Mastodawn

pleased as punch to be involved in this NordForsk networking project with @andreuchis
this is what we were up to last month in Aalto
https://www.nordforsk.org/news/mixing-design-and-indigenous-perspectives-creative-knowledge-sharing
#design #Indigenous

Mixing design and Indigenous perspectives for creative knowledge-sharing

Through workshops, hands-on activities and sharing circles the MAST network explores how Indigenous knowledge intersects with design practices. Their aim is to validate and share Indigenous ways of knowing, and to bridge the global North and South.

NordForsk

Andrea Botero Nov 27

... To think of [research] methodologies as artifacts is to underscore their material and situated nature. A methodology does not only describe the world but also participates in shaping it, sometimes in subtle, other times in striking ways."

Our editorial: Botero, A., & Pérez-Bustos, T. (2025). The making of methodologies/methodologies of making. When precarity matters. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25729861.2025.2566557

Andrea Botero Nov 4, 2025

With @ckohtala and other colleagues MAST network we will be hosting a ws in Espoo in the intersection between indigenous knowledge-through-making and art and design knowledge-through making with few interesting lectures open to the general public. Welcome ❣️
info and registration
https://blogs.aalto.fi/mast/2025/10/21/making-knowledge-second-mast-network-workshop/

Andrea Botero Oct 22, 2025

Our visual essay "making sense of the forest " is now available in .able journal :)
https://able-journal.org/en/making-sense/

making sense of the forest • .able Journal

Exploring Hyytiälä Forest Field Station in Finland: where science, art, and ecology meet to understand forests as living, complex ecosystems.

.able Journal

Andrea Botero Jan 22, 2025

Preliminary data from the latest Finnish greenhouse gas inventory: in #Finland🌲 Forests have turned into a source of emissions, the sink of #trees
is no longer sufficient to cover the emissions 😢 ... (%&#"!!)

#climate
#forests
https://www.luke.fi/fi/uutiset/kasvihuonekaasuinventaarion-ennakkotiedot-2023-metsat-ovat-kaantyneet-paastolahteeksi-koska-puuston-nielu-ei-enaa-riita-kattamaan-metsien-maaperan-paastoja

Kasvihuonekaasuinventaarion ennakkotiedot 2023: Metsät ovat kääntyneet päästölähteeksi, koska puuston nielu ei enää riitä kattamaan metsien maaperän päästöjä

Luonnonvarakeskus

Andrea Botero Jan 19, 2025

I’ve just done my #eXit! Thanks to #HelloQuitX https://app.helloquitx.com

HelloQuitteX

Libérez vos espaces numériques

Andrea Botero Apr 29, 2024

Climate Change, the Arctic Region & the Future of Sámi people. Join us here in Aalto (8.5) for a talk with Ms Ms Pirita Näkkäläjärvi, President of the Sámi Parliament of Finland
https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/challenging-the-green-transition-in-the-arctic-climate-change-the-arctic-region-the-future-of-sami

Challenging the Green Transition in the Arctic - Climate Change, the Arctic Region & the Future of Sámi people | Aalto University

A talk and Q&A with Ms Pirita Näkkäläjärvi, President of the Sámi Parliament of Finland

Andrea Botero Mar 21, 2024

Joost Vervoort Mar 21, 2024

Our paper '9 dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations' is out! The result of years of work with researchers, artists, funders and policy makers in CreaTures to develop a rich shared language! https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss1/art29/

Ecology & Society: 9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations

There is an urgent need to engage with deep leverage points in sustainability transformations—fundamental myths, paradigms, and systems of meaning making—to open new collective horizons for action. Art and creative practice are uniquely suited to help facilitate change in these deeper transformational leverage points. However, understandings of how creative practices contribute to sustainability transformations are lacking in practice and fragmented across theory and research. This lack of understanding shapes how creative practices are evaluated and therefore funded and supported, limiting their potential for transformative impact. This paper presents the 9 Dimensions tool, created to support reflective and evaluative dialogues about links between creative practice and sustainability transformations. It was developed in a transdisciplinary process between the potential users of this tool: researchers, creative practitioners, policy makers, and funders. It also brings disciplinary perspectives on societal change from evaluation theory, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and more in connection with each other and with sustainability transformations, opening new possibilities for research. The framework consists of three categories of change, and nine dimensions: changing meanings (embodying, learning, and imagining); changing connections (caring, organizing, and inspiring); and changing power (co-creating, empowering, and subverting). We describe how the 9 Dimensions tool was developed, and describe each dimension and the structure of the tool. We report on an application of the 9 Dimensions tool to 20 creative practice projects across the European project Creative Practices for Transformational Futures (CreaTures). We discuss user reflections on the potential and challenges of the tool, and discuss insights gained from the analysis of the 20 projects. Finally, we discuss how the 9 Dimensions can effectively act as a transdisciplinary research agenda bringing creative practice further in contact with transformation research.

Ecology & Society - A journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Andrea Botero Mar 21, 2024

myrmepropagandist Mar 21, 2024

Any tree of sufficient size is a church possibly a cathedral.

Andrea Botero Sep 13, 2023

We have an exiting CFP in the journal Tapuya on "Making of methodologies / methodologies of making. When precarity matters" -- "Hacer metodologías / metodologías del hacer. Cuando la precariedad importa".

🔗Details at: https://tapuya.org/2023/09/11/tapuya-cfp-thematic-cluster-making-of-methodologies-methodologies-of-making-when-precarity-matters/#more-6464

Tapuya CFP: Thematic Cluster “Making of methodologies / methodologies of making. When precarity matters”

Download the call [ES] Hacer metodologías / metodologías del hacer. Cuando la precariedad importa Editoras invitadas Andrea Botero C. Aalto University – Finland / Universidad de los Andes – C…

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society