Building knowledge collectively
Workshops, practical sessions, theoretical facilitation
Over the years, I have led a wide range of workshops, panels, and collaborative spaces exploring topics in design, technology, feminism, collective knowledge, and creative practices. These spaces have used online, in-person and hybrid formats, and have emerged both as self-initiated projects and as contributions to conferences, symposiums, residencies, and other events and gatherings.
As a facilitator, I attune deeply to the dynamics of each group, often deviating from initial plans and allowing the group to lead me. From visual tools to room atmosphere, the use of language and more, I attempt to create environments where everyone feels safe and valued.
Below is a selection of workshops, panels, and collaborative spaces I’ve led in 2021 and before. My most recent work of facilitation and community building can be found on the Critical Anatomies Lab website.
Workshop Co-lead: “Pedagogical practices: A workshop for TAs teaching online under COVID-19”. Digital Fridays. HASTAC.org
Workshop Lead: “REMAP”. Intervening the map where America was first named. Visual arts workshop mediated by dialogues on decolonization and healing.
Workshop Lead: “Beyond cartography, Pandemic Ecologies”. Mapping of territories using design methodologies and mental cartographies.
Facilitator: Plenaries of the 30th anniversary of the Association for Progressive Communications. The plenaries were titled: “Our changing contexts and challenges: Social movements in the midst of a pandemic" and “Resilience and Resistance: Bottom-up strategies responding to COVID-19 realities”.
Founder and Facilitator: “aKi”, A self-initiated dialogue group to discuss police brutality and mass incarceration in the United States.
Study Group Leader: “Emergence and anticipation in Design”. The Public Interactives Research Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Workshop Lead: “The Underlying Paths of Participation”. Feminist reflexivity and positionality in Design. Participatory Design Conference 2020.
Workshop Lead: “Mental City Landscapes: Border Logics” at the Platforms to the World Symposium. School of ATEC, University of Texas at Dallas
Workshop Lead: Developing Ethical Guidelines for Feminist Internet Research Practices. Feminist Internet Research Network. Association for Progressive Communications.
Panel Moderator: "Bio-creation of informatics: Rethinking data ecosystems in the Network Economy" ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts). Manizales, Colombia.
Workshop Lead: Service Design in the context of Healthcare. Háptica consultancy.
Workshop Lead: Re-thinking business models of social ventures using rapid prototyping techniques. Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá.
