Carlos
Bravo
Inclusive Design Engineer 2024 Portfolio
Carlos Bravo
Inclusive Design Engineer
I have designing and engineering skills with expertise in exhibition design, inclusion, design research, accessibility, UX, service design, 3D modeling, materials, prototyping and manufacturing processes.
As a personal purpose, I seek to positively influence the senses, hearts, and minds of the greatest number of people. By breaking paradigms, I want to demonstrate that different capabilities constitute diverse and valuable ways of perceiving the world.
I thrive in teamwork based environments. I am proactive, committed, curious and passionate about challenges.
Creative maker / strategic connector / empathic thinker.
Education
10/2021 - 07/2023
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MA Inclusive Design: Health and Social Well-Being Academy of Fine Arts and Design - Katowice, Poland
02/2022 - 07/2022
Erasmus+ Programme
Politécnico de Leiria - Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
- 2016
Product Design Engineering BSc EAFIT University - Medellín, Colombia
07/2014 - 01/2015
Academic Exchange: Federico Santa María Technical University - Valparaíso, Chile
Certificates
* Marketing of Experiences
CEC EAFIT (3 months)
* Showcasing and Visual Merchandising
CEC EAFIT (4 month)
* Giant: Social Innovation Project EAFIT University (3 weeks)
* Development of Creativity in Problem Solving CEC EAFIT (2 months)
* Advanced CAD CEC EAFIT (5 months)
So tware
Profesional Experience
* Trailer of educational experiences IME
05/2018 - Present
Freelance Product Design Engineer (Worldwide)
* Furniture for audiovisuals Óptica Santa Lucía
* 3D Visualization Antioquia Sabe MANÁ
* Home Tech educational furniture
* Entrance design Marquis Residences (Miami, USA)
12/2022 - Present
Sales Support & Order Fulfillment Specialist (SunPower - Capgemini, Katowice - Poland)
* UX for installer platform
* Order management
* Partner service representative
* Pre-sales management
08/2020 - 12/2020
Research & Development Support Professional (Bottom-EAFIT y Minciencias, Medellín - Colombia)
* Pilot-scale development of a nanofiber-based filtration membrane for the management of patients with acute respiratory infections - COVID 19
* Research and design of a high-efficiency respirator
* Branding and packaging design
* Astronomy backpack through Senses 2.0
05/2018 - 02/2020
Profesional in Design, Innovation & Development (Corporación Parque Explora, Medellín - Colombia)
* Interior design House of Culture Santa Elena
* Interactive experiences the Mola Museum (Panamá)
* Panama Canal Interactive Center (Panamá)
* Allied Museums of Valle del Cauca
* Miami Seaquarium outdoor signage
04/2017 - 04/2018
Design and Production Consultant (Skylite Signs and Services, Miami FL - EUA)
* Customized furniture design for Ikonick Motors
* Lummus Park facade design
* After party Premios Juventud 2017
* Facade signage Prestige Imports
* Inexmoda Trends Forum
06/2015 - 03/2017
Commercial Interior Design Team Leader (Plasma Nodo, Medellín - Colombia)
* Stands & Showrooms Fabricato
* 9 ¾ Bookstore + Café Relocation
* Digital Camp & Fiesta del Libro events
* Conceptualization Puppy Yummy Inc (Orlando, USA)
Context:
The Silesian Museum, based in Katowice and immersed in the city's cultural zone, covers an area of 2.7 hectares on the post-industrial site of the former Katowice mine.
The complexity of the terrain and its architecture, the non-intuitive and outdated information and the constant changes in the dynamics of the institution, are just some of the reasons why visitors easily get lost in the outdoor area of the museum.
Objectives:
1. To support orientation and navigation.
2. To help visitors to find the main entrance.
3. To highlight the barrier-free paths.
4. To present the history of the area.
The project considers the needs, desires and challenges of visually and hearing impaired, wheelchair users, locals, foreigners and families.
Multisensory strategy to support visitor navigation and promote accessibility in the outdoor area of the Silesian Museum
Ten months 09/2022 - 07/2023
Individual thesis project: in cooperation with the Accessibility Department of the Silesian Museum and the Transgrecja Foundation.
Museum Katowice, Poland
Updatable physical and digital elements
>Outstanding thesis - ASP Katowice
>Mayor Prize - Design 32 (Katowice, 2023)
>2nd place Service Design - Best in Design (Zlín, 2024)
Link to the project
Silesian
Context:
In 2018 the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) launched a public tender to conceptualize, design and produce an interactive museum in Santiago de Veraguas. Parque Explora, a well-known science museum in Medellín Colombia was selected to execute the project.
Objectives:
1. To Communicate the relevance and impact of the Panama Canal to distant populations.
2. To attract tourists to the Veraguas region.
My Main Contributions:
Design and development of inclusive experiences, definition of furniture language, detail and functional design, prototyping, mechanism design, production and set up supervision.
Panama Canal Interactive Center
Eight moths 12/2018 - 07/2019
Parque Explora
-Innovation and development team
-Content and apropiation team
-Interactive technologies team
Santiago Veraguas, Panama
Interactive
Experiences
Inclusive experiences for blind and visually impaired people
Link to the project
Design Procces Panama Canal Interactive Center
1 Proposal review
5 Production and set up
* Site visit and measurements
* Session groups
* In field research
* Roles definition
* Scope and requeriments
* Design principles
- Contrast: colors blocks
- Emphasis on content & objects
- Simple shapes: easy fabrication
* Manufacturing principles
* Definition and development of interactive experiences
- Interaction
- Technological requirements
- UX and UI
* Rendering
* Ergonomic factors review
* Audiovisuals validation
* Interaction and interfaces tests
* Review of materials and manufacturing processes
* Manufacturing supervision
* Curatorship
* Furniture location
* IT set up
The province of Veraguas has an important population of people with visual disabilities, so we decided to adapt the three main interactive experiences of the museum to provide access to this population to enjoy this space.
Inclusive experiences:
History: The Canal in time
Water & biodiversity: In a Panama forest Canal operation: From the ship's bridge
Main inclusive actions:
Training of personnel for the care of the disabled
Interactive UX and simple UI with audio description mode.
Signage and information in braille, spanish and english.
From the ship's bridge
Interactive experience with the aim of explaining the course and required actions to navigate through the Panama Canal.
Emotions in the dark
From 04/2022
-Karolina Rak - Guide (psychologist)
-Alejandra Gómez - Guide (designer)
-Äna Manhey - Guide (designer)
-Carlos Bravo
-Caldas da Rainha - Portugal
-Málaga - Spain
-Valletta - Malta
Link to the project
Caldas da Rainha - Portugal
6 hours: 30% independent & 70% accompanied
1. Waking up
2. Morning routine
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4. Meeting Ana
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Preparing and eating breakfast
Walking to the museum
Visiting Atelier Museum António Duarte
Walking through Parque Dom Carlos I
Buying fruits in Praça da Fruta
Eating in Café Central
Smells like: dog poop, trash. Feels like: touching the ground, sticky textures. Sounds like: spitting, screams. Tastes like: hand sanitizer.
< Disgust
oranges, freshly baked bread. familiar shapes and materials, the sun. laughs, wild birds and nature. pastel de nata, sweet almonds, berries.
Joy >
Link to the project
On Repeat
24 hours
27/10/2022 - 28/10/2022
Design competition - Metropolis GZM
Metropolitan Climathon 2022 First place
Politechnika Śląska Gliwice, Poland
-Aleksandra Kozik
-Sophie Welsh
-Maciej Gil
-Carlos Bravo
Context:
Link to the project
Climathon is a 24-hour creativity race taking place simultaneously in over 140 cities around the world. Its initiator is EIT Climate-KIC, and the organizers in Gliwice are Górnośląsko Zagłębiowska Metropolis and the Fortis Pro Nobis Foundation.
Objective:
To design a solution based on the circular economy for recycling in cities and zero waste production.
My Main Contributions:
Research, concept design, rendering, application of service design tools.
Preserved food / spices
Bedding & linen
Heating systems
Seasonal clothing
HEJ!
Disconnect to Connect
Four moths 10/2021 - 02/2022
ASP Katowice Form and semantics
Prof. Alicja Pałys-Leszczyńska
Design process:
Context:
Individual academic project. Final result for the subject Form and Semantics during the first semester of the Master in Inclusive Design Health and Social Well-being at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland.
Objective:
To design and make an object (or form of expression) that will increase the comfort of everyday life by minimizing the excess of stimuli coming from our technology-saturated environment.
My Main Contributions:
Research, concept design, 3D modeling and rendering, visual effect design, prototyping, detail and functional design.
Photo by Randy Tarampi on Unsplash
Concept HEJ! Psychedelia
“Mind manifesting”
>Striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown.
>Creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters. (Psychedelia - Wikipedia)
The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it. (Oxford Languages) "Bend back" look at
HEJ!
Disconnect to connect
Invitation to disconnect from the online world, feeding your reflection and mind with endless abstract textures, to finally focus on yourself; controlling your own reality and reconnecting your essence.
Context:
Being involved in new contexts, out of my comfort zone, has given me the opportunity to perceive and understand different ways of being, interacting, thinking and expressing.
Individual Project developed during my Erasmus exchange programme in Portugal for the second semester of the Master in Inclusive Design Health and Social Well-being.
Objectives:
1. Personal: To connect with people, culture, nature and time.
2. To Explore visual effects and distort reality to promote self-awareness.
My Main Contributions:
In field research, concept design, 3D modeling and rendering, visual effect design, prototyping, detail and functional design.
Azulejos Giratórios
One moth 03/2022 - 04/2022
Escola Superior de Artes e Design - ESAD.CR
Atelier de Design II
Prof. Fernando Brizio Caldas da Rainha - Portugal
Link to the project
Design process:
Concept Azulejos Giratórios
Upcycling
“Made of waste and optimization”
"Spin, mix and match" +
Rotational Symmetry
< Position # 1: Matching reflection
< Position # 2: Mixed reality
Link to the project
Azulejos Giratórios is an inmersive exploration of visual effects that invitates you to interact and connect with your present.
Exterior signage Miami Seaquarium
Four moths 11/2017 - 03/2018
Skylite Signs
-Jorge Bravo -Mariam Montoya -Carlos Bravo
Miami, Florida United States of America
Design process: Concept design Manufacturing design Installation
Prototyping Production Supervision
Context:
The Miami Seaquarium, one of the first marine zoo-aquariums in the United States, needed a new exterior signage system to attract more visitors and connect with their new brand image.
Objective:
To design and produce an exterior signage system according to the contextual conditions and the brand language.
My Main Contributions:
Research, concept design, 3D modeling and rendering, prototyping, texture design, manufacturing design, production and set-up supervision.
Context:
The Inexmoda Trend Forum is the gateway to the most important fashion fair in Latin America (Colombiamoda), is a space where people are updated with the trends of the season through conferences, catwalks and showcasing of textiles, supplies and products.
Objectives:
Design of a flexible and transitional exhibition for the entrance of the fashion show.
My Main Contributions:
Research of trends, concept design, display design, 3D modeling, rendering, detail design, manufacturing and set-up supervision.
Inexmoda Trends Forum
Three moths 05/2016 - 07/2016
Plasma Nodo S.A.S -Daniela Osorio -Carlos Bravo Colombiamoda Medellín, Colombia
