MiDA lab

Mida-lab creates a variety of unique pieces, suspended in a surreal atmosphere, between the world of materials, plants, animals, and the human world. The project revolves around the idea that craftsmen are shaped by objects as much as they shape them. Michela D’angelo is a designer-maker who founded the Mida-lab atelier in Sectie-c in Eindhoven, where she began her artistic production in 2021. In her training, she acquired specific expertise in materials such as ceramics, glass, wicker, recycled plastics, fabrics, steel, bronze, and aluminum. A practical training of experiences with local craftsmen in Italy, Spain, France, Peru, and the Netherlands. Michela was born in Rome. In 2015 she graduated in Product Design at EASD School of Arts and Design in Valencia. In 2017 she moved to the Netherlands to apprentice for the artist Nacho Carbonell, for whom she worked 5 years. In 2021 she started the MiDA-lab project, opening and setting up her atelier in Sectie-c (Eindhoven) where she began her own artistic production.

MiDA-lab gives a voice to several different materials, allowing them to communicate with one another, in such a way that resambles human relations, with all the different characters and personalities. Through personal experience, techniques, and feelings she gives life to a variety of sculptural objects, suspended between a material, plant, animal and human world. Experimenting contradictions, bouncing from a limit to the next, stretching thoughts until contrasting elements become the same.

Mida-lab projects range over time and territories, from Mediterranean countries to the Nordic culture of Dutch travelers, traders, and explorers. The products give voice to a composite plurality of materials allowing them to communicate with each other. The techniques are rooted in the tradition, with a renewed and current drive for innovation. Each individual object is a result of blending many cultural realities and human relationships reflecting the personal experiences of the designer, craftsman, and entrepreneur. The combination of techniques and materials also reflects a principle of sustainability, inherent in a circular system.