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... 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 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

Andrea Botero Sep 4, 2023

Somethings give you hope. The privilege of welcoming 120 curious, excited, hopeful (and also overwelmed) younger people starting their Masters in Design - Aalto University, school of Arts, Design and Architecture

Andrea Botero May 10, 2023

Today from Aalborg University with the wonderful Chiara Ross for the #tech4sdt seminar 🙏 thanks to M Telli for the invitation

Andrea Botero Apr 18, 2023

💥 Summer School – Design & Transitions: Emerging Theories and Practices 🐍
( 📅 9 - 14 July 2023) Application deadline: 1st of May 2023.

https://www.eur.nl/en/events/summer-school-design-and-transitions-emerging-theories-and-practices-intersection-2023-07-09

Summer School | Design and Transitions: Emerging Theories and Practices at the Intersection

This summer school will explore how design (research) and transitions (research) relate in the pursuit of achieving a sustainable, just and resilient future

Andrea Botero Mar 30, 2023

Friday 31.3 at ⏰4 pm in Aalto ARTS Väre (room F102) connect with the work of four textile collectives made up of women who have suffered the experiences of the war in Colombia

Andrea Botero Mar 29, 2023

How can communities adapt to the impacts of climate change? Many of the issues in this road map are particular to Scotland but the resource can be inspirational for anyone. Thanks Sniffer! https://t.co/U8igyW7MVw

Adaptation Scotland :: Community Climate Adaptation Routemap

Andrea Botero Feb 6, 2023

Last year I gave a presentation on Open Forest at the #forestmultiple symposium hosted by the #smartforest project at Cambridge. The presentation is now a nice podcast episode https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the-forest-multiple-andrea-botero/

The Forest Multiple: Andrea Botero — Smart Forests Atlas

This radio episode, recorded at The Forest Multiple symposium in October 2022, features a panel talk by Dr Andrea Botero, Research Fellow in the Department of Design at Aalto University. Smart Forests is led by Professor Jennifer Gabrys and is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

Smart Forests Atlas

Andrea Botero Nov 3, 2022

Agnieszka's cyanobacteria bioreactor goes home today! Will miss its gentle humming

https://creatures-eu.org/productions/cyano/

Cyano Automaton

Creative Practices For Transformational Futures

CreaTures