Future scenarios in jewellery: sustainability, innovations and challenges for the body at the Jewellery Museum

Jewelry has always been a middle ground between art, cra!smanship, fashion, and design. Objects with ambiguous boundaries and contrasting values, capable of encompassing the most unbridled luxury exhibited with precious materials, and the most conceptual avant-garde, the result of experimentation between form, material, and function. Multiple languages converge in jewelry and, more and more "equently, technical and formal choices are the answer to the evolution of products and processes, of the development of the economy and, consequently, of the competitiveness of companies or designers. #e paper aims to de$ne the evolutionary scenarios in relation to formal and technical innovations in the goldsmith's panorama. First, the context of interest is described. #e future of jewelry holds together the past and the present and reworks them in a new way and in relation to the challenges of the contemporary. It does so through multifaceted expressions "om di%erent contexts that challenge traditional disciplinary fences. Secondly, three areas of interest in this heterogeneous context are identi$ed and their peculiarities de$ned: sustainability, experimentation and technological gra!s, and challenges for the body. Finally, for each category, contemporary case studies are examined, glimmers of a typically Italian manufacturing, design and creative excellence, protagonists of the Future Room of the Jewellery Museum in Vicenza, the $rst museum in Italy entirely dedicated to jewellery.