Hernando Barragán (born 1974) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist, designer, and academic known for creating the Wiring development platform as his 2003

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thesis project at the

Interaction Design Institute Ivrea Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (also known as Interaction Ivrea or IDII) was a two-year graduate program in the field of Interaction Design operating in the town of Ivrea, in Northern Italy. It was based in the former Olivetti Study and Rese ...

(IDII) in Italy. The

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project is based on Wiring. He is currently an educator at the University of the Andes.

Career

Barragán graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de los Andes in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

, Colombia. He then studied

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at the IDII in

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where he developed

Wiring Electrical wiring is an electrical installation of cabling and associated devices such as switches, distribution boards, sockets, and light fittings in a structure. Wiring is subject to safety standards for design and installation. Allowable ...

, an

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electronics prototyping platform as his master's thesis which earned him a Master's of Art with distinction degree. His thesis advisors were

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and Massimo Banzi. Banzi eventually co-created the Arduino electronics prototyping platform and based its

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on the Wiring programming language. Wiring itself builds on the

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language developed by Casey Reas and

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at the

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. Wiring has inspired other electronics prototyping platforms such as Energia. In 2013 Ed Baafi, founder of Modkit declared Wiring “the future of microcontroller programming” during the Sketching in Hardware 2013 conference in PARC in

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. In May 19, 2017 Barragán was named Arduino Chief Design Architect. Barragán was part of the “Easy as a kiss: Humanizing technology though design Vision, story and impact of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea” exhibition curated by

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in the Circolo del Design in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

, Italy from May 7 to September 19, 2021. As of 2021 he is a tenured professor and the dean of the School of Architecture and Design at the Universidad de los Andes.

References

External links

Personal Website

Professor page
at Universidad de los Andes
The Untold History of ArduinoHernando Barragán
at The Index Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Barragán, Hernando Colombian designers 1974 births Living people Colombian inventors University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni Academic staff of the University of Los Andes (Colombia)