Claudia Paredes is a designer, visual artist and researcher who lives and works between Madrid and Eindhoven. Between 2018 and 2020, Claudia co-curated the Mujer, Objeto platform, which aims to give greater visibility to women within the field of contemporary design with two exhibitions - Mujer, Objeto (2018) and Mujer Florero - DIMAD, Madrid (2019). In 2020, Paredes was part of Mayrit Biennial, co-curating the exhibition Liminal Encounters. In 2021, she started working with gender from a trans-species perspective, within GEO DESIGN-Design Academy Eindhoven, Ocean Uni - TB21 and with Angela Rui. Paredes created a piece with cyborg artist Manel De Aguas for a cycle within the AQUARIA exhibition at MAAT Lisbon. In 2022 she curated a sound and visual piece with Manel de Aguas, Noa Jansma and the choreographer and dancer from the Centro Nacional de Danza, Mar Aguiló, for the Madrid Design Festival and La Fabrica. As part of the GEO DESIGN programme, directed by Formafantasma, her audiovisual work was included in the Milan Film Design Festival, 2021. Claudia Paredes studied at ETSA Madrid, Central Saint Martins and Design Academy Eindhoven. Her work as a designer began at Domaine de Boisbuchet, a partner of the Vitra campus, in 2015. Since 2012 she has worked on bioclimatic architecture in Morocco, Australia, France and New Zealand. With her graduation project - “Neo Coolers” - she completed her work developed at the European Ceramic Workcentre in Oisterwijk, in which she links the cooling properties of clay with data centres in desert lands. Paredes' work investigates geopolitical contrasts related to water scarcity and pervasive technological expansion.