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Speaker, facilitator and exhibitor about design + innovation

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Presentations, workshops and exhibitions about design and innovation at over 50 locations around the world

/// SPEAKER (more information about my presentations here: http://jrms.pktweb.com/?cat=54)

/// WORKSHOP FACILITATOR (more information about my workshops here: http://jrms.pktweb.com/?cat=36)

  • 2016 Barcelona, Spain. Design for EnterprisesBogota, Colombia. II Encuentro Javeriano de Arte y Creatividad.
  • 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) of Argentina.
  • 2014 and before. Over 46 cities around Colombia. Facilitator of 79 Design and Innovation Workshops for Business Competitiveness. These workshops were attended by 4123 SMEs, 6129 citizens.
    • 2011: 17 workshops = 509 enterprises / 568 citizens / 10 cities (Cali, Palmira, Soacha, Barranquilla, Bogota, Duitama, Bucaramanga, Villavicencio, Medellin, and Dosquebradas)
    • 2012: 38 workshops  = 2336 enterprises / 3714 citizens / 29 cities (Armenia, Barranquilla, Bogota, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cucuta, Dos Quebradas, Duitama, Girardot, Ibague, Manizales, Medellin, Monteria, Neiva, Palmira, Pasto, Pereira, Popayan, Riohacha, Santa Marta, Sibate, Soacha, Tulua, Tunja, Valledupar, Villavicencio, Villeta, y Yopal)
    • 2013: 24 workshops = 1278 enterprises / 1847 citizens / 24 cities (Bogota, Duitama, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cucuta, Don Matias, Itagüi, Ibague, Leticia, Manizales, Medellin, Neiva, Palmira, Pasto, Pereira, Popayan, Quibdo, Riohacha, San Andres, Santa Marta, Valledupar, Villavicencio)

/// EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS (more information about events and exhibitions of my work here: http://jrms.pktweb.com/?cat=49)

  • 2016 Delft, The Netherlands. Ph.D. Day Prototype Exhibition, TUDelft.
  • 2009 Eindhoven, Nl. Dutch Design Week.
  • 2008 Delft, The Netherlands. ExhibitionFormstudy, TUDelft.
  • 2005 Ibague, Colombia. Salon Departamental de Arte.
  • 2004 Bogota, Colombia. Kassani, Expodiseño y Expoconstruccion.
  • 2003 Bogota, Colombia. 7mo Salón de Diseño Industrial.
  • 2002 Bogota, Colombia. Museo de Arte Moderno Bogota.

Integral Design Tutoring Model as a Knowledge Transfer Strategy for SMEs in Colombia

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Mejia Sarmiento, J. R., Jimenez, J. E., & Chavarria, D.

Colombia has been transformed into the third country with the best business environment in L.A.; however, investment in Research, Development, and Innovation is only 0,2% of the Gross Domestic Product. Taking into account that 98% of the Colombian enterprises are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), from which 5% invest only 2% of its annual budget in design, the National Industrial Design Program (MinCIT) saw the need to develop the Integral Design Tutoring Model. The model makes a bet for empathy and emotional intimacy as tools to transfer the necessary knowledge so that the local businessperson develops an innovation culture based on design thinking. To test the model, the Integral Design Tutoring Project was developed as a pilot. This four months project allowed an interdisciplinary team, conducted by designers, to accompany twenty SMEs. Through a process developed in three stages it was possible to prove that, through empathy and emotional intimacy, one can achieve knowledge transfer to business people and their organizations in an effective, efficient and fruitful way. This knowledge transfer allows the enterprise to develop human-centered design processes in a systematic, independent and autonomous way.

Context & Conceptualisation – Conference 2014 – Call for Papers – Track 9 #futurethroughdesign

Editor: Ricardo Mejia / J.R.MejiaSarmiento@tudelft.nl
Availability: Feel free to email me, an extra workshop is going to be arranged. Our challenge below this lines.

Visioning the future built environment

Workshop visioning the future built environment as part of Climate-KIC Summer School

  • Facilitators: Susie Brand-de Groot, Jan-Willem Hoftijzer, and Ricardo Mejia (ID Studio Lab, Delft University of Technology)
  • Participants: Ph.D.’s, postdocs, Master students and driven professional.
  • Place & Date: PlaySpace Rotterdam, July 8th, 2014.
  • Challenge

    Complex topics like urbanization and energy management need special commitment in unifying a common view, especially due to the amount of parties co-designing and co-producing products and services for its development. This requires collaboration across departments and partnering companies and is connected to problems of communication and concerted action between partners. Different parties need to develop a joint understanding, goals, and agenda.

    To create a set of alternative futures -to unify the vision of stakeholders- that cover many possibilities the technique called “scenario thinking” as a way of dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty is used from a strategic perspective.

    In a ten-hours-long workshop the attendees, guided by a group of facilitators, will explore diverse future scenarios of buildings and then will develop different kind of solutions regarding new low carbon technologies using a variety of creative techniques.

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