Areas of Interest

INTERESTS

Cross pollination between different cultures/disciplines with the creation of a network, human capital, product service system or common language.

Nature as part of personal identity with a new product, interior space or system.

Quality of personal relationships with product, space or communication system.


CONTACTS

Ezio Manzini: knowledge on community building, successful communication within the community, and designer as facilitator for these communities to grow and connect with each other.

Racheal Botsman: Product design as a product service system discipline. Help to imagine the changes this mind shift require and how it can have a contemporary application to begin to pursue to change the old model.

Marshall Blonsky: paradigm shift from a philosophical view. Changes begin with the individual change of view. How do people make the personal choice of

Tim Brown: system thinking of design. The emerging new design and its application. How does the design discipline needs to questions itself and what changes are immediately necessary? What are the initial implications?

Javier Buj Garcia: History of indigenous communities in Mexico. Current ongoing projects and knowledge on how these communities work and coexist.

Barry Schwartz: Idea of wisdom and how people learn through generational knowledge. Defining happiness in the contemporary context.

John Gottman: Crisis in personal relationships. What defines a successful relationship?