Julita Mahrer Viñas
- Associate Lecturer
- Digital Direction MA
- Associate Lecturer
- Communication MFA
Julita Mahrer Viñas is a Swiss-Dominican muralist, art director, cultural curator and educator based in London.
As an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, Julita's pedagogical and research practice interrogates decolonial methodologies within creative education and community engagement. In addition, she serves as a Mentor for RCA BLK, where she supports students through critical dialogue and professional development fostering spaces that prioritise equity, representation, and cultural agency within the institution.
Her interdisciplinary work spans public art, curation, and writing, critically employing colour, language, and joy as epistemological tools to examine belonging and Caribbean diasporic identity. Situated within both cultural and academic frameworks, her research explores collective memory, creative resilience, and the role of public art in shaping social ecologies.
Julita studied at IED Milan, the University of Canberra, and the Royal College of Art, where she also completed her PGCert. She is a licensed public artist and has been invited to lecture, present, and serve as a panelist at academic institutions and cultural forums internationally.
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Research interests
Julita’s research critically examines the intersections of decolonial theory, cultural memory, and visual communication within creative education. Her practice-based inquiry investigates how public art and visual languages operate as counter hegemonic tools, generating new ecologies of knowledge within Caribbean and diasporic contexts.
Her research foregrounds the pedagogical potential of embodied and ancestral technologies in higher art education, exploring how indigenous epistemologies and ritual knowledge can inform more holistic, inclusive modes of learning. Through this approach, she challenges traditional hierarchies of knowledge production and advocates for creative education as a decolonial and reparative process.
Julita’s teaching philosophy is grounded in critical pedagogy and relational learning, drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of the Borderlands to situate the classroom as a hybrid, generative site for epistemic exchange. Her research contributes to developing methodologies that position artistic practice not only as a mode of production but as an instrument of inquiry, transformation, and social imagination.
Practice
Julita’s professional practice operates across muralism, curation, and art direction, engaging with public space as a critical site of cultural production and collective authorship. Her projects integrate visual communication, spatial design, and community collaboration to translate diasporic languages, chromatic systems, and performative gestures into participatory forms that reimagine social environments.
Her curatorial and creative work extends into both cultural and commercial contexts, collaborating with brands such as Adidas Originals, Corona Sunset, CAYE, Netflix, and Durex, as well as government initiatives including Arte Público Dominicano.
Julita also leads RISE (Resist, Inspire, Situate, Empower), a workshop programme designed to cultivate critical, embodied, and socially engaged creative practices. Through RISE and other collaborative frameworks, she facilitates spaces for collective learning, situational awareness, and creative empowerment that connect local and diasporic communities through aesthetic, spatial, and social experimentation.