Learning is a continuous, all-encompassing process, driven by our urge to communicate, grow, and meaningfully participate in our communities. Whether teaching or learning, we are always engaged in practices that both (de/re)humanize and transform us.

I design courses and workshops in environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and social science research methods. My teaching approach emphasizes imaginative, creative practices that nurture inclusion, sustainability, and resilience in challenging times.

Below you’ll find examples of course syllabi and teaching materials I’ve developed. If you’re interested in organizing or hosting a workshop, please reach out—I’d love to collaborate.

Graduate courses

• Paisaje ≠ Naturaleza ≠ Territorio [Taught 2025]

  Offered as part of the Doctorate in Arts and Techno-aesthetics at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina), this seminar provides analytical tools to explore the intersection of politics and aesthetics. We examine debates, tensions, and disagreements surrounding territorial identity, spatiality, and the concept of nature within the Latin American modern artistic canon. The seminar is directed at participants interested in critical cultural studies. Each week, we study primary sources that guide our discussion—from early twentieth-century manifestos to contemporary relational art.

• Escrituras expansivas — poéticas ambientales [Taught 2024].

  Offered as part of the Doctorate in Arts and Techno-aesthetics at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina), this seminar invites participants to explore connections between writing and ways of thinking, feeling, living, and caring for a more-than-human world. The course focuses on creative writing processes that encourage a poetic exploration of language as a means to engage with 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].

  The course explores artistic, analytical, somatic, and expressive practices designed to foster sensitive and collaborative relationships with riverine ecologies. The central question studied here is 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 it is divided into three modules: artistic research, hydropolitics, 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.

Undergraduate courses

• 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, participants 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.]

• 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 Sense & Exploration [Taught 2021]

  This course introduces students to data science analysis through practical engagement and critical reflection. Throughout the quarter, students will explore various strategies for collecting, analyzing, and presenting data in accessible, reflective, and compelling ways. They will also examine some of the cultural, political, and ethical challenges associated with contemporary data production and interpretation.

  [Lindsay Poirier wrote the original assignments]

• Science and Law in America [Taught 2020]

  This course will teach students 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 units: the (techno-legal) Human Body, Evidence in Criminal Justice, Patent Rights, and Pollution and the Environment. In each of these units, students will explore how science and law contest and redefine one another.

  [The argument was based on Gerardo Con Diaz’s course on this topic]

• Agricultura, tecnología y sociedad [Designed 2021]

  This course explores the changing relationships between practices and ways of knowing that have shaped and continue to shape modern agriculture(s). The course adopts a historical perspective and examines case studies from different geographic locales, with a special emphasis on contemporary Latin America. Similarly, students will explore how various agricultural production systems continue to reshape 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)