My name is Heidi Pietarinen. I work as a professor in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland, Finland. I hold a PhD degree in textile art and design and my research has emphasis on knowledge and methods of textile art and design, posthuman design and creative research (arts-based research, ABR). My research includes projects, research articles, exhibitions and working groups such as High Altitude Bioprospecting and BioARTech Laboratory. These has resulted in international exhibitions, discussions and teaching around the arctic raw materials, nature of microbes, the language of bioprospecting and our relationship with our non-human research collaborators.