"Roberta Bernabei Jewellery"

"Roberta Bernabei Jewellery

Jewellery theory and practice: an investigation into emotionally invested and mnemonic jewellery through sensitising materials

This research explores the capacity of jewellery to be emotionally embedded and to perform a mnemonic function. It investigates the work of European jewellers, jewellery design methods and thought-provoking ways of displaying jewellery in an atypical setting. It is situated in the context of contemporary jewellery design and practice and aims to expand our knowledge of the potential of materials and new technologies to advance opportunities for the making of jewellery as an artefact with the capacity to be a carrier of emotions and memories. Throughout, the author utilises concepts of sensitising materials and notions of narrative quality. A body of work comprising nineteen publications including a chapter from a monograph book by the author is presented. The academic outputs illustrate a range of approaches from the theoretical and the experimental to exploratory qualitative methods. The findings, testing innovative materials and new technologies contribute to our understanding of technical and aesthetic solutions to the problematics of investing jewellery with memories and emotions through the application of both digital technologies and traditional craft techniques. The results were then applied in qualitative contexts, firstly to explore their capacity to support the designing and making and secondly, in a collaborative setting to explore the capacity of this novel practice for enhancing well-being. The distinctive contribution to knowledge comprises, in part, reflections on the materiality of the object from the jewellery maker’s perspective. The purpose is to further an understanding of the role of emotionally and mnemonically embedded jewellery both in everyday life and as an agent of well-being. In doing so, it can be seen as: extending the work of anthropologist Ingold; informing the theory of jewellery initiated by Lindermann; and as refining conceptualisations of the capacity of emotionally charged jewellery for enhancing well-being.</div

Maria Rosa Franzin: past present

Maria Rosa Franzin: past presen

British contemporary jewellery artists in Jewellery Unlimited

British contemporary jewellery artists in Jewellery Unlimite

Joya Art Jewellery Fair and Digital Production

This article is based on a survey with selected participants at Joya. The survey is designed to investigate: 1) pedagogical and technical methods such as for incorporating computer aided design and manufacture into higher education jewellery design and the jewellery business post graduation, 2) The role and impact of Jewellery fairs in the jewellery context today. This research seeks to identify weaknesses and strengths in contemporary teaching practices; highlighting innovative methods that nurture design problem solving, technical competence, exploration of new materials and dynamic form generation

Wearable words: a case study applying Jewellery theory and practice to the education of Fine Art, Textiles Innovation and Design, Graphic Communication and Illustration students

Wearable Words is a cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary education adventure that investigates the human body through ‘wearable objects’. It transfers the teaching of jewellery studies to a group of learners from different disciplines including: Fine Art, Textiles and Graphic Communication and Illustration. It aims to determine whether the theoretical issues of jewellery and jewellery technologies can bring an innovative research method and new practical tools to students who are not familiar with the jewellery arena. In so doing, Wearable Words symbolises the non – verbal communications of body related objects. The paper examines the preliminary challenges, weaknesses and successes of the project, which was delivered to 19 second year BA students between February and June 2016 at Loughborough University. It analyses the extent to which a shift to the theoretical and practical approaches of jewellery design education enabled students of different disciplines to develop their research methodologies, design capabilities and making skills. The results are analysed through observational methods, open ended questions, and visual analysis

English jewellery in blue Delft

English jewellery in blue Delf

Wearable Words: a case study applying jewellery theory and practice to the education of fine art, textiles, graphic communication and illustration students [conference paper]

Wearable Words is an interdisciplinary education adventure that investigates the human body through ‘wearable objects’. It transfers the teaching of jewellery studies to a group of learners from different disciplines including: Fine Art, Textiles and Graphic Communication and Illustration. It aims to determine whether the theoretical issues of jewellery and jewellery technologies can bring an innovative research method and new practical tools to students who are not familiar with the jewellery arena. The paper examines the preliminary challenges, weaknesses and successes of the project, which was delivered to 26 second year BA students between February and June 2016 at a UK University. It analyses the extent to which a shift to the theoretical and practical approaches of jewellery design education enabled students of different disciplines to develop their research methodologies, design capabilities and making skills. The results are analysed through observational methods, open ended questions, and visual analysis

Digital jewellery: the democratisation of authorship and ownership

Digital jewellery: the democratisation of authorship and ownershi

The conscience mirror

‘Like A Rolling Stone’ was a collaborative exchange undertaken during the Scottish Government’s 2016 Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design. The jewelled project was instigated by the Italian Cultural Institute (ICI) in Edinburgh and Stephen Bottomley, the then Head of Jewellery and Silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA). The dynamic week-long making workshop unfurled in coastal landscapes and was supported by lectures by geologists from the Scottish Gemmological Institute and the symposium Three Italian Goldsmiths