Adriana Cabrera, Guru

Adriana Cabrera is a maker and consultant in innovation and product development at matrix GmbH & Co. and a guest researcher for FabLab Kamp- Lintfort, Germany, at the Rhine–Waal University of Applied Sciences. She co-leads fabcare.network , making health and care more inclusive and innovative. In addition, she is a global lecturer in Soft Robotics at the Fabricademy. Adriana developed the first edition of Fabricademy for care, supported by equal opportunities for women in Fab ab Kamp-lintfort bringing textiles and care together.

Originally from Colombia, she works in diverse areas of design and tangible interaction. Having a background in industrial design, she complemented her studies with an MFA in Media Art and Design at Bauhaus University Weimar and later with an MA in Surface and Textile Design at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, focusing on materials research. She is implementing sustainable experimentation by exploring new bio-inspired designs, including the impacts of today's prototyping.