Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga
Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga
Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga
Senior Lecturer, Collaborative Design
Monash University Research Portal
Desiree Ibinarriaga is an Indigenous Mexican woman with Chamula (Mayan), Nahua (Aztec), Euskaldunak (Basque) and Spanish heritage. Desiree is a creative practitioner, collaborative and social design maker and thinker. She is a Senior Lecturer at Monash Art Design and Architecture in the Design department, and Coordinator for Indigenous Higher Degrees by Research being part of Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab.
With over 16 years of experience in the design field, across disciplines including decolonising design, Indigenous design, design thinking, sustainability, social, furniture and interior design. Desiree’s practice focuses on Indigenous peoples’ building of capacity and better ways of partnership, collaboration and communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through design. Desiree’s purpose is acknowledging and recognising the relationality between people and Place while privileging Indigenous knowledges, by enhancing biocultural diversity conservation and regeneration towards collaborative resilience, cultural identity pride and sustainability.
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Decolonising and Indigenising Design: Theory, Methodologies, Storytelling, and Creative Practice
This book introduces a transformative approach to design theory and practice, grounded in Indigenous knowledges, methodologies, and methods.
Ometeotl - ARC - Computational Framework for Fabricating with Sustainable Living Materials
This project aims to develop a computational framework founded on the growth characteristics of mycelia to enable scalable and consistent re-manufacturing with organic waste. As well as the uses of the material through design practcies.
AGAVE – Furniture / sculpture / space
The Agave furniture sculpture is an Indigenous design that embodies relationality between people and place/Country, is founded on ancestral knowledge, it holds cultural significance, it is functional, sustainable, visually aesthetic, and it facilitates space for ceremony, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous practices. The Agave connects immaterial and material elements of culture. The furniture while using and interact with it transitions to become ‘a space’ with its 14 pillows, this for relaxing, practices and events.