Nacho is an industrial designer with a multi-disciplinary background living in London. He is currently a Ph.D candidate at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London.
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About
Having lived in Oslo, New Delhi, Jakarta, Madrid, Budapest, Brussels, Barcelona and currently in London, Nacho developed an interest in addressing individual societal issues, while celebrating culture diversity. This passion motivated Nacho to bridge the gap between science and society and make him understand that design is present in all aspects of our lives. As he simply puts it: design your own world.
His background in Industrial Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design (Barcelona) enabled him to participate in the Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) Programme at CERN, where he tackled the following challenge: How can technology help in the psychological rehabilitation of traffic accident survivors? This experience eventually led Nacho to pursue a double master's degree in Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.
The field of Digital Humanities becoming increasingly complex and crucial in the age of Information, he then completed his third master’s degree in Big Data in Culture and Society at King’s College London to eventually specialise in psychological data ownership in order to provide a new human-centred framework for digital service innovation.
Awards
FINALIST
→ Le Futur Prix 2022 - “La Différence”
→ Singapore Creator Awards 2021
(Bronze Award for Established Designer).
→ Stanford Design Challenge 2021.
SHORTLISTED
→ Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2020.
→ Hay Young Bird Talent Asia Award 2020.
HONORABLE MENTION
→ London International Creative Competition
(LICC) 2017.
OTHER
→ Winning team for Oarsis' AR/VR Startup Competition in 2017 in Madrid.
→ Master Innovator title for the CBI programme at CERN in 2016 in Geneva.
Education
DOCTORATE DEGREE
”Psychological Data Ownership: a Human-Centred Framework for Digital Service Innovation”, PhD
Imperial College London, 2021 - 2024.
MASTER DEGREE
Big Data in Culture & Society, MA
King’s College London 2020 - 2021.
Innovation Design Engineering, MSc
Imperial College London 2018 - 2020.
Innovation Design Engineering, MA
Royal College of Art 2018 - 2020.
BACHELOR DEGREE
Industrial & Product Design, BA
Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona
2013 - 2017.
Experience
GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOW
→ Imperial College, 2021 - Now
→ King’s College, 2022 - Now
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
→ Power Of Human, 2022 - Now
DESIGN CONSULTANT
→ Imperial College, 2021.
FREELANCE JUNIOR DESIGNER
→ Monocle, 2018 & 2019 - 2021.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
→ Deploy, 2022 - 2023
→ Professor Peter Childs, 2019 – Now
→ Firework Productions, 2020
→ qLegal, 2018
→ CoachBright, 2017 – 2019