I teach classes in wearable technology and interactive computing, working with open-source software and hardware such as Arduino and Pure Data, as well as sensors and soft circuits. My teaching practice focuses on hands-on experimentation, encouraging participants to understand technology as a material, embodied, and relational process rather than a closed system.

Alongside this, I organize workshops centered on biomaterials and integrated electronic circuits, exploring aesthetic, ornamental, and speculative approaches to future post-human bodies. I work with bio-based materials, such as algae-derived compounds, for the creation of second skins that enhance pleasure and intimacy through embedded technologies and biofeedback sensors. These practices investigate how technology can extend sensorial experience and redefine the boundaries between body, material, and machine.

My workshops intentionally blend biotechnology, biohacking, witchcraft, and magical practices, creating a shared ritual space—a coven—designed to reclaim community knowledge, care, and embodied wisdom historically exploited or erased by capitalist and patriarchal systems. Together, we open the black box of science, demystifying its authority and transforming it into a collective, accessible, and political practice.

This shared process becomes a laboratory of disobedience, where experimentation is both technical and symbolic, and where alternative futures can be imagined.
SELECTED WORKSHOPS:

PROSTHETIC AGENTS

Redefining corporealities through jewellery and biomaterials.
a workshop lead by cristina dezi in collaboration with
UMANESIMO ARTIFICIALE
A-FAD
DESIGN MUSEUM OF BARCELONA

how To transform the social, aesthetic and moral codes of our difficult present in order to transfigure them into a hopeful future?
By investigating the connotations of jewellery in various contexts and highlighting its ability to connect bodies to each other and to the environment, ‘Prosthetic Agents’ transgresses the boundaries of the discipline to explore the image of the cyborg.
The intersectional approach of the workshop allows for symbiotic bridging and new affinities between diverse fields and research.

AKELARRE.ORG


AKELARRE.EXE is a workshop led by Cristina Dezi, invited by the Wet Lab group of Hangar.org, Barcelona. Through witchcraft practices, biohacking, and magical spells, the workshop reclaims the body as a site of resistance, challenges systems of oppression, and explores new forms of empowerment and collective manifestation through biotechnology as a situated, embodied practice.

SOFTWIRE OF CARE

affective technotouch and intimate circuitry


Can soft technologies enhance the senses and intimate connections across bodies, environments, and non-human entities? This workshop explores how electronic textiles, soft sensors, and tactile circuits can expand the ways our bodies perceive and interact with others and with the surrounding world. Through DIY/DIWO practices and an open-source approach, participants will create interactive prototypes that reimagine the body as a living interface. Working with conductive threads, smart fabrics, cables, and soft circuits, we will speculate about alternative bodily technologies within post-digital networks of care and connection.This Activity is part of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
Led during the festival DA Fest in Sofia, Bulgaria.