In this episode, Smart Forests researchers speak to <a href='https://www.aalto.fi/en/people/andrea-botero-cabrera'>Dr Andrea Botero</a>, Associate Professor in the Department of Design at Aalto University in Finland. The conversation touches on Andrea's research with <a href='https://www.studio-lab-forest.org/sites/open-forest/'>Open Forest</a> 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:
<ul><li><a href='https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/stories/hybrid-walking-and-unsensing-the-forest/'>Hybrid Walking and (Un)Sensing the Forest</a>: a collaborative story about a hybrid walk hosted by Andrea, Markéta Dolejšová, and Jaz Hee-jeong Cho in Hyytiälä</li>
<li><a href='https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the-forest-multiple-andrea-botero/'>Open Forest: Data, Stories and Walking-With:</a> an audio recording of Andrea's paper for the Forest Multiple symposium at the University of Cambridge in October 2022.</li>
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Image source: Andrea Botero, <a href='https://www.studio-lab-forest.org/sites/open-forest/'>https://creatures-eu.org/productions/open-forest/</a>

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Find out more about the Smart Forests project at https://smartforests.net/ and explore the Smart Forests Atlas at https://atlas.smartforests.net/.