Learning is an all-encompassing process driven by our deep urge to communicate, grow, and be active members of our communities. We are always participating in it, either as teachers or learners, as through education, we (de/re)humanize ourselves.  It is the social practice par excellence. In addition to my research work, I teach courses on environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and run workshops on methods and research. My pedagogical approach is rooted in conceptual and imagining practices that foster inclusion, sustainability, and resilience at trying times. In this section, you will find some course syllabi and workshop content I designed. If you are interested in organizing or hosting a workshop, please send me a note.

Graduate courses

• Escrituras expansivas — poéticas ambientales [Taught 2024].

  Offered in the Doctorate in Arts and Techno-aesthetics at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina), this seminar invited participants to explore connections between writing and the search for other ways of thinking, feeling, living, and caring in a more-than-human world. The course focused on creative writing processes that encouraged a poetic expansion of language, seeking to embrace an ecology of beings, forces, sensations, and affects that often elude everyday perception.

• Corresponder entre ríos — atender, implosionar, conspirar (with Lisa Blackmore & Emilio Chapela) [Taught 2024].

  Lisa, Emilio, and I designed this course for the Doctorate in Arts and Techno-aesthetics at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina). The course explores different artistic, analytical, somatic, and expressive practices aimed at fostering sensitive and collaborative relations with riverine ecologies. One of the central questions we raised was how to correspond with rivers as a means to rethink, reanimate, and repair hydro-common relationships. The course emphasizes active participation and collective discussions and is structured around compositional practices. We divided it into three modules: artistic research, politics of rivers, somatic immersions and hydro-common conspiracies. Each module offers interdisciplinary tools and methodologies to help students produce and engage in art research practices with rivers and waterforms. This course allowed me to think with and learn from my colleagues on attentive modes of being toward rivers, engaging them as living forces, constantly becoming anew.

Undergraduate courses

• Science and Law in America [Taught 2020]

  This course will teach you how to think critically about regimes of scientific and legal expertise by bringing together tools that are proper to the fields of history, sociology, and science and technology studies. The course comprises four thematic units: the (techno-legal) Human Body, Evidence in Criminal Justice, Patent Rights, and Pollution and the Environment. In each of these units, we will explore, in unique ways, how science and law contest and redefine one another.

  [The conceptual core of this course was inspired by Gerardo Con Diaz’s great class on this topic]

• Data Sense & Exploration [Taught 2021]

  This course introduces students to data science analysis through practical engagement and critical reflection. Throughout the quarter, we will study different strategies for finding, analyzing, and presenting data in an accessible, reflexive, and compelling manner. We will also explore some of the cultural, political, and ethical challenges in contemporary data production and interpretation.

  [The pedagogical exercises used in this course are adaptations of the superb materials written by Lindsay Poirier]

• Science and Politics in Global Health [Taught 2022]

  This course introduces students to key concepts, issues, and contemporary debates around global public health in social science research. We will focus on how "medical facts" are produced and reacted to on a global scale. Students will learn about the global health movement, the technoscientific production of sickness and global health, the complexities of global population research, and how experts in this field are bringing together claims to knowledge —and vast amounts of state and non-governmental funding— to reshape the future of humanity.

• Data & | ! Stories [Taught 2023]

  This course introduces critical data storytelling through practical engagement, group discussion, and collective reflection. Critical data storytelling is an approach to crafting stories with data that is attentive to the stories that data tells. Students in this course will learn how to communicate evidence-based insights in meaningful ways while considering the stories behind the social life of data. This course will also help students build computational skills for data analysis and presentation.

  [I collaborated with the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art to develop the Zine assignment. The Museum featured the submissions at "An Evening of Student Voice" on Thursday, March 2, 2023. As part of the course, the participants and I wrote the Data & | ! Stories Manifesto, an ethical framework for data storytelling that upholds the dignity, autonomy, and rights of everyone involved in collecting, producing, and analyzing data, as well as those affected by the consequences of our stories.]

• Agricultura, tecnología y sociedad [Designed 2021]

  This course explores the changing relationships between practices, ways of knowing, and socioecological systems that have shaped and shaping agriculture(s) in western societies. The course assumes a historical perspective and explores case studies from different geographic contexts, with special emphasis on modern Latin American agriculture development. As such, we will study how agriculture has been historically understood and practiced, focusing on modernity as the contemporary epoch. Similarly, we will study how different agricultural production systems have redefined socio-ecological orders.

Workshops

• 07/09-11/2024. Taller: Vínculos emergentes en mundos compartidos –atender, convocar, colectivizar. Lisa Blackmore y Alejandro Ponce de León. Carrera de Escultura | Facultad de Arte y Diseño | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Perú.

• 06/28-29/2024. Ciclo: Cuando las aguas nos convocan. Lisa Blackmore, Alejandro Ponce de León y Dayana Camacho. lugar a dudas – arte y vacilaciones. Cali, Colombia.

• 06/17-21/2024. Estar aquí en la tierra 2024: con-vocar el cuidado. Manizales, Colombia.

• 08/29/2023. Curso corto: Juegos e inmersiones. Semillero de Biocreación, Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes (Cali, Colombia)

• 08-29/11/2021. Taller: Dispositivos temporales: un taller en composición especulativa. Programa en antropología, Universidad ICESI. [Cancelled]

• 05-23/10/2021. Curso corto: Laboratorio de reconocimientos interacuáticos. En Seminario de profundización: Antropologías del agua. Profesora María Isabel Galindo Orrego. Universidad ICESI (Cali, Colombia).

• 01-22/06/2021. Taller: Mapear lo común: Un taller en composiciones afectivas. El Costurero, Universidad ICESI (Cali, Colombia).

• 05/12/2017. Workshop: DATA4PEACE [co-organizer]. Universidad de los Andes. (Bogotá, Colombia)

• 04/07/2017. Workshop: Qualitative Data Analysis. Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD). The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)

• 02/30/2015. Taller: Formación Discursos Artísticos Emergentes. Casa Fractal. (Cali, Colombia).

  Guest lectures

• 11/07/2023. Course session: “Waterforms, atmospheric rivers.” in Media Perspectives, Prof. Mariela Yeregui. Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI. [audio x exercise]

• 8/31/2023. Clase en curso de posgrado: Humanidades Ambientales Digitales, Profesora Stefania Gallini. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)

• 08/22/2023. Clase en curso de posgrado: Introducción a las Humanidades Ambientales. Diplomatura superior en Humanidades Ambientales, en el cruce del arte y la tecnología. UNTREF (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

• 01/09/2021. Clase en curso: metodología cualitativa. Profesora Lorena Marín Gutiérrez. Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia).

• 15/07/2021. Clase en curso: Escrituras afectivas. Seminario Internacional Difracciones: metodología para hacer diferencias. Universidad El Bosque (Bogotá, Colombia).

• 04/04/2021. Clase en curso: diseño y Sociedad. “Diseño Especulativo.” Prof. Mariangela Aponte N. Universidad ICESI (Cali, Colombia).

• 08/25/2018. Clase en curso: Diplomado Gobernabilidad, Gerencia Política y Gestión Pública. Universidad ICESI (Cali, Colombia)