PORTFOLIO Industrial Designer

KARINA PINTO PEREZ

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER

Professional Resume

I am an expert in conceptualisation, product development, digital fabrication and technology transfer, with extensive experience in innovation projects, entrepreneurship and funding.

My approach is focused on experimentation, merging digital fabrication and traditional techniques, with the purpose of addressing current issues and transform our environment.

I value diverse work environments, I apply a collaborative perspective, share my experience and knowledge, in order to drive innovation and the development of more creative solutions.

KARINA PINTO

Education

2020-2021

Master ‘s Degree University

Pompeu Fabra,

2017-2018

Instituto Profesional the Corporation the Government

2016 English programme, and Business”

Employment

2010-2014

Professional Universidad

2008-2009

Institute of

KARINA PINTO PEREZ

Education

Degree in Industrial Design Engineering, Elisava

University School of Design and Engineering, Universitat Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Skills

• Teamwork

• Project Management

• 2D Technical Drawing

• 3D Modeling and Printing

• Electronics/Arduino

• Machinery Operation

• Conceptualization

• Product Development

• Administration

• Branding

• Marketing

Profesional Duoc UC. Awarded the scholarship from Corporation for the Promotion of Production (CORFO) of Government of Chile.

Advanced

• Autodesk Inventor

• Autodesk Fusion

programme, British Centre, Awarded the “Enterprise Business” scholarship from the National Training and Employment Service (SENCE) of the Government of Chile.

Professional Degree Industrial Designer, Degree in Product

Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.

of Biology. Degree in Biology. Three semesters,

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe Indesign

• Laser CNC

• 3D Print

Medium

• Adobe Photoshop

• Autodesk Autocad

• Autodesk 3DS Max

• Blender

• Rhinoceros 3D

• NetBeans

• MySQL

karina.pinto.p@gmail.com

E[AD] PUCV

2010-2014

Design education with a focus on experimentation and expression, and interaction with the environment. Through experiences such as travesías and celebrations, a relationship with the territory, turning design into a linked to the individual’s experience, their environment,

Design as a profession is the practice of amplifying human through the conception and planning of the world, giving designers, we have the ability and responsibility to make in function of creating a better world.

and the revival celebrations, we establish process closely environment, and expression human capabilities giving it shape. As make this new shape

Digital Fabrication Laboratory at E[ad] PUCV, a space for experimentation, teaching, and

laboratory team, experimenting and generating content, manuals, and protocols, as well as academic research projects.

The goal was always to merge traditional techniques with new technologies, allowing us

versatility of digital fabrication technologies to value, expanding the possibilities.

2014

5 TH DESIGN BIENNIAL

2012-2013

Inauguration of the 5th Design Biennial held in Santiago, Chile. Began as a third year construction workshop project taught by designer Ricardo Lang, where prototypes and concepts for the celebration ritual were developed.

Later, I was invited to participate in the production of the installation for the Biennial’s inauguration, assuming the production direction of the celebration modules and budget administration.

Multiple modules were created, each with an opening mechanism. Simultaneously, these modules unfold to reveal the object of the ritual.

MEKANOS DIDASK

2014

Didactic

Models for Approaching the Development Creative Potential in Children from 4 to 10 Thesis project focused on the development modules to stimulate creative development using digital fabrication technologies.

It is a thesis about stimulation and a design to establish relationships that allow us to about the shape and scale in which children

Development of years of age.

development of habitable development in children

design methodology make decisions children play. Geometric

us to establish a principle of abstract play and transmit the symbolic power of transforming the environment to children through play.

The project was funded by the Vice-Rectory for Research

Innovative Thesis 2014 competition.

ACONCAGUA FAB LAB

2015 / 2018

Aconcagua Fab Lab is a mobile digital fabrication laboratory whose purpose is the connection and technology transfer between academia and the community, training entrepreneurs and artisans of the V Region, as well as stimulating strategic partnerships

In 2015 I participated as Coordinator of training strategies, in charge of the creation and production of training workshops

funding administration. During 2018 I was an Instructor in design with a focus on new technologies and applications in Non-Conventional Renewable Energies (NCRE).

Project funded by the Innovation Fund for Competitiveness (FIC) of the Regional Government of Valparaiso and the Regional Government of Atacama, Chile. In 2016, it received recognition as a Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Design from the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Chile.

MÜ INTERACTIVE TOYS

2016-2017

Founding partner and Director of Technology

Development at Mü Interactive Toys, a company focused on the development of toys and tools for children’s development.

interface for children between 3 and 10 years old that works as an interactive musical toy, and at the same time is an evaluation tool that supports the work

capturing data.

Mü was supported by the incubation programme of the Fab Lab of the University of Chile and was also funded twice by the Chilean Government’s Production Development Corporation (CORFO) and its Start-up Chile platform focused on high-impact technological ventures, in 2016 through The S Factory programme and in 2017 through the Seed programme, our project won 3rd place in the internal competition for projects led by women.

INAS DISEÑO Y FABRICACIÓN

2017-Present

Founding partner at Inas Diseño, a studio composed women designers in Valparaíso, Chile, focused on providing services for the community of entrepreneurs, companies institutions, connecting them with local artists and We have digital fabrication tools such as 3D Printers Laser, as well as strategic partnerships and collaborative networks with other technology industries, allowing deliver a wide range and scale of services.

awarded the SERCOTEC competitive funds from the Economy and Development of the Chilean Government.

composed of providing companies and and experts.

Printers and CNC collaborative allowing us to the Ministry of Government.

We provide services and develop standardised and need. We are based on the fusion of technology and traditional in all its aspects. Our mission is to bridge the gap between small and large companies through design and digital fabrication create a local creative industry as a regional cluster.

This association has allowed us a constant of creativity, it is a symbiosis between the professors, scientists, among others) and in the translation of the content or concept language of communication and matter. In these cases the focus is to be able to territory and its inhabitants with each project interaction, always seeking clarity, beauty understanding in everything we do.

Interactive furniture and installation for the of the Centre of Extensions of the Ministry and Heritage of the Government of Chile.

constant exercise the network and us as experts concept into the matter. link the project through beauty and

the Habitamus cycle Ministry of Cultures, Arts

Collaboration with the artist Danila Ilabaca, interactive installation for the exhibition “Soñé Planetas”, at the Centre of Extensions of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of the Government of Chile. The project was adapted to be taken to the public space “ Interactive Installation of FONDART programme of the same Ministry.

THE DARK CLOUD

2021

“From Data to Art” is a collaboration between Elisava’s Master’s Degree in Industrial Design Engineering (MEDI) and IDEAL Centre d’arts Digitals de Barcelona.

“The Dark Cloud” is a project whose aim is to make visible the environmental impact of our digital interaction. Through research, analysis and data visualisation with Processing, we have calculated this impact in terms of CO2 emanation by concept of use and screen time, energy consumption and sources of electrical generation, in order to visualise this impact.

The visualisation consists of the journey of the bits and the representation that breaks the paradigm of the immateriality of virtuality through the graphic visualisation of the amount of CO2 emitted by each interaction and its cumulative amount.

EFÍMERA CRITICAL FOOD DESIGN 2021

Efímera is a project project consists of developing created from organic design approach responds such as the environmental waste and industrial

For this critical analysis, dairy waste as raw material

EFÍMERA FOOD

developed at MEDI. The developing a textile material organic waste. The critical food responds to emerging issues environmental impact of agro-food industrial responsibility in this context. analysis, the project focuses on material and the exploration

interaction with the skin and especially its biodegradability and the time of the material under a seasonal “disposable” fashion textile industry.

The project was invited to participate in the Food Design Fest 2021 edition, Barcelona, Spain.

SOME HUMANS FOR MARS

2021

“Humans of Mars” by MEDI, as part of the opening exhibition “Mars: The Red Mirror” at the CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

The project “Some Humans for Mars”

questions surrounding the exploration of Mars. The opinions of experts, both philosophers and scientists, are quoted to question the rhetorics that articulate the

of human practices on planet Earth well as the potential “colonisation of

The project also presents alternative perspectives, narratives traditionally unseen, and motivates us to question role and responsibility in our bond with planet Earth, allowing us to maybe re-

and as of Mars”. alternative traditionally question our with re-

“What shall we do with Mars? There are so many examples of human misuse of the Earth that even phrasing this question chills me.”

Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980.

KARE

Kare is a conceptualisation project for the creation of an interactive system to strengthen networks of care and mutual support. For this purpose, merging technology, science and art, an interactive device dedicated to the expressivity of emotions and connectivity between individuals was designed. It is a device capable of interacting with one or more sibling devices to facilitate users’ recognition of emotions through physical reactions, management on an individual and collective level as a practice of mutual support.

We experimented with physiological sensorics, wireless communication devices, programming of communication protocols and an interaction study regarding emotions and links between individuals for networking.

SPIRULINA

LIVING LIGHT ENRICHING URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Spirulina is a project for the conceptualisation controlled ecosystem that guarantees of the organisms involved (Spirulina and takes advantage of the energetic system in the coexistence of containment system was done taking advantage of the properties in coexistence and the implementation for urban infrastructure. The an urban urinal, the organisms the nutritional value of the waste of the ecosystemic dynamics

generated. The project was guided Mogas, Phd - Biomedical Engineering

conceptualisation of a guarantees the culture (Spirulina and Noctulia) energetic potential of the the living organisms.

done with the purpose of properties of both organisms implementation of a solution projected habitat is organisms take advantage of waste and by virtue dynamics of the organisms,

guided by architect Laia Engineering MIT.

OPEN HAND

Open Hand is a research study for the creation of an assistive device for the exercise, rehabilitation and nervous or muscular conditions. rigid enough for postural adjustment, made in 3D printing without complex post-processes and in PLA material to facilitate distributed fabrication and facilitate the accessibility of the device.

THE EUROPEAN MUNICIPALIST ROUTE MAP REPORT

The project is a mapping of the current European municipalist movement. The collective mapping process developed an analytical approach to provide a multidimensional understanding of the values and practices of each organisation.

One of the results of the project is the compilation of territorial reports, providing information on the

actors, analysing this information and creating a data visualisation and graphical image of the European municipalist ecosystem.

EL MITO DE LA PÉRGOLA

Design and production of scenography launch of the musical album by the Chilean band Pascuala Teatro Oriente, Santiago de with the artist Danila Ilabaca,

scenography for the album “El mito de la pérgola” Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna at de Chile. Collaboration Ilabaca, 2018.

WOMMUTER

Smart Bag for women commuter bikers. The design approach for the development of the product seeks to respond to the issues raised in the “Study of Cycling Mobility from a feminist perspective” by Collectiu Punt 6 of April 2020, Barcelona.

The product integrates electronics and hardware such as arduino, smart-textiles and wireless communication, its main objective is to collect data about mobility, to give visibility to bikers on the road as well as to capture sensible data for women and their interaction on the road from a gender perspective.