Suza Husse is a researcher, poet, swimmer and cultural worker with a love for stones, swamps and whales. They work in collaborative and transdisciplinary ways at the intersections of queer ecology and anti-colonial cultures. Through the nomadic art space District* School Without Center and the aqueous publishing collective The Many Headed Hydra, Suza co-initiates performative, rooted and speculative practices that bridge multiple knowledge universes. Since 2024 they coordinate the peatland arts and research platform Sensing Peat at the Michael Succow Foundation / Greifswald Mire Centre and organise with the Venice Agreement for Peatlands. The Venice Agreement for Peatlands is a bottom-up network of peatland custodians dedicated to protecting and restoring peatlands globally through local initiatives and decolonial tools.
From 2017 to 2018 Suza held a guest professorship for Interdisciplinary Artistic Research at the UdK / University of Arts, Berlin. They publish on the intersections of arts, ecology, coloniality, queer feminisms, post-socialism, extraction cultures, most recently with Diaphanes, February Journal, D’EST, ECCLECTIC and Archive Books.

David is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, and holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Trento. His research focuses on the interplay between hydro-morphological and ecological processes in rivers, with the aim to develop novel methods to support practical river management and restoration. To increase effectiveness and use of the developed approaches, and to better support policy making, his work is conducted in collaborations with local environmental agencies and other stakeholders. In 2019 David co-founded the River Collective, an environmental NGO based in Austria, which by fostering transdisciplinary collaborations between students, scientists, artists and activists, aims to support the conservation and the protection of river ecosystems. Within the River Collective, David has collaborated in various initiatives, such as the “Students for Rivers Camp”, a yearly summer school for university students, the “Actions for Rivers”, an incubator for environmental projects, and “Multispecies Resistance”, an interdisciplinary project to map and illustrate the biodiversity of the European continent.

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr studied Geoecology at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg and completed her PhD in paleoclimatology and paleoecology at Utrecht University. Since 2023, she has been Professor of Paleoclimatology at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research investigates long-term climate and ecosystem dynamics using paleontological, geochemical and sedimentological approaches to better understand Earth system change and to derive insights for future environmental developments. She is also deeply committed to building inclusive, international research networks and strengthening global collaboration, particularly by supporting researchers across Africa in climate and geobiology research.

Saskia Köbschall is a historical anthropologist, curator, and editor based in Berlin. She is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where her dissertation examines the colonial and racial entanglements of German nudism, body culture, and environmental thought. Her work investigates how concepts of nature, ecology, and embodied intimacy have been shaped by colonial imaginaries and racialized appropriations. Situated between anthropology, curatorial practice, and critical theory, she focuses on the afterlives of colonial knowledge in contemporary environmentalism and aesthetic practice.

Antonia Alampi is the co-founding Artistic Director of Spore Initiative, a platform dedicated to artistic and cultural practices rooted in eco-social justice, community work, and the exchange of knowledge. As a cultural organizer, curator, and director, she has worked across disciplines and geographies, collaborating with socially engaged, politically conscious, and structurally precarious organizations.
She was Artistic Co-Director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin (2016–2020), part of the curatorial team of sonsbeek20➜24, curator at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (2017–2019), and Beirut, Cairo (2012–2015). Beyond institutional positions, her work spans cultural projects, research, and publications focused on institution building, alternative education, intergenerational practices, and decolonial perspectives across various local contexts. She also teaches, writes, and speaks publicly. A mother of two daughters, she credits them—and the experience of parenthood—as having deeply shaped her professional path.

Joulia Strauss is an artist and activist, lives and works in Athens and Berlin. She was born and raised as Mari, one of Europe’s last remaining indigenous cultures with a shamanic tradition, located at the very edge of Eastern Europe. Her sculptures, paintings, performances, drawings, and video works have been displayed in solo and group exhibitions at the Pergamon Museum and the Martin-Gropius-Bau, in Berlin, and at the Tate Modern, in London, as well as at the Tirana Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Athens Biennale, the Kyiv Biennial, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, and documenta14, among others. She has co-edited “Gods and Writing around Mediterranean” with Friedrich Kittler, Peter Berz and Peter Weibel (Wilhelm Fink Publishing). She plays a reconstructed Ancient Greek lyre and sings healing songs in Ancient Greek, Mari, and many other languages. Strauss practices and teaches Qi Gong (Red Shirt) and Việt Võ Đạo Kung Fu. In 2014 she founded Avtonomi Akadimia, an ongoing durational artwork and grassroots university in the Akadimia Platonos, Athens. Almost a thousand of events have held space for inter-epistemology of art, ecofeminism, philosophy, environmental activism and political healing, and so far, protected the unique biotope of Akadimia Platonos. Strauss is currently on tour presenting her film Transindigenous Assembly.

Yuliia Volkovska, PhD in Economics, is a Ukrainian environmental economist specializing in sustainable and adaptive forest management in the context of climate change and war-related environmental disruption.

Her work examines how forest management systems can remain viable under conditions of ecological instability, economic pressure, and structural transformation. She develops integrative eco-economic assessment approaches combining climate-related, ecological, and socio-economic indicators into measurable frameworks for evaluating sustainability.

She is an Assistant Professor at the National Forestry University of Ukraine in Lviv and a Member of the Order of Forestry Experts (O.F.E.). In her doctoral research, she developed a composite indicator model to evaluate sustainability dynamics and identify structural imbalances in the forest management system of Ukraine. Her research addresses questions of climate adaptation in forestry, post-war environmental recovery, and the modernization of forest governance and national forest legislation.

Hans Joosten (1955, Liessel NL) is Professor em. of Peatland Studies and Palaeoecology at Greifswald University (Germany) and already half a century full-time involved in peatland research and conservation. He has published extensively on peatland (palaeo)ecology, conservation, restoration, and paludiculture, including various handbooks, was involved in developing global and regional carbon standards, in UNFCCC climate negotiations and IPCC guidance development with respect to peatland emissions, in FAO in advancing climate-responsible peatland management, and in UNESCO World Heritage nominations of peatlands. Hans was from 2000 to 2024 Secretary-General of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG), the world organization of peatland conservationists, is a co-founder of the Dutch Werkgroep Behoud de Peel (1978), the Peatland Library (2013) and the Greifswald Mire Centre (GMC, 2015) and steering committee member of the UN Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI). For his commitment to peatland research and conservation, Hans was awarded an honorary doctorate from Batumi University (Georgia, 2010), the German Sustainability Award (2013), the European CULTURA Award (2013), the membership of Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Akademi (Norway, 2014), the Indonesian Peat Prize (2018), the German Environmental Price (2021) and the Federal Cross of Merit (Germany, 2022).