Marina Ita-andehui Peniche Sánchez

I am a person who is passionate about sustainable development since it is an opportunity to study the world through interactions. The interactions between humans and other living beings such as animals and plants. As well as with their environment and the way in which these interactions form worldviews, economies and productive processes. Interactions between people, social classes and governments are very complex, showing the best and the worst of our species and societies. I like to understand the opportunities and challenges that result from these at the geopolitical, development and governance levels. As well as seek creative and innovative solutions so that all the communities have a better quality of life.

Marina Peniche studied at Industrial Design Research Center at the Autonomous University of Mexico (known in Spanish as CIDI, UNAM). Currently collaborating in the design and launching of creative and sustainable development projects and workshops for private and public initiatives such as Mx Reloaded International Design S de RL, Global Factor, Ariel Rojo Design Studio, Centro de Alianzas para el Desarrollo (Global CAD), Certitud Cualitativa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Youth Business International (YBI), Glocal Design Magazine y la Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP), as well as different educative and gubernamental institutions. She carries out consulting services in the private and public sector, designing and implementing social and environmental development programs through workshops and creative projects using tools such as circular economy, social design, design thinking, participatory methodologies and strategic alliances. At the time, she is responsible of the social projects at MX Reloaded International Design, consultant for the development of sustainable social businesses in Mexico for the public and private sector, columnist at Glocal Design Magazine (reflecting on social design and social development), founder of the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño, design festival in the Historic Downtown in Mexico City, as well as partner and founder of Ciclorama 180, photographic studio in Mexico City. In addition, in search of new forms of local production and consumption she started independent projects as founder and coordinator of La Colección Mexicana de Biomateriales and Biótica Circular. This year (2023) she is a consultant to the technical team for the development of the National Circular Economy Strategy in Mexico, promoted by the ADF (French Agency for Development) and SEMARNAT (secretary of the environment in México). In 2010, she was the Editorial Coordinator of Glocal Design Magazine and art director of the staging "Ambigu", the winning project of the Project Benefit in National Dance Production initiative, FONCA grant. She specialized in color studies at the Natural Color System in Stockholm, Sweden, and as an expert in sustainable design and ethical commerce through various courses, industrial design research, professional experiences and diplomas such as the "Ethical Bio Trade" taught by Union for Ethical Bio Trade, (UEBT). As an expert in color, design thinking, participatory design, community design and development of ethical bio trade, she has worked for Grupo Comex as Color Coordinator of Mexico and Latin America (LATAM) and as Coordinator of Sustainable Social Businesses in the UN Development Programme (UNDP), within the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP) in Mexico City (2014). In this way, she contributed to the development of the annual corporate and UNDP strategies through social programs at a national level, linking projects with the creative sector, design strategies for the activation of productive chains, urban and social art programmes, color and trends workshops, among many other actions.

Marina Peniche studied at Industrial Design Research Center at the Autonomous University of Mexico (known in Spanish as CIDI, UNAM).Throughout her professional career she has specialized in sustainability, social development, circular economy and production processes through specialized workshops, experimental independent projects and her professional experience.