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Pella Thiel

Pella Thiel is an ecologist, small-scale farmer, author and educator. She lives in the archipelago of Stockholm and works with relational, systemic leadership for a society in harmony with nature at all levels.

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Teresa Conesa

Teresa Conesa is part of the citizen movement Banderas Negras, later constituted as an association Alianza Mar Menor ( AMARME ) and a member of the promoters of the ILP of the Mar Menor.

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Eduardo Salazar Ortuño

Eduardo Salazar Ortuño is a public interest Environmental Lawyer and Administrative Law Adjunct Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain).

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Letizia Artioli

Letizia Artioli is an architect and researcher based between Venice and Den Haag, always below sea level. She is currently working on Data Turbulences, Flooding Voids, and Weathering Spaces. Her work focuses on investigating the relationship between human beings and environmental data as a matter for research and creation, entangling archives of dichotomies between immaterial…

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Léon Gross

Léon Gross is an urban designer, artist, educator, and sustainability researcher working at the intersection of water, ecology, and spatial justice. His practice combines artistic research with questions of urban transformation, participatory knowledge production, and more-than-human relationships. As co-lead of the Berlin-based design and research studio Symbiotic Lab, he develops transdisciplinary projects on urban waters,…

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Clare Cooper

Clare is an independent creative producer, working across the fields of culture, nature restoration and tourism. She is co-founder and co-director of Tayside’s ‘museum without walls’, the Cateran Ecomuseum and with her sister, operates Vanora’s Cottages. Previously a member of Alyth Community Council and a founding Director of the Alyth Development Trust, she also served on the Local Action…

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Christine Sponholz-van Leeuwenstijn

Christine Sponholz-van Leeuwenstijn is a legal translator and student of Intuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC). She has dedicated her work as a translator to translating academic, journalistic, and non-fiction texts for the German-speaking markets that challenge anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism and offer alternative approaches to help navigate the socio-ecological challenges of our time. Christine is currently…

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Thomas Laurien

Thomas Laurien is a designer/artist, curator, researcher and educator based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Design and works as a senior lecturer/associate professor at HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design at the University of Gothenburg.

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Floris van Hees

Floris van Hees has a passion for justice, human rights, and environmental protection. He completed a law degree at Maastricht University and subsequently obtained a Master’s in Human Rights and Democratization at the Global Campus of Human Rights. After a career as a lawyer at an international law firm in Amsterdam, he founded his own…

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Volker von Bremen

Volker von Bremen, anthropologist (PhD) and co-founder of the Loisachbündnis. Born on the Lahn River and raised close to the Hahnenbach (nicknamed the ‘Köttelbecke’ or ‘Dung Ditch’) in the Ruhr region. Studied anthropology, philosophy and economics at the Lahn and at the water bodies in Berlin. Conducted research and practical cooperation with indigenous peoples, primarily…

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Li An Phoa

Li An Phoa (1980) is the founder of the Drinkable Rivers movement. Over the past ten years, she has walked 21,000 kilometres along rivers; the Meuse river walk was the subject of the documentary Long Walk for Drinkable Rivers. She is the author of the book ‘Drinkable Rivers: How the River Becomes My Teacher’.

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Stefanie Zoche

Stefanie Zoche, artist and initiator of Loisachbündnis, was born on the banks of the Isar. She studied fine art on the Tiber, the Têt, and the Thames, lived by the Tagus; in her artistic work, she has mostly dealt with ecological issues such as the climate crisis, resources, and extractivism (https://www.haubitz-zoche.de); in her installations and…

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Harpo ’t Hart

Harpo ’t Hart (1985) is a curator, sound designer and artist, studied piano at the Utrecht Conservatory, Media technology at Leiden University and Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

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Pietro Consolandi

Pietro Consolandi is a researcher and artist based in Venice, he is founder of the Barena Bianca collective. He is OCEAN / UNI Research Lead at TBA21–Academy, and a Research Fellow at NICHE.

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Siobhán McDonald

Siobhán McDonald’s practice draws attention to contemporary topics dealing with air, breath and atmospheric phenomena, weaving scientific knowledge into her art in a poetic and thoughtful manner. Born in New York and living and and working in Dublin, Siobhán works with natural materials, withdrawing them from their cycles of generation, growth and decay. This process gives form to…

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Leon Lapa Pereira

Leon Lapa Pereira joined the Embassy of the North Sea in 2023 as producer of the project Designing Self representation of water bodies in Europe. He is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans.

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Juan Pablo Pacheco

Juan Pablo Pacheco is an artist, researcher, and educator from Colombia based in Madrid, and a member of the Assembly of Guardians of the Manzanares River. He has been researching and working with the Manzanares river through listening practices, audiovisual experimentation, and collective pedagogies through projects like Redes Húmedas en el Museo (2024) with Marina…

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Philip Stoll

Philip Stoll (1988) is a visual artist working with the themes of attention and witnessing. Over the last 15 years he has been working with his meditative walking practice in diverse natural environments. As a way of investigating the invisible qualities of nature he worked in Europe, Russia, the north pole, North America and the…

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Giulia Della Marina

Giulia Della Marina, 62, is a social anthropologist who has been working in various countries in South America and Italy, fostering the self-determination of Indigenous peoples’ groups and organizations. She has also served for several years in Bosnia and Herzegovina within different international organizations dealing with mediation, peace-building, and the democratisation process in the immediate…

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Marie-Dominique Loÿe

Marie-Dominique Loÿe is a former teacher-researcher at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her scientific work was dedicated to geology, surface water, and atmospheric deposition chemistry in Corsica and around the Mediterranean Sea. She has been teaching on geology and “environment and society”. Now she is involved in environmental struggles in Corsica, especially in the defense…

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Pedro Luengo Michel

Pedro Luengo Michel is a biologist from the University of Murcia. His professional career began with environmental consultancy and in charge of a cheese laboratory.

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Carolijn Terwindt

Dr. Carolijn Terwindt (1979) is a lawyer, cultural anthropologist, author, and artist who joined the Embassy of the North Sea in 2021 to explore the possibility of creating a European network to strengthen the cultural transformation towards a real participation of nonhumans in politics.

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Katja Schechtner

Katja develops technologies and strategies for cities seeking to serve all their inhabitants. Since 2022, she has been researching urban rights of nature at MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, while also being affiliated with the Media Lab’s City Science Group and the Senseable City Lab. Her executive career spans leadership roles within innovation, technology, and mobility…

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Giga Tsikarishvili

Giga Tsikarishvili is a multidisciplinary artist and architect. Merging material intervention with posthumanist theory, he researches the affective traces and ecological wounds left on landscapes by extractive forces. Through teaching and site-specific speculative design, he challenges dominant urban and architectural practices. He seeks to heal nature-culture entanglements and foster deep, physical attunement with traumatised environments.

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Mekhala Dave

Mekhala Dave is a lawyer & art academic based in Vienna. She is the ocean law and policy analyst/legal researcher at the TBA21–Academy and a doctoral researcher at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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Jetske Verhoeven

Jetske Verhoeven is a Dutch visual artist and writer whose work deepens the connection between humans and the natural world. Through site-specific events, performances, and participatory projects, she explores a shift in awareness—from seeing ourselves as separate from nature to recognising ourselves as integral co-players within it. She is the founder of the organisation Zachtivist…

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Olivia Henkel

Oliva Henkel, anthropologist, marine biology activist and cofounder of the Loisachbündnis, was born on the banks of the Partnach in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Loisach Valley. She grew up surrounded by wild nature and cold mountain streams in the Bavarian Alps and loves water as her element. As an anthropologist, she worked on well construction projects…

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Jakob Kukula

Jakob Kukula is a multidisciplinary creator, working in the fields of art, design, and music. Born and raised in Berlin, he is life-long influenced by the city’s thriving scenes.

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Christiane Bosman

Christiane Bosman studied museology, art history and communication management. She has over 15 years of experience in developing cultural interventions in the public domain, with a focus on human non-human relationships since 2019.

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Anna Daneri

Anna Daneri is an independent curator. She curated the exhibition "Nothing is lost. Art and Matter in Transformation" (2022–2022) with Lorenzo Giusti at GAMeC - Bergamo. She was one of the founders of Peep-Hole, Milan.

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Jessica Ullevålseter

Jessica Ullevålseter is a visual artist, activist and musician. Her family lineage is of ancestral bonds to the Oslo area that date back more than 400 years. However, as a white Westerner, she cannot claim emotional and spiritual family bonds to the place.

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Cecylia Malik

Cecylia Malik is is visual artist and environmental activist. She is part of the Save the Rivers Coalition. She is the author and the leader of the nationwide social campaign and collective ‘River Sisters’.

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Amalia Rossi

Born in Pavia and raised in the same city, in the Borgo Ticino district, along the banks of the Ticino “blue river”, Amalia Rossi is a Fellow Researcher at THE NEW INSTITUTE – Center for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a member of the working team of the Venice…

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Josh Levene

Josh Levene has a background in anthropology and ecological design, with over 25 years of experience working with river-based communities in Africa, South Asia, and the UK.

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Anja Binkofski

Anja Binkofski is a Doctoral Candidate at the German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven, Germany. She studied Transcultural Studies (M.A.) at the University of Bremen, where she found her passion for Maritime Anthropology. This resulted in her Thesis: “Living with(out) the North Sea – Future Planning on the Halligen in the Age…

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Julian Rainer Purrmann

Julian Purrmann is a research assistant in cultural anthropology at the University of Basel. During his studies, he has focused on questions concerning the inclusion of the voices, the signals, the interests and the agencies of the more than human world in democratic procedure and democratic innovations.

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Duncan Rawson

Duncan Rawson is farming sector expert. He works for European Food and Farming Partnerships.

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Greet Brauwers & Raf Custers

Greet Brauwers is a researcher, filmmaker, and artist based in Brussels. After her studies, she worked in the media, combining her journalistic work with a socio-artistic practice, exploring the possibilities of engaged visual and narrative practices, setting up audiovisual projects, and documentary filmmaking. Since 2016, she has connected with artistic practice. With Raf Custers, they…

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Zoe Lujic

Zoe Lujic is a rights of Nature advocate and founder of Earth Thrive, international organisation working on ensuring respect & establishment or Rights of Nature in the Balkans & Mediterranean bioregions with experience also in the international law of Ecocide and permaculture. Currently developing Balkan Centre for the Rights of Nature and the Declaration on the Rights of the...

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Anne Marie Flood

Anne Marie Flood is a market economist, experienced project manager for large EU projects, EU funds specialist and entrepreneur deeply involved in activities to save the Baltic Sea.

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Rita Bellomo       

Rita Bellomo is a former High School teacher. She is still working in the educational field as volunteer, planning and scheduling lessons and activities for the local Free Adult University operating in an area which comprises five municipalities. Next to that, she runs Italian language courses for immigrants, cooperating also with organisations which take care…

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Robert Rient

Robert Rient initiated the recognition of the Odra River as a legal person and established the Odra Tribe. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Odra Person Foundation, a Member of the International Observatory for the Rights of Nature, Save the Rivers Coalition, and Literary Union Association. He also acts as…

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Ana Džakić

Ana Džakić is born in 1985 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Secondary School of Architecture and is currently employed full-time in the energy sector. A mother of two, she has been a long-time environmental activist and is the legal representative of the NGO White Heron 1165 – Bela Čaplja 1165 from Belgrade. She is…

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Natasha Padbury

Natasha Padbury is the Sustainability Manager at the Depot cinema, with 15 years of experience coordinating community, cultural, health and wellbeing projects.

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Léa Corbière

Léa Corbière grew up on the shores of Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. She has a master’s degree in transdisciplinary political science on risk management and adaptation to climate change and a master’s specialising in environmental law from the universities of Paris: Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas. She works on pesticide risk regulation and, more…

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Simon Wynen

Simon Wynen is a wilderness educator and co-founder of the Loisachbündnis. He was born in 1999 and lives not far from the Loisach and the Murnauer Moos. From a young age, he has spent a great deal of time in nature, learning to live simply. As a wilderness educator and nature mentor, he strives to…

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Torsten Schäfer

Torsten Schäfer is a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, an environmental journalist, and a wilderness pedagogist. His work focuses on climate journalism, storytelling, and nature writing. Torsten was editor at GEO magazine and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. He took training in survival education (one year) and river relations (Schumacher College). He…

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Andrea Muehlebach

Andrea Muehlebach is a Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water at the University of Bremen. She is the author of “A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe” and is currently involved in a book-length project on the rights of nature movement and its relation to what many proponents call “Earth Law.” Here, she…

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Carmen Haro Barba

Carmen Haro Barba holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Social Sciences and is a professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, where she was awarded the Special Doctoral Prize. She is an expert with the United Nations “Harmony with Nature” Program, where she helps promote international frameworks that incorporate the Rights of Nature. In Spain, she…

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Kevin Frediani

Kevin Frediani is Operation Manager for the National Trust in Angus, leading the stewardship of some of the region’s most treasured historic and cultural sites. Previously her was Curator of the Botanic Garden and Head of Grounds at the University of Dundee. His research interests explore how spaces become places imbued with emotion through the…