Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles

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Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles
Empowering Mayan women through ancient textiles

Project Report | Sep 1, 2015
Welcoming our new Impacto Textil director.

By Silvana | Communication Leader

Andrea, Alejandra y Xunca at their a first meeting
Andrea, Alejandra y Xunca at their a first meeting

We are welcoming our new Impacto Textile Director Alejandra Villegas. Ale, as we call her, studied engineering in design at the Technological University of the Mixteca. Oaxaca, where she was born and raised has been the starting point for generating innovation projects for development, which not only contribute to the improvement and development of handicrafts, but the enrichment of those involved in the production chain, using the design disciplinary manner. Her training as an engineer in design allows her to not only contribute to the aesthetic and conceptual field, but influence the processes, timming and productive matters.

Likewise, Alejandra is the founder of a textile accessories brand, she has been teaching Study of form and geometry for design and worked at the Design Center of Oaxaca (Centro de Diseño Oaxaca), first as director of product development, at the project Binomios Creativos, in which Artisans & Designers worked together to achieve contemporary craft design products, and later as CEO at the design center.

We are really excited to receive her in our team, we are confident that her experience and knowledge will enrich our work and will contribute very positively to our design work and training with women artisans with whom currently impacto textil collaborates.

Welcome Ale!

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El pasado 19 de agosto, recibimos a nuestra nueva directora de Impacto Textil: Alejandra Villegas. Ale, estudió ingeniería en diseño en la Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca. Oaxaca, lugar donde nació y creció ha sido su punto de partida para generar proyectos de innovación para el desarrollo, que no sólo contribuyan al mejoramiento y evolución de los productos artesanales, sino al enriquecimiento de los involucrados en la cadena productiva, utilizando el diseño de manera transdisciplinar. Su formación como ingeniera en diseño le permite, no sólo aportar en el campo estético y conceptual, sino incidir en los procesos, tiempos y espacios productivos.

Así mismo, Alejandra es fundadora de la marca de accesorios textiles Renata Catástrofe, ha impartido clases de Estudio de la forma y geometría para el diseño y trabajó en el Centro de Diseño de Oaxaca, primero como directora de desarrollo de productos, dirigiendo el proyecto de diseño artesanal contemporáneo Binomios Creativos: Artesanos + Diseñadores, y más tarde como directora general.

Estamos realmente emocionadas por contar en el equipo con una mujer con la trayectoria y conocimientos como los de Alejandra, estamos seguras de que enriquecerá nuestra labor y que aportará de manera muy positiva a nuestro trabajo de diseño y de capacitación con las mujeres artesanas con las que impacto textil actualmente colabora.

¡Bienvenida Ale!

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