Paz Peña’s Portfolio

Have you thought about the socio-environmental impacts of digital technologies in your country?

Tramas is an action-research project that contributes to unveil the socio-environmental conflicts surrounding the digital cloud and AI development in Latin America.

We listened to land defenders in Querétaro, Jalisco (Mexico), Penco (Chile), and Matopiba (Brazil) about data centers, rare earth minerals, toxic waste, and the digitalization of agribusiness monoculture.

All these struggles are intertwined!

The same colonial logic that exploits minerals in Chile, poisons rivers in Mexico, and appropriates lands in Brazil feeds millionaire corps.

We document challenges and also resistance!

🕸 Learn more at https://tramas.digital

Developed by the Coalición Feminista Decolonial por la Justicia Digital y Ambiental.

The coalition is composed of various organizations and activists from Chile, Brazil, and Mexico. Current members of the coalition are: Coding Rights (Joana Varon and Mariana Tamari), Instituto Latinoamericano de Terraformación (Paz Peña Ochoa), Sursiendo (Jes Ciacci), Paola Ricaurte (Red Tierra Común and Red Feminista de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial), and Loreto Bravo.

Researchers Antonia Laudeci Oliveira Moraes, Cecilia Ananías Soto, Sofía Enciso, and Teresa Roldán Soria also collaborated on the studies.

For the platform, illustrations are by Giovanna Joo, web design by Cooperativa de Diseño Ltda., web development by Diana K. Cury, coordination and visual conception by Joana Varon.

Spanish-Portuguese translation and revision by Ana Cristina Carvalhaes.
The Spanish/Portuguese-English translation was done by Luisa Barraza Caballero, and was revised by Alicia Z. Daniel.

This project was funded by the Green Screen Catalyst Fund of the Green Screen Coalition. The Brazilian case also received support from Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Brasil.