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Emotional Nature is a hands-on learning experience toolkit that
connects different tangible and intangible tools for educators
to visualise, grasp and engage in a dialogue with emotions
in relation to nature, in particularly with materials. Emotional
Nature toolkit is also a temporary safe space for educators and
children to motivate their understanding on emotions, as well as
meaningful connections with nature. The learning is enhanced
through a creative and fun process combining tools like value
cards, storytelling, meditation, natural inks, and mainly wood-
based biomaterials.
Having regular contact and meaningful connections with
nature has several benefits for humans from playful learning to
wellbeing, from bonding relations with other beings to inner self.
This research is focus on the specific influences between human
emotions and nature - specially materials, and it is supported by
a bigger academic context - CHEMARTS strategy.
The research process is designed in response to the main
findings from the initial exploratory phase of Emotional Nature.
Project Designer
Creative Sustainability Master thesis - Aalto University
2018 - 2019
Helsinki, Finland
Learning Experience Design Design with biomaterials
Education
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First, biomaterials as a key tool to feel nature, as well as express
and materialise emotions; second, the lack of emotional
understanding; and third, the reduced availability of safe and
comfortable spaces to share and transform emotions in Finnish
educational context.
The study is an explorative approach based on self-
experimentation and participatory design research practices
done mainly with teachers and field experts. The research
design seeks to inspire educators to disclose and grasp
relationships between human emotions and nature through the
experimentation with biomaterials and diverse tools in Finnish
School Context.
The main audience for Emotional Nature Learning Experience
are educators of children between 10 and 13 years old. However,
base on the co-creation sessions with different populations
as parents and postgraduate students, the hands-on learning
experience also proved to be effective for other age groups and
settings.
NatureEmotions Co-design
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Natural Fantasy is a service that aims to create experiences
for kids to increase their awareness of materials in our daily life. It
allows children to get inspired by local biomaterials and enhances
their imagination for material experiments and supports their
creativity. The process is based on a workshop where kids
and their families explore different biomaterials, and make a
design for their own bio-compost container. These samples are
examples of various material combinations and a prototype for
the bio-compost container.
Project Designer
CHEMARTS Summer School - Aalto University
2017
Helsinki, Finland
Experience Design Design with biomaterials Education
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Materials: Natural colors like turmeric, beetroot, red pepper
and peas. Recycled coffee grounds and chai tea leaves.
Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and recycled paper.
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MAA is a governmental initiative that began on 2007, its aim
is to help overcoming poverty in women both displaced and in
condition of social vulnerability, empowering them and opening
the possibilities to have access to the banking system, creating
incentives for saving, the installation capabilities with a focus on
gender and giving support for sustainable entrepreneurship.
Inside the project, I was in charge of developing the citizen
advice service, proposing innovative solutions and implementing
them to tackle the different difficulties faced by the women, the
allies and the staff team. for instance, I led the development of a
technological participative tool for creating an updated database
of all the women who attend the project, so they can stay
informed of the project and remain linked with it.
Advisor for the National Supervisor
The National Department for Social Prosperity of the Presidency of Colombia.
2013 / 2014 / 2015
523 municipalities, Colombia
Access to information
Income generation Sustainable entrepreneurship
Gender equality Financial inclusion Education
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Another example to illustrate the scope of the citizen advice
service had inside the project was the communication -for
problem solving- with different partners of the project, including
other governmental entities. One of this partners and allies for
Women Savers in Action is the “Banco Agrario” (Land Bank), its
importance is due to its presence in all the Colombian territory,
including those in which the program is executed.
The relationship between the Land Bank and the program
is fundamental, as it provides banking services to vulnerable
women. In that joint venture I succeeded in improving
the provision of those banking services that the program
offers along with the Land Bank by developing different
communication and information tools.
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Every day we face situations of intolerance in Colombia, for
example, in public transport, in bars, at concerts, in the streets.
Given this, many people think why we will change if everyone
will continue doing the same? Such behavior was around in our
heads and led us to think that surely, if a single person changes
towards a more civic behavior and that person is willing to co-
rrect others, to demonstrate how actions contribute to the welfa-
re and generate responsibility for other people, probably a most
significant change will be achieved.
Under this question we decided to join Let’s do it, and add to
the objectives of international Let’s do it a a social level, emphasi-
zing issues such as cooperation, social capital and strengthening
communities. With the conviction that major changes are achie-
ved when we act together. Let’s do it in Colombia see collective
action in a way to permanently improve the country.
We have conveyed our message through massive garbage
collections in Bogota, Cali, Madrid, Funza, Mosquera, Buca-
Co-funder - Independent NGO
Let’s do it World
2012/ 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2018
7 municipalities, Colombia
www.letsdoitworld.org - www.letsdoitcolombia.org
waste management collective actions
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ramanga, Yopal and we continue planning further interven-
tions. In October 2014, we holded the conference Let’s do it
for America in Bogota, where we discussed the reasons this
movement and put into practice the theory behind a civic mo-
vement, always seeking to generate more ideas and finding
ways to implement them. In june 2015, The colombian mi-
nistry of Environment and Sustainability considered publicly,
in a national newspaper, Let’s Do It Colombia project to turn
into a public policies in their areas.
Let’s Do It! World is a nonprofit international civic mass move-
ment accredited as a member of the environmental program of
the United Nations (UNEP) as a promoter of massive cleanups of
garbage in the world.
The movement began in Estonia in 2008, joining 50,000 people
to clean the entire country, who collected 10,000 tons of waste in
5 hours. Right now, Let’s do it World has presence in more than
110 countries.
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ONE OF OUR LEADERS WON THE 2015 COLOMBIAN
PRESIDENCY’S PRICE FOR VOLUNTEERS IN THE
AREA OF ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY FOR
THE ACTIONS DONE WITH LET’S DO IT COLOMBIA.
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1 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR
THE AMERICAS IN 2014.
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31. THE MOST IMPORTANT LOCAL
AND NATIONAL MEDIA CHANNELS
ARE TALKING ABOUT LET’S DO IT
COLOMBIA.
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In Colombia Illiteracy is 6.7 % what means 2,375,157 millions of
illiterate youth and adults over 15 years. Rural illiteracy rate is
14.2 %, while 4.5 % is urban. The rate of informality of the illiterate
population is 89.8 %, when the national rate stands around 63%.
Not having the opportunity to read, write and to understand both
of them makes that people loose opportunities in different areas
such as access to formal employment, health services, inclusion
in society and even opt presented by these people.
“La alfabetización es la llave que abre puertas de empleo
y la estabilidad económica. Utilicemos los recursos de nuestra
Fundación para proporcionar esa llave tan esencial ”
Johnathan Majlyagbe
Presidente de R.I 2003-2004
Presidente del Consejo de Fiduciarios de fundación Rotaria de R.I
Founder & National Director
AIESEC in Colombia
2012 to 2014
4 municipalities, Colombia
Literacy education
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AlfaBeta is a literacy project based on the Millennium Develop-
ment Goals on overcoming extreme poverty born of the need to
improve the quality of life of illiterate people and increase their
opportunities to overcome this situation through access to edu-
cation and give these people a new place in society. The pilot
project was developed in 4 cities in Colombia.
Learning experience design
Co-design
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MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE ALPHABETIZED
IN DIFFERENT TERRITORIES OF
COLOMBIA DURING THE YEAR OF 2014.
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4 MUNICIPALITIES:
CARTAGENA, BOGOTA,
MEDELLIN & MANIZALES
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“Verde Su Mercé” (Look After You) objective was to build a stra-
tegy for increasing the incomes of a mining community through
hands-on learning experiences, in a process that closely engaged
the community in every step. As a result, we created “Vita.Minas”
(a word play that combines “vitamins” and “mines”), a program-
Project Design Leader
Design Graduation project - Universidad de los Andes
2011 to 2017
4 municipalities, Colombia
Learning experience design
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me focused on sustainable entrepreneurship in the tourism sec-
tor as well as English teaching. The positive results achieved with
Vita.Mina’s first targeted population led to it being embraced by
an independent NGO and replicated in four new mining municipa-
lities around Colombia.
educationIncomes generation
Sustainable tourism Co-design
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FIMAR, a company in my hometown dedicated to manufactu-
ring commodities and providing services for the coffee and cacao
sectors. The most important challenge is helping FIMAR expand
its local and national impact on the coffee sector (one of Colom-
Co-leader & director of impact
FIMAR
2015 to 2016
San Gil, Colombia
Incomes generation in the agricultural sector productivity and technological development for the agro
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bia’s main export commodities) in order to increase productivity
and improve the quality of life of the communities involved.
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One Voice was the international annual forum for the executive
boards and the corporative team of the colombian multinational
DE LACTEOS, Alpina. As account Manager I was in charge of the
relations with the clients, as well as the planning, execution and
Account Manager
Grano de Arena - Alpina
2013
Bogota, Colombia
http://granodearena.com/proyectos/
strategic communication concept & experience design
international event planning and design development
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excellent delivery of every section of the agenda. I was also in
charge of supervising the graphic communication materials, lo-
gistics and the design of the presentations of the facilitators.
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Redesign of Groncol brand experience having as challegence
to communite the importance for the humans, for the planet and
for the general health of the world of the green spaces in urban
Account Manager
Grano de Arena - Groncol
2013
Bogota, Colombia
http://granodearena.com/proyectos/
strategic communication
concept designBrand experience
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areas and the conecction with the products they offer related to
urban gardens.
Blueprints
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Develop a corporate identity that generates a strong sense of
trust and credibility customer companies in terms of manage-
ment capacity, visibility and social impact.
Project designer
Independent designer
2012
Bogota, Colombia
concept design Branding
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Convey trust and support to new social and cultural startups.
Generate an empathic brand with the people of the city and easy
to remember, to forward inclusion, creativity and culture.
