We can learn and question knowledge making while carving reindeer antlers, dying threads with achiote, embroidering maps, walking, sitting, laying down... in Spanish, Northern Sami, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Kämentzä, Kwicha, Portuguese, Bulgarian and English. www.nordforsk.org/news/mixing-...
Niilo Tenkanen's thesis, which explores human behavior through “easily stolen chairs” left around the city, was featured in Helsingin Sanomat. The surprising outcomes of this project highlight the power of design in public spaces. Kudos to Niilo and his supervisors Andrea Botero & Simo Puntila!
Juliana Gutiérrez Valderrama, Simone Fuica Prieto, S., & Catalina Lince-Rivera
doi.org/10.1080/2572...
Henry Chavez, H., Mauro, A., Chavez, D. I., & Ponciano, R. doi.org/10.1080/2572...
A hand holds a needle and is assembling a paper cut collage
🎉 Our thematic cluster for @tapuya.org is now complete😍 with this editorial: Botero, A., & Pérez-Bustos, T. (2025). The making of methodologies/methodologies of making. When precarity matters. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. doi.org/10.1080/2572...
MAST is a network funded by NordForsk to exchange and create capacity building across Indigenous and non-Indigenous academic institutions that incorporate knowledge through making.
together with: SÀMI ALLASKUVLA SAMISK HØGSKOLE, Aalto University, Umeå University, Aalborg University
Interested in the intersection between indigenous knowledge-through-making and art and design knowledge-through making? our MAST network is hosting a workshop 13-14.11 with few interesting lectures open to the general public. Welcome ❣️
More info and registration:
blogs.aalto.fi/mast/2025/10...
Making Sense of the Forest. Article by Botero, A. & Swett, L.
doi.org/10.69564/abl...
Photo of the poster announcing the opening of Creative Sustainability MA students displaying various projects from 2025
Join us at the Aalto ARTS graduation show next week 🎉🎓@aaltodeptofdesign.bsky.social MA students showcase some of their ideas, questions and commitments in response to some of the big questions of our time. Poster image from the MA in creative sustainability projects www.aalto.fi/en/aaltoarts...
🔍 ¿Qué ciencias y tecnologías son posibles en medio de las crisis? 📣 La Red Colombiana de Estudios Sociales de las Ciencias y las Tecnologías invita a las Jornadas ESOCITE 2026 🧪🤝 📍 Bogotá 📆 24 -26.626
tinyurl.com/Esocite2026sp
#ESOCITE2026 #CTS #CienciasYTecnologías #RedCTSColombia
In her editorial about @tapuya.org V8 cover, @andreabotero.bsky.social reflects on the collaborative, precarious, & material process behind the cover collage—an embodied response to methodological making amid crisis, inspired by collective inquiry and care.
🖼️At doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2483121
Look mom, I made a cover :)
Estrenamos cluster con una reseña! 💙
Guihu deja un vacio enorme
Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet, which is the bottom portion of what was once a tablet with 3 columns of cuneiform text. It is photographed from the front, sides, and bottom, all displayed on the same image. There are parts lf three columns of cuneiform text presented. The bottom of the tablet which is pictured at the bottom of the image has museum identifiers written on the tablet which are “K. 4374” and “K. 8377”. The tablet appears black in parts suggesting it was burnt in antiquity.
“Do not act falsely and terror […] will not consume you.
“Do not slander, and you will not ponder grief.
“Do not commit evil, and you will not gain eternal distress.”
Proverbs from ancient Mesopotamia preserved on a broken clay tablet.
Technology is the active human interface with the material world. But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades... Ursula 💙 www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Join us at @4sweb.bsky.social 2025 Conferencefor the Panel (Co)razonamientos Reverberating: Embodied and Affective Knowledge in Design (#205) An invitation to corazonar! Corazonar is a collaborative act, in which we razonamos (reason) from our corazón —heart— collectivelly #STS #Design
"The guide to designing with animals, plants and other critters compiles a glossary that collects knowledge about plants, animals, and their entanglement with climatic and bio-systemic urgencies for architects and designers"
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
www.luke.fi/fi/uutiset/k...
I’ve just done my #eXit! by freezing the X account and tyding up #BlueSky & #Mastodon ones with app.helloquitx.com ... Lets see how this unfolds.
Applications are now open for our #Creative #Sustainability master’s program. www.aalto.fi/en/creative-... @aaltouniversity.bsky.social
A first post with this-is-not-news-but-needs-to-be-said
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