a journey through second nature

education

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2021 - 2023     

Textiles MFA

The New School - Parsons School of Design

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2013 - 2019     

Bachelor in Architecture

Universidad de Los Andes

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practice

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Fall 2022             

Teaching Artist

SAORI Arts NYC NGO

New York, NY

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Summer 2022

Participatory Artist

Lizania Cruz

Brooklyn, NY

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Spring 2022                

Studio Assistant

Victoria Manganiello Studio

Brooklyn, NY

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2021

Project Manager Architect

Left Angle Partnership

Bogota, Colombia

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2020 -Today                

Architect & Interior Designer

PAE Practicas de Arquitectura del Entorno

Bogota, Colombia

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2020                

Junior Architect

Left Angle Partnership

Bogota, Colombia

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2018              

Architect Intern

El Equipo Mazzanti

Bogota, Colombia

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awards +

publications

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2022

            

 

A Decolonized & Decarbonized Dinner Party

Gorman, M., Chaparro, Y., Gopinath, P., (2022) A Decolonized & Decarbonized Dinner Party.

Parsons / The New School. NYC, pgs 72,79,90,113, &118 

Link here

ISSN 979-8-21-176002-

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TALKING TEXTILES Issue.7: CREATING CHARACTER

Sense of Home, page 96

Link here

ISSN 978-2-913464-55-1

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NEW YORK TEXTILES MONTH VII MAP

Online New York City map

Link here

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Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize 2022

Finalist

Link here

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CFDA Scholarship Fund 2022

2022 CFDA Design Scholar MFA Award Finalist

link here

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Future Tense Exhibition 2022 

Exhibiting artist

Selected pieces "Abrazar" and "sense of home"

Link here

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2020 

            

Anuario 2020 ARQDIS: Segunda Naturaleza 

Segunda Naturaleza: Autoconstruir el Entorno 

page 16 Link here

ISSN 2711- 4252

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Anuario 2020 ARQDIS: Segunda Naturaleza 

Jardín Develador

with Rubén Gómez Gañan

page 40 Link here

ISSN 2711- 4252

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2019   

         

ESCALANDO Exhibition 

Faculty of Architecture and Design, Universidad de Los Andes 

Outstanding degree thesis 

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XIX Architecture students' annual 

Colombian architecture society (SCA) 

Honorable mention 

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ARCHDAILY Colombia call 

The best architecture thesis degree in Colombia Link here

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Cumulus Global Conference 2019 

The Design After Outstanding thesis degree 

Innovative proposal

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lectures

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2022

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Invited speaker 

"Nixtamalizaciones"

Universidad Finis Terrae

Santiago, Chile

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off work

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2022- Today            

The New School Strategic Planning Steering Committee  

Master's degree student representative

New York, NY

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Spring 2022             

Decolonized and Decarbonized Workshop + Dinner Party  

Parsons School of Desing Workshop

New York, NY

 

2022- Today             

La REM NGO 

Workshops and talks about the fashion industry's practices, 

and opportunities in Colombia

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2017               

Limapolis 2017 Canal Surco

International workshop with faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

at Pontifi­cia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

Lima, Peru

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