Projects |

Awards and Recognition |

TOP 50 CHILDREN’S FURNITURE DESIGNS | WOODEN STORY

2022

BEST INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT | NABA DESIGN AWARDS

2022

2022

SELECTED WORKS BY MIELE | MILAN DESIGN WEEK

BEST PRODUCT DESIGN PROJECT | NABA DESIGN AWARDS

2023

Legend |

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Awards & Recognition

Sustainability

Ethics

Sustainability | Materials | Product Design

Phoenix |

Phoenix is an experimental sustainability project focusing on the exploration of alternative materials for the future. The material in question is charcoal, and it’s possible use as a sustainable “leather” replacement. In order to test this, we created a charcoal-leather office item collection including a notebook cover, a pen case, a key chain and a phone pocket.

  • Designers: Dana Berro, Brinda Sharma, Oliwia Syroczynska

    Course/ Year: Awareness Design, 2021

    Professor: Stefano Citi

    Recognition: on display at Miele, Milan Design Week 2022

Sustainability | Data Visualization | Children

What Goes A Round, Comes Around |

“The whole is greater than it’s parts”, a statement that is often true. 

However, what if we focused on a single part, examined it, took it apart, transformed and rebuilt it. We then might see all that is great in that one part. 

What I have created is a unit of measurement, a building block that is comprised of a single part of a greater crisis that we face: the destruction of our planet and its resources. 

As this is becoming a more and more pressing issue as we speak, there already exists plenty of research and data that are widely available for the publie. What I have done here is try to create a cohesive and comprehensive visualization of this information using the unit of representation that I made. 

  • Designers: Dana Berro

    Course/Year: Design Methodology 2021

    Professor: Madalena Selvini

Furniture | Public Spaces | Product Design | Children’s Furniture

A Child’s Place in a Public Space |

This Children’s desk concept is a multifunctional design that can adapt to the needs of kids and kids with disabilities. We are challenging the idea of a traditional chair and desk through a design that is dynamic, modular, customizable and most importantly, fun. The design is centered around learning through play and encourages kids to explore the creation of their own personal space that best fits their needs as they grow from day to day and year to year.

The most valuable source of inspiration for this design came from children’s imaginations. Their limitless, intriguing and colorful minds can take you to beautiful places. So we asked some kids, including kids with disabilities to let us into their thoughts through drawings, and the results were astounding. 

This, led us to experiment and evolve our own design. Beginning with more traditional and familiar shapes, and finally altering and reducing it to the minimum essentials. 

A unique element to our design are the additions that are optional content that can be added and taken away as the child experiments, discovers and imagines what his or her own space would look like. With these additions, there are no rules, no guidelines, and no right or wrong way to use them. They are designed to allow the child to take full creative control.

  • Designers: Dana Berro, Brinda Sharma, Oliwia Syroczynska.

    Course/Year: Product Design 2022

    Professor: Stefan Davidovici

    Awards and Recognition: Top 50 children’s furniture design- Wooden Story 2022

Furniture | Public Space | Product Design

Curve

Renders & Images

  • Exhibition Render

  • Bench- Closed

  • Bench- Open

  • Full exhibition with bench- Closed

  • Exhibition with bench- open

  • Bench Close-up

  • Garage Italia Exterior

Curve is a public furniture piece specifically designed for Garage Italia. The bench took inspiration from large and small details in the space, including the shape of the architecture, the materials existing in the space, the multipurpose services and functions they offer and the history of the brand. It was specifically made for their exhibitions and car showcases in which the bench can serve as a comfortable place for observation. It is adaptable to different amounts of people and takes into consideration not obstructing the views from around it. It’s materials were carefully chosen according to their strong beliefs in sustainability and their long-time love of automobiles.

  • Designers: Dana Berro, Cagla Enginer, Maria Vittoria Zini

    Course/Year: Furniture Design 2022

    Professor: Philippe Alexandre Claude Tabet

Product Design | Furniture | Outdoor

Tavelo |

Inspired by a biker’s love of fun and freedom, Tavelo came to be. 

Tavelo is a product designed to encourage sharing good times, bringing people together, to eat, drink, laugh, and love in the simplest and most seamless way. 

Tavelo is just as enjoyable in a biker’s beautiful solitude. 

The name is derived from the two languages of love, perfect for what the product aims to share. Tavolo, coming from the Italian word for table, and Velo coming from the French word for Bicycle, combine to create and describe the romanticism and whim of the Tavelo. 

  • Designers: Dana Berro, Cagla Enginer, Maria Vittoria Zini

    Course/Year: Product Design 2022

    Professor: Edoardo Perri

Sanctuaries of the Alps |

Sanctuaries of the Alps |

Air |

Earth |

Water |

Air | Earth | Water |

Sustainability | Ethics | Interior Design | Architecture

Sanctuaries of the Alps is a series of sanctuaries built in strategic points around Lavale and Pattemouche that will highlight and amplify nature’s elements. The area’s lively history is slowly melting leaving the village abandoned. This reflects and forebodes earth’s climate crisis and the dire need for us to take a moment to reflect and appreciate the greatness of nature. The three contemplative spaces feature air, water and earth, each built in a way that allows us to experience them deeply with all our senses.We were captivated by the ever-present triangle in Pattemouche/Laval’s landscape. A combination of both natural mountains and man-made rooftops inspired the shape of the sanctuaries. Seen as though our structures are dedicated to the appreciation of nature, it was important that our structure seamlessly blended into it’s surroundings without disrupting it’s beauty. We slightly altered the triangle, curving it inwards and elongating the ends, in order to increase functionality and better serve it’s purpose.

  • Designers: Dana Berro, Arantxa Sanchez, Oliwia Syroczynska

    Course/Year: Interior Design 2022

    Professor: Federica Doglio

    Awards: Best Interior Design Project 2021/22- NABA Design Awards

Furniture | Lighting | Luxury | Product Design

Co Essere

The Co-Essere Lamp is an invitation of interaction and connection with light and eachother.

It's name, derived from its concept, combines the Latin root "Co"-meaning together, and the Italian verb Essere-meaning to be; Hence, to be together, all and one.

The lamp was inspired by the new, the old, the classic, the industrial, the simple and complex to illuminate your

  • Designers: Dana Berro, Cagla Enginer, Maria Vittoria Zini

    Course/Year: Lighting Design 2023

    Professor: Filippo Protasoni

    Awards: Best Product Design project 2022/23- NABA Design Awards

Ethics | Sustainability | Design Theory | Product Design | Research

[Thesis]

Ethics in the Future of Design:

Charting new territories in Design Methodology through collaboration with Artificial Intelligence.

Thesis Abstract:

This thesis explores the possibility of an ethical future in design through the proposal of a Code of Ethics. It is a collaborative work between Artificial Intelligence and human knowledge, done in order to emphasize the strong presence and need to acknowledge and harness the power of technology in the future. The project is entirely theoretical, the main topics of focus being the senses, ethics, artificial intelligence and design- more specifically design theory, user-centered design, and universal design. These topics are explored through multiple disciplines such as anthropology, philosophy, technology, politics and education in order to understand societal development over time and it’s full, multifaceted impact on culture. The research is used to create a Code of Ethics, which is a starting point for other designers of all types, to create a more ethical approach to their designs. We explore possibilities of the application of the Code of Ethics in which it is used as a framework for a greater “interactive web of experience”. 

  • Designer: Dana Berro

    Course/Year: Thesis 2023/24

    Professor: Nikolaos Koronis