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Aída Herrera Peña is an interdisciplinary professional working at the intersection of design and artistic research, social and performance studies, and media production. With extensive experience in various projects within the realms of design, culture, and the arts, she cultivates collaborative and experimental approaches to both practice and knowledge. Aída's research is centered on exploring social realities as everyday life scenarios from a performative viewpoint, emphasizing bodily knowledge and experiences.

She graduated from the Faculty of Design and Arts in the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (COL) and holds an M.Sc. 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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Context & Research

A Social and Research Design project.
Booklet Caiga en el Taxi 2020, DE (2014, COL)

Workshops & Strategic Design

On Performativity and Design

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

Gestures of Domestic Memories:
a performative way-of-knowing

Interdisciplinary project developed within the framework of Forecast Sixth Edition – Skills e.V. mentored by Mathilde Monnier 2021, DE

Checking/Browsing

Workshop: Performance
Dis/Assembly of Performative Things Symposium. 2022 DE
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Bauhaus Study Rooms. 2020, DE

PUBLICATIONS

_{February 23rd, 2022}

Online pubilcation a Visualising the Virus about the project Gestures of Domestic Memories.

PERFORMANCES

_{October 27th, 2022 at the artspace VIKA in Halle, DE}
Participatory performance Checking & Browsing with Vivien Tauchmann as part of the panel Choreographies of Labour & Production at the Dis/Assembly of Performative Things Symposium.

_{June 17th, 2022 at Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau, DE}

Roundtable I have a problem with cleanliness at the Bauhaus Study Rooms 2022 with Adam Drazin (Moderator), Charlie-Anne Côté and Nancy Dayanne Valladares.

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}