Juan Montalvan Lume

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  • Lancaster University, The LICA Building

    LA1 4YW Lancaster

20172025

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Personal profile

Profile

Researcher in Systemic Design and Socionatural Networks; Pluriversal, Transcultural and Decolonial Design; Bio-astronautics and Space Urbanization; and Design Theory and Methodology. I am the Director of the Interplanetary Design Division at the Research Center for Space Systems (C- SET), and Professor and former Head of the Industrial Design Program at the No.1 university in Peru (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru - PUCP). 

Career Details

I am an International Advisory Council Member of the Design Research Society (DRS) the longest stablished worldwide society in Design Research, also a Member of the Systemic Design Association (SDA), Member of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and Representative of Peru at the Latin American Network of Public Policy and Design (Red PP&D). Founder of the LeNS Peru node of the International Learning Network on Sustainability, and Founder of the CADi LATAM Conference of Latin American Design.

Professional Role

I help companies, institutions and organizations deal with complex contemporary challenges and make strategic decisions in relation to the simultaneous socio-economic, techno-political and socio-natural impacts of their projects, and the products, services, socio-technical infrastructures and complex socio-natural systems being designed, developed and transformed.

Related documents

Education/Academic qualification

MSc, Industrial Design (Human-Robot Interaction), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

1/09/201419/08/2016

Award Date: 19/08/2016

BA, Industrial Design, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)

12/03/200715/12/2011

Award Date: 10/04/2012

External positions

International Advisory Council Member, The Design Research Society

10/05/2020 → …

Head of the Space Design Division, Center for Space Emerging Technologies (C-SET)

5/03/2020 → …

Lecturer, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)

10/02/2017 → …

Keywords

  • Society and environment
  • Urban Planning
  • Urban Policy
  • Socio-Natural Systems
  • Urban Ecosystems
  • Bio-astronautics
  • Space Urbanization
  • Design futures
  • Design Theory
  • Critical Studies in Design
  • Socio-Natural Design
  • Pluriversal Design
  • Decolonization
  • Latin American Design
  • Politics and policy
  • Place Based Policy
  • Geography
  • Human Geography
  • Science and technology studies
  • Culture
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Environmental change
  • Design for sustainability

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