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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    6. The Real and the Magical






                From Shifting Grounds: A Magical Realist Lens on the Perception of Value
    This project uses magical realism to explore how the concept of value is perceived and constructed across different geographies. By blending the ordinary and the extraordinary, it offers a layered view of the cultural, environmental, and socio-economic forces that shape land valuation.

    Case Study 1: Bogotá, Colombia - Local Aesthetics and Land Value
    Bogotá’s brick architecture reflects a deep cultural and material history. While wealthier residents live in buildings inspired by architects like Rogelio Salmona, lower-income communities occupy the mountaintops near the brick quarries, often lacking basic services. This contrast reveals how aesthetics and inequality are interwoven in the urban landscape.

    Case Study 2: The Dunes of Loon and Drunen, the Netherlands – Ecological Recovery and Natural Value
    Once damaged by agriculture, this landscape has been restored and revalued as a national park. Forests now protect the dunes, transforming a once-eroded site into an ecological asset.

    Together, these studies contrast two ways land value evolves, through urban inequality and environmental restoration. Magical realism helps reframe these realities, questioning how we define and experience value.