Our participants, authors and lecturers come from a globally-dispersed network of mostly designers, writers, journalists, editors, researchers, educators, artists, activists, and beyond.

Participants

Ana Tijeras

2024

Artist who has specialized in innovative education. Find out more

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

Anne Lee Steele

2024

Anne Lee Steele

Anthropologist. 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

Co-Making Matters

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

Dylan Spencer-Davidson

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

Feminist Design

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 Robinson

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

Lena Pozdnyakova

2023—

Lena Pozdnyakova

Lena (b. 1985, Almaty, Kazakhstan) is an artist and researcher. 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 Rafehi

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

Nicole Candian

2024

Nicole Candian

Nicole is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Find out more

rêu collective

2024

reu-collective

A collective of aspiring Vietnamese peers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Find out more

Sinem Görücü

2023—

Sinem Görücü

Sinem is a designer, researcher, educator, community organiser, and the founder of Feminist Design. Find out more

spaceforfuture

2024

spaceforfuture

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

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

Viviane Tabach

2024

Viviane is a Brazilian curator, art mediator and artist. 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

Adelina Ismaili

2023

Art Mediator and Researcher – Creative production at Potpuri Find out more

Agata Guńka

2023

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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 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

Anastasia Moshchenko

2023

Vocals, actress and director. Find out more

Andrea Liu

2023

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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 Dobretsova

2023

Anna is a musician and curator. Find out more

Anna Kostrikova

2023

Anna is a production designer, contemporary artist and director. 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

Ardita Avdija

2023

Author and Translator – Editor at Potpuri Find out more

Catwings

2023

Catwings

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

Daniil Posazhennikov

2023

Daniil is a director and composer. Find out more

Diona Kusari

2023

Artist, Author and Researcher – Content developer at Potpuri Find out more

Egor Tatarenko

2023

Egor is a theatre producer, museum curator and contemporary artist. Find out more

Eldar Tagi

2023

Eldar Tagi

Eldar (b.1987, Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a sound artist, composer and researcher. Find out more

Ella Asheri

2023

Programmes Coordinator and MA Cultural Studies Graduate 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 Mohsen

Engy is an artist and curator who lives and works between Zürich and Cairo. Find out more

Era Qena

2023

Community Organizer and Researcher – Creative producer at Potpuri Find out more

Erfan Safari

2023

Erfan is a multidisciplinary artist who mainly works in theater, performance art, and writing. Find out more

escuela de garaje

2023

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Oficina diaspórica / Diasporic office. 2010. Find out more

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 McGhee

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 Nassar

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

Kit Kuksenok

2022—2023

Kit Kuksenok

Artist and researcher. Find out more

Letitia Calin

2023

Inclusion Consultant Find out more

Lina Zeller

2023

Lina Zeller

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 Madero

María Angélica this year is getting rid of categories that limit her. Find out more

Maria Aus

2023

Maria Aus

Maria is a visual artist specialized in filmmaking & photography. Find out more

Mariana Neves

2023

Graphic Designer, Visual Researcher & Art Director 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

Njomza Dragusha

2023

Researcher – Educational coordinator at Potpuri Find out more

Oyoun Berlin

2023

Oyoun Berlin

A cultural institution that envisions, develops and implements artistic-cultural projects through decolonial, queer*feminist and migrant perspectives. Find out more

Peter Hermans

2023

Collaborating on accessible design education. Find out more

Pooya Kazemi

2023

Pooya Kazemi

Pooya is an artist and writer who was born and raised in Iran and is now based in Zurich. Find out more

Potpuri

2023

Potpuri

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

Riccardo Acciarino

A multifaceted multi-instrumentalist with an international concert career that ranges across opposing musical genres. Find out more

Roman Malyavkin

2023

Roman is a musician and composer. Find out more

Sabrina Herrmann

2023

Sabrina Herrmann

Sabrina is a researcher with an interest in the intersection of human rights, arts and gender. Find out more

Sanna Schiffler

2023

Collaborating on accessible design education. Find out more

Santiago Pinyol

2023

Santiago Pinyol

Santiago is an undisciplined artist who situates his practice on the coastline between art and education. Find out more

Sarah Drapeau

2023

Sarah Drapeau, School of Commons Gathering

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

Shpat Shkodra

2023

Community Organizer and Researcher – Creative producer at Potpuri Find out more

There, there working group

2023

There, there working group

An open collaboration which hosts and connects ideas in a disseminated and decentralised way. Find out more

Theresa Zwerschke

2023

Theresa is an interdisciplinary artist, organizer, and educator. Find out more

Toska Salihu

2023

Artist and Researcher – Visual and creative developer at Potpuri 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

yourfriendkas

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

Andy Norstrom

2022

Experienced marketer, project manager and researcher.f Find out more

Beth Dynowski

2022

Beth Dynowski

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

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

Daniela Mora Parra

2022

Daniela Mora Parra

Cultural Manager-Non Formal Educator-Actress. Find out more

Dorothea Deli

2022

Dorothea Deli

Dorothea is a curator, museum and art educator, cultural analysist, access consultant, neurodiversity activist and a neuroqueer mind. Find out more

Eirini Sourgiadaki

2022

Eirini Sourgiadaki

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

Just Listening

2022

Just Listening

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

Khajag Apelian

2022

Khajag Apelian

Lettering artist, type and graphic designer. Find out more

Laboratorios Pedagógicos

2022

Laboratorios Pedagógicos

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 M Cordero Hidalgo

2022

Laura M Cordero Hidalgo

Theater Teacher-Psychopedagogue-Actress. Find out more

Manuela Viezzer

2022

Manuela Viezzer

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

Naïma Ben Ayed

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

Panta Rhei Collaborative

2022

Panta Rhei Collaborative

A Pan-European spatial agency founded in 2020. 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 Gill

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

Rebeka Mondovics

2022

Rebeka started her professional dance education. Find out more

topsoil

2022

topsoil

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

Vanessa De La O Jiménez

2022

Vanessa De La O Jiménez

Mediator-Anthropologist-Dancer Find out more

Wibke Bramesfeld

2022

Wibke Bramesfeld

Wibke is an independent graphic and communication designer. Find out more

Agustin Faundez Rojas

2021

Agustin is a Percussionist. Find out more

Ariel Sin Yu Lee

2021

Ariel is a Vocalist. Find out more

Carina Erdmann

2021

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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 Henderson, photograph by Yumna Al-Arashi

Jess is a transdisciplinary writer, researcher, and artist from New Zealand. Find out more

Jose Cáceres Mardones

2020—2021

Independent Curator. Find out more

Laura Cincera

2021

Laura Cincera

Cultivating flourishing futures. Find out more

Mauricio Otárola

2021

Architect, editor, and cultural project manager. Find out more

Muj Abdulzade

2021

Muj Abdulzade - From her ongoing research Corporate Aesthetics

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 Baeza Pailamilla

Paula is a queer mapuche artist who works with performance, textile practices and audiovisual formats. Find out more

PlanteSorcières

2021

PlanteSorcières

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

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 Goetz

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

Sol Enae Lee

2021

Sol is an Artist. Find out more

Adriana Domínguezis

2020

Adriana an Art Historian and Independent Curator from Mexico. Find out more

Alif Ibrahim

2020

Alif is a writer and artist. 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

Anne-Laure Franchette

2019—2020

Artist researcher and curator Zürich Suisse 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

Darya Diamond

2020

Darya is an artist, writer, and sex worker. Find out more

Gabriel N. Gee

2019—2020

Art historian and writer, Lugano, Zürich Suisse Find out more

Giovanna Bragaglia

2020

Giovanna is an independent curator. Find out more

Helen Young Chang

2020

Helen is a writer, art critic and translator. Find out more

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

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

Mateo Chacon-Pino

2020

Mateo is a Colombian-Swiss art historian and curator. Find out more

Oshin Thakkar

2019—2020

MFA (2018), MS university, India. Find out more

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

Peter Tränkle

2020

Peter is an artist, researcher and curator. 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

Varia

2020

varia.zone

A collective-space focused on everyday technologies. Find out more

Vera Hofmann

2020

Vera (*1979) is a Berlin-based artist and curator. Find out more

VOLUMES Archive

2020

The VOLUMES Archive

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

Zoe Grace Marquedant

2020

Zoe Grace Marquedant

Zoe (she/her/hers) is a queer writer. Find out more

Andrea Abegg Serrano

2019

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Sociologist and Economist. Find out more

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

Jessica Sequeira

2019

Jessica Sequeira

Jessica is a writer, editor, and literary translator. Find out more

Jörg Sternagel

2019

Jörg Sternagel

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

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

TETI Group

2019

TETI Group

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