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2024

Diseño y Diáspora Podcast
Madrid, Spain

Interview - Play to Connect

Emerging Technologies Conference
Budapest, Hungary

Speaker - Nature and Technology

Biennal Iberoamericana de Diseño
Madrid, Spain

Design Award Jury
Invited Speaker

International Association of the Study of Dreams Annual Dream Conference

Kerkade, Netherlands

Poster Presentation: PillowTalk

2023

Ars Elctronica:
Founding Lab Fall Term

Linz, Austria

5 day workshop:
Robots, Machines and Tangibles
With Nan Zhao and Ray LC

Moholy-Nagy University (MOME)
Budapest, Hungary

Fellow
Speculative Design 2023- 2025

Ars Elctronica:
Founding Lab Forum

Linz, Austria

A 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, China

Summer Workshop -
Physical Computing

Fab23: Buthan

Thimpu, Buthan

Designing Resilient Futures: International conference for
makers, educators, and innovators
providing vita transformation for the future.

Toulouse Lautrec
Escuela de Diseño y Creatividad
Lima, 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, UNAM
Mexico City

Commissioned by curators Alfonso Fierro & Pedro Ceñal Murga, I created a messaging network between rival pigeon keepers in Bushwick, Bk, by using their homing pigeons as message carriers.

Space10
“Beyond Human-Centered Design”

Mexico 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 virtually

Women - Vision of the Future panel.

2021

Cartografias Ocultas:
Circuitos del Arte Correo en México

Museo de la Filatelia
Oaxaca, MX

Commissioned by curators Alfonso Fierro & Pedro Ceñal Murga, I created a messaging network between rival pigeon keepers in Bushwick, Bk, by using their homing pigeons as message carriers.

Built Environment Journal

Alexandrine Press, UK

Published When Tech Enhances Play in Nature: ListenTree for its issue on Natural Playscapes and Outdoor Education.

Museo Banco de México

Mexico City

Exhibition 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?

2020

Museo Banco de Mexico

Mexico City

Lead creative technologist for a world-class museum about money - our most widely used technology of trust.

Perkins-Eastman

New York City

Awarded the Human by Design fellowship - investigating old telecom infrastructures as a counter to the evermore centralized infrastructures of today.

Biblioteca 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

Triciclo Exquisito featured in Transport Innovations from the Global South.

Design for
Social Innovation
School of Visual Arts

New York City

Joined the faculty. I will be teaching Mapping and Visualization Design - systems thinking.

M exico City Central Library

Mexico City

Developed Urania, a modular plaything with Pedro Cerisola during MEM Industrial.

INC Mty

Monterrey, NL Mexico

Speaker!
Learning Over Educating.

Abierto Mexicano
de Diseño: Tecno-Pop

Mexico City

Developed Iris - a color-shifting hydraulic tile floor with lenticular applicaitons. With Pedro Cerisola.

Seoul Biennale of
Architecture and Urbanism

Seoul, SK

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, TK

Invited 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 City

Developed 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, MX

Invited speaker - Playground Design - Who gets to say what is play supposed to look like?

Co-Machines

ON/OFF

Berlin, DE

Triciclo 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, CH

Invited by Carmen Salas to present Networked Playscapes at this major event dedicated to audiovisual art and digital culture.

MIT Media Lab

School of Architecture and Planning
Cambridge, MA

PhD Defense -
Networked Playscapes:
Redefining the Playground
Neri Oxman, Ethan Zuckerman, V. Michael Bove, Edith Ackerman.

2016

Noguchi’s Playscapes
Museo Tamayo

Mexico City

Thrilled to have inspired this exhibit after presenting my research on parks and playgrounds to the museum’s staff.

Luz e Imaginación

Cocolab
Museo 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, Mexico

Invited speaker.

Domain de Boisbuchet

Lessac, FR

Attending workshop Making Flying Spaces with NUMEN/for use.

Archivo
Diseño y Arquitectura

Mexico City

Invited by Mario Ballesteros to develop Networked Playscapes under their wing.

Museo Tamayo

Mexico City

Invited 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 Idelfonso
Mexico City

Group show of awardees!

MIT School of Architecture and Planning

Cambridge, MA

Bill Mitchell ++ Fund awarded!

Epicentro

Guadalajara, Mx

Networked Playscapes workshop

AdWeek

New York City

Invited Speaker Stories of Creative Innovation with Ayah Bdeir, Bradley Theodore, Dan Barasch and Harper Reed.

Laboratorio para la Ciudad + MIT Media Lab + IDEO

Mexico City

Workshop

O’Reilly
Solid Conference

San Francisco, CA

Keynote speaker

ISI-Dentsu

Tokyo, JP

Invited to Tokyo to present Listentree and collaborate on an installation for Ars Electronica.

CHI

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Seoul, SK

Listentree with Gershon Dublon

Laboratorio para la Ciudad

Mexico City

Guest project lead for
Ciudad Lúdica

MIT India Innitiative

Ahmedabad, IN

Networked Playscapes workshop, researching how play is and has been ennacted in Ahmedabad public space and identifying spaces for intervention.

MIT MISTI Seed Fund

MIT - Mexico

MIT Mexico - CONACYT Seedfund granted for Networked Playscapes! Gediminas Urbonas, Edith Ackerman, Gabriella Gomez-Mont and V. Michael Bove - Thank You!

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