Andrea Botero Cabrera

Andrea Botero Cabrera

Professori (Associate Professor)
Muotoilun laitos
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Especifically, my work engages with the possibilities, and contradictions of participating in design, and designing participation today. I have explored these issues in multiple domains ranging from everyday life to scientific endeavors.

Through my research, I aim to understand how collectives (broadly speaking) come to understand the design spaces available to them and how designers could infrastructure those spaces better, especially looking to support livable futures. These work draws from and happens at the intersection of participatory design, science and technology studies and transformative creative practice.

I am Associate Professor (New Frontiers of Design) at the Department of Design where I currently lead INUSE research group, where we work with designer-user relations in socio-technical change. In addition, I am adjunct professor (dosenti) at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (COL) and Guest Professor at the Centre for Sustainable and Digital Transformation, Aalborg University (DK).

My research has been funded by the European Union, The Finnish Research council, the Finnish fund for technology development and Aalto Univeristy seed funding programs.

I am interested in what counts as design and what other practices for world making are there, and which ones we need to call into being. Thus my research and practice not only aims to understand, I also I seek to resist, intervine and demonstrate alternatives. In that vein, my collaborative design practice explores the creation of environments, tools and media that afford more relational and caring interactions among, and between people, collectives and their environment. The OpenForest collective, practices and tools are one example of this.

Teaching 2024:

MUO-E8041  Collaborative and participatory techniques for design - Creative sustainability MA program (Fall) at the Department of Design

MUO-E0020 Intro to MA studies (Fall)- for all MA students of the Department of Design (Together with Prof Pirjo Kääriainen and Prof Marco Steimberg)

I advice / supervise MA and DA students on a continous basis.

BACKGROUND

BA- Industrial Design,Universidad Nacional de Colombia (COL) 

MA- Product and Strategic Design, Aalto University (FIN)

DA- Doctor of Arts - New Media, Aalto University (FIN)

I worked as post-doc at the department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu (FIN).

As a design practitioner I have worked in several design consultancies and in multiple R&D projects as product owner, interaction designer and design researcher. I do occasional design consultancy gigs via a collective design research studio called Suo&co, that I convene with 3 wonderful friends for more than a decade.

In my spare time  I do design and multigenerational diversity activism through the board of Ninho ry, a Finnish NGO creating a more diverse and plurilingual children's culture in Finland. I ocassionally collaborate with Utopiabio, a Colombian NGO working around rural connectivity and technology appropiation as well as community development

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...

Kompetensområde

Arki, Collaborative design, Co-design, Social innovation, New media, Design, Interaction design, 6132 Kuvataide ja muotoilu, 520 Muut yhteiskuntatieteet, Teollisuusperusteinen muotoilu, Tieteentutkimus

Utmärkelser

2024 Ziman Award: CreaTures (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures) project

The Award is given to the core team of the CreaTures (Creative Practice for Transformational Futures) project:<br/><br/>from Aalto University, Tuuli Mattelmäki (Principal Investigator/coordinator), Andrea Botero, Markéta Dolejšová (lead on our laboratory), Julia Lohmann, Kirsi Hakio, Gaurika Singhal, Savannah Vize, Namkyu Chun, Jarkko Mutanen (project manager);<br/>from University of Sussex, Ann Light (lead on research gathering and analysis), Lara Houston, Kit Braybrooke;<br/>from RMIT University, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (lead on engagement), Cristina Ampatzidou, Ralph Horne;<br/>from Utrecht University, Joost Vervoort (lead on evaluation), Lucas Rutting;<br/>from Superflux (creative partner), Anab Jain, Jon Arden, Nicola Ferrao;<br/>from Kersnikova (creative partner), Jana Putrle Srdić, Simon Gmajner, Sandra Sajovic, Jurij Krpan, Klemen Kristan;<br/>from Hellon (creative partner), Kirsikka Vaajakallio;<br/>from Zemos98 (creative partner), Felipe Gonzáles Gil, Rosalía Gutiérrez;<br/>from Furtherfield (creative partner), Ruth Catlow, Charlotte Frost;<br/>from OKFI (NGO partner), Tarmo Tokkanen, Teemu Ropponen, Susanna Ånäs;<br/>from Sniffer (NGO partner), Ruth Wolstenholme, Iryna Zamuruieva.
Palkinto tai huomionosoitus tuotoksesta Muotoilun laitos Jul 2024

Forskningsgrupp

  • Inuse

Publikationer

“Bejay (water) is our sister”: Wearable speculations to entangle collectively.

Andrea Botero, Eliana Sánchez-Aldana, Alexandra Cuarán Jamioy, Susana Patricia Chicunque Agreda 2024 DRS2024: Boston

Inter-weavings of Practice and Research in the Tšombiach (Woven Sashes) of the Kamëntŝa Biya People

Susana Patricia Chicunque Agreda, Eliana Sánchez-Aldana, Alexandra Cuarán Jamioy, Andrea Botero 2024 Research in Arts and Education

Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting: Feral Mapping

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Andrea Botero, Markéta Dolejšová, Lachlan Sleight 2024 International Journal of Cartography

Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory

Markéta Dolejšová, Andrea Botero, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Michal Mitro, Agnieszka Pokrywka, Chewie Škubánek, Tuuli Mattelmäki 2024 Research in Arts and Education

Evolving PD tools through iteration : Analyzing templates used for multiple participatory renewable energy projects

Goeun Kuu-Park, Andrea Botero, Cindy Kohtala 2024 PDC '24: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2024 : Exploratory Papers and Workshops - Volume 2

Enacting Entanglement : CreaTures, Socio-Technical Collaboration and Designing a Transformative Ethos

Ann Light, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Lara Houston, Andrea Botero 2024 Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal

Growing Conditions for Growing: Infrastructures for Designing with Living Organisms in Fabrication Settings

Ena Naito, Andrea Botero 2024 NordiCHI '24: Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Politicizing the Pictogram : Participatory Design Approaches within Indigenous Community Communication

Nathaly Pinto Torres, Andrea Botero, Guy Julier 2024 International Journal of Design

Introduction

Anton Poikolainen Rosen, Antti Salovaara, Andrea Botero, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard 2024 More-Than-Human Design in Practice

More-Than-Human Design in Practice

Anton Poikolainen Rosen, Antti Salovaara, Andrea Botero, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard 2024