Cumulus Plus Grantees

In her teaching at the University of Houston-Downtown, she concentrates on the role nature plays in our lives and encourages students to find solutions that will inspire positive change in society. She is the founding director of Design Global Change (2008), a creative collaborative designing planet-centered solutions to address global health, environmental, and social justice problems. She has over two decades of professional practice, and her work has reached hundreds of communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, garnering recognition as a two-time recipient of the Sappi “Ideas that Matter” award. Since 2011, she has been on the Winterhouse Institute Advisory Council (working on the teaching and practice of social innovation in higher education). When not teaching, Natacha is judging competitions; contributing to books and publications on social design, global health, and sustainability; and volunteering for AIGA –the professional association of design. Natacha earned a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an M.F.A. in Experience Design from The University of Texas at Austin, United States. She is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina but considers herself a citizen of the world.

He is currently a lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Música (ex Conservatorio Nacional de Música), where he is in charge of the music and technology courses, coordinates the Laboratorio de Música Electroacústica y Arte Sonoro and is Director de Innovación y Transferencia Tecnológica. He also lectures on Sound Arts and Popular Music at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 2019 he published the book La Guardia Nueva, Visiones Sobre la Música Electrónica en el Perú.

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Since 2017, he is a local leader of the IxDA Interaction Design Association Chapter in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

her current interests consist of deep mapping, art education, creative economy, cultural heritage and social museology.

He is a member of Ghana Art Teachers Association (GATA), Design Ghana (DG) and Pan Afrikan Design Institute (PADI).

A member of the Serbian Association for Geometry and Graphics (SUGIG) and the International Association for Geometry and Graphics (International Society for Geometry and Graphics – ISGG).

His research area of expertise: Design Education, Technology in Education and Design for Social Innovation. He represents the Pan Afrikan Design Institute.

Fields of interest: social uses of technologies, digital methods in multimedia and social research, and university teaching based on transmedia game-designed learning projects.

She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Design and the In-charge of International cell with Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, India.

It is dedicated to the planning of public policies of design for development of the national industry, for innovation and productive transformation. He is currently writing his thesis of expertise on the quantitative and qualitative impact of insertion of innovation and design tools in the productive SMEs.

His work is based on the renewal of the artisanal activity by creative centered approach and the emancipation of the semantic clichés.

She teaches Design Methodology, Methodology of Research, Visual Communication, Design Concept and Fashion Design Basics, among others. She was an artistic director, mentor and curator for numerous exhibitions and projects. She has had 13 solo shows and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Macedonia, Poland, UK, Italy, Germany, Croatia, Austria, US, China, and other countries.