José Rodrigo de la O Campos is interested in the way design relates to society in Mexico from its aesthetic, social and economic aspects. He sees as alarming the little clarity surrounding what this discipline can achieve, therefore, in addition to practicing it he aims to spread its potential. 

To him, his profession is everything but boring: one day he gets to design a chair inspired in sonideros and the next, to analyze mexican flora as an inspiration source for design in precious metals or to create prototypes of alternate reality. This is why, although his projects revolve around Critical Design, the topics he covers in his classes go from understanding the issues that affect Mexico City to cumbia-playing robots or digital manufacturing machines that utilize cochineal dye. 

In Netherlands, de la O Campos learnt to respect the concept of a project and its communication. Afterwards, he aimed his work towards Critical Design to promote reflection on consumption and the status quo. Que considers design to be an attitude to face adversity and minimize risks with; however, he claims that public and private sectors in Mexico have not understood the significance of investing in culture, innovation, science, technology and design; the latter being the main link between the former and everyday life.

As an academic at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, de la O constantly contributes to the dissemination of knowledge and literacy in design. Through his academic programs, he has collaborated with The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Home Smart division of Ikea, and other NGOs and institutions.

• Design Project
• Experience Design
• Futurology in Industrial Design
• Innovation, Design and Business Setting
• Object Photography
• Product and System Design
• Product and service design
• Professional Insertion Project
• Strategic Design

Bachelor of Industrial Design, Universidad Iberoamericana

Master in Design, Design Academy Eindhoven 

Tenth National Design Biennial: First Prize Professional Category, conferred by INBA, 2019

"We have to leave `Made In Mexico´ behind in order to move towards `Designed In Mexico'. We are a manufacturing country that imports design; that paradigm has to change." Mexico needs a design culture, to change the perception that design is an accesory and to consider it an essential part of innovation in companies: this is what Jorge Diego Etienne thinks. 

He earned his Industrial Design degree from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, took several courses in the Netherlands and specialized in Japan with the intention to focus on strategic design consulting. Since the day he opened his studio seven years ago, he was convinced that design is a discipline with the power to interact with other creative or scientific areas. 

He defines design as a catalist for change that defines a positive future for society, culture and industry. Etienne is interested in design beyond objects. He promotes it through articles, conferences and classes. He feels his mission is to motivate young people to take an interest in it. From his point of view, creative careers generally involve passion. He claims to be in love with his work and, even though obstacles usually arise, he feels an immense joy for the simple fact of doing design in Mexico. He goes from research to the conception of ideas to translate them into shapes, objects, spaces and experiences that, when enjoyed by someone else, grow his vocation.

• Design Project
• Experience Design
• Furniture Design
• International Design Project
• Introduction to the Design Area
• Language and Meaning of Objects
• Mexican Identity and Culture
• Product Design
• Product and System Design
• Product and service design

Bachelor of Industrial Design, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Ibero-American Biennial of Madrid, conferred by DIMAD, 2020
• Best Furniture Design, conferred by Architectural Digest, 2019
• Salone Satellite Milan Exhibition, conferred by Il Salone del Mobile Milano, 2018
• NYCxDESIGN Exhibition, conferred by ICFF , 2018
• Salone Satellite Milan Exhibition, conferred by Il Salone del Mobile Milano, 2017
• Salone Satellite Milan Exhibition, conferred by Il Salone del Mobile Milano, 2016

"We have to leave `Made In Mexico´ behind in order to move towards `Designed In Mexico'. We are a manufacturing country that imports design; that paradigm has to change." Mexico needs a design culture, to change the perception that design is an accesory and to consider it an essential part of innovation in companies: this is what Jorge Diego Etienne thinks. 

He earned his Industrial Design degree from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, took several courses in the Netherlands and specialized in Japan with the intention to focus on strategic design consulting. Since the day he opened his studio seven years ago, he was convinced that design is a discipline with the power to interact with other creative or scientific areas. 

He defines design as a catalist for change that defines a positive future for society, culture and industry. Etienne is interested in design beyond objects. He promotes it through articles, conferences and classes. He feels his mission is to motivate young people to take an interest in it. From his point of view, creative careers generally involve passion. He claims to be in love with his work and, even though obstacles usually arise, he feels an immense joy for the simple fact of doing design in Mexico. He goes from research to the conception of ideas to translate them into shapes, objects, spaces and experiences that, when enjoyed by someone else, grow his vocation.

• Design Project
• Experience Design
• Furniture Design
• International Design Project
• Introduction to the Design Area
• Language and Meaning of Objects
• Mexican Identity and Culture
• Product Design
• Product and System Design
• Product and service design

Bachelor of Industrial Design, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Ibero-American Biennial of Madrid, conferred by DIMAD, 2020
• Best Furniture Design, conferred by Architectural Digest, 2019
• Salone Satellite Milan Exhibition, conferred by Il Salone del Mobile Milano, 2018
• NYCxDESIGN Exhibition, conferred by ICFF , 2018
• Salone Satellite Milan Exhibition, conferred by Il Salone del Mobile Milano, 2017
• Salone Satellite Milan Exhibition, conferred by Il Salone del Mobile Milano, 2016

Roberto Lara Chagoyán has a degree in Law from the University of Guanajuato, a Doctor of Law from the University of Alicante, Spain, and a member of the National System of Researchers (level I).

He has served as Director of Education for the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the State of Guanajuato (2001); as an advisor to the General Council of the IFE (2002-2003); as Secretary of Study and Account assigned to the presentation of Minister José Ramón Cossío Díaz, in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (2004-2015), and as General Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies of that same institution (2015-2019) .

He has collaborated in different academic journals, among which stand out Isonomía (ITAM), Doxa (University of Alicante) and Constitutional Questions (UNAM), and is the author of the books: The concept of sanction in contemporary theory of Law (Fontamara, 2004 ) and Legal Argumentation. Practical Studies (Porrúa, 2011). Mexican constitutionalism in transformation. Advances and setbacks (IECQ, 2020) and Minimum manual of legal Argumentation. The reason in practice (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2021) 

He has been a professor, at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, at different universities in Mexico, such as the Ibero-American University, the UNAM, the ITAM, the University of Guanajuato, the CIDE, the Panamerican University, among others.

He currently works as National Director of the Law Program at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe, in Mexico City. where he is also a professor and researcher.

• PhD Law, University of Alicante
• Bachelor in Law, University of Guanajuato

Roberto Lara Chagoyán has a degree in Law from the University of Guanajuato, a Doctor of Law from the University of Alicante, Spain, and a member of the National System of Researchers (level I).

He has served as Director of Education for the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the State of Guanajuato (2001); as an advisor to the General Council of the IFE (2002-2003); as Secretary of Study and Account assigned to the presentation of Minister José Ramón Cossío Díaz, in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (2004-2015), and as General Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies of that same institution (2015-2019) .

He has collaborated in different academic journals, among which stand out Isonomía (ITAM), Doxa (University of Alicante) and Constitutional Questions (UNAM), and is the author of the books: The concept of sanction in contemporary theory of Law (Fontamara, 2004 ) and Legal Argumentation. Practical Studies (Porrúa, 2011). Mexican constitutionalism in transformation. Advances and setbacks (IECQ, 2020) and Minimum manual of legal Argumentation. The reason in practice (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2021) 

He has been a professor, at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, at different universities in Mexico, such as the Ibero-American University, the UNAM, the ITAM, the University of Guanajuato, the CIDE, the Panamerican University, among others.

He currently works as National Director of the Law Program at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe, in Mexico City. where he is also a professor and researcher.

• PhD Law, University of Alicante
• Bachelor in Law, University of Guanajuato

Professor at EAAD, he develops teaching and research activities on the issues of communities and sustainable territorial development. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering and Architecture obtained at the University of Pavia (Italy). 

In 2020 he published with Springer the book "The Co-Housing Phenomenon. Environmental Allience in Time of Changes" which has already been purchased by more than 200 libraries from various prestigious universities such as MIT, Stanford, Princeton and the British Library. 

He presented his research papers at more than 30 international conferences and published several articles in indexed journals.

• Architecture Theory and Design Methodologies
• Business Management in the Construction Industry
• Capstone Projects
• Computer Drawing
• Concrete Structures Design
• Construction Site Management
• Design of Steel Structures
• Final Project
• Internship
• Professional Experience Internship
• Projects II: Collective Housing
• Projects IV: Community Buildings
• Real-estate Projects
• Structural Systems
• Structure Mechanics
• Urban Design Methods
• Urban Project

PhD in Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia

• Premio Romulo Garza, conferred by Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2021
• 1st Prize for the project The House of Culture, for the design competition of a library and a museum, San Giovanni Bianco (Bergamo), Italy, conferred by Municipality of San Giovanni Bianco (Bergamo), Italy, 2016
• 1st Prize for the project Territory Talent, for the design competition: Redevelopment of a shopping center, Villa Verucchio, Italy. , conferred by Conact Market Entry Management GMBH Zum and Aareal Bank AG (Germany), 2014
• 1st Prize for the project Everyday Ecology E.QUO, for the design competition: Manufacturing regeneration area, Brescia, Italy., conferred by Solarenet s.r.l., 2013
• Mexican Researcher Certification - Level 1 (Giorgi,Emanuele)

Professor at EAAD, he develops teaching and research activities on the issues of communities and sustainable territorial development. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering and Architecture obtained at the University of Pavia (Italy). 

In 2020 he published with Springer the book "The Co-Housing Phenomenon. Environmental Allience in Time of Changes" which has already been purchased by more than 200 libraries from various prestigious universities such as MIT, Stanford, Princeton and the British Library. 

He presented his research papers at more than 30 international conferences and published several articles in indexed journals.

• Architecture Theory and Design Methodologies
• Business Management in the Construction Industry
• Capstone Projects
• Computer Drawing
• Concrete Structures Design
• Construction Site Management
• Design of Steel Structures
• Final Project
• Internship
• Professional Experience Internship
• Projects II: Collective Housing
• Projects IV: Community Buildings
• Real-estate Projects
• Structural Systems
• Structure Mechanics
• Urban Design Methods
• Urban Project

PhD in Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia

• Premio Romulo Garza, conferred by Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2021
• 1st Prize for the project The House of Culture, for the design competition of a library and a museum, San Giovanni Bianco (Bergamo), Italy, conferred by Municipality of San Giovanni Bianco (Bergamo), Italy, 2016
• 1st Prize for the project Territory Talent, for the design competition: Redevelopment of a shopping center, Villa Verucchio, Italy. , conferred by Conact Market Entry Management GMBH Zum and Aareal Bank AG (Germany), 2014
• 1st Prize for the project Everyday Ecology E.QUO, for the design competition: Manufacturing regeneration area, Brescia, Italy., conferred by Solarenet s.r.l., 2013
• Mexican Researcher Certification - Level 1 (Giorgi,Emanuele)

She has a PhD in Political Science from Brown University, a Master in International Studies from the University of Denver and a BA in Political Science and Spanish from Whittier College. She is currently a professor-researcher at the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tecnológico de Monterrey where she works with relevant issues such as citizen participation processes under violent contexts and in new democracies, conflict processes and civil war.

Her current projects include a book that explores the impact empathy has on the dynamics of citizen participation during times of conflict. She uses qualitative, quantitative, and experimental methods, and has extensive experience conducting research in Latin America. Her most recent publication discusses the empirical and ethical challenges of conducting research in violent contexts.

Her academic projects have been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation IGERT Award and the Mellon Foundation via Brown University. Certified teacher in inclusive teaching practices.

She has taught courses on human rights, international relations and violent conflict. In 2015, she was awarded the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Teaching Excellence by the Division of Political Science at Brown University. She has been a visiting fellow at various government agencies in Washington, D.C. and worked with local governments in the state of California.

• PhD in Political Science, Brown University
• Master in International Studies, University of Denver 
• BA in Political Science and Spanish, Whittier College

• Confronting Selection Bias: The Normative and Empirical Risks of Data Collection in Violent Contexts Rebecca V. Bell-Martin & Jerome F. Marston Jr. (2019). Geopolitics, DOI:10.1080/14650045.2019.1659780

She has a PhD in Political Science from Brown University, a Master in International Studies from the University of Denver and a BA in Political Science and Spanish from Whittier College. She is currently a professor-researcher at the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tecnológico de Monterrey where she works with relevant issues such as citizen participation processes under violent contexts and in new democracies, conflict processes and civil war.

Her current projects include a book that explores the impact empathy has on the dynamics of citizen participation during times of conflict. She uses qualitative, quantitative, and experimental methods, and has extensive experience conducting research in Latin America. Her most recent publication discusses the empirical and ethical challenges of conducting research in violent contexts.

Her academic projects have been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation IGERT Award and the Mellon Foundation via Brown University. Certified teacher in inclusive teaching practices.

She has taught courses on human rights, international relations and violent conflict. In 2015, she was awarded the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Teaching Excellence by the Division of Political Science at Brown University. She has been a visiting fellow at various government agencies in Washington, D.C. and worked with local governments in the state of California.

• PhD in Political Science, Brown University
• Master in International Studies, University of Denver 
• BA in Political Science and Spanish, Whittier College

• Confronting Selection Bias: The Normative and Empirical Risks of Data Collection in Violent Contexts Rebecca V. Bell-Martin & Jerome F. Marston Jr. (2019). Geopolitics, DOI:10.1080/14650045.2019.1659780

He is a Doctor and Master in Political Science from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Also, he has a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from the Colegio de México. From 1991 to 1995 he was a professor and researcher at CIDE. From 1995 he served as general director of the same institution, until his appointment as Mexico's ambassador to the OECD in 2004. In 2007, he returned to CIDE as a professor and researcher. He collaborated at CIDE for more than 20 years and is currently a professor-researcher at the School of Government and Public Transformation, at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

He is part of the National System of Researchers of CONACyT level III. In September 2014, he was appointed independent director of Pemex. His latest books are Con dinero y sin dinero…, Nuestro ineficaz, precario e injusto equilibrio fiscal, y Por eso estamos como estamos. La economía política de un crecimiento mediocre. Has a weekly column in Excelsior. Together with Federico Reyes Heroles, he hosts the program Primer Círculo, every Monday on Canal 13, TV Azteca.

• PhD Political Science, University of Oxford
• Master Political Science, University of Oxford
• Bachelor's Degree in International Relations, Colegio de México

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