Sara Bologna is a designer, design consultant and researcher based in Milan (b.1996). She is also co-founder of BGGB studio, a collaborative practice initiated together with Luca Gruber.

Focusing on the anthropological and intangible aspects of material culture, she conceives artifacts as narrative mediums that can surface alternate sets of values, to steer systemic change. Her imagery is permeated with rituals, symbols, graffiti from the creases of pre-history, fragments of poems, and grimoires. All these inspirations are deconstructed and reconstructed based on iconographic, semantic and historical insight, and turned into objects through a narrative-driven approach.

Her practice understands design as a world-making activity that translates values and ideals into material experiences and artifacts, embodying concepts of pluriversality, in particular through the rediscovery of rituality and the valorization of artisanal production.

She curates design-related projects with attention to the cross-contamination of the discipline with craftsmanship and contemporary arts.

She is a research collaborator and lecturer at Politecnico di Milano. 

She is part of the first generation of designers of co/rizom - incubator of crafts, with a project dedicated to the ceramic and iconographic tradition of Grottaglie (TA). Her Atanor vase was included in the design selection curated by Domitilla Dardi for the iconic Milanese concept store and gallery 10CorsoComo. With the social enterprise Nuova Libbaneria Mediterranea (Maratea, PZ) she is developing a collection of furniture aimed at reviving the local crafts heritage while paying homage to women's labour. The project was selected by the Permanent Observatory of Design of ADI (Associazione Disegno Industriale) to be included in the ADI Design Index 2024 - Compasso d'Oro selection. 

current reading list:

_Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, Arturo Escobar, Duke University Press ed. 2017;

_Design, When Everybody Designs. An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation, Ezio Manzini, The MIT Press ed. 2015;

_Global Tools: when education coincides with life, ed. by V. Borgonuovo and S. Franceschini.