AN EXPERIMENTAL POSTER-BOOK ARCHIVE
OF MINERALS AND MEMORIES
CH / 2017
Archive Minerals
The starting point is a personal collection of 350 minerals, collected from when I was 7 until I was 23 years old. The rocks, dif ferently from the one visible in a scientific museum are not archived by only scientific-based characteristics like size, crystal composition or geographical background.
Every piece of rock is connected to a memory, from 1 to 4 in which 1 is the strongest connection to the collection given to me by my grandfather to rocks which are only empty beauties. Through the act of unfolding the poster, first is seen the feature of the rocks and the specific memory of each rock is hidden. The memories are shown by the use of old pictures, by the creation of
illustrations, of stories and of unexpected compositions accompanied by little questions at the bottom of the page. It is a transitory collection because the process of creation of rocks requires a period of time which is more than the full life cycle of a human, and also by being in this moment the collection and the memories attached to the rocks are temporary and volatile.
The archive catalogue is composed by 17 posters double-face, 4 A0 poster of the full collections of minerals and the original forms compiled by hand conteining the informations about the rocks and it’s memories.
The front is always a rock and it’s details..
The inside/back is always a different poster story reflecting the relationship of the rock with the owner.
In this case, the blue-transparent rock was a gift from my brother, and the poster is a narration of an imaginary trip.
The posters were developed from a first archive colleciton of images, texts, descriptions of situations, places, narrations around every rock. More than 60 forms were made and from that only 17 posters-bokklets were created as a final selection.
︎ This is Arianna’s visual archive—an incomplete constellation of projects, traces, and experiments. Polish-Italian by birth, I move between roles: Visual Researcher, Design Strategist, and Digital Storyteller for Dark Matter Labs. Sometimes I narrate stories with a theremin in the sound-performative duo Younger Siblings, and I’ve grown roots in places like La Scuola Open Source, where I once Directed the Education Department and still feel part of the collective imagination.
My practice lives at the intersection of Activism, Visual Design, and Systemic Transitions. It’s always collaborative & driven by shared learning, entangled with people, places, and ideas. I care about how things are made, who they are for, and who gets to shape them; whether they're digital tools, governance models, or slow visual inquiries.
Previously: Art Director at Studio Fionda, Visual Sensemaker for public inquiries, and Co-Designer of platforms, campaigns, and speculative fictions with various organisations.
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This website is an archive: part memory, part method, part map. It isn’t intended as a formal portfolio. For that, reach out to my human version.
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Projects are intentionally scattered rather than sorted. Some are dense, complex ecosystems that unfolded over months or years. Others are small but charged with meaning. I’ll soon add a diagram to map them by complexity, scope, ethics, impact, methodology, and who collaborated with me on what.
Scrolling the image gallery you’ll find research inquiries, commissioned freelance work, poetic interventions, and pieces made in response to real and imagined futures. Some are made for people, some with them ︎︎︎ and some are dedicated to beings with many legs, wings, or forgotten stories.
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The projects speak many languages as the involved partners: Italian, English, French, Polish, Dutch, Icelandic, German mostly, but not only. Full credits are on their way. Nothing here was made alone. ︎
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This site isn’t super user-friendly yet. A more accessible and funkier version is planned for 2025–26.
