Andrea Botero: Open Forests in Hyytiälä, Finland

In this episode, Smart Forests researchers speak to Dr Andrea Botero, Associate Professor in the Department of Design at Aalto University in Finland. The conversation touches on Andrea's research with Open Forest at Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station, interdisciplinary practice, relationships between sensor data and stories, Finnish forest management and environmental change.

Interviewers: Michelle Westerlaken and Jennifer Gabrys

Producer: Harry Murdoch

You can learn more about Andrea's work with Open Forest on the Smart Forests Atlas:

• Hybrid Walking and (Un)Sensing the Forest: a collaborative story about a hybrid walk hosted by Andrea, Markéta Dolejšová, and Jaz Hee-jeong Cho in Hyytiälä
• Open Forest: Data, Stories and Walking-With: an audio recording of Andrea's paper for the Forest Multiple symposium at the University of Cambridge in October 2022.

Image source: Andrea Botero, https://creatures-eu.org/productions/open-forest/