Meet & Eat | Fatima Delgado | Land, Music, Stories and Embodiment Learning as Pedagogies | 18 March
18 maart 2025 12:45 t/m 13:30 - Locatie: Teaching Lab - Door: Teaching Academy | Zet in mijn agenda
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Land, Music, Stories, and Embodiment Learning as Pedagogies
This Meet & Eat will explore immersive approaches to education—rooted in the land, carried by music, shaped by storytelling, and expressed through embodied learning. Drawing on Fátima Delgado Medina’s pioneering pedagogical practices and learnings in TU Delft courses about “entrepreneurship” and “innovation” at the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship, we will explore how underrepresented communities' perspectives challenge Western-centric models of teaching and pedagogies.
By honoring the wisdom of multiple languages and embracing ancestral rituals and cosmovisions, Fatima shows pathways to cultivate empathy, deepen spiritual and community bonds, and ignite transformative learning change to de-obscure the social and planetary crisis many communities around the world are facing.
Such land-based, embodied pedagogies offer learners new knowledge; they inspire profound reconnections to place, body-mind awareness, and collective solidarity.
This event will invite attendees to question the status quo, celebrate cultural roots, and imagine how these decolonial practices can lead to more inclusive educational landscapes for all.
Timeline
12:30-12:45 Walk in & lunch
12:45-13:30 Lunch lecture
13:30-14:00 Afterthoughts, Informal discussion and networking
About the speaker
Fátima Delgado Medina is an Ecuadorian lecturer and researcher with over 16 years of expertise in decolonizing sustainability and entrepreneurship, climate action, circular communities, indigenous-led entrepreneurship, decolonial participatory design methods, sustainable entrepreneurship, climate change analysis, and ecosystem services.
Fatima has worked with indigenous people communities, smallholder farmers, social enterprises, and gender-based grassroots organizations throughout Latin America. Her work is deeply rooted in challenging the conventional narratives of “entrepreneurship,” “innovation,” and “value proposition” in the “Global North” and “Global South” by redefining the role of design & entrepreneurship in community-level climate action interventions, incorporating diverse epistemologies from underrepresented communities.
She has contributed to decolonial entrepreneurial thinking with courses at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) such as "Beyond Development: Pluriverse for Sustainable & Impact," "Idea to Start-up Climate Action, and many workshops.
