This portfolio moves between two related practices: Chiara Portinari's work in education, evaluation, and institutional consultancy, and claire's creative and community-based practice. Both are below, one after the other. Chiara Portinari and claire are the same person.
Chiara — Education & Institutional Practice
Helping institutions turn values into practice
I design, run, and evaluate participatory projects — focus groups, workshops, evaluation frameworks — that turn inclusion commitments into something real.
Portfolio highlights
- Situated Evaluation Framework — An evaluation framework for student partnerships, built with two cohorts of researchers.
- Embodying Care in Pedagogy — A body-mapping workshop exploring how care can live inside everyday teaching.
- Changemaking Led by Students Archive — A prototype archive connecting student changemaking to real community needs.
- Wall Project — A curriculum project giving students space to make their work publicly visible.
- EDI Evaluation for Making Connections — A community EDI evaluation exploring the past, present, and future of a local initiative.
- Postcards to the Community — Co-designing postcards with a local community to foster connection and shared authorship.
claire — creative & community practice
making things with people
creative and reflective arts for grassroots projects — illustration, film, zines, community workshops — rooted in care, place, and the people they're about.
portfolio highlights
- marghera nel mezzo — documenting the living culture of a neighbourhood through the eyes of the people who know it.
- bar cosmos — exhibition design for a graduate show, built through collaboration across departments.
- the line's wellbeing walk — exploring wellbeing along a public art walk through london.
- global agreement on freedom of movement — a speculative project imagining what freedom of movement could look and feel like.
- claire cares — an illustrated collection documenting the everyday life and labour of a foreign nanny.
- the way things live — exploring what our everyday objects mean to us, and how they age alongside us.