The Dwell 24: Laura T. Jaramillo

Laura T. Jaramillo draws on her multicultural background (her mother is Puerto Rican, her father is Colombian, and she grew up in Egypt) to create furnishings and objects that straddle sculpture, performance, and personal history.

 "My goal is to capture memories with an object that already exists and then to make new objects that intensify that emotion."

After graduating with a dual degree from Brown University and RISD earlier this year, she co-created Listen, an app and card game that encourages people to communicate better and more frequently while isolated during the pandemic. "I love finding a message that needs to be said and the body that needs it," she says.