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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    4. The Dust Under the Bed





                Exploring the coca paste economy in Colombia
    The Dust Under the Bed is a research and design project examining coca paste production in remote Colombian regions. We investigated how the coca plant—cultivated, processed, and sold as paste—functions as a currency in areas disconnected from formal economies.

    Through mapping and video documentation, we traced how dependence on coca created a fragile monoculture. Following the 2023 coca crisis, plummeting prices left farmers unable to trade for food, forcing many to abandon their paste—now referred to as "dust under the bed."

    The project also highlights the stigma surrounding Erythroxylum coca. Despite its cultural and medicinal significance, our attempts to access the plant for academic study were rejected by multiple institutions, revealing deep-rooted misconceptions and legal obstacles.






    • Authors: Jasmine Fernandez - Aglaé Jarry Wilson -Daan Walder - Natali Aguirre Montaña
    Collaborative project: Intespecies Money - Merve Bedir - DAE