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The MAST Network- Making Knowledge for Sustainable Transformations is a network funded by NordForsk. Together we are creating a unique space for exchange and capacity building across Indigenous and non-Indigenous academic institutions that incorporate knowledge through making. 

We work at the intersection between: indigenous knowledge-through-making and art and design knowledge-through making. By centering the discussions around shared forms of creative practice and ways of thinking things/objects of knowledge, the network will create opportunities for knowledge dialogues in rigorous, creative and respectful ways. Importantly the network aims to extend this exploration by connecting with indigenous issues in the global south. 

The project is led by Prof. Julia Valle-Noronha, in collaboration with Profs. Andrea Botero and Maarit Mäkelä, and postdocs Nathaly Pinto and Priska Falin. 

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The MAST network is a partnership of the following institutions:

Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Assist. Professor, Prorector, Samuel Valkeapää 
Associate Professor Hanna-Maret Outakoski 
Professor Gunvor Guttorm
Associate Professor Maarit Magga
Doctoral Researcher Inga PÃ¥ve Idivuoma

Aalto University, Finland

Assistant Professor Julia Valle Noronha (PI)
Associate Professor Andrea Botero Cabrera 
Doctoral Researcher Nathaly Pinto
Full Professor Maarit Mäkelä
Academy Fellow Priska Falin
Doctoral Researcher Ivan Txaparro

Umeå University, Sweden

Professor Cindy Kohtala
Doctoral Researcher Sergio Bravo-Josephson
Associate Professor Kristina Sehlin MacNeil, 
Associate Professor/Director at Várdduo Christina Storm Mienna

Aalborg University, Denmark

Associate Professor Kasper Rodil, 
Assistant Professor Petko Karadechev