Faculty

Claudia Tomateo is an Indigenous descendant of the Quechua-Chanka people from the mountains of Apurímac, in so-called Peru. Her work explores Indigenous methodologies in relation to data visualization, examining how visual practices can support Indigenous knowledge systems and the design of Indigenous futures. She is an architect, designer, planner, and activist, currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Knowledges and Methodologies at Parsons School of Design at The New School.

She has worked with community members in both Abya Yala and Turtle Island. Since 2023, in partnership with the Andean Project for Peasant Technologies, Claudia has facilitated the study and creation of communal calendars with Quechua people in the Amazon. She and her students at The New School have worked the Endangered Language Alliance and Mujeres en Movimiento, in New York.

Claudia has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She holds the degree of Professional Architect from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a Master’s of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Ph.D., Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (expected 2028)

Master of Architecture in Urban Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2015–2017)  

Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2008–2014)