Research Output per year
Personal profile
Artistic and research interests
My design works explore technologies, services, media formats and genres for collectives and communities. Through my research I aim to understand how collectives come to understand the design spaces available to them and how designers could support more various infrastructuring processes around them. Broadly, my work engages with the possibilities, and contradictions of participating in the creation of environments, tools and media that afford more relational and caring interactions among, and between people and their environment. This I have done multiple domains ranging from everyday life domains to scientific endeavors.
I am affiliated with the INUSE research group. Between fall 2019 and spring 2024 I will be working on a new project exploring distributed, collaborative and experimental arrangements for innovation and design otherwise, with generous funding from the Academy of Finland. In addition to that I am involved in setting up the Creatures project, and ambitious H2020 project exploring the role of creative practices in sustainability transitions
Teaching:
MUO-E3033 - Strategic Co-Design L, (29.10.2019-04.12.2019)
BACKGROUND
As a practitioner I have worked in design consultancies and multiple R&D projects as user interfase and interaction designer. I do occasional consultancy and service design gigs, mostly through Suo&Co a collective design research studio I convene with 3 other wonderful friends.
I have a BA in Industrial Design from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (COL) and an MA in Product and Strategic Design from Aalto ARTS, what was formerly TAIK (FIN). I obtained my Doctor of Arts degree in New Media also from Aalto ARTS. Before returning to Aalto I worked at the department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu (FIN).
I am also adjunct professor (docent) at the Faculty of of Architecture and Design of Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá (COL), I collaborate with Fundación Karisma, a Colombian NGO seeking to respond to human rights issues in the context of ‘technology for development’. In my spare time I do design and multigenerational diversity activism through Ninho ry, a Finnish NGO creating a more diverse and plurilingual children's culture in Finland.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Arts (Art and Design)
Master of Arts (Art and Design)
Keywords
- Collaborative design
- Co-design
- Social innovation
- New media
- Design
- Interaction design
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Research Output
Experimental governance? The emergence of public sector innovation labs in Latin America
Ferreira Litowtschenko, M. & Botero, A., 7 May 2020, In : Policy Design and Practice . 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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9
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Collective radio show - Culture for Solidarity
Botero, A., 16 May 2019Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in coproduction › peer-review
Open Access
Drawing Together, Infrastructuring and Politics for Participatory Design: a visual collection of cases, issues, questions, and relevant literature
Botero, A., Karasti, H., Saad-Sulonen, J., Geirbo, H. C., Baker, K. S., Parmiggiani, E. & Marttila, S-M., 2019, Oulu: University of Oulu. 37 p. (INTERACT 1 / Working Papers)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › Professional
Open Access
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33
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(Challenges and opportunities of) documentation practices of self-organised urban initiatives
Botero, A. & Saad-Sulonen, J., 1 Oct 2018, Participatory Design Theory: Using Technology and Social Media to Foster Civic Engagement. Devisch, O., Huybrechts, L. & De Ridder, R. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 230-246 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Editorial
Botero, A., Del Gaudio, C. & Gutierrez Borrero, A., 2018, In : Strategic Design Research Journal. 11, 2, p. 51-57 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Projects
CreaTures: Creative Practices for Transformational Futures
Mattelmäki, T., Botero, A., Grundmann, J., Chun, N. & Dolejsova, M.
01/01/2020 → 30/06/2023
Project: EU: Framework programmes funding
From the lab and the studio, to the garden, the forests and back
01/09/2019 → 31/10/2024
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
From the lab and the studio, to the garden, the forests and back.
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2022
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
CODO: Getting collaborative design done: An enquiry into mundane and strategic organizing of co-design in 21st century (CODO)
Whalen, J., Botero, A., Mattelmäki, T., Wu, Y., Salmi, A., Kohtala, C., Hakkarainen, L., Savolainen, K., Hyysalo, S., Lee, B. & Johnson, M.
01/09/2015 → 01/01/2020
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
GODSGI Co-Design of Digital Storytelling System with Geographic
Marttila, S., Saad-Sulonen, J., Kommonen, K., Botero, A. & Marttila, S.
01/09/2014 → 30/09/2016
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Activities
Data Care and Its Politics in Scientific Data Management: Designing for Research Infrastructure in Ecology
Helena Karasti (Speaker), Andrea Botero Cabrera (Speaker), Karen S. Baker (Speaker)13 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Out of the Lab, and around the Studio: Pluralizing Worldmaking Processes, from the Malocas to the Favelas.
Andrea Botero Cabrera (Speaker), Chiara Del Gaudio (Speaker)25 May 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
World making though environmental data; data, scientists and trees in more-than-human entanglements
Andrea Botero Cabrera (Speaker), Helena Karasti (Speaker)13 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Socially Engaged Design Conference
Andrea Botero Cabrera (Member)5 Oct 2019 → 6 Oct 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Membership of an organizing committee or other positions of trust of a conference or a seminar
Participatory Design and the Collaborative Dimensions of Infrastructuring
Andrea Botero Cabrera (Speaker)16 Sep 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Keynote or plenary lecture