No More Reality II (La manifestation). Philippe Parreno, 1991
No More Reality II (La manifestation). Philippe Parreno, 1991
TEACHING
My main pedagogical drive is the use of innovative and experimental methods. Over the years, I have developed a variety of experimental pedagogical approaches including, mobilizing a +400 students class to create pop-up installations to denounce racism on campus, doing Situationist-inspired dérives and interventions in public spaces to illustrate the uneven politics of urban spaces; or, applying the methods of the Cabinet of Political Fictions to transform classes into a fictional UN-councils to propose and debate solutions about pandemics or climate change.
Below you can find a list of classes I have taught, or am teaching, along with their syllabi and a few toolkits with instructions on how to replicate some of the experimental classes.
Courses Taught
Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego (2013-..)
Graduate
- Ecological Thinking/Thinking Ecology.
- Introduction to the Study of Communication: Communication and Culture
- Communication Research as an Interdisciplinary Activity
Undergraduate
- Infrastructures of Citizenship
- Introduction to Communication (Standard version)
- Introduction to Communication (Experimental version) With toolkit
- Ecological Fictions.With Toolkit
Museum Studies Department, NYU, (2010-11)
Graduate
- The Museum Life of Contemporary Art
Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, UNAM, Mérida, Mexico (2008)
Masters
- Qualitative Research Methods
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (2005-2008)
Undergraduate:
- Sociological Theory
- Modern Societies