Luis Vega
Luis Vega is a design practitioner, researcher, and educator dedicated to bridging the gap between quality practice and rigorous research. His work concentrates on the methodological potential of collective acts of making for knowledge production in design. This focus moved him to pursue a practice-led PhD, which he completed with an article-based thesis on the sociomateriality of collaborative and distributed creative processes.
Luis teaches studio courses and research methodology at the MA and PhD levels. Previously, he directed the BA Design Program at Mexico City’s Tecnológico de Monterrey and held visiting researcher roles at the Hong Kong Design Institute and the Kyoto Institute of Technology. His research has attracted significant funding through study grants, consortium projects, and cooperation programs earmarked to explore ways of integrating practice into academia. The outcomes of these explorations have been awarded multiple prizes, published in leading peer-reviewed journals, presented in panels and conferences, and exhibited in galleries, museums, fairs, and biennials internationally.