The Universidad Liberté, jointly with the Equipo de Investigación Aprendizaje y Desarrollo Organizacional (IRICE-CONICET-UNR), launches «Laboratorio de Saberes — La cárcel como práctica de la libertad»: a nine-session monthly dialogic series open to the entire community. It begins on Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 10 a.m. (Argentina) via Zoom and is 100% subsidized through community support.
«La cárcel como práctica de la libertad»
The series proposes a radical departure from the failed treatment-based approach that structures the contemporary penitentiary system. In its place, it offers a path of existential enablement —individual and collective— oriented toward the recovery of freedom. The premise that connects all nine sessions is direct: to build, through dialogue, a new perspective on penitentiary policy, grounded in life, education for freedom, and care — one capable of offering public policy a decisive shift in direction.
What the Laboratorios de Saberes Are
"The Laboratorios de Saberes are spaces for co-imagining and inventing the world we desire, in community," the program explains. "We hold the conviction that things are not this way by nature — they are this way by circumstance, and they could be as we wish them to be, if we are capable not only of imagining them, but of having the courage to bring them into existence."
For that task, the series calls upon what the manifesto names co-inspirers: people with the capacity to listen, to integrate difference, to think with their heart and feel with their head, in service of the community. The working method, as the program document states, is dialogue: "Dialogue is the royal road for this adventure of exploring knowledge."
Two Transversal Axes
The series is organized around two axes that run through every session: freedom and restorative and therapeutic justice. On that foundation, seven dimensions are explored throughout the year — dimensions that, from the program's perspective, make up a learning process of existential enablement for living in freedom, understood as community.
The Seven Dimensions of Existential Enablement
- Self-knowledge — the starting point of the process.
- Contact with nature — connection with the non-human world.
- Physical exercise — inhabiting the body.
- Artistic skill development — creation as a path of expression.
- Formal and non-formal education — the right to learn in any context.
- Dignified work — work as a horizon, not as punishment.
- Community service — freedom understood as connection, not individualism.
Each of these dimensions will be the focus of one or more sessions throughout the series, with invited speakers who will engage in public dialogue with participants.
The First Session: Co-Inspirers of Freedom
The inaugural laboratory is titled «Co-Inspiradores de la libertad» and brings together an international panel of six speakers who will dialogue around the premise that anchors the entire series:
- Angel Alonso Salas (Mexico)
- Camilo Varela-Quintero (Colombia)
- Claudia López Pineda (Spain)
- Federico Langer (Argentina)
- Marcela Gaete Vergara (Chile)
- Victoria Sarmiento (Colombia)
The session will take place on Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 10 a.m. (Argentina), via Zoom. As in every laboratory, participants will be able to engage through the chat.
"Utopias open the path that is closed — a forest, a hillside. Biotopias design a new landscape. The latter is the essence of this dialogic and collaborative work."
How It Works
The series consists of nine synchronous virtual sessions, held monthly on the Zoom platform. Each session brings together invited speakers to engage in public dialogue on one of the program's themes. Audience participation takes place through the chat. The series is open to the entire community: no prior studies or prior accreditation are required.
More Information and Registration
All information about the series, upcoming session dates, and invited speakers is available on the program's official page.
Registration is completed through the form available on the program's official page. Inquiries can be sent by email to info@universidadliberte.org and by WhatsApp at +54 9 223 678-9264.
Participants who complete the series receive certification from Universidad Liberté.
