Raquel Ariza

ABOUT

Industrial Designer from Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Urbanismo (FADU) of Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Official Master’s Degree in Communication Management at Universidad Católica de San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM). Postgraduate course in Mercosur Design, Sapienza Università di Roma, Dip. Itaca – Università degli Studi di Firenze, D.I. – C.D.I. from Montevideo. She specialized in innovation issues. Winner and jury of numerous national and international  competitions. Speaker at design conferences at national and international institutions. Associate Professor of Argentine Industry subject at FADUUBA. UBA researcher. Author of publications related to the themes of her expertise. Director at Industrial Design Center of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI-Industrial Design). Director of the Design for Innovation Program of INTI-Argentina. Responsible and coordinator between various INTI R&D centers on 3D printing and Industry 4.0 related issues. She works and researches on additive manufacturing since 2002, in 2012 she founded the Materialization Laboratory. She has led numerous projects in design management, additive manufacturing, sustainability, usability, ergonomics, value chains
and Industry 4.0.