Heidi Jalkh
Experimental Designer
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Bio.
Heidi Jalkh Experimental designer trained in industrial design. Born in Medellín, Colombia and currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
my work is focus on craft-based processes, the manufacture of bio-inspired materials and strategic design. I am is a specialist in Logic and Technique of Form and holds an interdisciplinary research master’s degree from OpenDesign, a joint program of the Humboldt-Berlin University and the University of Buenos Aires. Currently, I work as a teacher and researcher at UBA, FADU. There, I teach the subjects of Morphology and Industrial Design at the undergraduate level, Biodesign in the master’s program MAEDI and I also direct the research group Materials Systems. In 2020 I was selected to be part of the Global Community Bio Fellows Program, organized by the Community Biotechnology Initiative of the MIT Media Lab.
Parallel to the academic activities, I continue to run my professional practice as a designer and my projects have been exhibited in different international exhibitions, festivals and galleries, as well as in print and digital media.
_Diseño_ Experimental | Materiales | Estratégico.
Clientes: GesNext-IBM | Le Pain Quotidien | Glitter Iluminación | Mauricio Asta | Parrilla Don Julio | Diego Garcia Tedesco | Floreria Atlantico | Alejandro Sticotti – Net Muebles | Coca-Cola Arg. | Fabrica diseño e innovación | Tienda Malba |ASADERO |
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INVESTIGACIÓN | RESEARCH
02.2019 – 02.2022 | Directora de proyecto de investigación avanzado Sistemas Materiales | FADU, UBA | Buenos Aires, Argentina
PREMIOS Y RECONOCIMEINTOS | AWARDS
30.12.2020 | Sistemas Materiales ’21 | Proyecto Aprobado y declarado de interés por/para la ciudad de Buenos Aires como parte del Programa de Mecenazgo. Proyecto # | Buenos Aires, Argentina
08.2020 | Global Community Bio fellow – Global Community Bio Fellowship Program @MIT Media Lab
02.12.2019 | Mención Academica. Otorgada por Rectorado de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina
07.11.2018 | Sistemas Materiales y Diseño Computacional (SiMaDiCo) | Proyecto Aprobado y declarado de interés por/para la ciudad de Buenos Aires como parte del Programa de Mecenazgo. Proyecto # 7397/RPC/2018 | Buenos Aires, Argentina
28.02.2017 | Solo Show Prize, Museo del Design 1880-1980 | Open to Art Officine Saffi | Milano, Italia
10.11.2016 | Beca de Creación del Bicentenario Fondo Nacional de las Artes | Buenos Aires, Argentina
EXHIBICIONES | SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
03.11 -05.11.2017 | Instalación site-specific Cobogó Digital- DISEÑO EN ACCIÓN. Intersecciones contemporáneas | Sala #3 Horizonte Ceramico – Fundación PROA. Buenos Aires, Argentina
03.11 -05.11.2017 | Casa Canvas @ Operæ , Lingotto, Turin
28.02 -17.03.2017 | Open to Art Officine Saffi | Milano, Italia
08.05 – 08.07.2015 | Intersecciones ICON DESIGN | Hotel Design suites | Buenos Aires, Argentina
17-26.10.2014 | Ventura Interieur | Biennale Interieur | Kortrijk, Belgica
17-20.09.2014 | 100% design London | Earls Court | Londres, Inglaterra
8-13.09.2014 | Meet my project | Espace Commines, Paris, Francia
10.10.2013 | Exposición y Subasta de diseño por el Année Boulle | Hôtel de Ville, Paris, Francia
17-20.05.2013 | WantedDesign – LaunchPad | 269 11th Ave, Nueva York, USA
24-28.02.2012 | Paralela gift | Parque de Ibirapuera | Sao Paulo, Brasil