Between Borderlands and Intersections

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) 

I am a LatinX Paraguayan-Canadian Mestiza architect, designer, researcher and educator with extensive multidisciplinary professional practice in South America and Canada. My practice has a special focus on land-based design, social innovation and sustainability and It includes architectural projects and a specialization in exhibit design, experiential design, (interdisciplinary interaction design, visual communication-information design and industrial design), placemaking, signage and wayfinding programs.

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 Indigenous 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.