EXIBITIONS

• Sep. 17, 2023 / Park(ing)Day Toronto Installation / Pop-up Vertical Parks series / Awarded and featured in the 2020 Publication Main Street Design Challenge Playbook / Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) / Toronto. Summary project with images to come! You can also visit my IG @iditadesign for a preview, thanks 🙂
• Sep. 5 – 10 2021 / Guest Artist & Designer / Milan Design Week at the Isola Design District and Isola Design Store at Fabbrica Sassetti / Product: Pok¡, Module for Vertical Gardening / Milan, Italy
• Sep. 5 – 10 2021 / Guest Artist & Designer / Milan Design Week at the Isola Design District at Playful, Young, Design / Location: Stecca 0.3 curated by the Isola Design District / Community garden installation & workshop: Vertical Intersections & POK¡ / Milan, Italy.
• Jul. – Sep. 2021 / Artist exhibitor / Playing in Public by The Bentway. Presented as part of ArtworxTO: Toronto’s Year of Public Art 2021-22 / Project: Tiny Games: Secret Landscape, meditation games / Toronto
• Feb. – May 2021 / Game Artist / Tiny Games with Hand Eye Society, The Bentway and Visual identity by Cossette / Project: Secret Landscape, meditation games / Toronto
• Future Events / Guest Artist / Pulp Art Party & Card Yard / Project: Vertical Intersections & Pok¡ / Toronto
• Jan. 2020 / Guest Artist and Designer / DesignTO Festival and Mackenzie House Museum / Project: Vertical Intersections & Pok¡ / Toronto
• Sep. 2019 / Guest Artist / Urban Agricultural Week / Project: Vertical Intersections / Toronto
• May – Oct 2019 / Emerging Artist / “The Bentway Incubation Program 2019” / Project: Vertical Intersections / Toronto
• Dec 2017 / Artist team-player / Art Exhibition “Río Adentro” at the Modern Art Museum La Tertulia / Cali, Colombia
• Sep 2012 / Guest Designer / Exhibition “Park(ing) Day” / Project: Nutritious Link (M.Arch.Urb.Des Thesis) / Milan, Italy
• Apr 2012 / Guest Designer / Exhibition “Soft Project for Fragile Territories” / Bogliasco Municipality, Italy
• Nov 2005 / Guest Designer / Transportation Design Exhibition “Exprimez-vous” / Project: T-Moon Concept Car / Université de Montréal and the “Exhibitions of New technologies of Saint-Jérôme”, Québec

AWARDS

• Jul. – Oct. 2023 / Jul. – Oct. 2024 / GreenForceTO Community Ambassador of Spadina-Fort York Ward (Toronto City Centre) / Steward green streets sites through the facilitation of community events / In partnership with Toronto Green Community, RAINscapeTO and the City of Toronto
• Feb. 2023 / Team-player and co-facilitator / 1st place in the Brookfield Sustainability Institute Charrette about Smart Sustainability / Toronto
• Sep. – April 2021 / Emerging Artist / Toronto Artscape Foundation Launchpad Bursary Program / Artscape Daniels Launchpad / Toronto
• Feb. 2020 / Artist and Designer / “DesignTO People’s Choice: Community Wellbeing Award” / Project: Vertical Intersections & Pok¡ / Toronto
• Nov. 2019 / Product Designer / Women In Product 2019 Conference Scholarship / San Francisco, USA
• Nov. 2019 / Artist / Finalist in the Neighbourhood Grant Program of the City of Toronto / Project: Vertical Intersections & Pok¡ / Toronto
• Jan. 2019 / IDITA / Awarded to participate in BIG IDeA Micro Inclusive Design Challenge / Toronto
• May – Oct 2019 / Emerging Artist / “The Bentway Incubation Program 2019” / Project: Vertical Intersections / Toronto
• Apr 2018 / IDITA / Awarded to participate in The Starter Company Plus Program (Small Business Program) / City of Toronto
• Mar. 2018 / UX/UI Designer team-player / 2nd place in the competition Mission Hack / Toronto
• Apr. 2011 / Artist & Designer / DA 1st place scholarship for the MUVAD in the competition: “Defining a Creative Hub” / Project: “Break” graffiti urban furniture (B.ID Thesis) / Milan, Italy
• August 2009 / Guest Artist & Designer / TVO “Think Big”/ Host and jury for kids lighting crafts / Toronto

PUBLICATIONS

• Oct. 2020 / Artist / Publication Main Street Design Challenge Playbook / Project: Pop-Up Vertical Parks / Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) / Toronto
• Mar. 2012 / Designer / Publication: Canton Ticino Territory of New Modernity / DA & i2A / Italy & Switzerland

TALKS

• Jun. 2020 / Guest Artist & Designer / Milan Design Week at the Isola Design District Goes Digital / Project: Vertical Intersections & Pok¡ / Milan, Italy

INVOLVEMENT

• Mar. 2019 / UX Designer team-player / Civic Tech / CODEACROSSTO 2019: TORONTO’S TAKE ON UN’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS / Toronto
• Apr. 29 – May 4, 2019 / UX Designer team-player / Institute Without Boundaries / SMART CITIES CHARRETTE / Toronto
• Sep. 2018 / Information Clerk / THE BENTWAY / IdeasCity / Toronto
• Feb, 2018 / UX Designer team-player / Hackernest / FISHCATHON / Toronto
• 2017 / UX Designer team-player / BIG IDeA / INCLUSIVE DESIGN CHALLENGE: WITH TELUS / Toronto
• 2017 / UX Designer team-player / THE 9BILLION LIVES IMPACT JAM / Toronto
• Apr.  2006 – 2019 / Artist Workshop Facilitator / Photographer / Tour Guide / Information Clerk / DESIGN EXCHANGE /Toronto
• Mar. 2009 / Artist Facilitator / OCAD / Third annual Bunch Family Salon / Toronto
• 2007 / Design Facilitator / ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY TORONTO (AFHT) / Toronto
• Sep. 2006 / Information Clerk / TIFF / Toronto
• Nov. 1999 / Information Clerk / MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTRÉAL / Exhibition De Renoir à   Picasso / Montreal
• 1999 / Artist Facilitator and development team-player / COLOMBIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF MONTREAL / Montréal
• 1998 / Development team-player and Facilitator / LITERACY AND HEALTH EDUCATION for disadvantaged seniors of  La  Sirena Neighbourhood / Cali, Colombia
• 1992 – 1998 / Artist Facilitator and development team-player / Art workshops, cultural and artistic festivals: Lunada, La Noche del Fuego and Escarcha de Media Luna/ COLEGIO IDEAS / Cali, Colombia