Our directory connects a globally diverse network of thinkers and creators, including researchers, educators, artists, activists, designers, writers, makers, scientists, and more.
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Agata is a passionate mushroom picker of various interests with roots in Eastern Europe, doing work related to food (& its autonomy), agroecology, as well as collaborative living spaces and their limitations. Find out more
Akio is a Japanese filmmaker and a former U.N. digital media officer. Yuguchi's interests centre around illuminating individual stories within specific social, environmental, and political contexts. Find out more
Aline Hernández is a Mexican art historian and exhibition curator. Find out more
Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist. Find out more
Since 2023, Amy has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), overseeing the Publishing and Public Program. In 2024, she was appointed Deputy Director. Find out more
Ana is an artist, researcher, and musician from Bogotá currently based in Mexico City. Find out more
Andrea Ragno is a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Find out more
Critic and artist working between New York/Berlin/Paris whose research often involves genealogy, or the epistemic context within which bodies of knowledge become intelligible and authoritative, as a point of departure in art & cultural production. Find out more
Angelika, (she/her) is an architect and journalist, working in a variety of roles, formats, and collaborations within and beyond the field of architecture. Find out more
Artist and organizer, she works in theatre and journalism for newspapers like taz. die tageszeitung and neues deutschland. Find out more
A cook and food activist living in MidWales, gathering nettles, growing Rainbow Chard, cooking, experimenting, learning and teaching. Find out more
As a Curator, Ashlee Conery has worked for over seventeen years in museums and galleries, across six countries. Find out more
AEC is a European cultural and educational network with around 300 member institutions for professional music training in 57 countries. Find out more
Beatrice is a MA Art History student at Humboldt University Berlin. Find out more
Beth makes sculpture, performances, projects and texts. Her most recent work uses hybrid forms of poetry and performance alongside public projects that explore how individuals and communities shape and are shaped by capitalism and the commons. Find out more
Betül Aksu (b. 1990, Izmir) is an artist who explores how boundaries appear in everyday life. Find out more
Bianca, a designer, creative researcher, and certified natural healer with an interest in culture, cognitive science, politics and well-being. Find out more
Bianca Elzenbaumer is a feminist design researcher based in the Italian Alps. Find out more
Brandy is a performance artist, musician, educator, mother, and activist who spends their time creating creative opportunities at the interface of art and community. Find out more
Camille is a curator whose interest lies primarily in ‘small’ (as opposed to ‘grand’) narratives that sustain a feminist and alternative reading of societies. Find out more
Carina works as multimedia artist, PhD researcher and mentor at LUCA School of Arts. Find out more
Carlos is the Liaison Manager and Management Assistant at SACO Contemporary Art Biennial. Find out more
Carolina (she/her) works as an independent media researcher, event programmer and writer. Find out more
Working for the Commons is an experimental platform where art invites a social vision. Art and the commons are two key practices, which serve as tools and models for non-capitalistic ways of living together. Find out more
Cassie is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. Find out more
An initiative for relational, situational, and performative art and research. Find out more
A center for professional resources and higher artistic education in music. Find out more
Since 2023, Chantelle has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), overseeing communications and supporting the Public Program and Alumn* Network. Find out more
Charlotte likes to zoom in too closely and is fascinated by stuff she finds online. Find out more
Châu is Co-founder/ Experience, visual and speculative designer - Collective imagination practitioner - Climate and social justice advocate. Find out more
Chiara holds a Master’s degree in Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art from Aalto University and a Bachelor’s in Fashion from Pforzheim University. Find out more
Designer, developer, and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Seoul and teaching at Seoul National University. Find out more
Chun is a landscape architect, urban designer and PhD researcher in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University researching practices of commoning and urban agriculture in the US and China. Find out more
Clara (Makati City, Pisces Metal Monkey) is a cultural worker and grey literature circulator. Find out more
Mauritian, living the past 12 years around Europe where she developed her dancing career. She is now following the Master teaching and coaching dance to professional course at the Zhdk. Find out more
Clare is an Artist living and working in London studying at both Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths. Find out more
A multidisciplinary platform located at Haus der Statistik that aims to foster collaborations and partnerships among practitioners from different fields. Find out more
Connecting different people and organisations by triggering creative disruptions that can lead to individual and collective changes of outlook and attitude. Find out more
Contemporary And (C&) is an art magazine and a dynamic space for issues and information on contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora. Find out more
We are four artists connected through our performative practices, we came together to open a new studio when the pandemic broke out. Find out more
One platform, with community at its core—our culture is collective sustainability. Find out more
Dagmara is a Polish visual artist, based in Chile. PhD from the University of Fine Arts in Krakow. Director of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art, SACO. Find out more
최다미 Dami Choi (she/they) is a curator / cultural worker based in Berlin and in the Korean diaspora, with focus on amplifying queer-feminist, system-critical and marginalized perspectives, mainly through artistic media but also through a spectrum of critical/creative sociocultural works. Find out more
Co-founding member of Common Views, Dan Farberoff (Born: Barranquilla, Colombia) is a multinational, interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Find out more
Co-founding member of Common Views, Dr. David Behar-Perahia (Born: Lyon, France) works on the seam between sculpture and architecture, in a site-specific manner, using a diversity of creative languages, such as sculpture, installation, performance, sound and video. Find out more
Demian, born in Berne, Switzerland, grew up in Rumonge, Burundi and Real de Catorce, Mexico. In 2012 he finished an apprenticeship for live event technician at the IHK Karlsruhe, Germany. Find out more
Giang is Co-founder/ Program consultant and designers focusing on Environmental management/ education and Policy campaigning. Find out more
Dorothea is a curator, museum and art educator, cultural analysist, access consultant, neurodiversity activist and a neuroqueer mind. Find out more
Friederike (*1989) is a Berlin-based urban sociologist and cultural geographer interested in intersections of radical democratic political and spatial theory. Find out more
Artist and dancer whose practice spans performance, workshops, video, sound and writing and continually orbits around the question: how to be together? Find out more
Edwin (they/them) is a performance artist and stand-up comic based in Zurich. Find out more
Working across and through a number of art practices (literature, poetry & storytelling, performance, installation). Find out more
Eldar (b.1987, Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a sound artist, composer and researcher. Find out more
Eleonora is a designer, currently pursuing her Masters in Social Design at DAE, Eindhoven. Find out more
Elisa is a pianist and editor. She studied at Conservatorio “Giuseppe Verdi” and at Bocconi University, graduating from the master’s degree with an experimental thesis on students’ interest for classical music. Find out more
Emily is a medical artist exploring life and death, embodiment and emotion; the experience of existing in a human container. Find out more
Artist and Young European Ambassador at Webalkan – Logistics coordinator at Potpuri Find out more
Engy is an artist and curator who lives and works between Zürich and Cairo. Find out more
Erfan is a multidisciplinary artist who mainly works in theater, performance art, and writing. Find out more
EKA is the only public university in Estonia providing higher education in art, design, architecture, media, art history and conservation-restoration. Find out more
ELIA is a globally connected European network that provides a dynamic platform for professional exchange and development in higher arts education. Find out more
FAST45 is funded by the Erasmus + Knowledge Alliance programme of the European Union. Find out more
Federico is an artist living and working in Mexico City whose research explores the ways in which state, corporate and institutional power materializes through the strategic use of information technologies. Find out more
An intersectional feminist organization and community for research, creativity, education, joy, and justice. Find out more
Fiky is a writer, translator and sound-maker. He is a member of KUNCI Study Forum & Collective since 2017. Find out more
A place where film comes alive, a school representing a wealth of different stories and artistic forms, genres and formats, specialization and exchange. Find out more
Since 2022, Gabriel has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), and oversees the Peer Learning Program. Find out more
GCD Memes is a rolling body of work that attempts to reflect on the collective experiences of those involved in the GCD course at CSM from the student perspective. Find out more
Gianna, Beobachterin und Beschreiberin von intimen Situationen und Szenen im öffentlichen Raum. Geboren 1995 im Luzerner Rottal. Lebte als selbsternanntes Stadtkind in Bern, Brüssel, Luzern und seit Kurzem in Zürich. Dort studiert und beschäftigt sie sich mit Kulturjournalismus, Kunstkritik, Elefanten und Namensvetterinnen. Find out more
Gordon H. Williams is an artist and musician creating work to study human conditions, with a focus on affect, perception and relation. Find out more
Hoàng is Co-founder/ Consultant on Monitoring and Evaluation - Public engagement - Project/workshop design and facilitation. Find out more
Iggy is a psychodynamic therapist, writer and group facilitator based in London Find out more
Ilona is a Swiss artist. After studying philosophy and mathematics she worked in a techno-corporate environment for a while, before turning towards the arts. Find out more
Insa is a freelance curator and artist with a background in ethnology and cultural education. She completed an MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Find out more
The Institute for Postnatural Studies is a center for artistic experimentation from which to explore and problematize postnature as a framework for contemporary creation. Find out more
Swiss human geographer with interest and experience in radically democratic structures. Find out more
Jamie is a novelist who aspires to build, through language, interactive spaces of resistance and experimentation. McGhee has authored several books and a graphic novel. Find out more
Jan (*1988 in Zürich) works in sculpture, performance and video, often entering into collaborations with people outside the art world. Find out more
Jara is a performer, writer and anthropologist who confronts and blurs boundaries. She performs as drag king Angelo Dynamo and hosts the show Border Ctrl. Find out more
Jasmin is a media artist, director, performer and researcher. The overarching subject of her work is the questioning of knowledge hierarchies. Find out more
Jasmine is a Finnish film director and activist working for Climate Justice in the transgression of storytelling, Nature's Rights and Indigenous peoples rights. Find out more
Since 2022, Jelena has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zurich University of the Arts (CH), where she oversees our Office, Finances, and Funding & Partnerships. Find out more
Jess is a transdisciplinary writer, researcher, and artist from New Zealand. Find out more
Jörg is currently interim Associate Professor in Media Theory at the Department of Art and Design at the University of Applied Sciences Europe, Campus Berlin. Find out more
Johann (* 1991 in Celle, Germany) works as a dramaturg and journalist. Find out more
St Celfer, once a New York artist, is now based in Seattle and São Paulo with drawings on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC-USP). Find out more
Former SoC Deputy Director (2020-2022), Josephine (also goes by the names Joseph, Jo, or any variation thereof) is an artist and educator. Find out more
Swiss artist, who’s interest lies in a field of activism, education and art as social action. Find out more
Just Listening unites naturalists, biologists, acoustic and performing artists based in San José (Costa Rica), Sagarejo (Georgia), Wendland (Germany) and Madrid (Spain). Find out more
A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species, states of living, states of consciousness, and substrates. Find out more
Kari Robertson (b.1988 Edinburgh, UK) is a visual artist, teacher and researcher largely concerned with eco-social themes. Find out more
Katerina is an architect & new media artist. Her research focuses on poetics of the everyday, transmedia & geo-locating storytelling, participatory art & urban commons, exploring collective memory & personal history in the urban environment. Find out more
Katy (b. Stoke-on-Trent, 1989) is an independent curator & researcher with interests in discursive frameworks, performative platforms for critical enquiry and ways in which we can facilitate and mediate multiple spaces for the generation of knowledge. Find out more
Chi is Co-founder/ Media and communication - Community engagement - Environment Find out more
Student-led Klasse Klima, founded at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2009, translates demands for climate justice and degrowth into aesthetic education and practice. Find out more
KUNCI Study Forum & Collective experiments with methods in producing and sharing knowledge through the acts of studying together at the intersections between affective, manual and intellectual labour. Find out more
A self-managed space run by three female performing arts professionals. Their main interests lie in the interdisciplinary and collaborative practical/theoretical reflections on the aesthetic processes of learning in the performing arts, with a critical and personal perspective. Find out more
Laura, (she/her) is an architect and urban designer and understands spatial planning as a political practise. Find out more
Lena lives and works in Berlin. She holds an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Find out more
Lila is awriter, programmer and researcher with a background in architecture. Find out more
Lina works at the intersection between visual art and research/knowledge production. Find out more
For the past twenty years, Lina Zeller (former Lina Frazão) has been working as a movement artist, Pilates instructor, and dance teacher. Find out more
Loren, (she/?) is a writer, researcher, and PhD Candidate based at the University of Chicago. Find out more
Louna Sbou is a curator, mentor and cultural manager. She is director of Oyoun in Berlin, an anti-disciplinary arts center with a special focus on queer*feminist, decolonial and class-critical perspectives. Find out more
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, based in the Schaerbeek municipality of Brussels, Belgium, is an independent Flemish art school. Find out more
Luise is a researcher interested in socially engaged artistic practices, in particular their forms of assembling and organizing. She examines such practices to learn about their visions of futurity, their collaborative processes and their critique of institutions. Find out more
lumbung Radio is an inter-local online community radio part of documenta fifteen. Find out more
Madhumita is an artistic researcher, photographer and curator based in Berlin and Kolkata, where I delve into the intricate intersections of memory culture, ecology, and archival practices through the lens of multimodal anthropology. Find out more
manuel (they/them) (b. 1991, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a non-disciplinary artist from the Bronx who lives and works on lands of Multnomah, Cowlitz, Chinook, Kalapuya, Klackamas, Grand Ronde Confederation, Siletz Confederation, and other First Peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Find out more
Artist and researcher interested in the significant otherness of non-human living organisms and often works through the ethical implications of believing that humans and non-humans share an equal moral status. Find out more
Marea has been directing the project since its beginnings in late 2016. With an established background in arts education, she earned a BA in Art Education and an MA in Transdisciplinary Studies, from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK). Find out more
María Angélica this year is getting rid of categories that limit her. Find out more
Maria is a contemporary artist whose practice spans filmmaking, photography, and mixed-media experimentation. Find out more
Maria, born in Northern Italy in 1998, is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. Find out more
Mariam is a practice-based researcher and interdisciplinary designer exploring experiential media, embodied interactions, and critical/speculative design practices. Find out more
Art in public space, New Media and Political Activism, and Digital Activism. Find out more
Mark El-khatib is a London-based designer developing publications, printed matter, websites, visual identities, exhibition and environmental graphics. He received his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2010. Find out more
For many years Massimiliano Mollonahas developed institutional experiments around the notion of ‘commons’ – cross-sectional spaces of political and economic autonomy – as a teacher, researcher, curator, activist and filmmaker. Find out more
Materia Abierta is a space to mobilize critical thinking and political will through principles of collectivity. Find out more
Maxim is a visual artist and researcher. His work focuses on the technically-conditioned transformations of the aesthetic faculty and the reciprocal implications of technicity, sensation and desire. Find out more
Maya (born 1991, Jerusalem) is an independent curator based in New Haven and Tel Aviv. Find out more
Migrants in Culture is led by artists, designers and organisers with lived experience of the UK’s Hostile Immigration System. Find out more
Miroslava is a curator, performer, journalist and text performative artist. Find out more
Miwa is a curator and researcher working at the intersection of art and performing arts. Find out more
Monika is a German-Polish artist with an interdisciplinary background in choreography, psychology and design, who often merges media – specifically performance, (textile) sculpture and multimedia. Find out more
The national agency for the promotion of exchanges and mobility in the education system. Find out more
Muj is a designer and researcher with interests in collage, writing and community building. Find out more
Naïm grew up in France with Tunisian heritage. Through her design practice she has been (re)connecting with this heritage. Her interests are in the borders and spaces in between and how they translate in design forms and ideas. Find out more
Nazaket (she/her) is an urbanist, researcher and project manager with a background intertwining between development cooperation, curation, placemaking and participatory planning. Find out more
Nuraini is a translocal practicing researcher and writer who focuses on art organizations, activism, illegality, alternative cultural production, and everyday practices of vernacular archiving. Find out more
Omsk Social Club’s (they/them) work is created between two lived worlds, one of life as we know it and the other of role play. Find out more
Open Sourcing Love is an international crowd-sourced movement and an art collective created by Anna Kin and Aigerim Tumenbay, whose practice is based on the alternative use of social networks for communication and connection. Find out more
Emerged as a teacher in times of imbalance – shortly before the Grand Standstill. Find out more
A cultural institution that envisions, develops and implements artistic-cultural projects through decolonial, queer*feminist and migrant perspectives. Find out more
Paloma (b. 1980, Matamoros, Mexico) is a visual artist interested in empowering the relationship between domestic living strategies and political contexts. Find out more
Paula is a queer mapuche artist who works with performance, textile practices and audiovisual formats. Find out more
Philipp and Thea work as curators, artists, social justice trainers, teachers and researchers in the field of visual art and performance. Find out more
Alumni Kulturpublizistik MA Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), Student History and Philosophy of Science MSc, University College London (UCL) Find out more
PlanteSorcières is an interdisciplinary long term project about the transmission of the knowledge as an act of resistance and the process of sharing as a way of survival. Find out more
Pooya is an artist and writer who was born and raised in Iran and is now based in Zurich. Find out more
An educational and research platform from Prishtina (RKS) published in the format of a Newspaper, in printed and digital versions. Find out more
Prom can refer to a group of individuals belonging to the same generation, or a ball at the end of an academic year. Find out more
Pule kaJanolintji (ߔߎ߯ߟߍ߫ ߞߊ-ߖߊ߬ߣߏ߬ߟߌ߲߯ߗߌ) ngumcwaningi wolimi lwesiNtu nezabathwa, isazi somlando nemikhuba yokusetshenziswa kwezinkulumo zaseNingizimu, futhi umthuthukisi wezinhlelo zokuloba zezwekazi, njengesiBheqe Sohlamvu. Find out more
Rada is an artist, musician and theatre director. Her research interests include digital culture, cyborgs, eyebrows, the global shipping market and DIY subcultures. Find out more
rahel is a berlin-based person, questioning identity and politics while getting lost in it. to escape this they are always in search of people and situations of togetherness. Find out more
Rallou is a dance artist. Her main interests revolve around improvisation, movement and body politics. Find out more
Raquel is an intercultural educator and prominent leader of the Mapuche community “Manuel Marillanca” of Maichin LLafa (Araucanía, Chile). Find out more
Rebeca is a Peruvian artist, currently based in London, UK. Her practice is multidisciplinary; through text, performance, sculpture, sound, and video she questions ideas concerning representation, authorship, and storytelling in the digital age. Find out more
Rebecca is a social researcher and writer. They graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2019 and have since been working in the third sector. Find out more
A collective of aspiring Vietnamese peers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Find out more
A multifaceted multi-instrumentalist with an international concert career that ranges across opposing musical genres. Find out more
Rory (Bristol, 1988) works in a wide range of media including songwriting, composing music, film, music video, text, drawing and live performances. Find out more
Sabrina is a researcher with an interest in the intersection of human rights, arts and gender. Find out more
SACO is held annually in the Antofagasta region, in the north of Chile, as an independent initiative of the Collective SE VENDE Mobile Contemporary Art Platform, under the direction of Dagmara Wyskiel and produced by Christian Núñez. Find out more
Santiago is an undisciplined artist who situates his practice on the coastline between art and education. Find out more
Sarah is an artist-engineer-facilitator. Through artistic co-creation devices, she seeks, as a political response to current crises, to equip transdisciplinarity, in order to recall the links between individuals, humans and non-humans, collectives and the environment, and also to question the different forms of knowledge sharing. Find out more
School of Intrusions is a collective of sorts practicing informal ways of gathering in and around specific urban and rural sites in Palestine. Find out more
Researcher and writer from Johannesburg, and a PhD candidate at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel. Find out more
Sinem is a designer, researcher, educator, community organiser, and the founder of Feminist Design. Find out more
Siu Hei is a theatre director from Hong Kong, and currently studying his masters in dramaturgy in Zurich University of the Arts. Find out more
Sofia began studying the violin at the age of three thanks to the Suzuki method. Her studies led her to obtain a master's degree in violin at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan, with top marks, honours and an honourable mention. Find out more
Sophie cares about the radicality possible in the 'and' between art and education. Find out more
Spaceforfuture.org is researching, communicating, and connecting people on topics considering the built environment and spatial policy. Find out more
Stefan is an architect, urban designer and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of Carnegie Mellon University. Find out more
Stefan lives in Berlin and works as an artist. His many interventions, which are recorded in notebooks often remain a mere assertion. At least this is what he says. Find out more
A private and independent foundation with extensive scientific expertise and practical project experience. Find out more
Studio106LA is an artist-run space for community-driven experiments in art, sound, and architecture. Since 2020, it has hosted numerous online shows curated from LA and Berlin. Find out more
Tabby is Co-founder/ Freelance educator and facilitator in climate justice with intersectional and decolonial lens, antiracism, and gender equality. Find out more
Providing pathways to graduation from apprenticeship to PhD. Our 30000+ students learn in a practice-based environment informed by the latest research and enables by technological advances. Find out more
The interdisciplinary study group on textures and experiences of trans-industriality explores the changing imaginaries of our global/glocal societies at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries. Find out more
An open collaboration which hosts and connects ideas in a disseminated and decentralised way. Find out more
topsoil is a transnational curatorial and research collective formed by Sofia Villena Araya, Deniz Kirkali and Amelie Wedel in 2017 in London. Find out more
Ulrich, (he/him) is an architect who is currently working on the transformation of existing buildings with the focus on housing. Find out more
Providing the highest level of education in music, fine arts, performing arts and writing in Finland. We were established in 2013, when the Academy of Fine Arts, Sibelius Academy and Theatre Academy were merged. Find out more
Urjuan is a London-based multi-disciplinary graphic designer and educator whose research-based practice explores collaboration and systems of accessible knowledge-sharing, with an acute focus on the fields of design and education. Find out more
A collection of zines, artist books and publications, which exists thanks to the many donations received annually since 2013 for our International Open Call exhibition and Book Awards. Find out more
Will (they/elle) is a non-binary artist, writer, and editor of Guatemalan and Cape Verdean heritage. Find out more
An interdisciplinary Studio for Audiovisual Art, Digital Design and Creative Research. Find out more
Kas is an Amsterdam-based friend, artist, researcher, with roots in Central Asia, involved in various practices related to open/communal space and access to it. Find out more
Yuri is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist living in Madrid whose work focuses on the investigation of contemporary narratives related to sonic ecologies through collective practices, sound art, installation, and performance. Find out more
Yusuf is an urban planner and a contemporary artist from Turkey. He studied urban planning at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and at the Technical University of Vienna. Find out more
Zeyno is an artist whose artistic interventions mostly take the form of videos and installations. Find out more
One of the leading art universities in Europe. Find out more
