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WORKS

Being a designer and a multidisciplinary researcher means constantly learning and working across disciplines, code-switching between academic and community spaces, and jumping from prototyping in the field to producing scholarly work.

Here is a selection of the community-based design and practice and research initiatives I have started or have been part of across the fields of Participatory Design (PD), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Science, Technology, and Society (STS), and UX/UI design (UX/UI).

Reach out if you want to collaborate or to connect! 

︎  In progress
︎  Completed

ALL

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN (PD)
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI)

SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY (STS)

USER EXPERIENCE AND INTERFACE DESIGN (UX/UI)
WORKS

Being a designer and a multidisciplinary researcher means constantly learning and working across disciplines, code-switching between academic and community spaces, and jumping from prototyping in the field to producing scholarly work.

Here is a selection of the community-based design and practice and research initiatives I have started or have been part of across the fields of Participatory Design (PD), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Science, Technology, and Society (STS), and UX/UI design (UX/UI).

Reach out if you want to collaborate or to connect!

︎  In progress
︎  Completed

ALL

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN (PD)
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI)

SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY (STS)

USER EXPERIENCE AND INTERFACE DESIGN (UX/UI)

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
#PD #STS

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

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.
︎  2018 - Present
MIT Media Lab | Diversa
Colombia, Guatemala
#PD #UX/UI design

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.

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.

International Development Design Summits︎︎︎

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)
#PD #STS
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar | 2023   ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎