NAMo
Natali Aguirre Montaña


Art+Design
Projects ++
  1. Portal to Jaguarity
  2. Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala
  3. Wet Matter
  4. The Dust under the bed
  5. Don’t call me water, call me Teresa
  6. The Real and the Magical
  7. Rethinking Conquest: And Anti-Amazon Conversation
  8. Tracing the 735-kilometres
  9. Kitchen Series
  10. This Cookbook is Alive
  11. Abigarrada Borderland

    Explorations++
    1. Mycelium+Corn

    Architecture+SpatialDesign
    Spatial Design++
    1. Soils’ Exhibition
    2. DAE Final Exam
    3. ALTA Pasticceria
    4. PitStop Cafe & Pub 
    5. Bakery Kiosk
    6. Enseres Showroom

    Architecture ++
    1. SER Sustanible Living
    2. La Esperanza Home
    3. El Volador Home
    4. Otás Home
    5. Santa Marta Home
    6. CADN Childhood Center
    7. Gibraltar Velodrome


    CV++
    Portfolio++


    Info++
    Natali Aguirre Montaña is a Rotterdam-based designer and artist working across disciplines. With a background in architecture, spatial design, and interior design, her interdisciplinary practice bridges research, decolonial and feminist theory, and material exploration. Trained in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, her work ranges from tufting to bioplastics, from ceramics to photography, and from textiles to spatial installations.

    Her work has been exhibited at the Van Abbemuseum with the project ‘Portal to Jaguarity’ (2024), and at Alcova Milano 2026 with the installation ‘The Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala’.

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    11. Abigarrada Boderland




                    From the research: Internal Colonialism in Colombian Matriarchy and Feminist Decolonial Thinking from Abya Yala



    Through personal storytelling, conversations with my matrilineage and an analysis of media representations, I reflect on growing up in a family generationally shaped by the so-called “Colombian matriarchy” of female-headed households to reveal how the internal colonialism that oppresses this context operates and the opportunities to decolonize it by adopting a mestiza consciousness.





    Author and Graphic Designer Natali Aguirre Montaña
    Tutors Maia Kenney and Ben Shai van der Wal
    Graphic Design Tutor Sherida Kuffour
    Printing and binding Design Academy Eindhoven

    This publication is the result of a master’s thesis research project in the Contextual Design program at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
    Published 2025