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

    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 her project Portal to Jaguarity (2024), and at Vienna Design Week in the collaborative exhibition Don’t Move the Fountain (2024).

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    2. Design Academy Eindhoven- Final Master’s exam



    Floor Plan & User Experience Plan


    Section Plan




                   From Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala, Master´s final exam in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, 2025
    The spatial design of this project is grounded in the concept of Borderland, as articulated by Gloria Anzaldúa’s feminist theory. It draws from the experience of inhabiting an ambiguous space, between inside and outside, seen and unseen, where contradictions coexist. The installation reflects this liminal condition, inviting the viewer into a space that is both intimate and unsettling, both domestic and untamed.

    The pieces that compose the exhibition exist in this in-between. Their forms echo the feminine and the natural, blurring the lines between body and landscape. Shapes inspired by corn and its derivatives, central elements in the histories of nourishment and care in Abya Yala (Decolonial name for the Americas), evoke memory, transformation, and resistance.

    This space becomes a platform for ritual: a place to share arepas, to converse, to pause. It calls for a slow encounter, rooted in ancestral practices of care. It is not just a setting but an active participant, a ground for commemoration and imagination, where the stories behind every meal, every hand that labored, human and non-human, can be honored.





    This project will be exhibited in the Dutch Design Week 2025,  as part of the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show Pavilion. 
    Location: Microstad, Professor Dr Dorgelolaan 2, 5611 BA Eindhoven, Netherlands
    Dates: 18-26 October 2025

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