Juan Flores
Juan is a queer mexican architect turned human-centered designer and the founder of Conscious Intervention. He holds a Masters in Human-Centered Design & Engineering from the University of Washington.
His practice is grounded in lived experience. As a 2025 Humanity in Action Fellow in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he studied how vulnerability, conflict, and memory shape civic life. In rural Pennsylvania, he organized home care workers across political divides and saw how deep listening and shared struggle can shift relationships that seem fixed. In the Peruvian Amazon, he led participatory research with Claverito, an informal amphibious community formed through the displacement of indigenous families from the rainforest into urban conditions they cannot afford.
Across these contexts, Juan has developed a global understanding of belonging, positionality, isolation, and how trust is built across difference. He works through deep listening, shared experience, vulnerability, and atmospheres; treating participants as equal partners in each intervention.
His work is in quiet dialogue with thinkers like Alain Badiou, James Baldwin, Bell Hooks, Gabor Maté, Robert Greene, Eckhart Tolle, and Peter Zumthor on love, honesty, presence, power, and atmosphere.
artist statement
conscious intervention is a result of the awareness and exploration of the forces and systems that shape the world around us, and a commitment to reimagining them.
my practice was started with curiosity and a desire to engague in dialogue across identities.
taking the time to listen to others and to decenter myself has transformed the way i relate to the world, and is at the core of my practice.
in the consideration of western values and it's emphasis on the individual, i found refuge in thinkers such as alain badiou, whose philosophy of love and politics gave foundation to an otherwise perceived delusional narrative of what could be, but isn't, yet.
my practice and approach are not only rooted in the degrees and stamps of approvals of institutions, but also by a path of self-inquiry and the courage to question my own internalized limiting beliefs, the continued deconstruction of the savior complex, and a commitment to nurturing of pluralistic principles.
each intervention informs the other. my own internal transformation is documented as a way to position myself and understand my role within each intervention.
i am guided not only by data, but also by intuition and a philosophical and ethical commitment to equity, collective liberation, and the belief that humanity can reorganize itself beyond capitalism.
