https://unrulynatures.ch Unruly Natures Tue, 21 May 2024 12:24:01 +0000 https://unrulynatures.ch en https://unrulynatures.ch/Landing-Page-upper-Part Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:31:07 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/Landing-Page-upper-Part 2024 – 2026A River-centered Approach Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions.&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://unrulynatures.ch/Landing-Page-lower-part Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:43:23 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/Landing-Page-lower-part <img width="2331" height="3307" width_o="2331" height_o="3307" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6419fd1a98848b33aaedeb207c7f23d6ed338264abd65c20259793675210bb00/260213_Angela_Balzano.jpg" data-mid="245215571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6419fd1a98848b33aaedeb207c7f23d6ed338264abd65c20259793675210bb00/260213_Angela_Balzano.jpg" />Event – Guest LectureAgainst Ecocide, Towards Reproductive Justice By Angela Balzano, Federico Luisetti14.04.2026 <img width="1602" height="1938" width_o="1602" height_o="1938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9b1c259e9a78320f1dffc61673ebb27ecb1ac891815e46347132d4d5bb91842/uncanny_akin_offshore.png" data-mid="244759675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9b1c259e9a78320f1dffc61673ebb27ecb1ac891815e46347132d4d5bb91842/uncanny_akin_offshore.png" />Event – Guest Talk, Screening and Panel DiscussionTalk: Uncanny AkinScreening:&nbsp;Lupi Nostri By Christoph Miler, Samer Angelone, Flurina Gradin10.04.2026 <img width="709" height="726" width_o="709" height_o="726" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9d4464674fda9b293e63af03f086df4e717177585d10b6dab7108440fd434e1/94f2b24b-035b-b315-3828-be771cdf22fc.png" data-mid="245395980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/709/i/a9d4464674fda9b293e63af03f086df4e717177585d10b6dab7108440fd434e1/94f2b24b-035b-b315-3828-be771cdf22fc.png" /> Article – New PublicationThe Menhir:Aesthetic Politics of Radioactive Waste Disposal in Northern Switzerland By Rony Emmenegger, Federico Luisetti16.02.2026 <img width="1624" height="910" width_o="1624" height_o="910" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f576512e1776b303bd286c35108d12f5846a090e81354263a5d1937764a4f44/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-22-um-15.46.11.png" data-mid="244103520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f576512e1776b303bd286c35108d12f5846a090e81354263a5d1937764a4f44/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-22-um-15.46.11.png" /> Journal – New ContributionReciprocal Sacrifice By Carolina Caycedo and Emiliano Guaraldo22.01.2026 <img width="3508" height="4961" width_o="3508" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41052a6765b7b41d5d90a927c09633ccdd4b8e7ad8848048936bf4a59092381c/translating_nature_poster.jpg" data-mid="235354525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41052a6765b7b41d5d90a927c09633ccdd4b8e7ad8848048936bf4a59092381c/translating_nature_poster.jpg" /> Event – ExhibitionTranslating Nature By Christoph Miler10.07.2025 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6dfd27ba6d5b2690600128d262d9ff8299a7a1323556e44975dbf0100712ad8a/00_google_the-dalles-cooling-towers.jpg" data-mid="235353477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6dfd27ba6d5b2690600128d262d9ff8299a7a1323556e44975dbf0100712ad8a/00_google_the-dalles-cooling-towers.jpg" /> Journal – New PublicationTomorrow: Mostly Cloudy By Christoph Miler03.07.2025 <img width="1080" height="1352" width_o="1080" height_o="1352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16a51d872ee5d12bc2d641933db78aa0c6af7ba8d75c0b80465efaf988982639/Bildschirmfoto-2025-06-16-um-11.12.23.png" data-mid="234633221" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16a51d872ee5d12bc2d641933db78aa0c6af7ba8d75c0b80465efaf988982639/Bildschirmfoto-2025-06-16-um-11.12.23.png" /> Event – FestivalWasteland Festival By Sigrid Schmeisser03.07.2025 <img width="1266" height="1792" width_o="1266" height_o="1792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5714204f361a86d0d1dd0a4ea0e0f05a61f94ee804a2ddfb3180614f0dcba047/Bildschirmfoto-2025-06-02-um-11.13.49.png" data-mid="234023040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5714204f361a86d0d1dd0a4ea0e0f05a61f94ee804a2ddfb3180614f0dcba047/Bildschirmfoto-2025-06-02-um-11.13.49.png" /> Event – ConferenceFirst Person Ecology By Federico Luisetti01.07.2025 <img width="1014" height="1436" width_o="1014" height_o="1436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0fcbf2df04cbc432e9fde6eca4bfbd0eacd2dabedcc1a83e4230ed7f3a3b161/Bildschirmfoto-2025-06-10-um-11.38.06.png" data-mid="234402157" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0fcbf2df04cbc432e9fde6eca4bfbd0eacd2dabedcc1a83e4230ed7f3a3b161/Bildschirmfoto-2025-06-10-um-11.38.06.png" /> Event – International Workshop Hermeneutics of Extinction By Alice Iacobone26.06.2025 https://unrulynatures.ch/Places-Header Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:31:08 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/Places-Header ︎ 2024 / 2025Cauca River &amp; Limmat River As a joint initiative between scholars and activists based in Colombia and Switzerland, this research project aims at developing a shared epistemic and practical framework for transitions, based on collaborative work undertaken in Switzerland and Colombia. ︎︎︎ Project ︎ <img width="1396" height="1442" width_o="1396" height_o="1442" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f58d2448e6be598e5965d7dd2edeb6ac78b8f62ed6c7e6ec416cc0f00c15042/Bildschirmfoto-2024-06-27-um-13.35.25.png" data-mid="213717252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f58d2448e6be598e5965d7dd2edeb6ac78b8f62ed6c7e6ec416cc0f00c15042/Bildschirmfoto-2024-06-27-um-13.35.25.png" /> ︎ January 24-28, 2024Venice On January 24-28, 2024, a transdisciplinary group of researchers will engage with Venice and its lagoon, the largest wetland in the Mediterranean, encountering their unruly natures. ︎︎︎ Program ︎ <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86f76dffa8f77d66c626843af727ebcfb1f9fc4b909553966ca275dec5682029/IMG_3539.jpg" data-mid="199095838" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86f76dffa8f77d66c626843af727ebcfb1f9fc4b909553966ca275dec5682029/IMG_3539.jpg" /> ︎ September 22-25, 2022Zurich From September 22 to 25 2022, a group of scholars gathered in Zurich to draw on the interstices between hybrid ecologies, biodiversity politics, and liminal spaces in the urban environment. ︎︎︎ Field Notes 2022 ︎ <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bcee6751db875260181ee59fa7a9242853bd1671c4c4f4edef320d81b9c84d3/IMG_4767.jpg" data-mid="135657145" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bcee6751db875260181ee59fa7a9242853bd1671c4c4f4edef320d81b9c84d3/IMG_4767.jpg" /> ︎ September 16-19, 2021Obergoms From September 16th to 19th 2021, a transdisciplinary group of researchers engaged with earth-beings in the Upper Valais. ︎︎︎ Field Notes 2021 ︎ <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e295bb897c19782a5b902eb5137fc96119026382305f604f6028c25c5cb22093/DSC02834.JPG" data-mid="135645185" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e295bb897c19782a5b902eb5137fc96119026382305f604f6028c25c5cb22093/DSC02834.JPG" /> https://unrulynatures.ch/Places-Footer Thu, 26 May 2022 10:50:35 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/Places-Footer <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b03689e1740ebc6b72f740477f2ac76277225a85bb152c31662a3b3d54c7e32f/2021-09-16-11.32.jpg" data-mid="143712642" border="0" alt="Grimsel Rock Laboratory" data-caption="Grimsel Rock Laboratory" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b03689e1740ebc6b72f740477f2ac76277225a85bb152c31662a3b3d54c7e32f/2021-09-16-11.32.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3eaa06710408d568004530b2ac6b589dfde4f36bac7794c0f104f8fedf78d02/2021-09-17-16.15.05.jpg" data-mid="143712640" border="0" alt="Rhone Glacier and the Eisgrotte" data-caption="Rhone Glacier and the Eisgrotte" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3eaa06710408d568004530b2ac6b589dfde4f36bac7794c0f104f8fedf78d02/2021-09-17-16.15.05.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dca3d2ccd22a4a1ba17c134067a916fb84292a9936ae8348c99a5c7bcc8d2cdf/DSC02858.JPG" data-mid="143712961" border="0" alt="Lonza Canal in Visp and Naturpark Binntal" data-caption="Lonza Canal in Visp and Naturpark Binntal" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dca3d2ccd22a4a1ba17c134067a916fb84292a9936ae8348c99a5c7bcc8d2cdf/DSC02858.JPG" /> <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ee80b22e80280a33a4fe789148f5b56e4ae6d5fa8fc9e2b768417e80608f644/IMG_4571.JPG" data-mid="143713014" border="0" alt="Earth Beings" data-caption="Earth Beings" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ee80b22e80280a33a4fe789148f5b56e4ae6d5fa8fc9e2b768417e80608f644/IMG_4571.JPG" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57da1d520429881975b725dd35d1a83f9834cf67308f78f49585a257b97624df/2021-09-18-21.11.43_web.jpg" data-mid="143712977" border="0" alt="Animal Big Brother" data-caption="Animal Big Brother" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57da1d520429881975b725dd35d1a83f9834cf67308f78f49585a257b97624df/2021-09-18-21.11.43_web.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5be557b7102f9e9d0849f66021ae5c828e1243cedbc2fc617204b25d8ba25c6d/2021-09-17-09.07.00.jpg" data-mid="143713011" border="0" alt="The Miner and the Neon Fish: Decolonizing Alpine Ecologies" data-caption="The Miner and the Neon Fish: Decolonizing Alpine Ecologies" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5be557b7102f9e9d0849f66021ae5c828e1243cedbc2fc617204b25d8ba25c6d/2021-09-17-09.07.00.jpg" /> https://unrulynatures.ch/Obergoms-2021 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:31:08 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/Obergoms-2021 What are the cultural, epistemic, and socio-political implications of experiencing natural entities as subjects? Shall we extend the characteristics of human persons to ecosystems, or instead rethink human subjectivity from the perspective of environmental agents, earth-beings? <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ac1c53bcd9ad1443788b82a787f29fab1f01d1643e4f256d5b537fcb3f49084/8804dddf-7b40-4473-98b2-252f25990afa.jpg" data-mid="135645190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ac1c53bcd9ad1443788b82a787f29fab1f01d1643e4f256d5b537fcb3f49084/8804dddf-7b40-4473-98b2-252f25990afa.jpg" /> Searching for answers to these questions, in September 2021, a transdisciplinary group of researchers – geographers, natural scientists, cultural theorists, and designers – engaged with earth-beings in the Upper Valais, Switzerland. Through four excursions underground, on melting glaciers, pristine forests, and toxic landfills, we interrogated the personality of subjects that inhabit odd spaces and endure in other-than-human timescales. Based in the village of Oberwald, we visited four sites: the Lonza mercury pollution area near Raron, the Rhone Glacier above Oberwald, the Grimsel rock laboratory beneath the Juchlistock (BE), and the remote Landschaftspark Binntal.The excursions were accompanied by spontaneous reflections and informal conversations on the modes of existence, distribution of the sensible, and political implications of earth-beings. In the Journal section three related articles have been published, including Animal Big Brother by Offshore Studio (Isabel Seiffert and Christoph Miler), The Miner and the Neon Fish by Rony Emmenegger and Stephan Hochleithner, and Earth Beings by Federico Luisetti.&nbsp;Project lead &amp; program curation Flurina Gradin&nbsp;︎︎︎ Federico Luisetti&nbsp;︎︎︎ Project core group 2021 Rony Emmenegger︎︎︎ Emiliano Guaraldo︎︎︎ Irène Hediger︎︎︎ Participants 2021 Daniel Finch-Race︎︎︎ Stephan Hochleithner︎︎︎ Christoph Miler︎︎︎ Christopher Robinson︎︎︎ Isabel Seiffert︎︎︎ https://unrulynatures.ch/Zurich-2022 Wed, 11 May 2022 15:19:19 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/Zurich-2022 As the dominant human habitat, cities are the epicenter of global warming, air pollution, and neoliberal ecosystem thinking. However, urban ecological constellations are more than toxic infrastructures and techno-natures shaped by humans. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4d83b25f28e5752e95b2fc44de6336b238d1026265e0108e04008469094cce1/5C1A0539.jpg" data-mid="170166653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4d83b25f28e5752e95b2fc44de6336b238d1026265e0108e04008469094cce1/5C1A0539.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab529873258943f9d1421defe3759fb35f1aec19d1a45099f0d74b14ebe6e0cd/IMG_0870.jpeg" data-mid="170166675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab529873258943f9d1421defe3759fb35f1aec19d1a45099f0d74b14ebe6e0cd/IMG_0870.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1407" width_o="2500" height_o="1407" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f68c0bdd5004a179d8f8ad09c54326241e927787cc2c7bb24c7f43e7db51cc6d/DSC00176-2.jpg" data-mid="170166711" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f68c0bdd5004a179d8f8ad09c54326241e927787cc2c7bb24c7f43e7db51cc6d/DSC00176-2.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54956f3b354176090b2c35234574f3a2e20c875f4c63b63efe380c874f5065d0/IMG_0788.jpeg" data-mid="170166980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54956f3b354176090b2c35234574f3a2e20c875f4c63b63efe380c874f5065d0/IMG_0788.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8882a05f9a98f77de5ce924466b5307f5c028a20bc2e6c4102912c1fb49e060/5C1A0398.jpg" data-mid="170167274" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8882a05f9a98f77de5ce924466b5307f5c028a20bc2e6c4102912c1fb49e060/5C1A0398.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f01d586b87bd49a2615402f0e77fa7deea54eb4c784c0859b47b79bb8830f3d/IMG_0926.jpeg" data-mid="170167235" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f01d586b87bd49a2615402f0e77fa7deea54eb4c784c0859b47b79bb8830f3d/IMG_0926.jpeg" /> <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97de6bfba8d9afc661d74840333f50243d3e10848eb894a0d52bba5b501172b4/FC84C9EF-99B9-406E-9FAC-2D219C9B2BB6.jpeg" data-mid="170166880" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97de6bfba8d9afc661d74840333f50243d3e10848eb894a0d52bba5b501172b4/FC84C9EF-99B9-406E-9FAC-2D219C9B2BB6.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a48b7efd031575f80caa70856c26e7c0e53d7bc4a31fc9f2a604807ef0f93c23/5C1A0521.jpg" data-mid="170166839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a48b7efd031575f80caa70856c26e7c0e53d7bc4a31fc9f2a604807ef0f93c23/5C1A0521.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1407" width_o="2500" height_o="1407" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17604507e6e1e48563f055bfb8368dc1249e0190c25c96f1b73f9040e037b23b/DSC00132-2.jpg" data-mid="170167343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17604507e6e1e48563f055bfb8368dc1249e0190c25c96f1b73f9040e037b23b/DSC00132-2.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/758adf94b6de9adca103079b1112370580e173172816ca2fed556d2b21da4268/5C1A0663.jpg" data-mid="170167320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/758adf94b6de9adca103079b1112370580e173172816ca2fed556d2b21da4268/5C1A0663.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b4571baa120793af410697320abbc9a8f98c28e21ea91662e4d00e34d4cd1a1/IMG_0753.jpeg" data-mid="170166831" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b4571baa120793af410697320abbc9a8f98c28e21ea91662e4d00e34d4cd1a1/IMG_0753.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7486dc1ad6dbd12890b8efe8fe8628eeab974258a290785162fa12cac33656d/5C1A0576.jpg" data-mid="170166715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7486dc1ad6dbd12890b8efe8fe8628eeab974258a290785162fa12cac33656d/5C1A0576.jpg" /> Taking the city of Zurich as an example and drawing on the shared experiences in the Upper Valais, we continued to encounter other-than-human timescales and socio-natural subjectivities.In September 22-25, 2022, a transdisciplinary group of researchers engaged with eccentric biotopes, urban agrofutures, planning politics, endangered common lands, and migrant stories. The program included guided tours, walking seminars, and an evening salon. A collaborative documentation includes field notes about local Hydro Ecologies, Processes of Renaturalization, the Zoonosis of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Hybrid Ecological Constellations in Zurich North, three articles about endangered common lands («Unruly Grüningen», «Trading Futures», «Tägernauerholz – The Forest Being and Political Resistance»), one about the Largest Wilderness Areas in the City, diverse Agroecological Activities and Sedimented Histories at the Lakeside.&nbsp; Project lead &amp; program curation Flurina Gradin︎︎︎ Federico Luisetti︎︎︎Rony Emmenegger︎︎︎ Participants 2022 Nitin Bathla︎︎︎ Joost de Bloois︎︎︎ Anna Elsner︎︎︎ Dario Gentili︎︎︎ Sophie Gosselin︎︎︎ Emiliano Guaraldo︎︎︎Christoph Kueffer︎︎︎ Christoph Miler︎︎︎ Sophia Prinz︎︎︎ Antje Scharenberg︎︎︎ Isabel Seiffert︎︎︎ Katinka Versendaal︎︎︎ https://unrulynatures.ch/Venice-2024 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 12:16:57 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/Venice-2024 The Venetian Lagoon is an ecosystem generated by nonhuman agents and hydrogeological processes, yet also profoundly codesigned by centuries of human intervention. <img width="3985" height="2988" width_o="3985" height_o="2988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9b83d382c91014b323935226298601913a42c5fc6992951710665f96fafd2f4/22.Laguna-di-Venezia--dalla-Certosa--Photo-HK-2o22-o1-28.JPG" data-mid="199210106" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9b83d382c91014b323935226298601913a42c5fc6992951710665f96fafd2f4/22.Laguna-di-Venezia--dalla-Certosa--Photo-HK-2o22-o1-28.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86af176e9e06049663ca74fccd7a92f5ca1d86276cff57af32a01acaca21e79b/IMG_3542.jpg" data-mid="199095940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86af176e9e06049663ca74fccd7a92f5ca1d86276cff57af32a01acaca21e79b/IMG_3542.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55b4684c7acba050968c284061b21c75eb5840cd571375c4cf6c7a2ac7c7410c/14.Barene_Campalto-BarenaBianca.png" data-mid="199210099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55b4684c7acba050968c284061b21c75eb5840cd571375c4cf6c7a2ac7c7410c/14.Barene_Campalto-BarenaBianca.png" /> On January 24-28, 2024, a transdisciplinary group of researchers engaged with Venice and its lagoon, the largest wetland in the Mediterranean, encountering their unruly natures. Venice’s formation through a convergence of fluvial and saline waters has fostered over millennia a unique tidal rhythm and delicate balance between change and coexistence. Yet, modern interventions display a deliberate misinterpretation of this nature-culture text, failing to heed the lessons of Venice’s human-environment interplays. In our research trips, we have focused on the socio-ecological tensions erupting in the city and its lagoon, from the management of life-cycles, to the material spectres of mass tourism and the petrochemical infrastructure of Porto Marghera, including the clashes between local economic activities dependent on healthy aquatic cycles and the alienating forces of global capital. The program included guided tours, walking seminars, and an evening salon. A project documentation includes the texts&nbsp;Unruly Reportage, Attuning to Intertidal Zones, and other contributions that will soon be made available. Project lead &amp; program curation Emiliano Guaraldo︎︎︎Flurina Gradin︎︎︎ Federico Luisetti︎︎︎Rony Emmenegger︎︎︎ Participants Lorenzo Andolfatto&nbsp;︎︎︎ Joost de Bloois&nbsp;︎︎︎ Chiara Famegno&nbsp;︎︎︎ Sonia Levy&nbsp;︎︎︎ Elena Longhin&nbsp;︎︎︎ Sigrid Schmeisser&nbsp;︎︎︎Matteo Stocco&nbsp;︎︎︎ Katinka Versendaal&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://unrulynatures.ch/A-River-centered-Approach-2024 Tue, 21 May 2024 12:24:01 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/A-River-centered-Approach-2024 A River-centered Approach. Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions&nbsp; <img width="2576" height="1444" width_o="2576" height_o="1444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38f0d8e3f33e1643386de36580bfce00e47d8fff94c28ac4b6a484d3c8f252e9/Bildschirmfoto-2024-06-11-um-15.54.56.png" data-mid="212701465" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38f0d8e3f33e1643386de36580bfce00e47d8fff94c28ac4b6a484d3c8f252e9/Bildschirmfoto-2024-06-11-um-15.54.56.png" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/068bed49150d12773a9aed386417f6236e36775f59ae1fc63c642f30bf2b19bf/DSC00117.jpg" data-mid="212701166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/068bed49150d12773a9aed386417f6236e36775f59ae1fc63c642f30bf2b19bf/DSC00117.jpg" /> <img width="2422" height="1356" width_o="2422" height_o="1356" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10ef1607b537a455d8f041786b1ee4d74f500e13af3158940dbfac277779dc40/Bildschirmfoto-2024-06-11-um-15.58.04.png" data-mid="212701470" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10ef1607b537a455d8f041786b1ee4d74f500e13af3158940dbfac277779dc40/Bildschirmfoto-2024-06-11-um-15.58.04.png" /> The concept of systemic ecosocial transitions is emerging as a strategy against climate change and the polycrisis. Yet, there is little experience about how such transitions can be realized in practice. Transition visions in the North and South are often at odds conceptually and politically. As a joint initiative between scholars and activists based in Colombia and Switzerland, this research project aims at developing a shared epistemic and practical framework for transitions, based on collaborative work undertaken in Switzerland and Colombia. To ground our project locally, we engage with river-centered transition design in the Cauca valley, Colombia and the Limmat valley, Switzerland. As a transnational initiative, the project is organized around two workshop weeks, one in Cali and another in Zurich, and will include transdisciplinary exchanges, as well as a joint outreach initiatives. Our activities are funded by the Leading House for the Latin American Region of the University of St. Gallen, Research Partnership Grant.&nbsp;The workshop in Switzerland is co-sponsored also by Utopiana, Geneva. For updates on the project and other initiatives, please sign up to our newsletter.&nbsp; Project lead Colombia Arturo Escobar&nbsp;︎︎︎ Mario Alejandro Pérez-Rincón&nbsp;︎︎︎ Project lead Switzerland Federico Luisetti︎︎︎ Emiliano Guaraldo︎︎︎Flurina Gradin︎︎︎ Rony Emmenegger︎︎︎ Christoph Miler&nbsp;︎︎︎ Beat Müller&nbsp; Christopher Robinson&nbsp;︎︎︎ Research Partnership Grant participants Diana Bernal&nbsp;︎︎︎Maria Campo María Ximena Dorado Velasco Renata Moreno&nbsp;︎︎︎Andrea Melenje&nbsp;︎︎︎María del Pilar Ramírez Gröbli&nbsp;︎︎︎ Other participants Nitin Bathla&nbsp;︎︎︎ Sophie Gosselin ︎︎︎ Nikolaus Heinzer&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://unrulynatures.ch/People-Header Tue, 17 May 2022 14:31:37 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/People-Header <img width="1730" height="1297" width_o="1730" height_o="1297" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2159add53f25db0197e5b86ae0280a4bb075eb45a717a3166b202b8da4ff413/9608464d-adfa-4baf-b5f6-362c9e3f13d4.jpg" data-mid="142861708" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2159add53f25db0197e5b86ae0280a4bb075eb45a717a3166b202b8da4ff413/9608464d-adfa-4baf-b5f6-362c9e3f13d4.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/008eeacad09179f909724850c1bedbd6a77f73fc9bc56ca96ba5f3a72e83a70d/5C1A0526.jpg" data-mid="170169070" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/008eeacad09179f909724850c1bedbd6a77f73fc9bc56ca96ba5f3a72e83a70d/5C1A0526.jpg" /> https://unrulynatures.ch/People-1 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:31:09 +0000 Unruly Natures https://unrulynatures.ch/People-1 Lorenzo AndolfattoLorenzo Andolfatto received his PhD in Asian and Transcultural Studies from a joint-degree program between the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Jean Moulin Lyon-3 University of Lyon, in 2015. After one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and three more at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University, he joined the Human Geography Research Unit at the University of Fribourg’s Department of Geosciences as a senior researcher, within the framework of the research project “The Cultural Logistics of Chinese SF”. His research interests include early-modern and contemporary Chinese literature, comparative literature, and translation, with a focus on utopian writing, science fiction, and speculative/literary geographies. He is the author of Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902-1910 (Leiden: Brill, 2019).&nbsp;︎︎︎ &nbsp;︎︎︎ Venice 2024 Nitin Bathla Nitin Bathla is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, where he works as part of the transdisciplinary project on agri-urbanisms, at the Chair of Sociology. He also coordinates the Doctoral Programme at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies at the Department. In his research practice, he actively combines academic research with artistic practices of filmmaking, and socially-engaged art. Bathlas 2020 film Not Just Roads with Klearjos E. Papanicolaou premiered at several important film festivals across the world and was the recipient of the Society of Architecture Historians Award for Film and Video, 2022.&nbsp;︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 ︎︎︎ Journal - Becoming a Tiger: Entangled Migrations, Surveillance, and Performing the Zoonosis of the Asian Tiger Mosquito Joost de BlooisJoost de Bloois is a philosopher and assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, departments of Cultural Analysis and Comparative Literature.&nbsp;︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 ︎︎︎ Unruly Grüningen︎︎︎ Venice 2024︎︎︎ Journal – Unruly Reportage Anna ElsnerAnna Elsner is Associate Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities at the University of St. Gallen and an Associate Member of the Centre for Humanities and Health at King’s College London. She currently leads an ERC-project on the ethics, laws and aesthetics of assisted dying. ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 Rony EmmeneggerRony Emmenegger is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Geoscience, University of Fribourg; and a research collaborator at the School of Social Science and Humanities, University of St. Gallen. Trained as a political geographer, he has a vivid interest in the governance of human-environment relations, landscapes and infrastructures above and below ground. In his ongoing research, he works on the politics of nuclear waste disposal in Switzerland and leads the SNF Project titled Nuclear Strata: The Political Geology of Nuclear Waste Governance (2024-2028). ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021 ︎︎︎ Journal – The Miner and the Neon Fish: Decolonizing Alpine Ecologies ︎︎︎ Event – The Nuclear Spike ︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 ︎︎︎&nbsp;Ordered Hybrid Ecologies: Unearthing Sedimented Histories in the Arboretum︎︎︎ Venice 2024 ︎︎︎&nbsp;A River-centered Approach. Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions 2024/25 Chiara FamegnoChiara Famengo is a curator and researcher, based in Venice and London, working at the intersection of art and ecology. Chiara is the curator of the 2023 Venice Design Biennial public programme; creative producer at the Art Council England Programme, Three Rivers; ecology researcher at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Phytology; and collaborator with the artist Sonia Levy. Chiara holds an MA at the Royal College of Art. ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Venice 2024 Daniel Finch-RaceDaniel Finch-Race works on French and Italian representations of environmental change since the mid-1800s. Most recently, he has been focussing on physical and emotional geographies of air pollution to do with the Industrial Revolution. Daniels solo publications include journal issues on ‘Poetics of Place’ and ‘Environmental Humanities’. He got to co-edit French Ecocriticism, as well as journal issues on ‘Ecopoetics’ and ‘Ecoregions’ and co-conceived a Knowledge Frontiers project on ‘Grounding Value in the Anthropocene’ under the auspices of the British Academy and the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021 Elisa Fornale Elisa Fornalé is an Associate Professor at the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern. She holds a law degree from the University of Trento, Italy, and a PhD in human rights law from the University of Palermo, Italy. She specializes in international law, human rights, and migration and has led various research projects connecting human mobility, women’s rights, and climate emergencies. From 2021 to 2024, she served as co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise. She is currently the Work Package Leader for Climate of the HEurope project ‘Human Rights Justification’ and leads the SNF SPARK project ‘Slow Violence and Human Rights: New Times for Climate Justice?’. Prof. Fornalé is also the coordinator of the Gender Team at the WTI and initiated the gender lecture series ‘Know the GAP’. In addition, she implemented the SNF project ‘Gender Equality in the Mirror (GEM),’ which explored women’s participatory rights. She is now head of the SNF Consolidator research project ‘Resisting Human Erosion’, which concentrates on the intersection of climate change and human mobility in the context of a progressively uninhabitable planet.&nbsp;︎︎︎ Dario Gentili Dario Gentili is an associate professor in Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Roma Tre. He has a PhD in Ethics and Political-Legal Philosophy from the University of Salerno. He did his postdoctoral research in Philosophy and the History of Ideas at the Sum (Italian Institute of Human Sciences), Florence, and received a DAAD post doctorate grant to work at the Walter Benjamin Archive in Berlin. He became a Research Fellow at the Sum (Italian Institute of Human Sciences) and in Autumn 2014 he was Visiting Researcher at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf. He is Co-Director of the Master “Environmental Humanities – Studi dell’Ambiente e del Territorio” (Roma Tre University). ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Zurich 2022︎︎︎ Journal - Becoming Wild:Processes of Renaturalization Flurina GradinFlurina Gradin is a designer and ecologist working as a researcher and as a lecturer in design theory and ecology at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen. In academia and with her company Wild Spots, she is committed to engage for regenerative ecosystems and biodiversity in the built environment. Flurinas work bridges expert discourses, place-based experiences and applied research projects. Her practice is characterized by a strong transdisciplinary approach including a network of collaborators from architecture, the natural sciences, the environmental humanities, and the arts. ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021 ︎︎︎ Event – A Terrible Goddess. Vegetal Agency and Radioactivity in Caltiki, The Immortal Monster (1959) ︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 ︎︎︎ Journal – Toad Calls from the Track Field ︎︎︎ Venice 2024 ︎︎︎ A River-centered Approach. Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions 2024/25 Sophie GosselinSophie Gosselin is a doctor of philosophy. She teaches in the Master of Environmental Studies at the EHESS (Paris). Her research work addresses the philosophical consequences of the ecological crisis and of the ontological turn in anthropology. Gosselin is a member of the editorial board of the journal online Terrestres.org. In the book published in 2019 entitled Le toucher du monde, techniques du naturer (Dehors editions), co-written with David gé Bartoli, they approach the issue of technique in a non anthropocentric perspective and propose a new philosophy of nature. In the book published in october 2022, entitled La condition terrestre, habiter la Terre en communs (Seuil editions), co-written with David gé Bartoli, they approach the cosmopolitical turn at stake in different current political situations throughout the world and the transformations of political institutions in relation to the ecological crisis. ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Zurich 2022︎︎︎ A River-centered Approach. Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions 2024/25 Emiliano GuaraldoEmiliano Guaraldo is a researcher in the environmental humanities. In his work, he studies the visual and literary cultures of the Anthropocene, with an emphasis on extinction narratives, critiques of extractivist capitalism, and environmental justice. ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021 ︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 ︎︎︎ Journal – Learning about Urban Agroecological Futures ︎︎︎ Venice 2024︎︎︎ A River-centered Approach. Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions 2024/25 Irène HedigerIrène Hediger is head of the artists-in-labs program (AIL) at the Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts. She curates and promotes inter- and transdisciplinary exchange and practices at the interface of art, science and technology. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions and accompanying programs on contemporary art, science and technology such as: “Displacements – Art, Science and the DNA of the Ibex” and “Propositions for A Poetic Ecosystem” in Jeddah and “Interfacing New Heavens” in Pretoria. She holds a degree in Business Administration, Group Dynamics and Organizational development (DAGG) and a MAS in Cultural Management from the University of Basel. ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021 Stephan HochleithnerStephan Hochleithner is a geographer trying to understand political dynamics related to questions of access. Socialnatural encounters and spaces that are often described as rural lay at the center of his focus. Stephan’s scientific work builds on in-depth, qualitative empirical inquiries and follows a strong interest in working with and on theory. Drawing from the vast and wealthy, yet hardly graspable space between empirics and analysis, he also creates texts and visuals using associative methods. Stephan Hochleithner works and lives in Zürich and the north-east of Austria. ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021︎︎︎ Journal – The Miner and the Neon Fish: Decolonizing Alpine Ecologies Alice IacoboneAlice Iacobone is a postdoctoral researcher at Universität St. Gallen, at the Chair of Environmental Humanities and Italian Studies. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Eastern Piedmont. Before moving to Switzerland, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the (Post)Authoritarian Landscapes Research Centre (Vilnius University). During her doctoral studies, carried out in Turin (Università di Torino), Paris (EHESS) and Berlin (Humboldt-Universität), she has worked on plasticity and sculpture. Her postdoctoral project develops the Plasticene hypothesis from the perspective of material aesthetics and material politics of plastics. She is the author of the monograph Per crescita di buio (Quodlibet 2023), devoted to the aesthetics and poetics of Giuseppe Penone.︎︎︎︎︎︎ Journal – Per Crescita di Buio. Giuseppe Penone's Art-Bodies Christoph KuefferChristoph Kueffer is professor of Urban Ecology at the Landscape Architecture School in Rapperswil (OST - Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences), senior scientist (Privatdozent) at ETH Zurich, an affiliated professor at the Division of Arts and Cultures at Franklin University Switzerland in Lugano, and a researcher at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel. He studied Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich, and completed his PhD in plant ecology and habilitation in plant and global change ecology at the same university. Christoph’s current research focuses on urban ecology, biodiversity conservation in novel and human-dominated ecosystems, global change impacts on island and mountain ecosystems, and environmental humanities. ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 Sonia LevySonia Levy is an artist whose research-led practice utilises filmmaking as a tool for site-based inquiries and interdisciplinary collaborations. This approach fosters multiple perspectives to consider new worlds. Her work questions Western expansionist and extractivist logics tending to critical forms of engagement with more-than-human worlds.She is the 2023-24 European Marine Board artist-in-residence, an activity contributing to the UN Ocean Decade. In 2022, Levy was the selected artist for the S+T+ARTS4Water residency hosted by TBA21-Academy in Venice. Additionally, she was the commissioned artist in 2021 at Radar Loughborough and Aarhus University's "Ecological Globalization Research Group." Levy's work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including, amongst others, Museo Thyssen, Museo CA2M, ICA London, Showroom London, Baltic Gateshead, ZKM Karlsruhe, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Her work has been published by MIT Press and Thames &amp; Hudson. She is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, School of Architecture. ︎︎︎︎︎︎Venice 2024 Federico LuisettiFederico Luisetti is a professor of Italian and Environmental Humanities at the University of St. Gallen. He is the author of books and essays in critical theory and the environmental humanities, including Nonhuman Subjects. An Ecology of Earth-Beings (Cambridge University Press 2023; published also in Italian, and forthcoming in French, German, and Japanese) and The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas (with John Pickles and Wilson Kaiser, eds., Duke University Press 2015). ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021︎︎︎ Journal – Earth Beings︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 ︎︎︎ Venice 2024 ︎︎︎ A River-centered Approach. Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions 2024/25 Marco MalvestioMarco Malvestio is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Padua. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Padua. His publications include The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021) and Raccontare la fine del mondo: Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo, 2021) and the forthcoming The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2025), as well as the edited volumes Italian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh University Press, 2023; with Stefano Serafini), and Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities (Liverpool University Press, 2023; with Emiliano Guaraldo and Daniel A. Finch-Race). ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Event – A Terrible Goddess. Vegetal Agency and Radioactivity in Caltiki, The Immortal Monster (1959) ︎︎︎ Journal – From Plant Blindeness to Plant Horror︎︎︎ Journal – A Terrible Goddess: Vegetal and Radioactive Agency in Mario Bava’s Caltiki Elena LonghinElena Longhin is an architect (OAPCC Venezia, ARB London) and researcher based between Venice and Den Haag, working at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and political ecology. Elena develops projects at the intersection of architecture, landscape and urbanism in diverse contexts, exploring the idea of a spatial practice that recognises the inherently conflicting dynamics that drive human occupation, whether urban or remote. Since 2016, she is the Programme Head of the AA VS Terrain Lab, a research platform investigating the spatial palimpsests of the Anthropocene based at the Architectural Association School of Architecture of London, UK. She is a post-doc researcher and teaches at TUDelft, the Netherlands, and affiliated researcher of the NICHE New Institute for Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Next to commissions and self-initiated design projects, her current academic research focuses on hydroscapes, geographies of power, dynamics of extractivism, conditions of scarcity and extremes, focusing on materiality, fluidity and critical raw resources to draw out latent relationships across scales, addressing the intensifying social injustice and ecological crisis. ︎︎︎︎︎︎Venice 2024 Christoph MilerChristoph Miler is an author and designer based between Vienna and Zurich. Together with Isabel Seiffert he forms Offshore, a design studio with a strong focus on editorial design, image-making, research and visual narratives. Next to commissions and collaborations, they engage in design education and investigate critical issues within the fields of design, media, ecology and globalisation in self-initiated projects. The work of Offshore has been published, exhibited and awarded internationally. ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021 ︎︎︎ Journal – Animal Big Brother︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 ︎︎︎ Journal – Botox: Blow-ups for Biological Warfare︎︎︎ Journal – Walking TourZurich North︎︎︎Journal – Stray Shots︎︎︎ A River-centered Approach. Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions 2024/25 ︎︎︎ Journal – Tomorrow: Mostly Cloudy Beat MüllerBeat Müller is a student with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations who currently works for the Embassy of Switzerland in Albania. Previously he gained some valuable working experience at swisspeace before he joined the team of Professor Federico Luisetti as a student assistant at the University of St. Gallen. His research has been focused on the impact of development finance, especially from rising powers such as China or India. He is interested in exploring the intricate links between sustainable development finance, environmental conservation, as well as the political implications and how these areas can be integrated to create a more equitable and sustainable future. ︎︎︎ Sophia PrinzProf. Dr. Sophia Prinz is Professor of Design Theory and History at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). From 2018 to 2020, she was Visiting Professor of Design Theory and Gender Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). She was coordinator of the long-term research and exhibition project Mobile Worlds (2015–2018), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Parallel to her university activities, she was researcher at the Johann Jacobs Museum (2012–2021), where she was involved in several exhibition projects. Her academic interests are practice theory and perception, design and society, exhibition theory and aesthetics, as well as global modernity and transculturality. ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 Christopher Robinson Christopher Robinson is a broadly trained stream ecologist, with studies ranging from population dynamics to ecosystem processes. He focuses on alpine streams in glaciated landscapes and has a personal interest in the eco-evolutionary dynamics of aquatic insects. In his current work he examines the role of environmental change on the intermittency of alpine streams and how that influences the distributions and abundance of aquatic insects as well as the functioning of alpine stream networks. Christopher Robinson has participated in the artists-in-labs program since 2005, hosting a number of resident artists over that time. ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021 ︎︎︎ A River-centered Approach. Designing a Framework for Ecosocial Transitions 2024/25 Antje ScharenbergAntje Scharenberg is a social movement scholar and International Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chair of Media and Culture, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her current research project "Because The Sea is Rising We Will Rise: Transnational Agency and Mediated Resistance in Sea-bound Civil Society Organisations“ investigates what it means to act politically at sea, with a particular focus on civil sea rescue in the Mediterranean and environmental activism in the European Atlantic. Before coming to Switzerland, Antje completed her PhD in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her thesis – titled Transeuropa: Agency Beyond Borders in Alter-European Activist Networks – was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK) and is based on a 4-year long ethnographic research project with alter-European movements. One of the questions driving her research interests ever since is how we can enact agency in times of border-crossing challenges arising, for instance, in the context of migration, climate change or digital capitalism. ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Zurich 2022 ︎︎︎ Journal – Hydro Ecologies Sigrid SchmeisserSigrid Schmeisser (AT/NL) is a geodesigner and artistic researcher whose practice is characterized by a site-responsive approach. A focus lies on investigating landfills as post-natural landscapes within the long-term project “From Centre to Periphery”. Conceived as chapters, she has translated this research into lecture performances (premiered at Dutch Design Week 2023 and Soil Horizons, World Soil Museum Wageningen, 2024) as well as an on-site radio performance for the Swiss Architecture Museum (Architecture Week, Basel, 2024). Further works include the awarded essay How to Hide a Mountain (Avery Review Journal), artistic publications, documentary photography and ways of counter-mapping landfills through their materiality such as soil. She also investigates more-than-human relationships including species with invasive behavior (“Solidago”) and foregrounds plants as narrative devices into declining ecosystems (“Raccogliere Magazine”). Her publications have been awarded by the Type Directors Club NY and shortlisted for the Most Beautiful Books Award Germany. ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ Journal – Trading Futures ︎︎︎ Venice 2024 ︎︎︎ Journal – Attuning to Intertidal Zones Isabel SeiffertIsabel Seiffert is a Zurich-based art director, graphic designer and design educator specializing in visual narratives and research-driven design using a repertoire of carefully crafted typography and vivid imagery. Together with Christoph Miler she runs the collaborative design practice under the name of Offshore Studio. Their work has been published and exhibited internationally. Isa has been awarded by TDC Tokyo, Type Directors Club New York, 100 beste Plakate and was nominated for the INFORM Preis as well as shortlisted for the Swiss Design Awards. Offshore Studio were recipients of the 2020/21 fellowship at the Jan van Eyck Academie and received a research and production fellowship by Les Rencontres d’Arles for the realisation of the exhibition ‘Visible upon breakdown’ (in collaboration with Justinien Tribillon). In 2022, Christoph and Isabel will be residents at La Becque where they will continue their research project Managing the Wild. ︎︎︎︎︎︎ Obergoms 2021 ︎︎︎ Journal – Animal Big Brother ︎︎︎ Zurich 2022︎︎︎ Journal – Walking TourZurich North Katinka VersendaalDesigner-reseacher Katinka Versendaal works in the Netherlands, Hamburg, Berlin and Venice, and merges the worlds of art &amp; design, food &amp; gastronomy and the social sciences. She uses speculative gastronomy as a tool to uncover the deeply interdependent and intertwined relationships between humans, more than human beings and natural entities in the long term project The _ knows everything. By understanding food as a medium, she develops convivial food research and experiences, which reflect on the current crisis and aim to envision regenerative and just futures of food.︎︎︎ ︎︎︎Zurich 2022︎︎︎ Journal – Learning about Urban Agroecological Futures︎︎︎ Venice 2024