Juan Pablo
Guzman Alvarez

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Digital |
Social

About

Hola!

My name is Juan Pablo Guzman Alvarez (he/him),
Juan Pablo is my first name, Guzman Alvarez is my last name.
Sometimes people call me JP.
Happy to meet you!

I am a bio-designer. A critical thinker. A creative at heart.
I am a Colombian citizen based in London.

I thrive in warm spaces of innovation.
I partake in the creation of material futures.
I dream of a multinaturalist tomorrow that respects the boundaries of the planet.
I believe in community networks as transformative agents of change.
I work across disciplines and scales to find impactful transformation.

My work spans through material, digital, and social realms according to what the challenges demand. I embrace wicked, uncertain, ambiguous, and complex challenges from the grounds of pluralism in close relationship with nature. Rarely alone, I prefer team efforts and recognize the power of the collective.

This is how I look like when a photographer is watching.
This picture was taken by Oli Nevares in 2025.

Work

I am a bio-designer, a material innovator, a researcher, and artist based in London. Here’s my CV!

This bio was written for me in 2025 and I think represents my work quite accurately:

“Juan Pablo works through a curious practice of creative engineering, where bio-design, technology, and innovation land at the intersection of art, design, science, and engineering. He harvests opportunities from across-scale dynamics, from molecules to ecosystems, to identify leverage points that could have a multidimensional impact on users and their experience of their surroundings. His body of work spans material, digital, and social realms with an interest in materiality, manufacturing, aesthetics, co-design, systems thinking, and decolonial practices.”

Here follow some projects I have proudly worked on:

On bio-design

On research

On Art