Hi, I’m Uma.

Originally from Argentina and raised in Miami, I am an Industrial Design student currently pursuing a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

My work explores the edges of design practice, moving between speculative projects for communities that do not yet exist and tangible, ready-made objects rooted in hands-on material experimentation. I approach design as an iterative process guided by research, testing, and refinement, allowing ideas to evolve through constant questioning and making.

Across my projects, I design at both personal and collective scales, developing responses that consider the specific needs, constraints, and lived experiences of others. My practice spans digital design, handmade production, and experimental workflows, embracing uncertainty and failure as essential parts of the process. For me, meaning emerges through this back-and-forth, where exploration and making become inseparable from the final object.