Jury
Monica Pujol Romero
Associate Professor of Graphic Design & Director, International Design Centre, National University of Rosario
Mónica Pujol Romero is the first designer to earn a doctorate in Design (cum laude) with her thesis “Paradigms and Practices of Design.” She is the founder and Permanent Executive Secretary of DiSUR (the Latin American Network of Design Programmes at Public Universities) and Director of the International Design Centre at the National University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina, where she also directs the postgraduate programmes in Strategic Design for Innovation and the Master’s in Design for Innovation. A tenured Full Professor at both UNR and the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA), she holds the highest category (Category I) in Argentina’s national research system. Her work focuses on design theory, critical perspectives, and the design of Latin American futures.