TEACHING

I deeply enjoy teaching and designing course offerings. I have taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in Colombia and the United States, as well as community-based programs on technology design in various places worldwide.


 
TEACHING

I deeply enjoy teaching and designing course offerings. I have taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in Colombia and the United States, as well as community-based programs on technology design in various places worldwide.




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I taught two undergraduate/graduate level courses at the MIT D-Lab. The courses are a combination of classroom teaching, design facilitation and fieldwork.

D-Lab Education    
︎   S30.309    ︎  2014, 2015
D-Lab Waste            
︎   S45.908    ︎  2016, 2017

The D-Lab Waste course is part of MIT OpenCourseWare



I was part of the teaching team of the 2020 Summer School organized by Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Universidad Minuto de Dios (Colombia), and Engineers Without Borders (Colombia).

Sustainable Engineering with Social Impact   ︎  2020   
You can see the syllabus, workds done and results of the course here

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I served as a Teaching Assistant for the 2018 version of this class taught by Prof. Ethan Zuckerman and Dr. Alexis Hope.

Technology & Social Change    ︎    MAS.987   ︎   2018
Syllabus for the 2018 and last edition of this class


   
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These are two courses I designed as part of my doctoral research. Both courses were heavily immersive and curriculum was co-developed with community partners.

Technologies for Coffee Production      ︎   2019
Technologies for Rural Sustainability     ︎  2022

You can read more about these rural co-design experiences here, or in the MIT Media Lab website


I was a design facilitator and lead organizer of four design summits in Colombia. With support from Amy Smith at the MIT D-Lab, we designed and taught all content and activities.

IDDS Zero Waste                                 ︎   2015
IDDS Education                                    ︎   2016
IDDS Climate Change Adaptation   ︎   2017
IDDS Coastal Territories                     ︎   2018

Learn more about these summits, the projects we worked on and how they are taught.


Other teaching experiences


MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program                 ︎  2019
MIT MISTI UTEC technology design program             ︎  2016
KIA Ecodynamics Expedition (Mongolia)                      ︎   2015





Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar | 2023   ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎