About me

Juan Mendoza-Collazos is Associate Professor at the National University of Colombia. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Semiotics from Lund University (Sweden). His research focus is Design, Cognition, and Agency, which explores the role of artifacts in relation to human agency, intersemiotic translation in the arts and designs, and the notion of collective agency in vulnerable communities. He is affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and teaches courses in design semiotics (postgraduate) and sustainable mobility (undergraduate). 

E-mail:  jcmendozacol@unal.edu.co 

More about me:

Mendoza-Collazos is vice president of the International Association of Visual Semiotics (IASV). Member of the scientific committee of the John Deely International Seminar on Semiotics. Member of the Design Research Society, and of the Charles S. Peirce Society.

He has led highly complex design projects managing each phase of the design process. 

Areas of interest:

• Semiotics of design

• Sustainable mobility

• Philosophy of design

• Design research 

• Social innovation

He was recognized with academic distinction: Meritorious Research in 2024.

Topics: agency, enhanced agency, material agency, phenomenology, cognitive semiotics, agentive semiotics, 4E cognition, philosophy of design.

Links

• Orcid

• Google Scholar

• Hermes (Universidad Nacional)

• ResearchGate

• Scopus Author

• CVLac (MinCiencias)

• Knowledge Commons

• Loop (Frontiers in Science)

• ResearcherID (WoS): Q-1763-2018

• Professional Portfolio