Ancestral technology ︎︎︎
We are building a series of case studies on culturally-rooted, locally-made ancestral technologies across multiple geographies in Colombia. Collaborators include farmers, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant enclaves, and fisherman communities.
︎ 2021 - Present
MIT Media Lab | Diversa
Colombia
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MIT Media Lab | Diversa
Colombia
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Rural Co-Design Experiences ︎︎︎
Designing disruptive education programs in higher education to increase value to partnering communities in the context of participatory design projects.︎ 2019 - 2022
MIT Media Lab | Diversa
Colombia
#PD #STS
MIT Media Lab | Diversa
Colombia
#PD #STS
Retos ︎︎︎
With the Retos platform, we solve for the long-standing problem of continuity in community-based initiatives in design and engineering. We provide a digital platform to document, access, and share key information on local innovation initiatives.
Diversa ︎︎︎
We are a design collective focused on co-designing rural infrastructure. We provice access to free, high quality technology design education in support of self-determination projects.
Dormio ︎︎︎
Dormio is a wearable device that uses biosignal tracking to detect hypnagogic sleep states. It uses this information to prompt users with information with the goal to explore the relations between sleep and creativity.
Human-Computer Interaction in Latin America ︎︎︎
We are exploring Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar’s concept of the pluriverse as a way to mediate the tensions in the way HCI knowledge is produced in Latin American geographies compared with sites in the Global North.
Value of the “Co” ︎︎︎
At a time where participation can be positively leveraged as well as negatively, we investigate the question of how we can increase our understanding of the value of participatory design approaches, spcecifically in the context of community-based initiatives.
CabildoXLatAm ︎︎︎
A participatory digital space to learn, strengthen, and design collective responses to the pandemic. The event brought together civil society actors, governments, communities, and citizens.
Citational Justice ︎︎︎
In this project we investigate the question: how do you choose the works you cite when producing knowledge, and what does that choice entail? We do this through workshop facilitation and highly collaborative public writing.︎ 2021 - Present
MIT Media Lab
USA
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MIT Media Lab
USA
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International Development Design Summits︎︎︎
Hands-on design experiences that bring together people from all walks of life to create low-cost, practical innovations to improve the lives of people living in poverty.︎ 2015-2018
Diversa, MIT D-Lab
Colombia (multiple locations)
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Diversa, MIT D-Lab
Colombia (multiple locations)
#PD #STS
The Role of Social Robots in Fostering Human Empathy ︎︎︎
Using biometrics and designed interactions with social robots, we explored the question: can social robots support children in elementary school rebuild empathy skills?︎ 2016 - 2018
MIT Media Lab
Colombia, USA
#HCI #UX/UI
MIT Media Lab
Colombia, USA
#HCI #UX/UI
Social Robots in Zero Gravity ︎︎︎
As research connected to space exploration becomes more accessible, opportunities to improve austranauts’ experiences by better supporting their connection to loved ones on Earth. In this work we asked: can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?︎ 2018
MIT Media Lab
United States
#HCI #UX/UI Design
MIT Media Lab
United States
#HCI #UX/UI Design
Curious Learning ︎︎︎
How do children interact with a platform for self-guided literacy learning?We did a cross-cultural analysis of data collected from two digital literacy deployments in Wolenchete, Ethiopia and Roanoke, AL, USA to answer this question.︎ 2017
MIT Media Lab
United States, Ethiopia
#HCI
MIT Media Lab
United States, Ethiopia
#HCI
