I am a Colombian-Australian designer and researcher based in Amsterdam. Working from a queer mestiza perspective, I design and research AI systems that open futures rather than foreclose them. My PhD at TU Delft, within the DCODE Network (2021–2026), a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie project, reorients design towards co-predictive relations: recoding simulations and digital twins from prediction, which pronounces the future, to co-performance, which opens it.

As co-founder and Head of Design and Research at Parallel Studio, I work across design research, complex systems and human–AI relations, treating the relations between living and computational systems as a design material. Parallel builds simulation instruments that let institutions see and work on those relations directly.

With Romany Dear, I co-head Monstrous Futurities: Practices in (Un)learning, (Un)making, and (Un)worlding, a two-year temporary master’s programme at the Sandberg Instituut that began in September 2025. The programme takes monstrous imaginaries and their subversive potential as a way of holding on to hope and futurity while living in uncertainty. Together we have built a living curriculum of embodied, situated and speculative practices that keeps returning to students’ own lived experience, read alongside transfeminist, queer, crip and posthuman theory.

For all the theoretical vocabulary, much of this work happens in real-world settings. Sounding Territorios (2024), a residency at Fundación Organizmo in Tenjo, Colombia, produced a sonic model of woven territory, bodies and place. Unimaginable Red (2023), a video game developed with Imagination of Things and supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, grew out of co-creation with communities living and working in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Las Erres (2022), made with Becoming Studio for Fundación Telefónica’s The Great Imagination: Stories of the Future in Madrid, imagined a shopping centre repurposed for a speculative degrowth future in 2050. The Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (2021), developed in Sydney with Old Ways, New, connected Indigenous artists, academics and technologists to co-produce AI protocols grounded in caring for Country and Kin.

Control Wars, made with Becoming Studio, is a tabletop role-play game for rehearsing planetary transitions. It is co-performance at the table: a simulation played rather than computed. We have run it internationally, from PRIMER Festival in New York and the World Futures Studies Federation’s conference in Mexico City, to the Porto Design Biennale.

Formerly Design Futures & Insight Lead at Deloitte Digital in Australia and the Netherlands (2015–2021), I led research programmes for ASX 200 companies and government institutions, supporting system-level change and civic-oriented strategy, service and product design on projects from Sydney Metro to the National Broadband Network. In 2014 I co-founded Australia’s first queer womxn-led makerspace. I have spoken at TEDxSydney and presented ‘Queering human–AI co-predictive relations’ at the On the Seam symposium, run by the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Futuress. Recent writing appears in AI & SOCIETY, the DRS2026 proceedings and VOLUME, with the chapter ‘Autotheory as a Queering Design Methodology’ forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods.