Ana Belén Palacios

Ana Belén Palacios is a designer and researcher.

Her work explores design as an agent of either cultural colonization or emancipation of women's lifeworlds in the territories of Ecuador, focusing on their experiences within the intertwinement of coloniality, gender, nature, and design.

Ana Belén is a Ph.D. candidate in the MAKE/SENSE program at the Basel Academy of Art and Design and the University of Arts Linz. She is a pre-doctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at Humboldt University of Berlin.