Controlled Random Modelling. A Workshop by Abolfazl Rahbarian - Ebi

There’s something captivating about twisting a metal wire and watching it fold, curl, and knot itself — the way thoughts do when they start moving through the mind. Suddenly, there’s density, confusion, a compact cluster with no direction.
And then comes the instinct: What if we could look at that tangle… and shape it? Of course, we never fully manage it. But we try — persistently. We struggle, we push to impose a minimal logic, a trace of structure, something that feels just orderly enough. In the end, that compact mass of metal becomes almost a physical snapshot — a frozen fragment of tangled thoughts, pulled out, shaped, refined, and polished by human hands.


Important Information:
Duration: 15 hours in 3 days.
Cost: 600 €.
Teaching language: English/Italian.
Materials: The school provides, as part of the participation fee, the necessary materials for the exercises. The objects made by participants remain their property.
Skills: Basic knowledge of goldsmithing techniques
 
The workshop will be activated with a minimum of 5 participants.
Participants may request the list of tools from the school office to purchase their own, or they can rent a complete kit provided by the school.

15% discount on total tuition for enrolment and payment by December 31, 2025.

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Abolfazl Rahbarian was born in Qom (Iran) in 1974. He graduated in Industrial Design from the University of Tehran and worked for several years in the design sector before devoting himself to jewellery design. He learned the craft of goldsmithing and silversmithing in workshops and has held thirteen solo exhibitions in Tehran. In 2009, he moved to Italy, where he earned a degree in Composition from the Conservatory of Trento. He currently works in the industrial fashion jewellery sector and as a freelance jewellery designer.