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Premio Diseña México

Finalist: Product Design, Disonancia Doméstica, Windishime & Exhibition Design. Disonancia Mexicana

Mexico City, November 2022


What Design Can Do Mexico 2022

Speaker / Workshop

October 2022

Mexico City


PRIMER22

Beyond Objects, Identity and Humanity

Panelist

September 2022

MX.



MDF Designer of the Year 2022

For meeting the criteria of being a designer that develops as a transcendent icon, that is an active member of the national industry, that stands as a visionary creator, is a habitus builder, a community generator, change agent and whose work is valued as paradigm of excellence, Mexican designer José de la O has won the 2022 MDF Designer of the Year award, presented by Rimowa.

May 2022, Puerto Escondido México


Una Modernidad Hecha a Mano

Exhibition Participant

MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art)

May-October 2022

Mexico Ciy


Space10 Pop-Up Mexico

Tomorrow's Technologies: How can advanced technologies enable sustainability and regeneration? 

Speaker/Moderator

March 2022


Disonancia Mexicana.

Curated an Exhibition on Mexican Identity

March/July 2022, Franz Mayer Museum.


Design for the Unthinkable Word

Curators: Paul Rodgers, Giovanni Innella, Craig Bremner

November 2021 / March 2022


EPDE2020 VIA University in Herning, Denmark.

Participated with the Academic Paper:

THE PREDICTION GENERATOR: A TOOL FOR CREATING MEANINGFUL SPECULATIONS

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education

September 2020, Herning, Denmark (remotely).



This is Doing: Remote Flexible Training

delaO design studio as a member of the Reach Network will be coaching transformative Human Centered Design Projects under the This Is Doing Platform

August/October 2020, Mexico City


Décima Bienal Nacional de Diseño: First Prize Professional Category

Aura for Mirai Innovations, Design for development, technological and productive Innovation

October 2019, Mexico City


Global Grad Show

Exhibition, RoboKumbia, Critical Data, EAAD, Monterrey Institute of Technology.

November, 2019, Dubai UEA


21st International Conference on Engineering & Product Design

Speaker, Critical Data: Teaching Design Through Critical Design, Critical Computing and Digital Data.

September 2019, Glasgow UK

download the paper here.


Great Outdoors of Design 2019

Workshop Facilitator

June, 2019, London, UK


Core 77 Design Awards 

Professional Notable honor in the Speculative Design category in the 2019 Core77 Design Awards program for the project, “The Gossip of Things.” 

June, 2019


Salone Satellite

RoboKumbia, EAAD, Monterrey Institute of Technology

April 2019, Milan, It


Primer Conference

Keynote Speaker: “Speculative Assimilations”

(July, 2019, Parsons School of Design, New York City)

watch the keynote here


Frame Web

Cross Cultural Chairs, Featured

February 2019


Campamento Feria

Speaker/Panel

February 2019, Guadalajara, MX



Encuentro Internacional de Industrias Creativas

Master Class: Story Telling for Futures

October, 2018, Guadalajara, MX


Frame Magazine issue 123

Contributor The Challenge: Future of Retail

Amsterdam, NL, Jul/Aug,2 018


Primer Conference

Workshop: Your Dystopia might be my reality: A workshop to create Narratives to understand current dystopias.

March, 2017, San Francisco Ca


Silla Mexicana, Diseño e Identidad, Editorial Arquine.

Standard Rocking Chair, (Featured).

México, 2017


Food Revolution 5.0

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Portion Distortion.

March 2017, Hamburg, DE


Emerge MX No.1

Collaborator

Publication, 2017


Edible Tales

Taiwan Design Center, Portion Distortion.

June 2016, Taipei, Taiwan


Forbes

4 diseñadores de mobiliario en México para observar (Featured)

May 2016, Mexico


Keep it Glassy

Shanghai Glass Museum, China, Antifly Sphere

March 2016, Shanghai, China


Artesano entre Artistas 3.0

Damian Rocking Horse (Exhibition)

October, 2015, Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City


Descodificando Decode, Design Decode

Speaker

September 2015, Monterrey NL


 

Core 77 Design Awards 

Professional Notable honor in the Design Education Initiatives category in the 2015 Core77 Design Awards for the project, “The Chair that Rocks: Linking Contemporary Designers with Craftsmen from Tlacotalpan, México.” 

June, 2015

 

Do Flex Test, Dialogues in DesignMaking, British Council

Craft Mapping at San Miguel Chapultepec. (Collaboration).

Publication, México, 2015


DI Integra

Moderator w/ Fuera de Contexto Podcast

March 2015, Puebla México


Panel Laboratorio Para la Ciudad

Moderator / Fuera de Contexto

September 2014, Mexico City


De Ida y Vuelta

Exhibition & Speaker

Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, April 2014


Plan B Iberoamericana University, Puebla

Speaker

April 2014, Puebla, MX


New Territories: Laboratories for Design and Art in Latin-America.

The Chair that Rocks. (Featured)

Publication, MAD Museum USA, 2014.


Viajes con Conciencia en México. , Travesías Editores.

The Chair that Rocks. (Featured).

Publication, México, 2014


Factor Clave, Tec de Monterrey Querétaro

Speaker

Septiembre 2013, Queretaro, MX


Design Decode

Speaker / Fuera de Contexto

August 2013. Monterrey, MX


Oxymoron, Tec de Monterrey

Speaker

April 2013, Monterrey, MX


The Machine, The New Industrial Revolution,

Exhibitor

June 2012, Genk, Belgium


Milan Design Week /Ventura Lambrate

Exhibitor

Abril 2012, Milan, It.


Exposition Made in Brainport – 6 Degrees Of Smart Society

2012, Traveling Exhibition: Korea, Germany, Turkey, etc.


Open Desingnism

Speaker

March 2012, Amsterdam, NL


Fábrica Mexicana, 2011

Exhibition, Anti-Fly Sphere

October 2011, Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City


DAMN
Window Agriculture, Especial Dutch Design Week. (Featured)

Publication, Belgium, 2011


Thoughts of Home @ Dutch Design Week 2011.

Exhibition, Anti-Fly Sphere, Tess Stools & Window Agriculture

Eindhoven, NL, 2011


Domus No. 1,

Especial Luminarias. (Featured).

Mexican Edition, 2011


The Future Perfect/NYIGF

Wabnitz Edition Booth (Anti-Fly Sphere, Exhibition)

August, 2011, New York City


Architectural Digest Mexico
Top Ten Best Mexican Young Designers (Featured).

Mexican Edition, June 2011


Código 06140

No.65 Especial de Diseño (Featured).

June/July 2011


Architectural Digest Russia No. 5 (95), (Featured)

March 2011


D-Daydesignveiling

(Tessellation Stool, Exhibition)

Heerlen, Holland, May 2011


Appartamento Lago (during Milan Furniture Fair). 

(Anti-Fly Sphere, Exhibition)

Milan, Italy, April 2011


SuperOrganism,  Nova Gallery, 2010 (during Dutch Design Week). 

(Anti-Fly Sphere, Exhibition)

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 2010


Design Academy Graduation Galleries,  Witte Dame (during Dutch Design Week), 2010. 

Transcendental Tunes, Exhibition

Eindhoven, The Netherlands,September, 2010


Inside Design Amsterdam,  Candido Loods, 2010. 

Transcendental Tunes, Exhibition

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September, 2010


Masters in Design Symposium

Transcendental Tunes, Exhibition

Witte Dame, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 25, 2010


Great Expectations, at The Great Indoors Awards, 2009. 

Hotel of the Future, Exhibition

Utrecht, The Netherlands, November, 2009


Textile Messaging at Design Academy Eindhoven (in Collaboration for Philips Lumalive)

Eindhoven, The Netherlands (July 2009)