Taina Campos. Industrial designer focused on regenerative design through the exploration of biomaterials.
Graduated from CIDI UNAM and Master’s Degree in Design Studies at Centro. She has lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, and Oaxaca where he has collaborated in different offices and projects of industrial design, strategic design, and social innovation.
She currently lives and works in Mexico City where she develops biomaterials and research and design projects in sustainability, gender, and education, with which she has been exhibited, published and invited as a speaker in different platforms and congresses, such as Space 10, the PIVOT conference, Design Week Mexico, the University Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tamayo Museum, among others.
In 2021 she was selected as one of the faces of Women in the Creative Industry by Coolhuntermx. And in 2022, she was published in 192 magazine, as New Faces of design and art in Mexico.
She teaches Ecodesign and Innovation in the Industrial Design career at the Universidad Iberoamericana campus in Puebla, Intelligent Materials at the Center, and Design and Gender at the CIDI of the UNAM.
In 2021 she created Diseña Mexicana, the first design festival in Mexico with an inclusive, diverse and collective approach; created to give amplification to those projects promoted by women, cis, trans, and other dissidents.
Taina Campos’ greatest interest as a design professional is sustainability. Taina defines herself as an eco-feminist activist and defends the idea that diversity, equality, fair trade, the conscious extraction of resources, good waste management, clean and healthy processes, respect for local communities, and other factors that involve sustainable design, are the best way to do design. Promoting these practices through talks, her work as a designer, her research, and in daily life.