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Before joining NC State College of Design this fall, I worked at Appalachian State University for over three years. During this time, my family and I lived in Boone, learned to love the mountains, and were warmly welcomed by its community...
Read MoreExploring the use of Generative AI to generate new materials and their applications to visualize combinations of colors, textures, and patterns that, until now, seemed impossible or incredibly challenging to create through more traditional techniques…
Read MoreIn recent weeks, I've been working on a fascinating project combining AI + Poetry + Design to create a series of dresses, each inspired by a different poem. This initiative aimed to capture the human essence of poetry in a tangible and innovative way using AI tools…
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After 8 years of not attending an IDSA Conference, I had the opportunity to participate and present some of my work about AI and Design Education at this year’s International Design Conference. It was a privilege to share the stage with such insightful speakers and have many interesting conversations about life, design, education, and technology!…
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For the past few weeks, I have been exploring Midjourney, an AI program that creates images from textual descriptions, in an effort to understand how this type of tool works and what are the implications of its use for design education and practice…
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The last update to my website was at the end of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic started. Little did we know what 2020 had prepared to make us grow and reflect on our priorities and values…
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Two papers I co-authored that discuss climate change and technology transfer in rural Colombia were selected to be presented at the Cumulus Conference Bogota 2019: The Design After. Both papers were successfully presented at the conference, sparking interesting conversations with the audience.
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My paper "Empathic Design as a Framework for Creating Meaningful Experiences," co-authored with Juanita Gonzalez, was selected to be presented at the Academy for Design Innovation Management Conference 2019. On Wednesday, June 19, I successfully presented the paper, which sparked a lot of interesting conversations with the audience.
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Our research team, led by Prof. Juan Manuel España and me, was selected among a group of 40 teams of talented researchers and brilliant entrepreneurs to participate in the Oxelerator program and transform our research project “CirCob: Bio-materials for the circular economy” into an investor-ready business plan through an intense five-month accelerator program.
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The students of my studio “Design for Sustainability” presented their final projects at the exhibit hall of the Faculty of Arts and Design (Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Module 20) on May 13-16, 2019. Their projects aimed at contributing to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identified by the World Design Organization as particularly relevant to the industrial design community.
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Our design team represented NC State’s College of Design at the LexisNexis Hackathon 2017 and received a special mention for our user-centered approach and the excellent execution of our solution. The purpose of the Hackathon was to improve or extend the functionality of existing LexisNexis products in an intense two-day event.
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As designers, our job consists of creating things—products, services or experiences—for other people. We rarely have the chance to design just for ourselves or for our immediate community. This post discusses the importance of empathy in the design process.
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In this post, I test three different tools for qualitative data analysis (QDA) as I am in the process of analyzing hundreds of pieces of qualitative data for my dissertation (audio and video recordings, field notes, PDFs, photos, etc.).
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