Deconstrucción

Today’s guest is Santiago Yñigo, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SALVA, a regenerative real estate advisory and asset management platform integrating institutional underwriting, ESG accreditation, and blended finance solutions to advance high-impact tourism, residential, and infrastructure projects across emerging growth markets.

SALVA mobilizes capital toward projects that prioritize ecological resilience, biodiversity protection, cultural preservation, and long-term community prosperity — embedding regeneration directly into development strategy and capital structuring.

He has also co-founded Shamana and EEVA, regenerative tourism and real estate initiatives in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica that explore a new paradigm of development — where financial performance and ecological restoration advance together.

Today’s guest is Sandra LaFleur, a purpose-driven senior-level executive with deep experience in Changemaking and social impact for higher education programming, innovation, management, and organizational evaluation.

Sandra is also a long-term friend whose work I deeply admire — for her passion, her consistency, and the measurable impact she has created throughout her career. She is known for her ability to connect vision to mission, translating strategy into action while mobilizing teams around shared goals and meaningful outcomes.

In this conversation, we explore how the principles of changemaking and no social impact can be applied to the built environment — and how leadership, education, and collective action can help move our industry forward.

Today’s conversation focuses on one of the elements in interior design that most influences comfort: textiles.

Fabrics shape how spaces feel and perform, making their selection both an aesthetic and technical decision.

Joining me is Ari Greenfield from Magitex Decor, a Miami-based textile company with more than 15 years in the market, known for its quality fabrics and strong relationships within the design community.

Today’s guest is the Ines Martins, an international interior designer, energy healer, and TEDx speaker based in Miami.

With a design practice focused on high-end residential interiors, Ines has developed a distinctive method that integrates energetic awareness into the design process, creating spaces that align with the people who inhabit them and support overall wellbeing.

Today’s conversation centers on materials—the foundation of every interior space. Before furniture is crafted, before millwork is installed, before architecture is experienced, materials define durability, aesthetics, sustainability, and performance.

Our guest today is Ali Mert from Gizir, a company crafting next-generation wood-based materials for the interior design and furniture industries worldwide. With a focus on advanced production, surface technologies, and global distribution, Gizir operates at the intersection of industrial innovation and design performance. Today we explore growth, partnerships, market opportunities, and the evolving future of material manufacturing.

Today, we are joined by Aimee Lopez — interior designer, educator, and founder of the Holistic Interiors Design Community, a professional platform dedicated to integrating spatial design, environmental psychology, and applied neuroscience.

With more than two decades of professional experience, and as a professor in the Interior Design program at the University of Miami, Aimee’s work represents an important disciplinary evolution: moving interior design beyond aesthetic preference and functional performance toward an evidence-based framework in which space is understood as an active agent in shaping cognition, emotion, behavior, and human well-being.

Our guest today is Francesco Marrama, representing Lualdi Doors in the United States, a fifth-generation Italian company founded in 1859 that has evolved from a traditional carpentry workshop into a global leader in bespoke doors, partitions, and integrated architectural systems.

Rooted in craftsmanship and strengthened through decades of collaboration with internationally renowned architects, Lualdi operates at the intersection of heritage, technological precision, and large-scale project execution across residential, hospitality, and commercial environments worldwide.

Our guest today is Henry Rueda, architect, professor, and former Chair of the Department of Architecture at Florida International University (FIU).

His work bridges international professional practice, academic leadership, and civic engagement, with a focus on housing, public space, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Through education, art exhibitions, and community initiatives, his work advances architecture as both a cultural and civic instrument of transformation.

En este episodio nos acompaña Carla Castro, diseñadora de interiores peruana con más de 15 años de experiencia creando proyectos residenciales y comerciales que conectan con lo emocional.

Su trabajo integra diseño interior, fabricación de muebles de autor y ejecución de espacios bajo una misma dirección creativa, combinando estética, técnica y propósito, con una visión internacional que hoy se expande entre Perú, Miami y Ciudad de México.

Durante décadas, la selección de los materiales estaba guiada principalmente por criterios estéticos, económicos o de eficiencia técnica. Hoy la ciencia confirma que los materiales de nuestro entorno influencian factores como nuestro sistema nervioso, nuestras hormonas, nuestra capacidad de concentración y en consecuencia nuestro bienestar general.

En este episodio vamos a deconstruir el tema de cómo los materiales con los que están construidos los espacios que habitamos puede afectarnos directamente nuestra salud.

Nos acompañan Yumisbet González,  consultora en diseño holístico con formación en arquitectura, docente en Instituto Marangoni Miami y representante de ventas en Magitex Decor, y Jesús Pacheco, diseñador de interiores consciente y reconocido paisajista cuyo trabajo se enfoca en crear espacios que consideren la espiritualidad, la experiencia humana,  el bienestar y la relación entre el cuerpo y el entorno construido.