Designer • researcher • futurist • artist
With a background in service design, research and advocacy, Giselly has collaborated with the Government of Colombia, NGOs, and academic institutions on projects involving memory, civil rights, migration, and environmental justice. She brings an effervescent personality and a transdisciplinary approach to her work, grounded in collaboration and guided by futures and systems thinking.
She currently works as an Advisor at the Public Policy Lab, leading the project The People Say.
Latest personal projects
Coca, Palabra-Mundo at the UN headquarters
Exhibition to question the United Nations' decision in 1961 when it mistakenly classified the coca leaf as a narcotic.
Comedor de Quelites Mixtecos
Oral history and zine series project highlighting the stories of indigenous Mixtec women, sharing their connection to plants, migration, and resistance.
COCAWORLDS
Curatorial research project that brings together transdisciplinary artists, Indigenous authorities, and scholars, who resignify coca as a plant of power, medicine, and food.
Las Yerbas Apothecary
Research residency space for collaborative learning and experimentation around plant-human relationships and artistic practices based on sacred plants.