Liliana Becerra Piedrahita

PT Faculty, Graduate Industrial Design
Product Dsgn
www.lilianabecerra.net

Biography

Liliana Becerra is a curator and design visionary working at the convergence of emotions and aesthetics. She is the best-selling author of CMF Design published by Frame in 2016 and Soft Design published by Routledge in 2025. 

Through her studio, she advises companies on detecting and articulating intangible and ever-changing notions of meaning, value and semantics into aesthetic elements that can be touched, felt, seen and perceived as an overall experience. Clients range from health and wellbeing, food and beverage, aircraft, space and automotive interiors, consumer electronics, home and office. 

Liliana has over 20 years of working as a professor and visiting lecturer in international venues, colleges and universities including: ArtCenter College of Design, Royal College of Art, Tama Art University, NABA Milano, Domus Academy, College for Creative Studies, Arizona State University, National University of Colombia and Universidad de Chile.

Liliana is the founding faculty of CMTEL - Colors, Materials and Trends Lab, where she created content and academic curriculum. She also pioneered in developing design research strategies for projects focused on "Design for Social Impact" in collaboration with Designmatters. She was awarded the IDSA Bronze award in 2011 in the Design Strategy category for the project Safe Agua, which has also been exhibited in international venues, including the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York.

studio@lilianabecerra.net
www.lilianabecerra.com

Classes

• IND-530-01: Materials & Methods 2A