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,
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.
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 t
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 Indigenous ways of knowing and being as an emergent paradigm. This paradigm incorporates technologies and methodologies that have sustainab
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.
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Cornell University
I will be presenting in the LACS Research symposium at Cornell University. In celebration of its 60th anniversary the Latin American and Car...
Cornell University
Everywhere@Zoom
PDC2022 theme Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design, reaffirms important and necessary action for social justice a...
Everywhere@Zoom
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pluriversal-dbc-rita-segato-a-critique-of-coloniality-eight-essays-tickets-231006555827
I will be presenting the work by Rita Segato: La crítica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos / A Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays at the...
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https://emilycarru.zoom.us/s/65074580897
I will be moderating with Laura Kozak a panel discussion presenting Vanessa Andreotti, Julie Bull and Rita Wong, three amazing scholars who ...
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Online@Melbourne, Australia
I will be presenting my research expanding on Indigenous situated knowledges in the context of Latin American decolonial thinking and the Pl...
Online@Melbourne, Australia
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