I am a textile and materials designer and researcher, specialised in responsive and active soft technologies. My work explores movement as an inherent property of materials and investigates how responsive shape change can be integrated into the expressive palette of textiles for the design of environment-sensitive structures. Drawing from neo-materialist conceptions of matter and deploying craft-based methods of engagement with materials, processes and tools, my practice reveals materials’ latent capacities, enriching their aesthetic and functional vocabulary. Through these engagements, my work examines the role of intuitive making in the generation of knowledge, embracing mistakes and the accidental as catalysts of creative opportunities.
I completed a Ph.D. in Textiles from the Royal College of Art (London), an M.Sc. in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), and B.A.s in Textile Design and Graphic Design, from ESDi School of Design (Barcelona) and ORT University (Montevideo), respectively. With experience in industrial, technological, and academic settings in Uruguay, Spain, Germany, the UK, Sweden and France, my expertise spans R&D of smart textiles and advanced functional materials, colour & material innovation for automotive interiors, research on colour & emotion for mixed-reality interactions, and practice-based design research. I have lectured in textiles and smart materials at universities across Europe and my work has been published, presented, and exhibited internationally, receiving awards and funding from the Institute for Catalan Studies (Barcelona), FAD Incubator (Barcelona), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (EU), the Uruguayan research and innovation agency (ANII) and IDB Lab (Uruguay), and Decathlon (France), among others.
I am currently based in Paris, where I have recently conducted postdoctoral research at EnsadLab, École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – Université PSL, and contributed to the development of the newly established ESMOD Research Lab.
