Faculty

Lucía Garcés Dávila

 

Lucía Garcés Dávila
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Design Studies
luciagd@uic.edu

MA Industrial Design, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
BA Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Lucía Garcés Dávila holds degrees in both graphic design and industrial design. Her creative and teaching activities are centered on participatory design and intercultural education with emphasis on visual and ethnographic research. Lucía is co-founder of MUUCH Design Lab, Napo, Ecuador and Yucatan, Mexico. At MUUCH, Lucía and her colleagues have developed creative processes and organized participatory programs that facilitate learning through the co-design of games with a goal to preserve traditional knowledge of indigenous communities.