Profile

Industrial designer of Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Bogotá, COL) and actual student at the Social Design master program of the Design Academy Eindhoven (Eindhoven, NL).

Experience

COMMUNICATIONS DESIGNER. Global Ethics Foundation. Bogotá, 2008-2011

Design of presentations and external communications of the foundation, & assessing in design for the ‘Global Ethics Manual’, published with El Tiempo on 2010.

ACADEMIC INSTRUCTOR. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Bogotá, 2009-2011

Academic instructor at the industrial design program, in charge of Prospective Technology class as well as mentoring students during their graduation projects.

Participations

TIME-SPACE INTERFACES. workshop with Klaus Krippendorf. Bogotá, 2011

Made part of one of the groups that participated in the ‘Time-space interfaces’ workshop, with the Pr. Klaus Krippendorff, which was hosted in the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, in Bogotá on 2011.

MAKE-DESIGN RIGA! Dutch Design Made in Latvia Riga, Letonia 2011

Participation in the international workshop Make-design Riga!, where the students from the Design Academy Eindhoven worked in collaboration with local craftsmen from Riga (capital city of Latvia), to produce diverse objects that were exhibited for a month in the Birza Museum in Riga.

WELCOME TO ST. GILLES! Liège, Bélgica 2012

Ongoing project that seeks to revitalize the life of a traditional neighborhood in the city of Liège, in Belgium, by enhancing the local production and consumption, as well as by attracting new residents and visitors. The recording of my project, l’or noir is available on this blog.

Education

BACHELOR Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano — Industrial Designer 2008

MASTER Design Academy Eindhoven – MDes Social Design 2013 (Expected)

Recognitions

GRANT Colfuturo - Selected as beneficiary of the Loan-Scholarship program for the period 2011-2013.

SELECTED as member of the self-evaluation committee for the accreditation process of the Industrial Design program of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University.

SELECTED to participate in the “design pedagogy” course  (teachers training) from the Industrial Design program of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University.

Publications

En el caso de las disciplinas creativas, ¿son éstas las que modelan el perfil de los estudiantes o estos los que modelan el perfil de la disciplina?. En Diseño y Educación (cuadernos de diseño industrial). Indexed. Bogotá, 2010.