Alison Darby is a British-Luxembourg artist who lives and works in  Berlin. Her installations explore surfaces, urban archaeologies and  territories that bear traces of human activity. Using forms and  materials, she questions what is fundamental and formative to this  society, and what patterns and mechanisms lie beneath the surface.

https://alisondarby.com/

Anett Simon lives and works in Groß Kiesow, near Greifswald. The theme of her work is the human being and its relationships within and to its environment. Her works are an attempt to enable a different way of seeing and recognizing this interconnectedness. To this end, she consistently explores the specific aesthetic properties of materials and techniques.

https://anett-simon.de/

Steering Group Member, Ensayos

Camila Marambio is a transdisciplinary curator, storyteller, and private investigator. Her writing, research, and various projects traverse the fields of environmental humanities, decolonial nature conservation, contemporary art, and performance studies. In 2010, she founded Ensayos in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society of Chile. Ensayos is a collective research practice that brings together artists, scientists, and activists to conceptualize long-term, process-based projects focused on eco-cultural conservation work in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos. Since 2011, she has been experimenting with performance, creating solo and collaborative pieces dealing mostly with human and non-human health. Her writing has been published in Third Text, Australian Feminist Studies, Discipline, The River Rail, Art+ Australia, and Kerb Journal, among others. I am co-author of Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja with Cecilia Vicuña (Errant Bodies Press, 2019) and the forthcoming Cancer Ecologies: A Queer Femme Proposition (Bloomsbury 2025).

Carla Macchiavello is an art historian and educator, whose research centers on Latin American contemporary art with a decolonial approach; networks of solidarity and resistance; and art practices and experimental pedagogies aimed at social and environmental change. Since 2014, Carla is part of the editorial duo CM2 with Camila Marambio, co-editing the periodical Más allá del fin/Beyond the End for Ensayos.

Christy Gast is an artist whose cross-media work is based on extensive research and visits to places she considers “contested landscapes”. Since 2010, she has been working with Ensayos, a collective research project that deals with questions of political ecology in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos.

https://christygast.com/

Managing Director at the Michael Succow Foundation, Greifswald Mire Centre; Sensing Peat Project Lead; Steering Group Member.

As a landscape ecologist by training, he acts as managing director at Michael Succow Foundation, Partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre. His work focuses on peatlands and climate change with main expertise on policy analysis and advocacy, peatland management strategies incl. paludiculture and stakeholder co-creation processes. He holds rich experiences in national and international projects on climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and development cooperation connected to peatlands in Europe (e.g. Germany, Baltic States), Asia, Africa, and South America. Additionally, he is chair of the board of Wetlands International European Association.

Jasmina Al-Qaisi is a poet who writes for voice and paper, articulates and performs language with sound, food or care practices towards uncontainable forms of literature. When writing with sound, Jasmina shape-shifts in inexistant institutional forms, invents jobs, engages in human and more than human relations and broadcasts temporarily or mobile on free and public radios.

https://jasminescu.com/

Jeanna Kolesova is an artist who works at the intersection of artistic research, environmental history and speculative storytelling, exploring the manipulation of history, information, and imperial technologies' impact on human and non-human bodies. Their practice includes film, digital installations, performance lectures, and web projects, examining how narratives shape perception and imprint on landscapes and memories.

https://jeannakolesova.com/

Juliane Tübke lives and works in Berlin. In her artistic practice,  she delves into how we perceive and value nature in urban settings. She is currently exploring the sensory interaction between water, weather, and both human and more-than-human beings through various media.

https://julianetuebke.de/

Karolin Tampere is an artist and curator based in Romsa/Tromsø, Sápmi.  She has a particular interest in collaborative and socially engaged  practices, sound and listening. Since 2004 she has regularly contributed  to Sørfinnset skole/the nord land and together with Åse Løvgren the  ongoing collaboration Rakett begun in 2003. Karolin is since 2011 part  of Ensayos and is currently a PhD Research fellow at Tromsø Art Academy,  UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and Faculty of Fine Art,  University of Bergen. Tampere is part of the research group Worlding  Northern Art (WONA) at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and  Education at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.

Lene Schwarz, freelance painter, lives and works in and around Greifswald. She studied at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Saale) and translates nature, landscape, village and urban forms into watercolor – preferably en plein air. By the means of her paintings she investigates the sublime and non-visible within the ordinary. 

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Steering Group Member, Wildlife Conservation Society Chile

Nicole Püschel Hoeneisen is a mother, daughter, sister, and wife, born and raised in southern Chile. Nicole is an environmental biologist by training from the University of Chile and holds a Master's degree in Conservation Science from Imperial College London. She has developed an interdisciplinary theoretical and practical understanding of conservation during her professional career, focusing on early planning and engagement with society. Her current work focuses on climate change integration into conservation planning. In her workspace at Wildlife Conservation Society Chile, Nicole has been able to deepen her technical knowledge around peatlands, which, together with her deep love for these ecosystems, she makes available by working for the local and global protection of these important wetlands.