Andrea Hiott is a philosopher and the founder of Making Ways, a private educational consulting platform that works with individuals, businesses and organizations like EMI towards looking into the guiding philosophies at the heart of our lives and actions.

Andrea is also an author and educator.

She has degrees in philosophy of mind and neuroscience and further studies in technology and heritage.

She is the author of various books, including Thinking Small. She has long worked on issues of motoring and mobility as a consultant, writer, and ghostwriter.

Andrea is in numerous films and television shows such as The Bug and Cars that Changed the World.

Recent podcast appearances include: What is a Good Life, Business Insider, Idea Cast, Trailmark, Lucas Vos, Meaning Code & Connectomics. Her work appears in 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 more.

Andrea has written numerous books and worked extensively for numerous museums, artists, collectors, and agencies.

She has also developed the framework of Waymaking and the practice of Navigability and is dedicated to empowering individuals, audiences and organizations to notice and build philosophical perspectives towards better personal & collective goals.

Andrea has written about, and worked in, many diverse environments, from the Peace Corps to the transportation sector to university classrooms to neuroscience foundations and technology labs.

This experience and perspective allows her to expand traditional definitions of landscape and delve into human movement and transportive technology at scales beyond just the geographic. Just as importantly, however, it allows her to discuss and work towards a better understanding of how movement affects mental, emotional and imagined space.

Our collaborative efforts in ecological orientation contribute significantly to evolving the conversation around human mobility and the role it plays in shaping wider environmental interactions. In so doing, we collaborate with individuals, institutions, social groups, and companies towards building better technologies and reconnecting to the sensuality of the living world.

Part of this work is conversational. Andrea hosts numerous podcasts such as Love & Philosophy and Desirable Unknown, a show about how we can move into a more desirable future quadrant through the various areas of our societies.