype halfway / Re-Fream Blog
*Alma and Females / Re-Fream Blog
*Female Bodies - Intimate Health Care / Re-Fream Blog
*Alma - monitoring vaginal fluids / Re-Fream Blog
*TrevisoToday (it)
*Bossy (it)
*AD Italia (it)
*STARTS
*Treizhebdo (fr)
2019
*Rebelling with care. (eng) (it) Design Social Innovation for Europe
*Elle Decor Italia (it)
*Starts Prize - Identifying succesful Starts methodologies
*Soldes (fr)
*Wired Japan (jp)
*Stylus
*Axismag (jp)
*DesignHub (jp)
*Medium (jp)
*Digicult (it)
2018
*Sporobole (fr)
*The Future Laboratory
*Dazed Beauty
*Creative Applications Network
*Synthetic Biology in Cambridge
*Ars Electronica Blog
*Resto del Carlino, Pesaro [01.09.2018 - 14.09.2018] (it)
*ICON Design - BOOK CLUB (June 2018) (it)
*STARTS Prize
2017
*It’s Nice That
*Bricks Magazine
*New Scientist
*Catalogodiseno
*HANGRY, The Blog
2016
*Dezeen
*Elle Decor Italia
*LS:N Global
*Design Indaba
*Konbini
*Fast Company
*The Funambulist
*Interlaced
*Material Lab
*Manifestations
2013
*Arduino Blog
LECTURE - PANEL
2024
*Xenopia Hack Session, Hacteria ZET Open Science Lab / CH
*IED Square, at IED Milano / IT
*IED Square, at IED Milano / IT
*How to stay away from the gyneacologist’s office? at MAID i SUPSI / CH
*FEMMEETING / Malta
*Biofilie, at Future Fermentation Festival / CH
*Biofilie Lab (video) at Hangar.org / ES
*Creative Collision with Yuima Mizutani, at Ars Electronica Festival / Linz.AT
*Creative Collision with ISALA Project, at Ars Electronica Festival / Linz.AT
*Laser Talk, The microbiology and art of vaginal health, (video) at Waag / NL
*Female Biophilia, at Rassegna Giardina / Crevalcore. IT
*Female Biophilia, at Trinity College / Rome. IT
**Female Biophilia, at SUPSI / Lugano. CH
*Female Biophilia, at John Cabot University (video) / Rome. IT
*Female Biophilia, Inclusive innovation, at Peckham Digital Festival/ London. UK
2022
**Female Biophilia, at Good Design Izmir / TR
**Female Biophilia, at IED Milano / IT
*Biofilie / Art+b=Love (video) at Mole Vanvitelliana / Ancona. IT
2021
**How to create worlds from scratch?, (video) University of the Underground / NL
*Gender Medicine Symposium, ALMA presenting at Bielefeld University / DE
**GAIA , Una nuova idea di ecologia. Interaction design, scienza e filosofia applicate al benessere per Green Table (trailer) / Perugia. IT**ALMA e Innovazione Inclusiva, Re-Fream & ARCA (video) / Palermo. IT
*Le Alleanze dei Corpi, at BASE Milano / Milan. IT
*Coded Biophilia with 2050+, Slam Jam at Milan Design Week / IT
**ALMA co-design with FLORA for Re-Fream / Berlin. DE
**ALMA x IVAM /DE
**Interview for HFF2020 (video) / Taipei. TW
*Green Table Conversation at BASE Milano / Milano. IT
**Vision Health Pioneers - ALMA Pitch (video) / Berlin. DE
**Wear it Live: Fashion Tech / Berlin. DE
2020
**Life Like, Design Multispecie, with Mali Weil at MUSE / Trento. IT
**Crafting Futures - Female Intimate Care, at MA Design at Kunstuniversität Linz / Linz.AU
**Contamination between arts, science and technology: new pathways of innovation, (video) with Nesta Italia e STARTS / Torino. IT
**STARTS Journey, On a Journey with Alma (video), at ARS / Linz.AU
**Online Talk Fashion, Technology, Responsibility, at ARS / Linz. AU
**Online Talk STARTS Methodologies Roundtable, at ARS / UK-AU
*Female Biophilia: Educazione, Innovazione e Tecnologia at [e] Design Festival / Treviso. IT
**Online Talk ALMA in conversation with FABRICADEMY - Mapping the Future of Fashion, (video)
**Online Talk La Moda del Futuro: Sostenibilità, Tecnologia e Manifattura urbana, (video) with Arca Consorzio e Re-Fream / IT
**Online Talk Textiles and Technology, (video) at LUARTS / UK
**Online Talk CREATIVE MORNINGS TURIN / Torino. IT
**Online Talk BAR ARDUINO / IT-US
**Online Lecture DXARTS 200, at UW / Seattle. US
**Online Talk (video) RE-FREAM, Electronic Textiles and Fashion Webinar
**Online Talk Globalspeak, How are we dealing with Covid-19?
**Online Talk studio IDEO London / UK
*World OMOSIROI Award Ceremony, Knowledge Capital / Osaka. JP
* Video - Re-Fream Art/Tech Co-Creation Journey
2019
*DeFine - Fashion Tech Info Day Milan, at Polifactory / Milan. IT
*Crossing Boundaries, at Speculative Stuttgart /Stuttgart. DE
*Art&Tech Meetup / Female Biophilia, at Poligon / Ljubljana. SI
*Female Biophilia:Crossing Boundaries, at Kikk Festival / Namur. BE
*Female Biophilia, Entremeios Autonomia e Design at IED Rio / RJ. BR
*Designing the Self, MAK FUTURE LAB, at MAK / Vienna. AT
*Laboratory of the Future, at Ars Electronica / Linz. AT
*Co-Thinking the Renewal of Fashion, Ars Electronica / Linz. AT
*SxTech-ON Conference, ‘SEx tech/FEM tech - The future is sustainable’ panel / Berlin. DE
*Medimeisterschaften Festival, XPOMET / Mühlhausen. DE
*Fraunhofer / Porto. PT
*In dialogue with our bodies:becoming embodied knowers, with Teresa Almeida at FEMeeting / Milfontes. PT
*Talk at NYU MAGNET - Media and Games Network / New York. US
*Decolonization and the Nonhuman, (audio file) for the Design Trouble Symposium at the University of Washington / Seattle. US
*Talk at University of Washington / Seattle. US
*The Art & Science Soirée at the OtherSyde / Cambridge. UK
*Gender in art/tech: inclusivity and power of digital transformation at Triennale Design Museum for Milan Digital Week / Milan. IT
*39th metaPhorest seminar at Waseda University / Tokyo. JP
*Challenge to the GiriGiri at Tokyo Midtown / Tokyo. JP
*Biennal Ciutat i Ciencia: Future Flora, Celebrant la Biofìlia Femenina at La Pedrera / Barcelona. ES
*Conferencia de la diseñadora de interacción Giulia Tomasello at Elisava / Barcelona. ES*Biosensors: from women’s health (Alma) by Tommaso Busolo at Cafè Synthetique / CA. UK
2018
*Visiting Lecturer Soft Systems at Royal College of Art / London. UK
*10x10 Design Connections with British Council at the Design Museum / London. UK
*Interview (video) for Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa en Uruguay-Global Network / Linz. AT
*STARTS Talk_Embracing the Risk (video) at Ars Electronica / Linz.AT
*Trust in Invisible Agents (iot) Roundtable with Futureverything at Ars Electronica / Linz. AT
*Interactive Wearables and BioTextiles at TTRI, Taiwan Textile Research Institute / Taipei. TW
*Future Flora Talk (video) at OpenCell / London. UK
*STARTS Talk, We Make The City, at Circl / Amsterdam. NL
*STARTS Talk, CEBIT 2018 / Hannover. DE
*Creative Reactions, Pint of Science / Nottingham. UK
*Future Now, at Rough Trade / Nottingham. UK
*Nottingham Trent University / Nottingham. UK
2017
*OurBodies, Our Selves:We, at Hin Bus Depot Art Centre / Penang. MY
*The Science of Blade Runner, at Broadway / Nottingham. UK
*Female Biophilia - The potential of wearing microorganisms, at the E-Textiles Summer Camp 2017 / Poncè sue le Loir. FR
*Ourbodies, Ourselves: Female Taboos for a collective empowerment, (video) at Creative Morning / Turin. IT
*Visiting Lecturer, at the University of Creative Arts / Epsom. UK
2016
*Crafting Complex Materials, CreateOutLoud, at MU Gallery / Eindhoven. NL
*Dare Festival / Antwerp. BE