Alejandro Valencia-Tobon Email & Phone Number

Colombia

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Responsible for:• English language teaching (proficiency levels A1 to C1).• Implementation of ‘Communicative Language Teaching’ methods with ‘Action-Oriented Approaches’ for team leaders and RPA, front-end and back-end developers.• Consultancy on business process management, marketing and communicating with clients.• Basic guidelines for giving/asking for reports while working with Scrum methodology.• Development of skills for having efficient communication via e-mails (emailing in the workplace and professional email etiquette).Achievements:• 100% compliance with learning goals and strategic planning objectives.• 80% increase in communication efficiency by optimising language use while writing emails or reports.• Less than 10% class-dropouts during one-year periods.

Medellín (Co) / Manchester (Uk) /

Responsible for:• Executive production of Cucusonic, a GCRF-funded project.• Report to funders about project status and updates.• Planning and coordination, task assignment and quality assurance.• Supervision, internal and external communication, with over 50 participants located in Colombia, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.• Website design and social media management.• Sound design and post-production / Film editing, direction and production.• Database and archive management.Achievements:• One music album (double 12” 180g vinyl set within a 12″ sleeve with printed inners). The Cucusonic music album was released by The Vinyl Factory (UK), featuring Brian Eno, Iggor Cavalera, Martyn Ware, Matthew Dear, Mexican Institute of Sound, among others.• Cucusonic website design.• Release of one sound-film.• Featured at BBC Wildlife Magazine.• Design and production of one art installation, held in Manchester, UK (7.1 audio) working along with Studio Mécanique (Switzerland) and GCVA (UK).

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

• Cotiledón is a company dedicated to advising students and professionals to develop their academic projects or business ideas (we have partnerships with Publicidad Ábaco).• Clients include Dreaming My Way, holiday rental in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands). • We have also worked with students and academics from Universidad EAFIT, Universidad ICESI and Universidad CES, and Universidad de Antioquia. We have helped clients to submit successful applications to University College London, Utrecht University, Musikene, and Boston University.

Medellin

• I specialise in leading projects related with social innovation, consumer insight, user experience, public engagement with science and orange economy. • I believe in the power of ethnography and applied anthropology to discover subtle behaviour cue and getting deeper insights looking for ‘consumer truth’. • Executive producer and director of projects for Kone Foundation / Saari Residence (2021), Fundación WWB, Icesi University (2017), the Program of Study and Control of Tropical Diseases at the University of Antioquia (2009-2011) and Matacandelas Theatre (2010-2011). • Peer reviewer for Leonardo Journal at the MIT (2019-2024) and Revista Mundo Asia Pacífico at Universidad EAFIT (2019-2020).• Jury of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (2017-2023) and Colfuturo’s Loan-Scholarship Programme (2022-2023).• Public talks at University of London (2023), Banco de la República (2019), Universidad de Antioquia (2018), Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (2017), Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá (2017), Universidad del Valle (2017), and National University of La Plata, UNLP (2013).• Art exhibitions in local and international venues, including Cámara de Comercio de Medellín (2022), Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool, 2020), Universidad Eafit (Medellín, 2019, 2020); Museum of Science & History – MOSH (Jacksonville, 2019), Sala de Arte Suramericana (Medellín, 2019), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Medellín, 2016); Horniman Museum & Gardens (London, 2013); Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, DC, 2010).

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Responsible for:• Public engagement and research-creation projects (reported to vice-chancellor Mauricio Perfetti del Corral).• Transforming University's strategic plan into public engagement strategies. • Setting up user stories for prototyping and successful project development.Directing and producing projects developed among members of different schools.Achievements:• Chair and organiser of more than 20 events for the University.• Executive producer and director of the video game Sembrando Interacciones.• Art curator and producer of 2 art exhibitions (on birds and invertebrates) and 1 concert.• Lecturer of courses in art, biology, and the business school.Project leader, postdoctoral fellow, and/or researcher for 5 projects funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation; Cártama, Universidad Eafit and/or United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

I support the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in the design of sensory media courses. http://granadacentre.co.uk/

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Asesoré el proyecto ‘Banco digital de sonidos de la biodiversidad para la apropiación del conocimiento del patrimonio natural del Centro de Ciencia Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Salle’.-----I served as consultant for the project ‘Digital bank of nature sounds for knowledge appropriation in La Salle Natural Sciences Museum’.

Mynämäki, Finlandia Occidental Y Central, Finlandia

Saari Residence / Kone Foundation – Artist-in-residenceDuring this residency programme, I worked to reveal that bioacoustic data, sound recordings and participatory art can offer a way to enact the multiplicity of relations between humans and non-humans as multispecies entanglement, while at the same time translating scientific knowledge into the public domain | https://bit.ly/3ymGq5Q | https://erratico.info/saari I

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Desarrollo del proyecto ‘Gestión y Apropiación del Conocimiento: Biología, Arte y Antropología en la Universidad EAFIT’-----Postdoctoral Fellowship - Project: ‘Public engagement with science: Biology, Art and Anthropology at EAFIT University’

· Lideré el componente artístico y social de la Expedición BIO en el municipio de Anorí (Antioquia), ejecutada por la Universidad EAFIT en alianza con EMP, el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) y el Programa Colombia BIO de Colciencias. · Conceptualicé, diseñé y produje las estrategias de divulgación y apropiación social del conocimiento, a través de talleres de co-creación entre los investigadores y comunidades locales.-----· I lead the artistic and social component of the BIO Expedition in the municipality of Anorí (Antioquia). This is a project lead by Eafit University in partnership with EMP, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Colombia BIO Program of Colciencias.· Conceptualized, designed and produced public engagement strategies among researchers, local communities and environmental leaders.

Medellín, Colombia

Asesoro al profesor Juan Felipe Blanco del Instituto de Biología (Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales) en temas de comunicación y divulgación social de la ciencia, desarrollando proyectos relacionados con los manglares del Caribe Sur (Urabá).

Santiago De Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

ESPAÑOL· Diseñé y produje estrategias para publicitar el programa de antropología social; desarrollé autómatas, taumatropos y gabinetes de curiosidades | https://goo.gl/qPr1Rq | https://goo.gl/EFRjJW |· Asesor de una (1) tesis de maestría..........................................ENGLISH· Designed and produced strategies to advertise the Social Anthropology programme; developed automatons, thaumatropes and a cabinet of curiosities | https://goo.gl/qPr1Rq | https://goo.gl/EFRjJW |· Supervisor of one master’s thesis.

Santiago De Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

ESPAÑOL· Desarrollé de las líneas de ‘Cambio Climático’ y ‘Economía, Ambiente y Política’ para el nuevo doctorado en ‘Regiones Sostenibles’ | https://goo.gl/bEBRgo |· Producción audio-visual y diseño web del curso virtual ‘Identidades y Cultura’ | https://goo.gl/1a6jLq | https://goo.gl/H5lLRa | · Diseño de actividades sobre divulgación científica | https://goo.gl/QYP6eS | https://goo.gl/5HH449 | https://goo.gl/BGOjmh | · Jurado de dos (2) tesis de maestría..........................................ENGLISH· Developed research lines in ‘Climate Change’ and ‘Economy, Environment and Politics’ for the ‘Sustainable Regions’ doctoral degree | https://goo.gl/bEBRgo |· Audio-visual production and web design for the ‘Identities and Culture’ course | https://goo.gl/1a6jLq | https://goo.gl/H5lLRa | · Designed activities on public engagement with biological sciences | https://goo.gl/QYP6eS | https://goo.gl/5HH449 | https://goo.gl/BGOjmh | · Examiner of two master’s theses

ESPAÑOLDiseño de proyectos interdisciplinarios vinculando metodologías de la ciencia, el arte y la antropología, aplicados tanto a contextos académicos, como de dominio público.| http://goo.gl/FPrZu3 | https://goo.gl/ydtzYg | https://goo.gl/hS4aHu |.........................................ENGLISHDesigned interdisciplinary projects combining science, anthropology and art, for audiences in the academy and the public domain.| http://goo.gl/FPrZu3 | https://goo.gl/ydtzYg | https://goo.gl/hS4aHu |

Medellín, Colombia

ESPAÑOL· Diseño de proyectos innovadores vinculando arte y ciencia | http://t.co/kxgW7D3 |· Conceptualización de proyectos de participación pública | http://goo.gl/YPYcTf |· Trabajo audio-visual | https://goo.gl/UUQ91W | https://goo.gl/CEd9Tj |.........................................ENGLISH· Developed innovative public engagement projects | http://t.co/kxgW7D3 |· Conceptualized process-based and public art projects | http://goo.gl/lu74HY |· Audio-visual work | https://goo.gl/UUQ91W | https://goo.gl/CEd9Tj |

Phd In Social Anthropology With Visual Media, Antropología, Arte, Biología, Comunicación

Mi proyecto de tesis doctoral fue sobre la creación y negociación de diferentes formas de conocimiento. Estudié cómo la antropología, en.

Ma Visual Anthropology With Sensory Media, Social Representations Of Tropical Diseases

Durante mi maestría trabajé con vendedores ambulantes para explorar sus conocimientos subjetivos y no académicos para entender la fiebre.

Biólogo, Biología, Arte, Video Experimental, Ciencias Sociales