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Arch. M.DesRVenezuelan architect (Summa Cum Laude). She completed her postgraduate degree (Master of Design Research in Emerging Systems, Technologies and Media) at SCI_Arc in the United States (graduated with Distinction). Associate professor and researcher at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), where she coordinates computational design and robotics courses. She is currently developing research projects called Programmed Materialism (translations between images, objects, robots, and pedagogies), Hyper_Artifacts, Hyper_Anomalies, and Bio_lent architecture. Member of Dislocal, a research platform associated with the World Bank, Global Research Program on Inequity, United Nations, Development Bank of Latin America, and Inter-American Development Bank, among other institutions. Member of Women in Robotics Association. Co-founder of the Videogames & Robots research group at Universidad de Los Andes.Her work covers topics of advanced technologies in architecture and design, representation, computational design, robotics in architecture (computer-controlled), published and/or exhibited by platforms, associations and editorials, such as the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Pavilion Sezione del Padiglione Italia, the International Association for Robots in Architecture ROB | ARCH, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): REALIGNMENTS Toward Critical Computation, PA Parametric Architecture CDNEXT 7.0, DigitalFutures (Robotics and Digital Fabrication in Latin America and Robotics and 3D Printing), Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital (Sigradi): Appropriation of Digital Fabrication from Latin America XXVI, XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Routledge, DESERT Z: Robotic circumstances (Real-time robotic exhibition for Pabellón 2023), among others. In 2021, with Prof. Claudio Rossi, she started the first robotics course in undergraduate architecture in Latin-America called Robot_Lab. Author of the book Robotic Translations: Design Processes —Latin-America to be published by ACTAR in 2024. She has been invited as jury and/or lecturer at SCI_Arc, UCLA, University of Melbourne, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Kent State University, Texas A&M, Universidad de Monterrey, Universidad del Rosario (Argentina), among others. Former Senior Associate Architect at PATTERNS (USA), where she led a wide range of projects in America, Europe, and Asia, some winners of international awards such as the AIA Design Award (2016, 2017, 2019, 2023), among others, stand out.

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