Lecturer and academic at the Department of Art and Design Technologies at the University of Bío-Bío, Chile.
Industrial Designer from UBB (1996–2001), Master’s Degree in Transport Vehicle Design from Elisava (2002–2004), University Master’s Degree in Research in Art and Design from Eina (2023–2024), and PhD candidate in Philosophy in the field of Contemporary Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2024–2027).
Teaching and research
He is a lecturer at the School of Industrial Design at the University of Bío-Bío, Chile, primarily teaching project-based courses, including Design Studio at different levels of the programme, as well as the Final Project Seminar and Degree Project Studio. He has also been invited as a visiting lecturer at various universities to teach courses such as Idea Generation, Technological Innovation, Geometry and Technical Drawing, and 3D Modelling and Digital Fabrication.
His doctoral thesis and main research line explore design practice and pedagogy as tools for social transformation, under the framework of Design for Transitions, focusing on the agency of design towards sustainable and just futures — futures with a future.
Professional activity
He has been practising as a designer since 2001, and since 2012 has combined professional practice with teaching and research in design.
His professional career began in Barcelona, where he worked for companies specialising in product design, transport design, and exhibition and retail space design, developing projects for brands of different scales across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Upon returning to Chile, he founded his own Design Laboratory in 2008, with a focus on the development of local industry and dedicated to commercial design and product development. Notable projects include “EcoLecho”, a cardboard cradle designed for the Chilean conscious parenting brand and venture Be.mammals (2016–2021), and the comprehensive brand architecture project for Cerveza Cristal implemented in restaurants, bars and venues nationwide (2009–2012). He has collaborated with a wide range of companies, brands and private entrepreneurial initiatives, as well as innovation projects linked to both public and private competitive funding programmes.
His profile integrates skills in research, conceptual design and product development, digital and traditional representation, advanced surface modelling, rapid prototyping and digital fabrication. This combination shapes a broad and transversal professional trajectory within the discipline, reflecting a commitment to design as a project-based, critical and transformative practice.
Awards
- Selected for the Chilean Design Biennial Stgo.Diseño 2009 with the project “Saku”, an ultra-compact sleeping bag developed using a paper membrane.
- Selected for the Ibero-American Design Biennial 2018 with the project “EcoLecho”, a cardboard cradle designed for attachment parenting.
- Recipient of a UBB scholarship and institutional support for doctoral studies abroad within the professional development programme (2023–2027).
- Recipient of the Beca Chile scholarship for Master’s studies abroad (2023–2024).
- Awarded the Eina – ESADE scholarship for the I2Planet Pilot Programme 2024, a residency at IdeaSquare at CERN, Geneva, within the Design Factory Global Network.
- Selected for Barcelona Design Week 2025 with the speculative/critical/fiction design project “Save our Beasts, Bestias en Extinción”.
- Selected by the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage to join the Chilean delegation in the Creative Economies Mission and the Cultural Rights and Creative Economy for Sustainable Development Sessions, within the framework of the Mondiacult 2025 congress, organised by the OEI in collaboration with AECID at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB).