Author: andres lombana bermudez
Mapping Bogota’s Infrastructures
This month I complete four years of my return to Bogota, my hometown. I have settled up, survived a pandemic, adapted to the everyday life in the Chapinero neig...
The Music of the Dinamita Brothers (Hermanos Dinamita) (circa 2002)
Some music projects last for long periods of time, others are just a matter of months or weekends. It is not easy to keep a band of amateur musicians together. ...
The Plurality of Citizen Science
Although the term “citizen science” is increasingly used in the mainstream media around the world, has entered national and regional science policy ...
Flying an Anvil
Anvils are heavy tools usually made of iron or steel. Heavy metal in literal sense. Today, we rarely see them or hear their percussive sound in our cities and t...
Participatory Design: Tools and Techniques for Re-imagining Digital Transformations
Participatory design (PD) is a powerful methodology that can be applied to re-imagining digitalization process, bringing ethical considerations to the foregroun...
The Fragility of Vinyl Records: Sunlight Damage and Repair
In this post I share my experience with a warped record I accidentally damaged by directly exposing it to sunlight, and that I was able to fix (unwarp) using a ...