Between Borderlands and Intersections

I am a LatinX Paraguayan-Canadian Mestiza architect, designer, researcher and educator with extensive multidisciplinary professional practice in South America and Canada. My work stands at the intersection of systems thinking, service design and climate action, embodying a commitment to sustainable and inclusive solutions.I have a special focus on land-based design, and my work in industry includes architectural projects and a specialization in exhibit design, experiential design, visual communication-information design, placemaking, architectural urban signage and wayfinding programs for airports and transportation systems.

I propose a design process of dismantling the colonial structures and concepts of modernist design that exacerbate the individual and the universal, by looking back, re-reading place and its history, but also bringing in our own positionality, decolonizing ourselves and tracing the footprints of a community that in a respectful way aims to build a “world where many worlds can fit". (Zapatista Manifiesto,1996) 

In my current research, I promote design practices as the vehicles within which to build equitable communities of practice through land-based design and pedagogy, that accounts for the introduction of alternative ways of knowing and being as an emergent paradigm. This paradigm incorporates technologies and methodologies that have sustainability and care for our planet as an inextricable part of our societal and human ecologies.