"I WON'T RESIGN THE DREAM OF A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL"
I started doing social work in 2012, a year before I started studying design, and it kept running alongside everything that came after.
I always wanted to fix the world.. is getting harder but I don't give up..
I started doing social work in 2012, a year before I started studying design, and it kept running alongside everything that came after.
I'm from a place where children starve, grow up on the streets and have been deprived of the possibility of "being someone". Between 2012 and 2013 I worked at Centro de Día Vínculo, in Rosario: workshops and fieldwork in Empalme Graneros and the outskirts, addiction and gender violence prevention, operative group work, group therapy. That's where all the social work I did later started.
That's why I know reality as it is. And from the depths of my essence I have the need to help others, and I fight for change. In 2017 we set up the San Francisquito workshops with Roberto Helguera and Marcelo Pepice, at Escuela Técnica 2076: I taught them to build 3D printers and to model, from primitives to organic sculpture. My students later went on by themselves — they entered Ingenia on their own, did the project, produced teaching materials and trained their classmates. The achievement is theirs.
I try to give it everything, even if sometimes I have to look after myself and I can't give that much to others. Working for the provincial state I organized the social impact activities and the object-repair workshops. Later, in Barcelona, I coordinated groups of kids and teenagers at Transit Projectes: the same thing, in another language.
But I know I'll spend my whole life putting my spirit and my soul into the fight for a better world. PROMETEO came out of that: an open design so any school can build its own machine, without depending on an imported kit.
One where all children and young people can be happy and grow up in a fairer, more humane and more empathetic reality. Today I teach Tecnología I and II at UNR and I coordinate the life drawing sessions at La Usina.