INFO
ENG        Benedetta Ferrari is an Italian visual designer and researcher. Through editorial practices, moving images, and image-based installations, she explores the relationship between forms of knowledge production, territories, and sensing infrastructures. During her MA in Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, she deepened her interest in environmental thinking and visual culture, researching how landscapes—especially alpine and high-altitude territories—are represented, exploited, measured, and imagined. 

ITA         Benedetta Ferrari è una designer e ricercatrice italiana. Attraverso pratiche editoriali, installative e di filmmaking, esplora la relazione tra pensiero ambientale e cultura visiva. Consolidata durante la magistrale presso la Design Academy Eindhoven, la sua pratica analizza la percezione sociale, culturale e scientifica degli ambienti montani, indagando come i paesaggi alpini e d’alta quota vengano rappresentati, misurati, sfruttati e immaginati.



       

EDUCATION
2023 — 2025 (MA) Master of Arts in Information Design,
Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) Cum Laude
2020 — 2023 (BA) Bachelor of Arts in Communication Design, 
Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti (IT) Cum Laude
EXPERIENCE 2024 — nowEditorial Design &  Assisting Shop for Book Fairs,
Set Margins! Publications
2022 — nowDesign & Visual Research,
 Independent Practice 
2022Book Corner Assistant,
Artissima Fair
2020 — 2022Visual Design,
Theorema Collective
2021— 2022Visual Design & Website,
Tonini Editore
2021Visual Design & Multimedia Content,  
ReA! Art Fair
SOLO EXHIBITIONSCurrentlyAre There Mountains in the Sky Too?
Ci sono montagne anche nel cielo?, 
Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin (IT)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025Intracore,  curated by Gheddo Project, 
Cripta San Michele Arcangelo, Turin (IT)
2025DAE Graduation Show during Dutch Design Week,  
Microstad, Eindhoven (NL)
2024One Shot Fourth Edition, 
Milan (IT)
2023Neologia Graphic Days, 
Turin (IT) 
2023Summer Exhibition,
 Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin (IT)

WRITING & CONTRIBUTIONS
2025Mountains as Cosmic Technologies, Field Notes
Metamorphic Zone
2025 Somewhere Nowhere, Benedetta Ferrari in Conversation with Metamorphic Zone
2024 MOON, Dito Publishing

FEATURED IN2025 Visual Bleed
2025Robida Summer School, Academy of Margins, ‘Radio Gardening.’
2025 Visual Bleed
2025 Visual Bleed
2024Visual Bleed
2023Bounty Hunters

Benedetta FerrariDesign
& Research  E: ferraribenedetta16@gmail.com
IN: @aaudreyhorneSelected Works
Updated at  March 2026

From Deep Skies, Towards Deep Earth: 
Mountains as Cosmic Feelings,  Cosmic Technologies, and Cosmic SensoriumsMA Thesis Research
Visual Research
Editorial Design
Photography2024-2025


Printed at Inchiostro Puro
Printed on Arena Natural Smooth 90gr,
Arena Natural Smooth 300gr
21x17cm 

Situated between cultural geography and media studies, this research analyzes the dual significance of mountains as tools for the encounter with the cosmos—as metaphysical axes connecting the terrestrial to the otherworldly and as scientific instruments enabling clearer observations of celestial bodies.
            Perceived as places of connection between the terrestrial and the cosmic, between the visible and the invisible, mountains seem to have the power to shape human experience and anchor imagination, helping spatialize invisibilities and concretize cosmic visions. Through case studies from the Alpine arc during the Enlightenment, the contested site of Mauna Kea, and the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, this work explores the historical evolution of mountains in relation to cosmological inquiry across diverse geographies, cultures, and time spans. 

A Cold StargazeMA Graduation Project

Movie
Video Installation
Metal Engravings
2024-2025


Starring  (Edoardo Ferrari, Alessandra Mazzaro) Additional DoPs  (Veronica Costantini, Riccardo Lo Nardo, Christian Scenini) Voice-over  co-written by
(Benedetta Ferrari, Jamine Fernandez)
Voice-over spoken by (Lorenzo Guareschi, Weronika Grec)


Between documentary and fiction, magic and realism, mountaintops and underground environments, 'A Cold Stargaze' is a reflection on the use of mountains as a technological foundation for encountering the cosmos.                    Inspired by alpinist-astronomer Joseph Vallot, a video portrays scientific practices in mountainous environments, questioning the legacy of scientific stargazing in high-altitude regions. Echoing scenes from the movie, hand-drawn diagrams etched in metal visualise scientific routines unfolding in underground labs. By exposing the limits of the scientific paradigm’s visual regime, the installation presents mountains as active agents and living systems.

A Crystalline Artifice: Memorie Climatiche 
dal Mito all’InfrastrutturaPersonal Research Project
Photography
Printed Textile
Marble Engravings
2024-2026


Produced in the context of the exibithion Are There Mountains in the Sky Too? Ci sono montagne anche nel cielo?, 
Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin (IT)
Through the image of the snowflake, now a symbol of climate change, A Crystalline Artifice explores the evolution of the mythology that has accompanied this element over the centuries: from falling stars regarded as a natural fertilizer for the fields, to a phenomenon increasingly at risk.            The work, featuring printed textiles, a photographic exploration of the Presena Glacier, and marble engravings, serves as a lens to examine how infrastructures and human interventions in mountain landscapes have changed. By invoking the idea of the “construction of winter” as a technical and infrastructural artifice, the research highlights the paradox of a prolonged winter and reflects on the future and sustainability of these increasingly engineered environments.

Shaped Views: 
A Digital Exploration of the Apuan Alps Research Project
w/ Greta Munaro
Information Design
Editorial Design
Installation 2024


Realized during the studio “Feed Mapping” held by Studio Calibro at MA Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven.
The Apuan Alps, shaped by relentless human action, are symbolic places where the physical landscape is constantly consumed and reshaped, much like digital spaces on social media. Portraying mountains through a reorganization of online content, this project reflects on how digital geotagged images multiply and transform the perception of physical space. In this fragmented digital geography, the once-solid landscape is re-materialized as a virtual entity, where the act of capturing and sharing replaces direct experience.

Interplanetary Echoes of a Quiet Land 
(A Moon Diaspora) Personal Research Project

Archival & Photographic Inquiry
Editorial Design
Multimedia Installation 2024


Realized during “Seeing Things” a studio held by koehorst in t veld at MA Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven.
The methods around space exploration echo those of Land Colonization on Planet Earth.  Often associated with the discovery of the New World by Columbus, space has long been seen by man as Terra Nullius: an empty, uninhabited place.
        Interplanetary Echoes of a Quiet Land’reflects on the trope of sovereignty on the Moon’s geography, developing a photographic inquiry and a speculative fiction into its disappearance due to excessive human extraction.

Petroglyphs 
(Rock Drawings in Val Camonica) Personal Experimentation

Visual Research
Editorial Design
2024


Realized during a workshop held by Benjamin McMillan at MA Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven.
As a result of a 2-day workshop with Benjamin McMillan, the printed editorial features automatically download content from various websites, analyzing the symbolism of rock drawings in the Camonica Valley. The fanzine's design was created manually during the workshop and later transported into a digital format for final production.

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