Industrial designer with a broad and in-depth perspective on the world of design, graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. His academic and professional journey has led him to build a transdisciplinary approach that intersects design, sound art, and the city. He holds a specialization in Media Arts, a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning with an emphasis on Urban Design, and a PhD in Design and Creation. His doctoral thesis, which received honors, sensitively and critically explores the question How can we listen to the city? through the experience of urban soundscapes.
Since 1993, he has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, where he leads research and creative processes focused on experience design, sustainability, design theory, and the exploration of soundscapes as both cultural and urban phenomena.
He leads the research group Socio-cultural Design, where he combines his interest in design education with themes such as teaching-learning-assessment in creative contexts and the study of urban soundscapes as pedagogical tools and means for social analysis.
In addition to his academic work, he is a musician, sound artist, and music producer. His work explores the boundaries between disciplines, always with a critical view of the city as an object of study and an approach that blends theory, creation, and experience.
He has published various articles and academic texts on design, creation, and soundscape, which can be found on his ResearchGate profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roberto-Cuervo/research