About Me.
Your Juan and Only.
Designer, Researcher and Art Director
Juan Saavedra's experience reflects a range of industries which include fashion & apparel, art, music & entertainment and community & sexual health. His interests included volunteerism, social innovation, design-activism and entrepreneurship. He is a recipient of the Mayor’s Community Safety Award (2017) from the City of Toronto for promoting collaboration and developing innovative arts-based programming. Other accomplishments include, spearheading a Vital Ideas grant to research emerging issues among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing LGBTQ youth and presenting on topics such as: Co-Design, Death and Dying, World Sustainability, HIV, LGBTQ and Social Health. He holds a master’s degree in Design from Carleton University's School of Industrial Design.
Education and Training
Master of Design
Carleton University, School of Industrial Design, Ottawa, Canada.
A research-focused program probing deeply into the theoretical and research issues related to design research, interdisciplinary design development and strategic design planning.
Final Thesis Keywords: Design Activism, Social Innovation, Critical Disability, LGBTQ, Queer Theory, Accessbility
Bachelor of Creative Advertising
Humber College, Shool of Media and Technology, Toronto, Canada.
360-degree education in the key aspects of advertising: art direction, copywriting, account management and strategy.
Final Thesis Keywords: HIV Advertising, Society, Co-Design, Youth
