Should we think of manual work in an automated future?
October 16, 2018

This past month I had the opportunity to organize a workshop in Boston for makers, based on a workshop that Mario Gómez and I we did in Colombia back in 2016, this time with support from people at the Fab […]

Hand-made Electronics Workshop with Fab @ CIC
October 11, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, Mario Gómez from Hackerspace San Salvador and I we had the opportunity to run a workshop that focused on making Reacción Colibrí kits by hand. The workshop was made as a side event from the […]

Social violence, game design and public perception
September 19, 2018

Our recent experience with Reacción on social mapping has brought us into the murky waters of urban behavior analysis. Over the past couple of months we have been working together with people from urban communities of San Salvador for a […]

Maker Culture and Youth
April 27, 2018

On April 25th, a new book featuring an article I wrote in collaboration with Kako Valladares and Kate Samson was published by Fundación Ceibal from Uruguay, with support from Digitally Connected. The book, Jóvenes, transformación digital y nuevas formas de […]

Analysis of collaborative project behavior
November 23, 2017

This past August I presented alongside Isaac Robles a paper that analyzed the work of members of the Latin American Fab Lab Network on regional collaborative projects, through their engagement with Google Drive project folders. A few months later, I […]

autores.sv platform for public domain works in El Salvador
November 20, 2017

Autores is an initiative by Creative Commons Uruguay which was born in 2014, in order to curate locally-produced expressions protected by copyright, and more especially those whose period of copyright protection had experied of was close to expiration. The team […]

Transantiago Visualization
September 22, 2017

As a result from the workshop made at Fab13 in Santiago, Chile, I worked with Mario Gómez with the design of a proof of concept for a model of visualization of data for people who mobilize in the city. For […]

Collaborative Mapping Workshop
September 01, 2017

This past August we had the chance to work as part of the Fab13 Conference alongside Habitat for Humanity Chile and women from La Florida, a community in Santiago, with help from makers from different countries in a participatory workshop […]

Miami Maker Faire Group Picture
Maker Faire Miami
April 18, 2017

Thanks to MANO Americas, the University of Miami School of Architecture and Dade College, last week I had the chance to visit Dade College to showcase open projects from Latin America at the Miami Maker Faire. Projects from all over […]

Disaster Response Workshop in Ahuachapán
February 14, 2017

This Saturday, we had an amazing experience up in the mountains of Ahuachapán, El Salvador. As part of the continuing work done alongside Habitat for Humanity El Salvador, we invited some of the people from the communities that were part […]