MSc/PhD elective using ritual-space pedagogy; community challenges in the Galápagos, the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Philippines, and Uganda. 2026 cohort recruited April 2026; Final Presentations held 3 June 2026 with Igorot elders Cesar Taguba and Yvonne Belen.
International Entrepreneurship & Development course. Students learn to reflect critically on Western-centric design and entrepreneurship practices that often marginalize local knowledge, using pluriverse and decolonial perspectives. Through participatory design, storytelling, storymaps, group discussions, and senti-pensar (feel-thinking) journaling, students develop critical thinking and apply intersectionality, inclusive language, bottom-up innovation, and decolonizing principles.
MSc/PhD elective exploring qualitative research methods grounded in local and Indigenous knowledge systems to address complex societal challenges, based on relational, place-based, and culturally embedded ways of knowing.