Rafaella Castagnola is a designer born in Lima, Peru and currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She recently graduated from the Pratt Institute with a BFA in Graphic Design. In her work she uses design, photography and writing as a means to intuitively explore and tell the stories she encounters. For her, the city presents itself as an endless container of stories waiting to be told; stories of death, disposability, displacement and urban change.
About the featured project
"Steuben Street" started in 2016 as her university thesis, when she happened to find the abandoned room of a dead person. What started as an attempt to reconstruct a dead man’s life, evolved into a project aimed to explore the obscure side of NYC’s housing system and its social consequences.
