Andrea Corona Anaya
(She/Her)
I am a strategic designer from Mexico, with a background in industrial design and a career shaped by the intersection of design, business and innovation. I am driven by curiosity about people, human behaviour, and the systems that shape how we live, work, and interact.
Throughout my career, I have worked across product development, innovation, business strategy and service design, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and navigating challenges from different perspectives. This diverse experience has taught me to move between the detail and the bigger picture, understanding how individual experiences are connected to the organisations, systems and decisions behind them.
I enjoy immersing myself in complex problems and exploring the connections between people, organisations and the wider systems around them. I see design as a way of making sense of complexity, uncovering opportunities and creating meaningful value for both communities and organisations.
At heart, I am a dreamer. I believe design should not only solve problems but also help us imagine better ways of living. I dream of a world where everyday experiences can be more meaningful, playful and enriching for everyone. Where thoughtful design can help make those possibilities feel a little more real.
Reflecting on the coast: Leveraging local stories for participatory climate adaptation
Coastal climate adaptation requires moving beyond abstract environmental narratives toward place-based, community-led dialogue. Largs, a coastal town in Scotland, faces a subtle yet critical challenge: while severe storms and regular flooding have impacted residents for years, these events have become normalised. Rather than recognising escalating risks, the local community often perceived severe weather as an unavoidable routine, making constructive dialogue challenging.
In response, Flooded with Individual Resilience was developed as a place-based storytelling toolkit designed to foster meaningful local dialogue. Built on narratives, the tool leverages personal stories of everyday resilience during severe weather events to ground conversations in lived experience rather than abstract concepts.
On the back of the storytelling cards, the tool integrates core community values identified and recognised by the residents themselves. Paired with structured reflection prompts, these cards allow participants to discuss environmental shifts, shared vulnerabilities, and local priorities openly, using a shared language rooted in everyday life rather than abstract labels. By replacing defensive or political debates with value-driven reflection, the toolkit enables coastal residents and local facilitators to process shared experiences, strengthen community cohesion, and build a foundation for collective action in response to escalating weather impacts.
Short stories on climate adaptation in coastal areas.
Understanding coastal climate adaptation
How resiliance and adaptation methods could be illustrated for a first prototype
Stories with comminity values and main topics. How adaptation has influence each main character of this place-based short stoires.
Interactions with locals: Climate effects, emotions and lived expiriences.
Uisge – The Hydro Commons Festival
This project is a collaboration between Alice Jaanus, Andrea Corona Anaya, Clarisse Jean Pierre Towler and Jugal Gajjar.
Uisge: The Hydro Commons Festival is a temporary design intervention that aims to transform the Spiers Lock community’s
relationship with water. The project is based on the brief ‘Living Museum: The Regenerative Place‘ for the client Agile City, a north Glasgow based organisation that consists of Civic House, Civic Street and the Glue Factory. By connecting to Agile City’s objectives, the festival takes a holistic approach to community energy and explores how water can be reframed as a shared resource in joyful way.
