ORBITATO  

What it is

Orbitato is a multidisciplinary structure, active since October 2007, working from Pomerode, Santa Catarina/ Brazil, in fashion, design and architecture, with interest in social, cultural and environmental development.

It came out of the perception of geographic, functional and conceptual proximity between the textile/fashion industries and design industries – wooden goods, porcelain, glass, metalworking… - in the state of Santa Catarina, and from the observation of their common necessities related to creative capacity, technical knowledge and global thinking.

Comprehending that the present days market is global, and that only the innovative and competent enterprises are competitive, determines in an imperative manner the need professionals have to be finely qualified, in conditions to answer for the creation and development of products and their processes in social, cultural, and environmental terms.

Orbitato takes two kinds of actions: 1. Education, and 2. Accomplishment.

1. High competence education in different formats.

2. Businesses that may arise from Creation and Development of Products and Processes, or Provision of Services and Consultancy.

WHO WE ARE

We are a multidisciplinary team that works very closely integrated. The boundaries of knowledge and practices are often overlapped and dissolved. We attempt to value our individual talents, adding them in a kind of collective talent: Orbitato. We assume learning and teaching is a daily and constant practice.

Celaine Refosco - Creative/ Pedagogical Direction

She graduated as a visual artist at Belas Artes do Paraná – EMBAP, and achieved master degree in education at Universidad de la Habana/ Cuba. Celaine is also an expert in 'Design for homes' by CDI, Uruguay/Italy and Fashion Creation Director by FAAP and MASP/ABIT. She has worked in Product Development at major Brazilian companies, has established the Fashion Graduation Course at Unerj, Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina/ Brazil, which she coordinated since 2003 through 2006.

Celaine Refosco transits between art and textile design. She believes in growing together and likes collective experiences. She has, in many opportunities, taken the lead in order to expand knowledge and creative capacity related to textile design, fashion and art. Also, she has glimpsed the educational and cultural shortcoming, which allowed for the creation of Orbitato Institute in the industrial scenario of Santa Catarina.

Adriane Socreppa - Managing Director/ Marketer

Fashion Design Graduate at Unerj and PDD expert at Fundação Don Cabral. She has studied Advertisement, working in agencies as a marketer, and media and marketing relations. Between 2003 and 2007, she has worked with Celaine Refosco in Unerj\'s Fashion Design Graduation Course coordination team.

Vinicius Schane - Pedagogical planning/ Communication

Historian with expertise in fashion and design and their connections with time, people, objects, images and social relationships. He teaches Sociology, and Design and Apparel History at Universidade Positivo, in the city of Curitiba, state of Paraná/Brazil. Until 2010 he was a professor at Universidade Regional de Blumenau\'s Fashion Design Graduation Course. As well as at Unerj/Centro Universitário Católico de Santa Catarina, in Fashion, Design, and Textile technology Graduation Courses.

Flávia Vanelli - Design and Communication

Advertiser with expertise by Orbitato\'s Post Graduation - Latu Sensu, Course in Creation and Developing of Fashion and Design Products, first class. With great interest in social and environmental development, she has researched over the expertise course an eco-material made out of reused plastic bags, generating a new material to be applied to objects and clothing. Her authorial project can be seen at: http://www.ratoroi.com.br/

Sheila Zaleski - Product development/Atelier

Fashion Design Graduate at Unerj|PUC-PR, she soon discovered her passion for modeling and structural aspects of clothes. Studying at Orbitato\'s Post Graduation - Latu Sensu, Course in Creation and Developing of Fashion and Design Products, she experiments developing Orbitato Products.

Taís Mahs - Secretary/ Communication

A student at Universidade Regional de Blumenau\'s Product Design Graduation Course, she works as a secretary and communication assistant. With the daily work at Orbitato, she complements her education in design.

Crista Duemes – Housekeeping

She is determined and helpful, responsible for the organization, housekeeping and cleanliness of Orbitato\'s space.

Luisa Alexandra Uribe - Support

Actress graduated at Universidade de Antioquia, Medellín/ Colombia. Studying at Orbitato\'s Post Graduation - Latu Sensu, Course in Creation and Developing of Fashion and Design Products, she researches the relationship between theater costumes and textile design, observing the body and its performances.

ADDITIONAL TEAM

As a second body, that gets bigger, we have students, trainees or invited professionals that act in specific relations which add up and assume responsibilities, starting accomplishments, multiplying actions, confirming Orbitato\'s expansion logic: ramification.

Jeruza Teixeira

Graduated Advertiser by Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, she studies Fashion Design at Faculdade Estácio de Sá, in Florianópolis, and Orbitato\'s Post Graduation - Latu Sensu, Course in Creation and Developing of Fashion and Design Products, third class. She is very fond of crafts, that\'s why she is in the Social-Creative Powerhouse project of the institute. She works as a teacher in Arts and Crafts workshops meant to stimulate the creative process of children and teens.

Juliana Foz

Fashion designer graduated at Centro Universitário SENAC, she currently designs shoes and accessories for Khelf, a brand based in São Paulo; besides creating sustainable clothing for her own brand, Lírio lê. She is starting Orbitato\'s Post Graduation - Latu Sensu, Course in Creation and Developing of Fashion and Design Products, fourth class. She is part of the Social-Creative Powerhouse project team, as a collaborator of Arts and Crafts workshops. She believes this way she may help develop children and teens creative potentials.

Daniela Baruffi

Seventh term student of Graduation Fashion Design Course at Unerj, she works as a studio photographer in the town of Jaraguá do Sul.
She is a trainee at Orbitato, where she researches banana tree fiber and it\'s applications in product and fashion design, in order to accomplish her graduation work for college.

Rosane Pfitzer

Fashion Design Graduate at Unerj and expert by Orbitato\'s Post Graduation - Latu Sensu, Course in Creation and Developing of Fashion and Design Products, first class, she has experience with crafts processes.Her work is mainly about developing projects related to banana tree fiber. Rosane also participates in projects that involve training and brainstorming about social and environmental issues related to design.

Samira Costa

Fashion Design Graduate at Universidade Estadual de Londrina and expert by Orbitato\'s Post Graduation - Latu Sensu, Course in Creation and Developing of Fashion and Design Products, second class. She acts as an industrial fashion designer at the city of Jaraguá do Sul, and at the same time, is engaged with Orbitato\'s projects that involve income generation, training and brainstorming about social and environmental issues related to design. She has been awarded at the second edition of Objeto Brasileiro Prize, from Museu Acasa, with the group from Corupá.

LOCATION

Pomerode – Located at Itajaí Valley, is easily reached through Joinville\'s or Navegantes\' airports, as well as from Florianópolis and Curitiba. The 25 thousand-inhabitant town – many of which are German immigrants – has a comfortable touristic infrastructure and is part of the Circuito Cicloturistico Vale Europeu (European Valley Bicycle-tourism Circuit), in the State of Santa Catarina.

It has a tangible and intangible historical heritage of great importance, including German cuisine and handcrafted quality beer.

We have chose Pomerode because of the coexistence of industry and preservation of culture and History, as well as the environment. Also, the variety of design, fashion and textile industries it houses is very rich.

www.pomerode.sc.gov.br/turismo 

HOW THE INSTITUTE WORKS

1. Education

The education we practice is, above all, committed to be transforming, showing the professionals/ students functional and perceptible results, as well as to the production structures they work at or develop.

We contribute to the development of professionals that think about and accomplish their work concerned about the environment around them.

The courses may be formal, long term, for a broad and specific view of the complex industrial environment of 21st century, or short term to respond to specific knowledges.

They might be tailored to address specific needs of enterprises or sections, or even have the format of an event, open to many participants and knowledges.

a. Post Graduation - Latu Sensu
b. Workshops
c. Business workshops
d. Meetings and events
e. Generation of work and income
f. Special projects

2. Business

Comprehending the complex industrial arrangement of the state of Santa Catarina allows us to organize, produce and manage professional skills, products and services, promoting mutual and extensive benefits.

We have built an important dialog between what we teach and accomplish.
We act specifically creating and developing products and processes.

a. Orbitato Products
We have developed a line of products with the ORBITATO brand as a way to give vent to our creativity, bring opportunities of experimentation and aesthetical/ structural researches.

b. Creation and development of products
Relying on a network of high competence and talented professionals, we can form teams to develop concept and communication, products and fashion collections, graphic design or objects, printworks, among others. We create various objects, sceneries and ambience.

c. Services and consultancy
Relying on a network of professionals, we can form multidisciplinary teams dimensioned in order to attend specific needs related to creation and development of products, to production and it\'s processes.

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