Silvana Juri

(she/her)

About

Silvana Juri is an Uruguayan designer with experience in professional design practice and teaching. She is currently a PhD candidate in Transition Design at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, where she is also a Teaching Fellow.

In her dissertation, Silvana is proposing 'Food Wisdom' as a construct and a model to help foster transformations towards resilient and sustainable food systems with a transdisciplinary approach. Adopting a wisdom-based orientation would, according to her, enable transformations that adopt a plural and creative perspective. This means that they are culturally and contextually appropriate, are led by purpose and ethic/aesthetic values, and allow the integration and exaltation of ways of knowing and being that transcend scientific knowledge while enhancing learning, experimentation and collaboration. The model is aimed at helping to identify, learn from and plan for platforms, collective processes or new practices that can develop food wisdoms by leveraging design's creative and integrative capacities. Silvana's doctoral research was focused on a case study she conducted in Uruguay in collaboration with a transdisciplinary project led by SARAS Institute on the topic of Food & Sustainability. As she concludes her dissertation and plans to offer this model as an operationalizable toolkit, she is also in the process of completing some publications related to this work in different ways.

Over the past few years, Juri has been engaged with a variety of international networks and projects. She is a Research Associate at the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies where she currently co-leads SARAS Transition Lab. She is also part of the core team behind the Latin American Network of Food Design and is actively engaged in its Journal (as part of the scientific committee) and the organization of the 10th symposium of this network, to be held in October 2022 in Uruguay.

First Author Publications during PhD

Juri, S., Zurbriggen, C., Bosch Gómez, S., & Ortega Pallanez, M. (2021). Transition Design in Latin America: Enabling Collective Learning and Change. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, 202. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.725053

Juri, S., Massari, S., & Reissig, P. (2022). Food+Design - transformations via transversal and transdisciplinary approaches. In Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June—3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.1060

Juri, S., & Zurbriggen, C. (2022). Motivando transiciones hacia futuros sostenibles y resilientes: SARAS T-LAB en América Latina. Cuadernos Del Centro De Estudios De Diseño y Comunicación, 157, 115–139. https://doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi157.6848

Juri, S., Baraibar, M., Clark, L.B., Cheguhem, M., Jobbagy, E., Marcone, J., Mazzeo, N., Meerhoff, M., Trimble, M., Zurbriggen, C., & Deutsch, L. (upcoming 2022). Food systems transformations in South America: Contributions from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.