I am a research-based designer, artist and educator.
From design research to workshops, conference talks, articles, product design and installations, my work sits at the intersection of human-computer interaction and the built environment where I investigates the relationships between technology, learning, play, and design.
How do our physical surroundings shape our cognitive, social, intellectual, physical, perceptual, and emotional growth as we evolve and as technologies themselves are changing? What are the historical, social, political, and ecological forces framing design and how is design driving these?
My PhD project, Networked Playscapes, received an MIT-CONACYT Seed Fund, the Bill Mitchell ++ Fund, and an invitation to deploy her work in Mexico City as project lead for Ciudad Ludica at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. I was consecutively invited to hold residencies at Museo Tamayo and Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura.
After completing my studies, I worked as a designer at Studio Adrien Gardere in Paris and Cocolab in Mexico City and served as faculty at the School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation program and funded Super Market, a research-based design studio focused on play and technology.
My work has been exhibited internationally at a wide range of venues, such as the Seoul Biennale of Architecture, the MIT Museum, Museo Tamayo, Museo del Banco de Mexico, Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura, CHI Interactive, SXSW, and Laboratorio Arte Alameda and my speaking engagements include Experience Fighters, AdWeek, EmTech and O’Reilly’s Solid conference.
Prior to MIT, I studied Lighting and Scenic design at Calarts under Tony Award winner Donald Holder. Awards include FONCA’s Jovenes Creadores and CONACYT’s study abroad scholarship. I am stubborn enough to become a green card holder and obtain EU residency.
I keep one foot in my hometown. Mexico City and one in Brooklyn, NY.
edwina@super-market.cc
CV
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Networked Playscapes: redefining the playground
PhD dissertation
Readers: Ethan Zuckermann, Neri Oxman, Edith Ackerman
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inside/out: tools for reflective, creative learning
Masters Thesis Readers: Sherry Turkle, Edith Ackerman, Mitch Resnick
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LATEST
2024
2024
Interview - Play to Connect
Interview - Play to Connect
Speaker
- Nature and Technology
Speaker
- Nature and Technology
Design Award Jury
Invited Speaker
Design Award Jury
Invited Speaker
Invited Speaker
International Association of the Study of Dreams Annual Dream Conference
Kerkade, NetherlandsPoster Presentation: PillowTalk
2023
5 day workshop:
Robots, Machines and Tangibles
With Nan Zhao and Ray LC
Robots, Machines and Tangibles
With Nan Zhao and Ray LC
Moholy-Nagy University (MOME)
Budapest, Hungary
Fellow
Speculative Design 2023- 2025
Moholy-Nagy University (MOME)
Budapest, HungaryFellow
Speculative Design 2023- 2025
Speculative Design 2023- 2025
Ars Elctronica:
Founding Lab Forum
Linz, AustriaA collaborative effort between the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria (IDSA) and Ars Electronica to identify, develop, and present new areas, approaches, and formats that address the challenges of digital transformation.
Tsinglan School
Dongguan, ChinaSummer Workshop -
Physical Computing
Physical Computing
Fab23: Buthan
Thimpu, Buthan
Designing Resilient Futures: International conference for
makers, educators, and innovators
providing vita transformation for the future.
makers, educators, and innovators
providing vita transformation for the future.
Invited speaker for Game Challenge - Games for Social Innovation sponsored by the US Embassy in Perú
Invited speaker for Game Challenge - Games for Social Innovation sponsored by the US Embassy in Perú
2022
Cartografias Ocultas:
Circuitos del Arte Correo en México
Casa del Lago, UNAMMexico City
Invited speaker. How design and technology can be a powerful force to reimagine and create a better everyday life that embraces both people and the planet.
World Urban Parks Congress 2022
Held virtuallyWomen - Vision of the Future panel.
2021
Cartografias Ocultas:
Circuitos del Arte Correo en México
Museo de la FilateliaOaxaca, MX
Built Environment Journal
Alexandrine Press, UKPublished When Tech Enhances Play in Nature: ListenTree for its issue on Natural Playscapes and Outdoor Education.
Museo Banco de México
Mexico CityExhibition design:
The Design of Money - with no intrinsic value, the design of money is tied to the creation of trust. How does a piece of printed paper turn into a medium of exchange with an assigned value to which we all subscribe?
The Design of Money - with no intrinsic value, the design of money is tied to the creation of trust. How does a piece of printed paper turn into a medium of exchange with an assigned value to which we all subscribe?
2020
Museo Banco de Mexico
Mexico CityLead creative technologist for a world-class museum about money - our most widely used technology of trust.
Perkins-Eastman
New York CityBiblioteca Vasconcelos
Mexico City
Invited to create a proposal to revitalize the green spaces of this architectural jewel by connecting its gardens through analog technology - with Pedro Cerisola and Pablo Kobayashi.
Abierto Mexicano de Diseño
Mexico City
Designing a piece for this year´s Utopia themed festival to be installed in front of Palacio de Bellas Artes. With Pedro Cerisola.
2019
OECD’s International Transport Forum
Design for
Social Innovation
School of Visual Arts
New York City
Joined the faculty. I will be teaching Mapping and Visualization Design - systems thinking.
Developed Urania, a modular plaything with Pedro Cerisola during MEM Industrial.
INC Mty
Monterrey, NL Mexico
Speaker!
Learning Over Educating.
Learning Over Educating.
Abierto Mexicano
de Diseño: Tecno-Pop
Mexico City
Invited alongside ORU to represent Mexico with The Big Equalizer, exploring the shift in perception of safety our built environment provides while undergoing an earthquake.
Experience Fighters
Madrid, Spain
Speaker! - Designing for Play.
Cocolab
Mexico City
Co-creative director for Playgrounds - a one of a kind immersive playscape.
2018
ATÖLYE
Istanbul, TKInvited speaker: Inside-out, tools for creative thinking: levels and vehicles of thought.
Desing H(ij)ack
Beijing, CN
Mentor leading an immersive workshop where participants create design projects that tackle real-world social and public conundrums.
Post-City Lab
Ars Electronica
Seoul, SK
3 day workshop for Hyunday reflecting on a possible future city (Seoul) and future citizens.
Studio Adrien Gardere
Paris, FR
Spending a semester working at this world renowned museography studio.
Camdem International
Film Festival
Camdem, Maine, USA
Listentree is part of the festival! Thank you slowimmediate for producing.
Design Week
Mexico Ciudad Diseño: Futuro MXCD03
Mexico CityDeveloped Oráculo with Rozana Montiel.
Connecting the Dots
Mexico City
Speaker at this international forum of creativity, art and digital culture curated by Carmen Salas.
World Urban Parks Congress
Mérida, MXInvited speaker - Playground Design - Who gets to say what is play supposed to look like?
Co-Machines
ON/OFF
Berlin, DETriciclo Exquisito is chosen to be featured in their publication. Co-machines obstruct, block traffic, change places, allowing new bodies to occupy and interact, inhabit, to construct- even if just for an instance a different world, a utopia, a dystopia- a vision of how the city might be, finding potentials in our urban landscape.
2017
Mapping Festival
Paradigm Shift
Geneva, CHInvited by Carmen Salas to present Networked Playscapes at this major event dedicated to audiovisual art and digital culture.
PhD Defense -
Networked Playscapes:
Redefining the Playground
Neri Oxman, Ethan Zuckerman, V. Michael Bove, Edith Ackerman.
Networked Playscapes:
Redefining the Playground
Neri Oxman, Ethan Zuckerman, V. Michael Bove, Edith Ackerman.
2016
Noguchi’s Playscapes
Museo Tamayo
Mexico CityThrilled to have inspired this exhibit after presenting my research on parks and playgrounds to the museum’s staff.
Luz e Imaginación
CocolabMuseo de la Ciudad
Mexico City
Invited to create an immersive piece
on the lacustrine origins of Mexico City and its relationship to water.
MIT Technology Review’s
Innovator’s Under 35
Ecuador, Guatemala, MexicoInvited speaker.
Domain de Boisbuchet
Lessac, FRAttending workshop Making Flying Spaces with NUMEN/for use.
Archivo
Diseño y Arquitectura
Mexico CityInvited by Mario Ballesteros to develop Networked Playscapes under their wing.
Museo Tamayo
Mexico CityInvited by the museum;s director, Juan Gaitán, to develop Networked Playscapes with Sala Educativa, under by Manuel Alcalá.
2015
FONCA
Jóvenes Creadores
Museo de San IdelfonsoMexico City
Group show of awardees!
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Cambridge, MABill Mitchell ++ Fund awarded!
Epicentro
Guadalajara, MxNetworked Playscapes workshop
Laboratorio para la Ciudad + MIT Media Lab + IDEO
Mexico CityWorkshop
O’Reilly
Solid Conference
San Francisco, CAKeynote speaker
ISI-Dentsu
Tokyo, JPInvited to Tokyo to present Listentree and collaborate on an installation for Ars Electronica.
CHI
Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsSeoul, SK
Listentree with Gershon Dublon
MIT India Innitiative
Ahmedabad, INNetworked Playscapes workshop, researching how play is and has been ennacted in Ahmedabad public space and identifying spaces for intervention.
MIT MISTI Seed Fund
MIT - MexicoMIT Mexico - CONACYT Seedfund granted for Networked Playscapes! Gediminas Urbonas, Edith Ackerman, Gabriella Gomez-Mont and V. Michael Bove - Thank You!