Originally from Argentina, Milagros believes that innovation comes from communication between disciplines and collaboration between the community and professionals with perhaps different backgrounds but similar goals. Her experience as both, designer and educator, provides a fresh lens to understand student centered approaches, physically and pedagogically. Her research includes explorations of the environmental and experiential settings that address new ways of learning and how these settings provide opportunities to emphasize problem solving skills and collaboration that creates communities of learning. Her studios focus on community and commitment to public engagement through participatory design- build collaboration. This, has given her focused insight on how people relate to one another and how the built environment influences them in the process.