I am the author of various books, including Thinking Small. I have degrees in philosophy and neuroscience and have long worked in issues of motoring and mobility as a consultant and writer. I also have certificates in technology studies, especially frontend development. I take part in lab meetings of the Northoff lab in Ottawa and I partner with the Technoscience group at the Brandenburg Institute of Technology where I’ve just completed another master project with UNESCO that is titled Phenomenological Heritage. I am completing my PhD at Universität Heidelberg (Germany) with Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs where I am further developing the ideas of Waymaking, Navigability and Ecological Orientation in the Philosophy Faculty, specifically through the lens of phenomenology and psychiatry. I did my neuroscience master at Humboldt Universität (on purpose, because of my previous research on its legendary professors Hegel and Alexander von Humboldt) as part of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and as part of the Doeller Lab at Max Planck.
Recent films and television series that I have been in include The Bug and Cars that Changed the World. a professional biography from elsewhere, please see https://www.ecologicalmotoring.com/andrea-hiott
My recent podcast appearances include for Business Insider, for the Idea Cast Interview Series, for the Trailmark podcast, the Lucas Vos podcast, Karen Wong’s The Meaning Code and for the Connectomics podcast of the Okinawa Institute. Some conference papers from 2024 include a talk on Ecological Philosophy for the International Philosophy Conference in Rome, for the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment in Berlin, for the Cognitive Science Society at DUCOG, for the Modelling Cities workshop and the French Regional Conference on Complex Systems, for Livable Cities London, for Cities & Cultures in Barcelona, for the Radical Embodiment conference in Murcia, for the The Korean Society for the Philosophy of Science, and for the International Conference on Resilient Systems in Singapore, and early talks for the Modes of Existence in Oslo, at the Design Theory conferences at MINES in Paris, two talks for SEMF in Valencia, and for the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM).
I have written about speed, transportation, landscape, memory, art, and other communal projects. My work appears in numerous publications such as the New York Review, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Post, Bloomburg, Huffington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Business Insider, the National Geographic, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many others. I have also appeared in numerous films and podcasts. Through agencies and commissions, I have written books and worked extensively for various museums, artists, collectors, and agencies.
I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Rorty, Bohm and Hegel with Richard Dien Winfield. I did my Master thesis with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin as part of the Doeller Lab at the Max Planck Institute, and with the Northoff Lab which is located at the University of Ottawa. In this thesis, I set out the preliminaries of a philosophy and neuroscience of waymaking. It can be read here: Ecological Memory. Other early sketches were presented at the 8th MindBrainBody Symposium, the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, as part of the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research Spring Academy, and at the Urban Forest Forest Urbanisms Conference.
Some recent publications can be found at My Liveable City and Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Part One and Part Two at the Landesmuseum Hannover and in Discourse Magazine. Some talks in 2023 about way-making include: the Max Planck Institute’s 10th Mind Body Brain Symposium in Berlin, the 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind in Braga, Portugal, the Society of Cognitive Science of the Moving Image in Wilmington, North Carolina, the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in Pittsburgh, and Livable Cities at CUNY City Tech in New York City (slides), for the ISHPBB in Toronto (Talk on Stotz and Cognitive Symbiology), for the Cognitive Science Society in Australia, the Society for Multidisciplinary Research in Valencia and Madrid, for the Klinkum Heidelberg, and for the International Philosophy of Mind Conference. I have also given talks for companies interested in applying this cognitive model to their business practices.
Ecological Motoring Initiative writings can be found on the EMI Substack. Those of you who are interested in the subjects of Desirable Unknown (nature, environment) please find further writings and community here. For those who want to go deeper into phenomenology & philosophy (via themes relative to the Love & Philosophy Beyond Dichotomy channel and the Way-making framework), join me on the Substack Community Philosophy.
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