Aída Herrera Peña
B.A. Industrial Design & Media Production, UJTL (CO)
M.Sc. Design Research, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation / Anhalt Univ. of Applied Sciences / Humboldt Univ. zu Berlin (DE)
I’m a design researcher & strategist for cultural insight, systemic change, and meaningful design.
I help organizations understand people, cultures, and systems—through research, strategy, and design, by turning complex insights into thoughtful services, processes, and opportunities for systemic change.
Ways I can support your work
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B.A. Industrial Design & Media Production, UJTL (CO)
M.Sc. Design Research, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation / Anhalt Univ. of Applied Sciences / Humboldt Univ. zu Berlin (DE)
I’m a design researcher & strategist for cultural insight, systemic change, and meaningful design.
I help organizations understand people, cultures, and systems—through research, strategy, and design, by turning complex insights into thoughtful services, processes, and opportunities for systemic change.
Ways I can support your work
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Design Research & Contextual Analysis
- Systems thinking, Strategy & Concept Development
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Service & Systems Design
- Workshops, Facilitation & Participatory Processes
︎ Linkedin︎
︎ Vimeo︎
︎ Instagram︎
︎ hi@aidaherrerape.com
︎ Berlin, DE
Projects: Context & Research
Booklet Caiga en el Taxi
2020, DE (2014, CO)

This booklet conveys the research-led process and design solutions of a social design project that by altering the quotidian perception of a context sought to mediate poor labor conditions and illegal systemic structures of taxi drivers in Bogotá, CO.
Gestures of Domestic Memories:
a performative way-of-knowing

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
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.
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.
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
(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