Yvette Chaparro

Yvette Chaparro is an artist and teacher, who through experiments on modularity and morphology, trying to understand families of objects, is now exploring new concepts such as typologies, the programme, and growth systems. Her professional practice can be considered an extension of her research, where she has worked on various families of objects. She believes that being a practitioner, a researcher, and an educator will help on each of the other areas.

By exploring and pushing the boundaries of basic concepts such as typology, morphological manipulation, formal relationships, materiality, production processes, the programme, etc. one might be able to deconstruct the discipline into its basic abstract components or concepts.

Yvette was born in Washington, DC and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. She received her degree in Industrial Design from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. After moving to New York, she studied film and directed a documentary called “Designers on Design”. The film, which included interviews with some of the most influential designers of our time, was screened at the Tribeca Grand in New York and was shown around the world with the exhibit: “Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life” by the Walker Art Center.

Yvette completed her Master’s degree in Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, her thesis dealt with the concepts of Modularity and Morphology in the context of families of objects, as a way of teaching design through exploration and discovery.


She has worked for a number of different design firms and companies, designing exhibit spaces, signage, retail fixtures, furniture, lighting, bathroom fixtures, faucets, tabletop, housewares, hardware, accessories, and more. Currently, she teaches at Parsons in New York where she is an Assistant Professor of Product and Industrial Design, and is serving as the director of the MFA Industrial Design programme.

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