Elena teaches Histories and Theories and Policy Design seminars in the Landscape Urbanism MSc and MArch programme at the AA, and is part of the AA Groundlab Residency. She has taught in the AA Visiting School in Mexico, at the Royal College of Art and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work focuses on the verticality of territories, its imaginaries, epistemologies and disciplinarian tensions in relation to contemporary design praxis. She also conducts workshops situated in the interstices between soil sciences and community-led participatory design, its imaginaries and materialities through site-specific practices in Mexico, Wales and England.