I've been dreaming Design for more than 35 years. Consider myself as a proactive entrepreneur in new trend media, creating the first Film Animation Festival, first 100% visual magazine and first ECO friendly e-shop in Chile. Designed social bioclimatic housing, worked for companies and organisations in Amsterdam, Dublin, Madrid and Santiago. You name it, I have done it. But during all this years, something was missing. 

Around seven years ago, my feelings towards Design was reaching a level of unrest and disconformity. I had been trying to be an ethical and sometimes environmental designer, but the system was not receptive, so I quit with receiving any further commissions, closed my studio and enroll myself in a PhD program. Call it mid life crisis or enlightenment, I’d rather use the term, evolved.

Up to that moment I had gained two degrees, five postgraduate diplomas and a masters degree searching for answers, trying to find a meaning to what I was doing. When entering the Phd program my perspective shifted from being a solution maker to a situational facilitator. I discovered that Designers, good designers are the ones that do the right questions, not the ones that just give answers. By doing the right questions, Design as a discipline has the ability to take distance from his time and finally respond to the troubled times we are living.

My goal is to work with people that have the will to visualise and modify the future, making everyone's life better. Social and environmental responsibilities must be their fundamental ethos. I wish to work among those that encourages their communities to bring out the best they can offer. That is why the Symbiotic Design Academy was founded, to teach these core values and create a community around them.

DESIGN IS A SELF CREATING DISCIPLINE, THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO REGENERATE ITSELF AND HIS ECOSYSTEM. WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT DESIGN IS A POLITICAL ACT, AND EVERY DECISION WE MAKE WILL CHANGE THE FUTURE FOR THE NEW GENERATIONS TO COME.

2016-2021 • PhD in Design , Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires Argentina | 2013 • Design Thinking Action Lab, Standford University through NovoEd. | 2013 • Post-graduate Diploma in University Curriculum Design for the Management of the Teaching and Learning Process, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile | 2007 • Master in Environmental Studies and Bioclimatic Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Superior School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. | 2006 • Post-graduate Diploma in Sustainable Architecture, UNIACC University, Santiago, Chile. | 2002-2006 • Architect, UNIACC University, Santiago, Chile. | 2001-2002 • Post-graduate Diploma in Administration and Business Management, ILADES, Alberto Hurtado Jesuit University, Santiago, Chile. | 1997 • Post-graduate Diploma in Design and Interactive Multimedia Production, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Design, Santiago, Chile. | 1993 • Computer Graphic Design: Introduction to Graphic Area, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. | 1990 – 1991 • Paint System Video, Digital Animation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, EE.UU. | 1984-1991 • Degree in Design, specialized in Visual Communication, Professional Institute of Santiago, Santiago, Chile. | 1988 • Intensive Film Course: 16mm, Chilean – North American Cultural Institute, Santiago, Chile. | 1983 • Failed Architecture student – Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. | 1970-1982 • The International School Nido de Aguilas, Santiago, Chile. | 1965-1970 • The youngest hippie ever, Santiago, Chile.