Our participants, authors and lecturers come from a globally-dispersed network of mostly designers, writers, journalists, editors, researchers, educators, artists, activists, and beyond.
Participants
Angelika Hinterbrandner
2024
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
Annie Levy
2024
A cook and food activist living in MidWales, gathering nettles, growing Rainbow Chard, cooking, experimenting, learning and teaching. Find out more
Cassie Thornton
2024
Cassie is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. Find out more
Châu Hoàng
2024
Châu is Co-founder/ Experience, visual and speculative designer - Collective imagination practitioner - Climate and social justice advocate. Find out more
Chris Hamamoto
2024
Designer, developer, and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Seoul and teaching at Seoul National University. Find out more
Co-Making Matters
2024
A multidisciplinary platform located at Haus der Statistik that aims to foster collaborations and partnerships among practitioners from different fields. Find out more
Dan Farberoff
2024
Co-founding member of Common Views, Dan Farberoff (Born: Barranquilla, Colombia) is a multinational, interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Find out more
David Behar Perahia
2024
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
Đinh Lam Giang
2024
Giang is Co-founder/ Program consultant and designers focusing on Environmental management/ education and Policy campaigning. Find out more
Dylan Spencer-Davidson
2024
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
Feminist Design
2024
An intersectional feminist organization and community for research, creativity, education, joy, and justice. Find out more
Hoàng Trần
2024
Hoàng is Co-founder/ Consultant on Monitoring and Evaluation - Public engagement - Project/workshop design and facilitation. Find out more
Iggy Robinson
2024
Iggy is a psychodynamic therapist, writer and group facilitator based in London Find out more
Irma Müller
2024
Swiss human geographer with interest and experience in radically democratic structures. Find out more
Julian Pavesi
2024
Swiss artist, who’s interest lies in a field of activism, education and art as social action. Find out more
Kiều Vũ Linh Chi
2024
Chi is Co-founder/ Media and communication - Community engagement - Environment Find out more
Laura Margarete Bertelt
2024
Laura, (she/her) is an architect and urban designer and understands spatial planning as a political practise. Find out more
Loren Beard
2024
Loren, (she/?) is a writer, researcher, and PhD Candidate based at the University of Chicago. Find out more
Louna Sbou
2024
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
Mariam Rafehi
2024
Mariam is a practice-based researcher and interdisciplinary designer exploring experiential media, embodied interactions, and critical/speculative design practices. Find out more
Maya Bamberger
2024
Maya (born 1991, Jerusalem) is an independent curator based in New Haven and Tel Aviv. Find out more
Miraslava Tyrina
2023—
Miroslava is a curator, performer, journalist and text performative artist. Find out more
Moza Almazrouei
2024
rêu collective
2024
A collective of aspiring Vietnamese peers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Find out more
Samirah Siddiqui
2024
Sinem Görücü
2023—
Sinem is a designer, researcher, educator, community organiser, and the founder of Feminist Design. Find out more
spaceforfuture
2024
Spaceforfuture.org is researching, communicating, and connecting people on topics considering the built environment and spatial policy. Find out more
Tabby
2024
Tabby is Co-founder/ Freelance educator and facilitator in climate justice with intersectional and decolonial lens, antiracism, and gender equality. Find out more
Tasnim Elboute
2024
Ulrich Kneisl
2024
Ulrich, (he/him) is an architect who is currently working on the transformation of existing buildings with the focus on housing. Find out more
Yusuf Orhan
2022—
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
Agata Guńka
2023
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 Yuguchi
2023
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
Andrea Liu
2023
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
Anna Kücking
2023
Artist and organizer, she works in theatre and journalism for newspapers like taz. die tageszeitung and neues deutschland. Find out more
Arjunraj
2023
Catwings
2023
An initiative for relational, situational, and performative art and research. Find out more
Dami Choi
2023
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
Eldar Tagi
2023
Eldar (b.1987, Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a sound artist, composer and researcher. Find out more
Endrit Tasholli
2023
Artist and Young European Ambassador at Webalkan – Logistics coordinator at Potpuri Find out more
Engy Mohsen
2022—2023
Engy is an artist and curator who lives and works between Zürich and Cairo. Find out more
Erfan Safari
2023
Erfan is a multidisciplinary artist who mainly works in theater, performance art, and writing. Find out more
Germain Calsou
2023
Insa Langhorst
2023
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
Jamie McGhee
2023
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
Jara Nassar
2023
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
Jasmine Alakari
2023
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
Lina Zeller
2023
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
Luise Willer
2023
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
María Angélica Madero
2023
María Angélica this year is getting rid of categories that limit her. Find out more
Marion Kliesch
2023
Art in public space, New Media and Political Activism, and Digital Activism. Find out more
Miwa Negoro
2020—2023
Miwa is a curator and researcher working at the intersection of art and performing arts. Find out more
Monika Dorniak
2023
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
Nina Martin
2023
Oyoun Berlin
2023
A cultural institution that envisions, develops and implements artistic-cultural projects through decolonial, queer*feminist and migrant perspectives. Find out more
Pooya Kazemi
2023
Pooya is an artist and writer who was born and raised in Iran and is now based in Zurich. Find out more
Potpuri
2023
An educational and research platform from Prishtina (RKS) published in the format of a Newspaper, in printed and digital versions. Find out more
rahel stange
2023
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
Riccardo Acciarino
2022—2023
A multifaceted multi-instrumentalist with an international concert career that ranges across opposing musical genres. Find out more
Sabrina Herrmann
2023
Sabrina is a researcher with an interest in the intersection of human rights, arts and gender. Find out more
Santiago Pinyol
2023
Santiago is an undisciplined artist who situates his practice on the coastline between art and education. Find out more
Sarah Drapeau
2023
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
There, there working group
2023
An open collaboration which hosts and connects ideas in a disseminated and decentralised way. Find out more
Urjuan Toosy
2023
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
yourfriendkas
2023
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
Beth Dynowski
2022
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
2021—2022
Betül Aksu (b. 1990, Izmir) is an artist who explores how boundaries appear in everyday life. Find out more
Clara Thierry
2022
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
David Gabbard
2022
Dorothea Deli
2022
Dorothea is a curator, museum and art educator, cultural analysist, access consultant, neurodiversity activist and a neuroqueer mind. Find out more
Eirini Sourgiadaki
2022
Working across and through a number of art practices (literature, poetry & storytelling, performance, installation). Find out more
Elisa Lemma
2022
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
Isabella Bianchi
2022
Just Listening
2022
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
Kari Robertson
2022
Kari Robertson (b.1988 Edinburgh, UK) is a visual artist, teacher and researcher largely concerned with eco-social themes. Find out more
Laboratorios Pedagógicos
2022
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
Manuela Viezzer
2022
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
Maria Combi
2022
Maria, born in Northern Italy in 1998, is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. Find out more
Naïma Ben Ayed
2022
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
Pule kaJanolintji
2021—2022
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
Raquel Marillanca Loncopan
2022
Raquel is an intercultural educator and prominent leader of the Mapuche community “Manuel Marillanca” of Maichin LLafa (Araucanía, Chile). Find out more
Rebecca Gill
2022
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
topsoil
2022
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
Carina Erdmann
2021
Carina works as multimedia artist, PhD researcher and mentor at LUCA School of Arts. Find out more
Charlotte Friedli
2021
Charlotte likes to zoom in too closely and is fascinated by stuff she finds online. Find out more
Eleonora Toniolo
2021
Eleonora is a designer, currently pursuing her Masters in Social Design at DAE, Eindhoven. Find out more
Estivariz Lopez Chiara Alissa
2021
Estivariz, CH.LO's (she/her) sees herself as a transdisciplinary actor between performance, textiles, graphics, architecture and film. Find out more
Gordon H. Williams
2021
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
Jess Henderson
2021
Jess is a transdisciplinary writer, researcher, and artist from New Zealand. Find out more
Muj Abdulzade
2021
Muj is a designer and researcher with interests in collage, writing and community building. Find out more
Nazaket Azimli
2021
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
Other Than Human Entity
2021
Emerged as a teacher in times of imbalance – shortly before the Grand Standstill. Find out more
Paula Baeza Pailamilla
2021
Paula is a queer mapuche artist who works with performance, textile practices and audiovisual formats. Find out more
PlanteSorcières
2021
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
Sid Smith
2021
Siu Hei
2021
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 Goetz
2021
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
Andrea Giuseppe Ragno
2020
Andrea Ragno is a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Find out more
Beatrice Zaidenberg
2020
Beatrice is a MA Art History student at Humboldt University Berlin. Find out more
Camille Regli
2020
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
Chun Zheng
2020
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
Elza Sile
2020
Gözde Filinta
2020
Ilona Stutz
2019—2020
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
Jasmin Schädler
2020
Jasmin is a media artist, director, performer and researcher. The overarching subject of her work is the questioning of knowledge hierarchies. Find out more
Juris Strangots
2020
Katerina Maganiari
2020
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
Lila Athanasiadou
2020
Lila is awriter, programmer and researcher with a background in architecture. Find out more
Marius Förster
2020
Maya Lama
2020
Michael Reinhold
2020
Paloma Ayala
2020
Paloma (b. 1980, Matamoros, Mexico) is a visual artist interested in empowering the relationship between domestic living strategies and political contexts. Find out more
Rada Leu
2020
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
Rallou Karella
2020
Rallou is a dance artist. Her main interests revolve around improvisation, movement and body politics. Find out more
Sindi-Leigh McBride
2020
Researcher and writer from Johannesburg, and a PhD candidate at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel. Find out more
Stefan Gruber
2020
Stefan is an architect, urban designer and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of Carnegie Mellon University. Find out more
VOLUMES Archive
2020
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
Aline Stähli
2019
Anne Gruber
2019
Carla Peca
2019
Celine Brunko
2019
Jan Hofer
2019
Jan (*1988 in Zürich) works in sculpture, performance and video, often entering into collaborations with people outside the art world. Find out more
Jörg Sternagel
2019
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
Leonardo Guerra
2019
Ludovica Parenti
2019
Madhumita Nandi
2019
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
Matthias Gabi
2019
Nele Solf
2019
Nina Karim
2019
Oliver Brunko
2019
Philipp Schwalb
2019
Samuel Eberenz
2019
TETI Group
2019
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