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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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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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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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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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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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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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Franco Nicoletti

Franco Nicoletti was born in Crocetta del Montello, on the very edge of the Grave di Ciano, an area which was a sort of natural playground for him and for a lot of his mates. After obtaining the Liceo Scientificio diploma, he started his career, first as an employee and then as an entrepreneur in…

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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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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…

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Pieter Ippel

Pieter Ippel (1953) was a professor of law at Utrecht University and in Middelburg (Zeeland). He also worked at several other universities and was a government lawyer in The Hague. He is the author of a book about the growth of environmental and health law from the 1970s onward.

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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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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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Markus Schärli

Markus Schärli is the founder and first president of the association Rechtsperson Reuss who wants to empower the river Reuss by giving him constitutional rights and an own personality.

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Thomas De Ming

Thomas De Ming is a RangeMaker, and his mission is to contribute to the transition to a sustainable society by helping us all get more range: to be able to think beyond, go further and last longer.

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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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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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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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Rosa Jijón

Rosa Jijón is an artist, activist and cultural mediator, former director of the CAC (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito), CAC. She has participated in various international exhibitions.

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Nico Landsman

Nico Landsman (1955) formerly worked for the Province of Zeeland in water management and climate adaptation. He is inspired by Western Scheldt itself, philosophy, Western academic knowledge, Indigenous wisdom, and generations yet to be born. He is connected to the Earth Trusteeship Initiative, which triggered him to start Rights of the de Scheldt as a…

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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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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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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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Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

Lucia is a water keeper, artist and the initiator of the Natural Contract Lab group. Since 2009, her work has reacted to the environmental crises of our times, weaving temporary and collaborative processes that are a living organism that keeps growing in kinship with rivers, resilient plants, trees and others.

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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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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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Roberta Bosu

Roberta Bosu is a strategist, storyteller, and environmental advocate with extensive experience driving transformative change across environmental, economic, and political sectors. As Global Campaign Lead for Antarctic Rights and founder of Re.vert Studio, she creates impactful narratives that inspire action for planetary protection. Roberta serves as a European Climate Pact Ambassador for the European Commission,…

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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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Emma Montlake

Emma Montlake is the Director of Casework at Environmental Law Foundation and the grassroots legal support lead with a focus on the Rights of River.

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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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Sabina Candusso

Sabina Candusso, 28, is currently living in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where her profession as a cultural and visual anthropologist merges with intense activity in communications and environmental justice. Here she works in support of Indigenous communities’ advocacy against aggressive extractive industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her commitment to water justice is deeply rooted in her…

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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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Natalia Llorente Nosti

Natalia Llorente Nosti is a mother, biologist, technical translator and socio-environmental consultant. Throughout her professional career she has focused on the management of water resources and river ecosystems.

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Agata Julia Foksa-Biegaj

Agata Julia Foksa-Biegaj is a lawyer specializing in international law and human rights, a PhD researcher, and a member of the Osoba Odra Foundation. Her work explores ecological justice, systemic transformation, and the rights of nature, bridging legal, philosophical, and spiritual perspectives.

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Aleksandra Velimanović

Aleksandra Velimanović, master in the field of integrated management of natural resources, has been in the civil sector for 25 years, and since 2006 one of the founders and members of the citizens’ association “NIMBUS” from Loznica.

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Karmit EvenZur

Karmit is an artist, facilitator and cultural manager whose practice revolves around the dynamic interactions between humans and the non-human world. With deep attentiveness to subtle narratives of people and land, she fabulates social practices that invite us to renew our connection to, as well as re-imagine our role as custodians of the places we…

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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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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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Tina Jelia

Tina Jelia is a literary researcher and poet exploring the body as a confluence of traces and an epistemic agent that archives knowledge voided from dominant cultural frameworks. Both as a researcher and an author, she approaches poetry as an embodied practice that can disrupt calcified oppressive structures and help us attend to the mutual…

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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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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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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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Erena Rhose

Erena Rhöse is a Māori woman native of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and living in Sweden. Erena is guardian of the tribal knowledge, a doctor of traditional Maori medicine, professor of Ecosophy at the University of Karlstad, Sweden.

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Dr Marian Bruce

After spending many years in academic research, Marian founded Highland Boundary, Scotland’s first botanical spirits distillery in 2016, where she is director and master distiller. Award- winning Highland Boundary spirits are produced on her small, re-wilded family farm at Kirklandbank in Alyth, Perthshire where she also manages livestock, holiday rental and sculpture businesses. She was also Enterprise Manager…

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Vinny Jones

Vinny's practice of sensory scenography is based on the recognition that it is through the whole sensing body that we perceive, experience, and are connected in the world.

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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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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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Anna Chmiel

Anna Chmiel is a painter, multimedia artist, and key member of the Rivers Sisters collective from 2019. She seamlessly combines art with activism for nature, especially rivers.

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Francesco Martone

Francesco Martone is chair of the Assembly of Judges of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature and co-founder of the artistic research platform A4CArtsforthecommons.

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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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Nuvola Ravera

Nuvola Ravera explores how emotions are influenced by objects and cultural traditions, aiming for harmony between nature and human-made environments. She collaborates with various experts and uses natural materials to create art pieces that examine the experience of care.