Aída Herrera Peña
Design researcher

^ABOUT

Aída Herrera Peña is a Colombian artists and design researcher working at the intersection of anthropological social studies, artistic research, performance and media production. She has a great experience with the execution of diverse projects among the design, culture, and artistic sectors. Aída fosters with her practice, not only collaborative and co- creative processes, but also experimental ways of doing and knowing. She is interested in exploring social realities and everyday life scenarios from a performative perspective, while focusing on embodied knowledge and experiences.

She graduated from the Faculty of Design and Arts in the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (COL) and holds a Master’s in Design Research from the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in cooperation with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE)

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︎ Berlin, DE

^PROJECTS

Journey 2.1 ~ Gestures of Domestic Memories: a performative way-of-knowing

^{Developed within the framework of Forecast Sixth Edition – Skills e.V. mentored by Mathilde Monnier 2021, DE}

Journey 2.0 ~ Checking/Browsing

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Bauhaus Study Rooms. 2020, DE

Journey 1.3 ~ On Performativity and Design

COOP Design Reseacrh MSc. program at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in cooperation with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
2020, DE

Journey 1.1 ~ Booklet Caiga en el Taxi
Self-produced
2020, DE (2014, COL)

^{COMING UP}

^LATEST

^PERFORMANCES

^27.10.22
^{Participatory performance Checking & Browsing as part of the panel Choreographies of Labour & Production at the Dis/Assembly of Performative Things Symposium}

^{by Vivien Tauchmann & Aída Herrera Peña ︎ On-site format︎October 27th, 2022, at the artspace VIKA in Halle, DE}

^17.06.22
^{Roundtable I have a problem with cleanliness at the Bauhaus Study Rooms 2022}

^{with Adam Drazin (Moderator), Charlie-Anne Côté and Nancy Dayanne Valladares ︎ Hybrid format ︎ June 17th, 2022 at Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, DE}

^LATEST

^PUBLICATIONS

^23.02.2022
^{Contribution to Visualizing the Virus with an online pubilcation about the project Gestures of Domestic Memories}

^{Online publication︎February 23rd, 2022}

^TALKS

^{(ES) La vivencia del diseño, Exploratory Practices of Resistance and Decoloniality in Arts and Education, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2021, COL}

^{(EN) On Performativity and Design, Hurra Hurra x Bauhaus: ein Designpodcast der BURG 2020, DE}

^{(EN) Bauhaus Study Rooms || 3 questions, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2020, DE}