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Associate Professor of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Universidad de los Andes. He holds a master's degree in Design for Interaction from Delft University of Technology. His areas of interest are positive design, financial and social innovation, and behavioral design. He leads a research group focused on emotion-oriented design, where they develop projects to promote positive behaviors. He is a member of LabJusticia in Colombia.
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June 2013 - July 2014
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September 2012 - July 2014
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Virtue is a fundamental aspect of well-being. Past research has proposed that emotional-driven design can be a powerful mediator towards supporting virtue. However, virtue-focused solutions generally target isolated actions. Here, using saving as an example of virtuous behavior we present a design cas —Billy Cash, a digital piggy bank that allows u...
The exploration of emotions has become a fundamental aspect of product design. Researchers in the design field have proposed approaches to Materials Experience that supports emotional exploration. The following article aims to demonstrate how, by experimenting with edible Do-It-Yourself-Materials, designers can tackle a deeper conceptualization of...
In 2011, the Poly Implant Prothese breast implant scandal broke out worldwide. Since then, legal firms have represented affected women, collectively suing TÜV-Rheinland, who certified the quality of PIPs for nearly ten years. However, it is estimated that around 24% of these women cannot remove the implants. On top of this, women have suffered vari...
Access to justice is one of the most critical issues in law. The legal justice system needs a transdisciplinary approach to ensure better access to justice. This article presents a methodology that combines the principles of Legal Systems, Legal Design , and Systemic Design to be applied to the context of access to justice. This methodology has bee...
La acción de tutela es uno de los mecanismos más utilizados en Colombia para acceder a la justicia, pues ofrece a los ciudadanos una vía rápida y efectiva para proteger sus derechos fundamentales. Es tan utilizada que se interponen cerca de seiscientas mil al año, excepto entre 2020 y 2021 cuando esta cantidad disminuyó a causa de la pandemia. El L...
The Vichada region in eastern Colombia is known for its cashew production. Its pseudofruit, oil, and nut are agro-industrial products of great value in international markets. It is estimated that by 2025, cashew production in the region will reach approximately 100,000 cultivated hectares, which means a significant flow of the different products an...
Vichada is a department of more than 100,000 km2 in territorial extension, which, due to its geographical characteristics and a context of historical violence, found difficulties in synergizing with the rest of the country. Currently, the region is known for producing outstanding quality cashews with the potential to meet national and international...
This article discusses the 'paradox of participation' in legal design and how to address it in practice. Law as a special social function needs multi-level participation, not only to fulfill its duty in society, but also for its own reflection and inner development. However, the legal culture, including classical legal analysis and many legal pract...
Entutela is a prototype legal interface built to allow anyone to draft and file a tutela (a writ of protection of constitutional rights) without legal assistance or any specific knowledge. The tutela was implemented in 2021 as a digital tool to improve citizens' experience and contribute to the judicial branch's digital transformation. This article...
Vichada es un departamento de más de 100.000 km2 de extensión territorial, que, debido a sus características geográficas y un contexto de violencia histórica, encontró dificultades para entrar en sinergia con el resto del país. En la actualidad, la región es conocida por producir marañón de calidad sobresaliente con potencial para responder a merca...
La región del Vichada en el oriente colombiano es reconocida por la producción de marañón. Su pseudofruto, aceite y nuez son productos agroindustriales de gran valor en los mercados internacionales. Se estima que para 2025 la producción de marañón en la región alcanzará unas 100.000 hectáreas cultivadas, lo que significa un flujo importante de los...
Most legal content and procedures turn out to be so complex for citizens. Many of these are found in laws, decrees, statutes, and regulations considered legal artifacts. To access legal services, citizens require a lawyer’s assistance. So, how can an average citizen - a non-lawyer - access legal services without advanced knowledge or a lawyer? One...
The restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, meant that many services had to accelerate their digital transformation processes if they were to continue to exist. In the case of justice services, specifically the tutela action, a digital filing tool called Tutela en Línea was adapted. This tool allowed citizens to continue using the tutela rem...
CJ Digital is the academic and procedural platform implemented by the Legal Aid Clinic (LAC) of a private University in Colombia. This technological platform seeks to transform the academic space where students of the School of Law continue their training process by giving legal advice to people in vulnerable situations with the support of a profes...
There is a growing interest in the formation of interdisciplinary competencies focused on issues of access to justice. The Design for Justice Lab is a bet between the Schools of Law, Design, and Engineering of Universidad de los Andes to promote challenge-based learning by articulating knowledge among multiple disciplines. The Lab has had five coho...
The Legal Aid Clinic of the Universidad de los Andes started its work in 1971 to be an academic space where the students at the School of Law continue their formation process through the legal practice with an ethical sense that generates an impact in the community. It is composed of 7 areas that work through the traditional legal office model: Con...
Design tools assist designers in their practice and enhance or streamline their abilities: for example, computer software, printed canvases, websites, mobile applications, card sets, or physical prototypes. Designers can use these tools for different functions like empathizing with people, getting to know the context they are working with, or makin...
Design tools assist designers in their practice and enhance or streamline their abilities: for example, computer software, printed canvases, websites, mobile applications, card sets, or physical prototypes. Designers can use these tools for different functions like empathizing with people, getting to know the context they are working with, or makin...
introduction to issue 17 of Journal Diseña, dedicated to the theme of affectivity, experience and emotions as catalysts for socially significant design
http://revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/issue/view/1381
Pieter Desmet is the founding co-director of the Delft Institute of Positive Design, chair of the TU Delft Department of Human Centered Design, and Director of the Delft Design Labs. After introducing cognitive emotion theory to the field of design research, he established the Design and Emotion Society. Full professor of Design for Experience at T...
The relationship between design and medicine is not new. The discipline of design has impacted the medical practice in meaningful ways, from the development of spaces and devices to the optimization of healthcare services and strategies. Earlier approaches have focused primarily on solving or improving specific needs such as designing more hygienic...
Nacimiento es un juego que propone retos relacionados con la siembra de cultivos y el manejo de los recursos naturales. El objetivo del juego es crear una “finca” para poder cultivar la mayor cantidad de productos y acumular puntos. Para esto, los jugadores deben formar grupos de tres (3) tarjetas: una (1) de terreno, una (1) de agua y una (1) de c...
In Colombia’s Amazon piedmont, the cattle industry is one of the most important productive activities (IGAC 2016) due to a high demand and to the sturdy infrastructure built upon it that satisfies peasants’ economic stability. However, in piedmont ecosystems, which shelter a great number of species and water springs, this industry has caused massiv...
Universities and corporates, in Europe and the United States, have come to a win-win relationship to accomplish goals that serve research and industry. However, this is not a common situation in Latin America. Knowledge exchange and the co-creation of new projects by applying academic research to solve company problems does not happen naturally.To...
Cosecha nace como una dinámica de juego de mesa que busca generar reflexiones en torno a la asociatividad como elemento clave del desarrollo de una comunidad. Los participantes inician de manera individual, sin embargo, a medida que avanza el juego deben buscar estrategias de colaboración, porque la dinámica está pensada para que, al jugarse indivi...
Universities and corporates, in Europe and the United States, have come to a win-win relationship to accomplish goals that serve research and industry. However, this is not a common situation in Latin America. Knowledge exchange and the co-creation of new projects by applying academic research to solve company problems does not happen naturally.
To...
Conventional medicine uses diagnostic techniques to identify and suppress symptoms to purport to heal, assuming symptoms as the whole disease. However, these techniques ignore the relationship between mind and body, and how emotions catalyze healing or illness. Therefore, we aim to develop a meaningfulness-driven product to trigger reflection upon...
En las zonas rurales del piedemonte amazónico, en donde largas distancias separan unas tierras de otras, la familia ––y no el individuo–– se presenta como la unidad social mínima de subsistencia. En su interior, se evidencian dinámicas asociativas y de división del trabajo muy sólidas que contrastan fuertemente con comportamientos más individualist...
En el marco actual de la implementación de los acuerdos de paz, la deforestación, que solía estar regulada por actores del conflicto, se ha convertido en una de las principales amenazas para la preservación y cuidado de nacimientos de agua y sistemas fluviales en numerosas zonas rurales del país. Ante unas políticas de desarrollo agrícola, que prom...
This paper presents a series of solutions and ideas to financial topics developed by design students. The projects are based on human-centered design methodologies and are part of a design course. The course explores participatory design tools to understand the financial topics and find opportunities for innovation. The topics are 4: Money as a tec...
As part of the project of the conservation of dry forests, sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Fondo Patrimonio Natural, we were asked to explore the microfinance practices of a local region in Colombia to define a microfinance model that would help them engage in sustainable practices. Together with seven master degree...
The act of saving money can connect one’s present state to a meaningful future state, especially
if we consider money not as a direct source of happiness, but as a resource for
engaging in meaningful activities. To explore how design can contribute to making the act of
saving more meaningful, we conducted two studies. The first consisted of questio...
Current Human-Product Interaction solutions for saving money do not actively
foster well-being, neither do they stimulate motivation to save money in a
meaningful and relevant way for users. Most of the existing solutions are focus
on quantitative outcomes, rather than on positive experiential outcomes (e.g.
saving accounts with standardized home b...
One of the most challenging steps on product development is how to give meaning to our designs. Designers have been using different types of methods to achieve this task, one of them is the use of metaphors. There are many products that seem to have a complex relation between its form, function and meaning, making its understanding and perception c...
Abdominal pain is a very frequent consultation complaint, especially cases where acute appendicitis is suspected. Tests and observation may take over 24 hours and result very expensive. There is the need for an efficient diagnostic mechanism for abdominal pain. The current prototype of Trocamera¿ is a minimally invasive device formed by a set of sy...
