DESIGN EDUCATOR, PRACTITIONER, AND RESEARCHER
Working at the intersection of product design, communication design, design anthropology,
science and technology studies, and design futures.
PHD (Candidate) Doctor of Philosophy
Monash University Melbourne, Australia
Master of Creative & Cultural Industries
Monash University Melbourne, Australia
Master of Industrial Design & Product
University of Girona, Spain
Product Designer
Universidad de Talca, Chile
SPECULATIVE PARTICIPATORY DESIGN IMMERSIONS
Design and facilitation of future-focused workshops and artefacts to explore work futures and automation.
UX AND UI DESIGN
Communication and full brand development across digital, apparel, social media, web and merchandising.
BRAND CREATION & CREATIVE CONSULTANCY
Development of brand identities supported by strategic positioning and creative direction.
PRODUCT DESIGN
Concept development, material exploration and prototyping across handcrafted and small-scale designed products.
SPECULATIVE PARTICIPATORY DESIGN IMMERSIONS
Design and facilitation of future-focused workshops and artefacts to explore work futures and automation.
UX AND UI DESIGN
Communication and full brand development across digital, apparel, social media, web and merchandising.
BRAND CREATION & CREATIVE CONSULTANCY
Development of brand identities supported by strategic positioning and creative direction.
PRODUCT DESIGN
Concept development, material exploration and prototyping across handcrafted and small-scale designed products.
FOOTWEAR DESIGN
Trend research, materials exploration, prototyping, modelling and manufacturing coordination.
MONASH UNIVERSITY
Design Internship (ADA3406/5406) supervisor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab.
MONASH UNIVERSITY
Lecturer: Master of Design (Interaction – MDC5210/MDC5310) and Design Thinking (ADA5111).
DESIGN FUTURES: PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS (RESEARCH)
Sensorial spaces and artefacts/prompts to co-design, explore, imagine and anticipate possible futures.
ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS
Teaching design-led methods through hands-on artefacts, technical practice and workshop-based research.
Degree Thesis
Noches, Paulina.
‘Motivational factors in Design and Traditional Craft Businesses Models in Latin America: Designers’ Perspectives’.
MA of Creative and Cultural Industries, Monash University. Nov. 2019.
Noches, Paulina.
PhD Thesis: ‘Co-working with Self-Service Technologies: A design ethnographic approach to the future automated supermarket’.
(Forthcoming early 2026)
Refereed Journal & Conference Papers Accepted
Page, R., Noches, P. & Gomez-Hernandez, M. (2025).
Primary Perspectives on Design Research: Making and Action-Oriented Epistemology.
International Association of Societies of Design Research Congress 2025: Design Next, Taipei.
Editor Invited (Revising)
Noches, Paulina.
Researching Automated Supermarket Work Futures through Design Ethnography: Methods for Sensing Future Technologies, Services & Atmospheres.
Special Issue: Doctoral Design Dialogues, Design Studies (submission Oct 2025).
Noches, P., Laubscher, M., Riny, D., Gurling, A., & Kreltszheim, L.
Collective Resistance: Practice-based Design PhDs Navigating Frictions in Interdisciplinary Research.
Special Issue: Doctoral Design Dialogues, Design Studies (submission Oct 2025).
Project Publications
‘Chile se Diseña’. Fourth Chilean Design Biennial, Santiago, Chile (2010).
Contributor. National Council for Culture and the Arts.
Features *Sonidos del Desierto*, a jewellery design project.
Books (Co-Authored)
‘AUTOWORK: Robotics, Automation and Work Futures’. Bristol University Press (Forthcoming 2026).
Co-authored with Sarah Pink, Mark Andrejevic, and NTNU collaborators.
Explores how automation and robotisation reshape everyday work.
‘Speculative Ethnography at Work’. Bristol University Press (Forthcoming 2026).
Lead authors: Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, Maria Engberg & Bertil Rolandsson.
Explores creative and experimental design ethnography and AI methods.
STS Italia 2025, Politecnico di Milano – Conference Presenter
Design ethnography and future-oriented research
AUSSTS 2025 – Conference Speaker
Automation, signals and emerging techno-social dynamics
SoMat PhD School, NTNU – Invited Presenter
Doctoral research on sociomaterial and technological transformations
