Maira holds a Bachelor’s Degree in industrial design and a Master’s in environmental design. She is a designer and project manager, in social design and community planning. Maira shares how she uses design as a tool to facilitate social change in her work with marginalized communities from Colombia to Quebec. She explains how her methodologies allow communities to lead with their knowledge, needs and experience to fight colonization.
This video is part of the series Changing Mindsets, featuring interviews that inspired the writing of the guide In Perspective: A Practical Approach Using Intentional Conversation to Enhance Underrecognized Perspectives in Design designed by Six Cinquième, and Never Was Average.
This project was supported by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, under the Entente sur le développement culturel de Montréal between the City of Montréal and the Government of Québec.
The capsules were filmed at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Video production credits
Never Was Average, Production
Six Cinquième, Motion design
Harry julmice, Executive Producer
Jasmine Belemhaidi, Production Coordinator
Joanna Chevalier, Director
Lex Garcia, Writer & Researcher
Fedya Vinkovetsky, Director of Photography & Editor
Anthony Liscio, 1st AC
Jean-Philippe Emile, Gaffer
Ramzi Madi, Sound Tech
Ornella Salnot, Production assistant
Abel Habtezion, On set photographer
Phet Pathammavong, BTS videographer