Àlex Jiménez

Àlex Jiménez

Àlex Jiménez (Barcelona, 1982) is a designer from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a technical engineer in industrial design from Elisava. CEO of Nutcreatives, with extensive experience as a teacher and lecturer on sustainability and CSR issues related to product and packaging design.

Teaching

I collaborate with universities and design schools in several countries as a teacher or lecturer teaching young designers the methodologies of sustainable design.

On a more permanent basis, I teach the Circular Design module in the UPC's Postgraduate Degree in Circular Economy, the sustainability subject in the Degree in Interior Design at the LCI school and collaborate with the Master's Degree in Ecodesign at IED Barcelona. I also collaborate regularly with the Waste Agency of Catalonia conducting workshops on sustainable design for different audiences.

Professional experience / Research

Nutcreatives is a product design and environmental consultancy studio that works in sectors such as lighting, packaging, furniture, street furniture, signage, fashion accessories and technological accessories, both in the design and development of products and services, as well as analysing and measuring the environmental impacts that products and organisations generate and seeking strategies to improve them. Founded in Barcelona in 2011, Nutcreatives is a benchmark in design with sustainability criteria.

We collaborate with universities and participate in European research projects such as Circular Design Europe, in which we are in charge of writing a publication with some of the most relevant cases in Europe in design for the circular economy.

Teaching

English

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