About

Nora is a Spanish-Chilean researcher and artist based in Madrid. She graduated from the Royal College of Art and, as an artist, has performed at leading UK institutions such as Tate Exchange, Design Museum and Camden Arts Centre in London. Nora uses performance as a signifying tool, active process in the genesis of alternative cosmologies, as a mechanism to resist imposed subjectivities. As a researcher, Nora is interested in the role of food in the arts, the postnatural and contemporary socio political theory. As part of her artistic practice, she also makes music and, most recently, films.

Inês is an artist, researcher and educator born in Lisbon and based in London/Brussels. She completed an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art in 2016 and has exhibited internationally since graduating. Her practice moves between performance, installation and social sculpture, investigating food in its intertwined socio-political, cultural and ecological dimensions. Through her work, Inês creates frameworks in order to explore collaboration, generosity, care and togetherness.

Noa Jansma is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates commonly accepted cultural beliefs by challenging their validity or purpose through seemingly naive questions. Her work focuses on the relationship between humans and their (ecological) environment, using food as both a subject and a medium. The questions she raises often intersect philosophy, the material-spiritual duality, and politics, resulting in diverse outcomes such as culinary performances, video installations, and educational programs.

Inês is an artist and researcher based in Porto. Thinking mainly through sculpture and food-making, she identifies the kitchen table as a multi-layered topos for reflecting upon shared traditions, identities and emotions, while thinking about the simultaneous acts of eating and being eaten as forms of care. Between crockery and tablecloths, her visual poems open discussions on local foodscapes, overlooked ecosystems and opportunities for interspecies symbiosis in a shared world.

Kevin is an Italian curator and researcher investigating edible knowledge, politics, and inter-species collaborations. He is co-founder of the pan-European art collective The Sympoietic Society to explore environmental activism, practices of co-creation, and healing through storytelling. Their curatorial approach moves from food to investigating ecological and political super-structures, promoting cognitive justice and developing practices of care.

Barney is a London-based culinary creative working at the confluence of food, art, and writing, whose practice focuses on food futures, queering consumption, and foraging and fermenting as social resistance. He believes food, in its ubiquity, transcends language as a mode of communication, and by applying it as an artistic medium it can be used to impart new thinking. In his practice, he uses food both to communicate his thinking and as a point of departure for research.

In 2021 he founded  Finger Food Magazine : a contributor-based space for stories, artwork, and essays, in any and all mediums, exploring cooking, craft, and creation. When he’s not jamming ferments into jars, peering at plants on the pavement, or writing ramblings for my  Substack , you can usually find him foraging for his food or reading books on baking.

Born in Mexico and based in Madrid, Camila has pursued studies in event planning, marketing, communication, and creative direction. Nevertheless, her everlasting passion falls in gastronomy. Collaborating with purpose-driven companies, she employs creativity and curiosity to foster growth, individually and collectively.

Camila believes in the transformative power of gastronomy and art, seeing their union as a profound channel of communication, which is something she experiences daily at The Gramounce.

ruangrupa (abbreviated as ruru) is a contemporary art collective based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Founded in 2000 by a group of seven artists, ruangrupa provided a platform in South Jakarta for organising exhibitions, events, and festivals, also conducting publishing services, workshops, and research.

ruangrupa functions as a non-profit organisation that supports contemporary art within the urban and cultural contexts of Indonesia and beyond, often involving artists and practitioners from other disciplines such as the social sciences, politics, and technology. The collective also supports the development of video art through research, documentation, and their biennial video art festival, OK Video, first held in July 2003.

As a collective, they co-directed documenta fifteen , which took place 2022 in Kassel, Germany; notably the first Asian group and the first art collective to curate the large-scale international exhibition.

While the collective has no fixed number of members, ten of the group's core members engaged in the directorship role, including director Ade Darmawan, Ajeng Nurul Aini, Daniella Fitria Praptono, Farid Rakun, Indra Ameng, Iswanto Hartono, Julia Sarisetiati, Mirwan Andan, Narpati Awangga, and Reza Afisina.

In 2022, ruangrupa topped the ArtReview Power 100 list for their defense of artistic freedom amidst the controversies of documenta fifteen, as well as their influential mode of nonhierarchical working that continues to inspire ongoing collaborations across the art world.

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. She is the author of The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine and The Madonna Secret. Her memoir The Body is a Doorway: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human is forthcoming from Running Press Spring 2025.

colectivo amasijo, created in 2019 in Mexico City, is comprised of women of different professions, different ages and from different parts of Mexico. The collective rises from the will to care, conserve, and celebrate. Creating the conditions to actively reflect on the origin and diversity of food, de-hierarchizing knowledge and focusing on the “doings” (haceres) as a way of learning. They listen to the narratives of women close to the land and cook collectively as a way to share, learn, and relate. Through food, the interdependence of language, culture, and territory becomes visible.

Abena Offeh-Gyimah (Toronto, Canada / Bolgatanga, Ghana) is a writer and researcher whose work helps to protect and maintain indigenous Ghanaian and West African seeds, foods, and plants. She is the founder and managing director of The Beela Project, she works with farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana to preserve their indigenous seeds through seed exchanges, seed fairs, community seed banking, women’s nutritional garden, and agroecology. She is the founder of Adda Blooms, a food and beverage company specializing in indigenous African foods. Abena also hosts Taste of Bolga, a program exploring traditional food processes, cooking methods, and local food systems in Ghana. As a PhD candidate at the University of Guelph, she researches traditional knowledge and farmer seed systems in Ghana. She has worked in food, farming, and community systems for over a decade, including roles at Black Creek Community Farm and Jane Finch Community Research Partnership.

Mercedes Villalba writes poetry and nonfiction, mostly about nature, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis, where she researches art and landscapes in the energy transition. She is the author of “Fervent Manifesto” (2019) and “A las Plantas” (2022). She studied Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires and at The New School for Social Research in New York and has published articles, poems, translations, and essays in Spanish and English. Every once in a while, she makes zines and small-run prints. Her ‘Fervent Manifesto’ was translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalá and Kiwcha.

Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa is an anti-disciplinary architect, curator, researcher, and educator operating at the intersection of academia and the cultural sector. His work utilizes a cross-disciplinary approach, integrating architecture, institutional design, filmmaking, and alternative curatorial practices to explore the critical spatial forces shaping our time. He often creates institutional and para-institutional platforms to develop research-driven projects that couldn’t be realized otherwise under more normative forms of research or practice.
An ongoing project is Foodscapes, a long-term research initiative focusing on the systemic, ecological, and political implications of our planetary food systems and the architectures and territories underpinning their existence.

Asunción Molinos Gordo is a research-based artist strongly influenced by disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. In her practice she questions the categories that define “innovation” in mainstream discourses today, working to generate a less urban-centric way of understanding progress.

The main focus of her work is contemporary peasantry. Her understating of the figure of the small or medium farmer is not merely as food producer but as cultural agent, responsible for both perpetuating traditional knowledge and for generating new expertise. She employs installation, photography, video, sound and other media to examine the rural realm driven by a strong desire to understand the value and complexity of its cultural production, as well as the burdens that keep it invisible and marginalized.

She has produced work reflecting on land usage, nomad architecture, farmers’ strikes, bureaucracy on territory, transformation of rural labour, biotechnology and global food trade.

Molinos Gordo won the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2015 with her project WAM (World Agriculture Museum) and represented Spain Official Section at the 13th Havana Biennial 2019. Her work has been exhibited at venues including V&A Museum (London), Delfina Foundation (London), ARNOLFINI (Bristol), Jameel Arts Center (Dubai), The Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), Darat Al Funun (Amman), Tranzit (Prague), ART BASEL Miami Beach (US), Cappadox Festival (Uchisar-Turkey), The Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki), Museo Carrillo Gil (Mexico), MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan (Mexico), MUSAC (León, Spain), CA2M (Madrid, Spain), CAB de Burgos (Spain), Matadero (Madrid, Spain) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain), among others.

She obtained her B.F.A. from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she also pursued her Master in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice. She is currently studying Anthropology and Ethnography at UNED (Spain).

Molinos Gordo is represented by Travesia Cuatro gallery in Spain and Mexico.

Rowen White is a Seed Keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous seed and food sovereignty. She is the director and founder of Sierra Seeds, an innovative organic seed stewardship organisation fo- cusing on local seed and education, based

in Nevada City CA. Rowen is the current National Project Coordinator and advisor for the Indigenous Seed Keeper Network, which is an initiative of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a non-profit organisa- tion aimed at leveraging resources to support tribal food sovereignty projects. The mission of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network is to nourish and assist the growing Seed Sov- ereignty Movement across Turtle Island.

Nonhuman Nonsense is a research-driven art and design collective working in the realm of social dreaming and world-making. Their projects engage with the nonhuman: animals, objects, ecology, technology, and the spectres between and beyond categories. They use nonsense as an antidote to “common sense” – embracing paradoxical stories to explore the ethical and metaphysical layers of our relationship with the (nonhuman) world. The collective creates contradictory scenarios & propositions in which they appropriate ideas from fields such as science, computing, law and mythology. Nonhuman Nonsense enjoys curiosity, cherishes compassion, and recognises that separating the human from the nonhuman is nonsense.

Lucia Pietroiusti is Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London. As a curator, programmer and organisational strategist, she works at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, often outside of the exhibition space. Ecologies at Serpentine is a holistic initiative and purpose-led department aimed at embedding environmental responsibility throughout the organisation’s infrastructure, operations, networks and programming. Pietroiusti was the founder of Serpentine’s General Ecology project, and the curator of Sun & Sea (Lithuanian Pavilion, 2019 Venice Biennale and ongoing tour). Together with Filipa Ramos, she is the curator of Songs for the Changing Seasons (Vienna Climate Biennale, 2024); Persones Persons (8th Biennale Gherdeïna, 2022) and The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish. Pietroiusti is also a curator of Back to Earth (Serpentine, 2020-22), and Infinite Ecologies Marathon (2023-24). Recent publications include More-than-Human (with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier) and Microhabitable (with Fernando García-Dory).

Marwa Benhalim is a Libyan-Egyptian artist and curator. Her practice explores culinary history, food systems, and agriculture in relation to cultural production, gender dynamics, and regional socio-economics, emphasizing research-based inquiry and artistic experimentation. In 2024, she curated "Does a River Shape a Table?" at the Grand Egyptian Museum. She is the founder of the Switchboard Project, an artist-run initiative that hosts monthly gatherings for critical dialogue and culinary explorations. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Cairo Art Book Fair, now in its fourth edition. Benhalim recently published "Aseeda", the first publication in her on-going bilingual (Arabic/English) project "Ta‘amana: A Journey Through Culinary Libya", a research-based project exploring Libyan food culture through oral histories, archival research, and hands-on cooking. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico City, Cairo, Beirut, Madrid, Dubai, Casablanca, and across the United States. She holds an Alternative MA in Food & Art from The Gramounce, Spain, and an MFA in Studio Arts from Southern Methodist University, Texas.

Kelly Donati is an ethnographer in gastronomy and agriculture. Her doctoral dissertation, completed in 2017, developed the concept of multispecies gastronomy which explores the convivial and lively co-productive collaborations between humans and nonhumans in small-scale
farming practice. She has published in the areas of multispecies gastronomy, community gardens, farmers markets, the politics of Slow Food and the development of food studies pedagogy. Kelly developed and currently lectures in Australia’s first Bachelor of Food Studies and Master of Food Systems and Gastronomy at William Angliss Institute and is the founding Chairperson of Sustain: the Australian Food Network, a not-for-profit organisation which undertakes food system policy work for
local government and beyond.

Salma Serry is a doctoral researcher and cultural worker specialized in the history of food in West Asia and Egypt. She is also the curator of Sufra Archive , a digital archive project and social media platform dedicated to West Asian and North African food history and culture. She is working on a PhD in History in the University of Toronto with a specialization in Food Studies at the Culinaria Research Center. Her projects revolve broadly around reconfigurations of power on the scales of imperial structure as well as everyday life, through food politics, mobility networks, and technology in the region. Her PhD project was recently awarded the distinguished SSHRC Doctoral Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada, while her art projects have received the Research on the Arts grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). Her research and public programming projects have been exhibited at Art Jameel (Dubai), Hayy Jameel (Jeddah), the Arab Council for Social Sciences (Beirut), the Islamic Biennial (Jeddah), and Cairo Design Week.

OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London exploring food, ecology, and creativity for climate resilience. Through regenerative gardening, seed saving, and food advocacy, we support communities, enhance biodiversity, and promote ecological education through creative practice.

MOTHER is a vibrant community cafe serving up flavours from around the world alongside cake, coffee and good vibes to the Gospel Oak community and beyond.

A hidden gem, nestled next to The London School of Mosaics, our mission is to bring people together with food whilst celebrating different cuisines and cultures from across the globe.

Our menu changes daily, focusing on international home cooking with flavours ranging from East and South Asian to African and European. Everything is made fresh on the day and we take pride in the fact our food echos the diverse and multicultural environment that makes Gospel Oak and London what it is.

When we set up Mother in 2019, we wanted to create a space that acted as an extension to our kitchen table, creating a cosy environment to bring the local community together with food, arts events and community outreach projects.

Safiya Robinson (also known as SisterWomanSaf) is a chef, interdisciplinary facilitator and culinary artist exploring food as a site of memory, culture, wellness, and care. Through workshops, participatory meals, research, and writing, she designs embodied experiences grounded in her philosophy of Intentional Nourishment: the practice of using food and shared ritual to cultivate dignity, pleasure, and meaningful connection. Inspired by her Black American, Jamaican, and British heritage, her culinary focus centres deeply considered vegan soul food through a distinctly London lens. She also hosts and produces The Intentional Nourishment Podcast, which expands this work through dialogue with other chefs, artists and thinkers.

Sandor Ellix Katz (he/him/they) is a fermentation revivalist. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, he is the author of five books. Sandor's book The Art of Fermentation, which received a James Beard award and has been widely translated, was selected by the New York Times as one of "The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years." Sandor's books, along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts.

Based in the heart of London, Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.

Rowan Deer is a writer and editor based in Berlin. Her academic monograph, Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World, is published by Bloomsbury and her writing can also be found in Orion Magazine, The New Statesman, and The Canary.

Professor of law and former barrister at the High Court of Bombay Radha D'Souza has shaped her thinking via a perspective from the Global South. Her most recent book "What's Wrong with Rights?" sheds light on and seeks to repoliticise the mainstream discourse on human rights and to place it in the context of international activism for justice. In her new project "Where Have Places Disappeared? Corporation-States, Law and Dualist Imaginations" she argues that European modernity institutionalises the dualism of economy and polity by having established states and corporations, the founding institutions of capitalism, as two distinct legal entities. Her research areas include international law, sociology, human geography, development studies and social movement studies. Within the field of international law, Radha's work focuses on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), international law and development, and colonialism and law as well as resource conflicts in the Global South. Among her numerous projects is the "Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes", an (artistic) tribunal she conceptualised, organised and performed with artist Jonas Staal initially in Amsterdam (2021) and Helsinki, Seoul, Münster and Gwanju (April 2023).

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, born in Amsterdam and based in Mexico City, is a curator, writer, and researcher working at the intersection of art and ecology. She is the founder of the Green Art Lab Alliance (established in 2012); a network comprising sixty art organizations across Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The mission of the alliance is to foster relationships that contribute to social and environmental justice, akin to the interconnected nature of mycelium. Over the span of more than a decade, she has conducted research throughout (East) Asia, Latin America, and Europe, focusing on artists who propose alternative ways of living and working, ultimately leading to more resilient communities and (food) systems. She worked for organizations including Julie's Bicycle (United Kingdom), Asia-Europe Foundation (Singapore), Cape Farewell/ Science Museum (United Kingdom), Labverde (Brazil), and TransArtists (Netherlands). She founded and directed the Nature Research Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands, 2017), the Van Eyck Food Lab (2018), and the Future Materials Bank (2020); a crowd-sourced database of sustainable materials for artists, designers and architects. She has been curator-in-residence in various art institutions, including Kunst Haus Wien (Austria, 2017), Capacete (Brazil, 2019–2020), Valley of the Possible (Chile, 2022), Bamboo Curtain Studio (Taiwan, 2015–2016), and colectivo amasijo (Mexico, 2021). She is a self-proclaimed "mycophile", interested in exploring the application of a mycological lens in defining fair models of collaboration and (self) organization. Her debut book, "Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts," shares twelve teachings of the world of fungi and is published by Valiz (NL). It is currently being translated into Chinese and Spanish.

David Zilber is a professional chef, author, food scientist, and photographer who hails from from Toronto Canada. He has worked in some of the world’s top kitchens since 2004, most notably serving as the director of the Fermentation Lab at Restaurant Noma, where he employed microbes to transform foodstuffs into bold new ingredients. In his time there, he authored the New York Times Bestseller, The Noma Guide to Fermenta- tion. He has since become a voice for science communication in the world of food and fer- mentation, and continues working towards a more sustainable global food system from his adopted home of Copenhagen.

Parama Roy is a Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on issues related to postcolonial theory and literatures; Victorian studies; appetite, consumption and taste/food studies; and animal studies. She is the author of three books, including, Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions and the Postcolonial (Duke, 2010), States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia (Zubaan, 2009), and Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India (University of California, 1998).

Lelani Lewis creates inspiring experiences with her innovative and vibrant approach to food. Hailing from South London with Grenadian and Irish heritage, Lelani grew up amongst the diversity of cuisine; learning the ins and outs of global flavours from a young age with favourites such as bara and sweet potato pie.

Becoming obsessed with developing a mainstream platform for Caribbean food, Lelani wanted to demonstrate just how unique and diverse Caribbean cuisine is, combining her love of bringing people together around the table and paying homage to those who came before her.

The rich histories of the islands provide a deep well of inspiration for Lelani to further explore the cultural impact of food, and how the world’s ingredients unravel beautiful –and tragic– stories.”

QUEERCIRCLE is a LGBTQ+ led charity working at the intersection of arts, health and social action. QUEERCIRCLE was founded to fill the gaps and advocate for systemic change where other arts, health and education institutions fail or actively perpetuate harm. This work requires us to be vigilant of, and challenge systems of oppression.

Yamuna Sangarasivam is a Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Women and Gender Studies Undergraduate Program in Sociology & Anthropology at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Originally from Sri Lanka, Yamuna will draw from her background to talk about Queer Culinary Cultures of Resurgence.

Dania Al Tamimi (b. 1997) is an artist and curator whose practice explores definitions, movement, and transformation through various mediums. With a BFA from the University of Sharjah and an Alt. MA in Food & Art from The Gramounce, Al Tamimi is currently undertaking a residency at the Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi. Al Tamimi investigates the spaces where tangible and intangible meet, questioning conventional boundaries and binaries. Through Al Tamimi’s artistic practice she has taken part in several exhibitions and programs in the UAE and worldwide, including Sotheby’s (Dubai, 2021), Bait Al Mamzar (Dubai, 2021), Systema Gallery (Osaka, 2019), Maraya Art Centre (Sharjah, 2019), and Art Market Budapest (Budapest, 2018). She curated Biography of a Passage with 421 at Art Dubai (Dubai, 2023), co-founded Rummān Collective, and is currently a Curator and Project Manager at Dirwaza Curatorial Lab.

Professor Charles Spence is a world-famous experimental psychologist with a specialization in neuroscience-inspired multisensory design. He has worked with many of the world’s largest companies across the globe since establishing

the Crossmodal Research Laboratory (CRL) at the Department of Experimental Psychol- ogy, Oxford University in 1997. Prof. Spence has published over 1,100 academic articles and edited or authored, 16 books including, in 2014, the Prose

prize-winning “The perfect meal”, and the international bestseller “Gastrophysics: The new science of eating” (2017; Penguin Vi- king) – winner of the 2019 Le Grand Prix de la Culture Gastronomique from Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie. His latest book Sensehacking was published in 2021.

masharu is an earth eater and an earth lover, a founder of the Museum of Edible Earth (http://www.museumofedible.earth/). masharu's projects combine scientific research with a personal approach and cultural practices. In 2011 they obtained a PhD in Mathematics and graduated with honours from the Photo Academy Amsterdam. In 2013-2014 they participated in the art-in-residency programme at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam. In 2018 masharu was an artist fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). masharu's artistic as well as scientific work has been exhibited, screened and published in more than 30 countries, in such venues and events as Word Soil Museum in Wageningen, Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Modern Art Museum in Yerevan, African Artists’ Foundation in Lagos, Spanish Cultural Centre in Guatemala City, World Design Event in Eindhoven, ReadyTex Gallery in Paramaribo, 4th Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale in Jakarta, European Ceramic Workcentre in Oisterwijk, Sustainica in Dusseldorf and Museo Maritimo in Bilbao. masharu received several awards, such as Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and YouFab Global Creative Awards (Japan). The work of masharu is supported by the Mondriaan Fund.

Rain Wu is a Taiwanese artist and architect based in London. Her work is conceptually-driven and materialises in different forms and scales from drawings, sculptures, food performances, essay films to installations.
She works with the temporality of perishable materials to instigate discussions around our manifold relationships with nature. Following the geographic, political, cosmological and microbial traces of living materials, her work investigates the interconnection between the consumption of food,
digestion of cultures, charting of lands and recalling the myths.
She graduated from the Royal College of Art and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Her artwork has been exhibited in Sharjah Biennial, Taipei Biennial, The Palestinian Museum, London Design Biennale, Istanbul Design Biennial, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Shape of the Circle in the Dream of the Fish; she was one of the Designers in Residence at the Design Museum
(London) in 2016, an artist in residence at Jan van Eyck Academie (NL) 2018-9, and she is currently a lecturer at University of the Arts London and Goldsmiths University.

Photo by: Su Yu Hsin

Marije Vogelzang is a visionary designer, speaker, author, and a world-renowned pioneer in the realm of food design.

She started working with food when she was still a student in 1999. She graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2000 and between 2004 and 2011 she ran two experimental restaurants in Rotterdam and Amsterdam next to her design work.

With a distinguished career that spans the globe, Marije has successfully exhibited her groundbreaking work worldwide. Her transformative designs have graced renowned institutions such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian in New York. As a captivating speaker, Marije takes to international stages. Her remarkable ability to blend creativity, philosophy, and food has made her a sought-after figure in the industry. Through her talks, she challenges conventional thinking, ignites imagination, and provokes new perspectives on the intersection of nourishment and human experience.

In addition to her global impact as a designer, Marije Vogelzang has spent eight years as the head of the "Food Non Food Department" at Design Academy Eindhoven.

Marije's passion for transforming our relationship with food extends beyond exhibitions and lectures. As an author, her latest book, "Lick It: Challenge the Way We Experience Food," revolutionizes our understanding of the act of eating. Marije invites readers on a thought-provoking journey, encouraging them to question norms and conventions. Through sensory exploration and imaginative concepts, she challenges us to expand our palates and unlock the extraordinary connections between nourishment, creativity, and the human experience.

Safiya Robinson (also known as sisterwoman) is a chef, interdisciplinary facilitator and culinary artist exploring food as a site of memory, culture and care. Through workshops, participatory meals, research, and writing, she designs embodied experiences grounded in her philosophy of Intentional Nourishment: the practice of using food and shared ritual to cultivate dignity, pleasure, and meaningful connection. Inspired by her Black American, Jamaican, and British heritage, her culinary focus centres deeply on considered plant-forward soul food through a distinctly London lens. She also hosts and produces The Intentional Nourishment Podcast, which expands this work through dialogue with other chefs, artists and thinkers.

Just as a loaf spontaneously ferments, my research with bread is a deliberately undisciplined practice that allows me to unfurl and overcome my human boundaries with all my senses.

As a nomadic baker, I wander around collecting elders' stories about bread-making to design them into an ever-evolving ecology of practices. As a gastronome, my daily relationship with food makes me question the ethics and meaning of methods of production, transformation, and consumption.

My contributions to the Gramounce form part of my philosophical research into bread which started while studying gastronomy at the University of Gastronomic Science in Pollenzo (IT). It has since developed into my Master’s thesis on local ecological knowledge around bread-making.

Noha is a PhD candidate in anthropology with a specialization in food studies. She's interested in human-animal relations, food, hospitality, and the relationship between caring and killing. Alongside anthropology, Noha finds inspiration in the hundreds of handwritten recipe books that her mother passionately handwrote and fed her, as food for bodies and food for thought!

Hicham Khalidi (1972) has been director of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (NL) since 2018. As a Post-Academic Institute, the Jan van Eyck offers residencies to international artists, designers, writers, curators and other artistic researchers and makers. Khalidi was the curator of the Dutch entry for the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. From 2015 until 2018, he worked as associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris. He was also the curator of the group exhibition ACT II for the Sharjah Biennale in Beirut in 2017, cultural attaché of the Sydney Biennale in 2016 and chief curator of the Marrakech Biennale in 2014. As a curator, Khalidi is interested in the context and conditions related to contemporary art and art-institutional practices and specifically in how the climate emergency, the accumulation of crises and processes of colonialism affect these practices. He considers curatorship as working in service of and in coalition with others.

Since three years Philipp and Suzanne work together as more-than-human collective and trans-local food studio. Tracing the roots and routes of different foods across histories, geographies and cultures, they develop site-specific services, formats and frameworks to reimagine what and how we eat. Departing from their interest in sweetgrasses, the immersive family of grains and cereals foundational to all human settlement, they tell edible stories that activate all senses and seek to inspire caring relationships between people and land. 

Currently, Philipp and Suzanne are reviving ancient techniques for food preservation and storage through the development of a permanent public art work for Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst and Toggenburg Tourism (CH) to be opened in fall 2025. In addition, they are researching orchard culture and forgotten fruit trees for Nova Gorica and Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025 (SI) in collaboration with Robida Collective (IT). Besides, Philipp and Suzanne offer consulting services to those in need and develop workshops and educational programs for organisations in various areas, such as Design Campus Dresden (DE), Plantahof School of Agriculture (CH) or Tourismus Region Klagenfurt (AT). 

Abel Jansma is a scientist who combines intuition from physics, knowledge from biology, and techniques from mathematics, to think about genes, information theory, and quantum computers. Starting in art school, he realised he wanted to become a physicist instead, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. After a stay at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, he is now a fellow at the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena, where he explores the role of higher-order structure in complex systems. His work integrates diverse scientific disciplines to better understand fundamental principles of nature.

Alice Bucknell is a North American artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Using game engines and speculative fiction, their work explores interconnections of architecture, ecology, magic, and non-human and machine intelligence. Bucknell is generally interested in the limits of scientific knowledge and systems thinking, the weird possibilities of play, and the ecological dimensions of games that can dissolve binaries like humans vs environment, natural vs synthetic intelligence, and self vs world.

In 2021, she founded New Mystics (https://newmystics.xyz/), a digital platform merging magic and technology. In 2022, they organized New Worlds (https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/new-worlds) at Somerset House Studios in London. Her work has appeared at Ars Electronica with transmediale, Arcade Seoul, the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, Gray Area in San Francisco, Basement Roma in Rome, Singapore Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas, Fiber Festival in the Netherlands, and Serpentine in London, among others. Their writing appears in ArtReview, Flash Art, Frieze, e-flux Architecture, and the Harvard Design Magazine.

In 2023, they were the Vilém Flusser Resident for Artistic Research at transmediale and UdK in Berlin, a Somerset House Studios resident artist (https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/residents/alice-bucknell) in London, and a SCI-Art Supercollider Ambassador in Los Angeles. In 2024, they are participating in Medialab-Matadero’s Synthetic Minds prototyping lab and the EPFL—CDH Enter the Hyper-scientific residency program in Lausanne. Bucknell is currently working on The Alluvials, her first video game, commissioned by mudac in Lausanne. She is a resident of Somerset House Studios in London and teaching faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

Formed by Ailo Ribas, Gabriella Demczuk and Areej Ashhab in 2022, Al-Wah’at is an artist research collective committed to countering harmful anthropocentric and colonial narratives around arid lands and futures. They engage with a diversity of communal practices and knowledges—local, folk wisdom, scientific, translocal, more-than-human—in order to create a more holistic understanding of these ecologies, particularly in light of climate change. Their award-winning project Wild Hedges, started in 2023 at Sakiya organization in Ein Qiniya, Palestine as part of the Soil Futures residency program, investigates the ecological and socio-political complexities of the prickly pear cactus and the cochineal insect across various geographies, communities and temporalities.

From Allens Community Garden: "We want to create a community garden that’s accessible to all. We recognise the scarcity of growing spaces in London, and understand the barriers to access include poverty, race and disability, amongst others. We want to be a space for seasonal and communal celebration for local people. Everyone is welcome at Allens."

Isabella Wordsworth (She/Her) is a London-based graphic designer and writer interested in empathy as a design problem, how spaces, images, and quiet rituals shape the ways we gather, witness, and remain with one another. Her work is rooted in designing with communities rather than for them, tracing how culture is built collectively, layer by layer. Moving between design and essay, she explores ritual, memory, and belonging, and the ways everyday environments from public systems to shared tables, shape how we understand one another.

Ziyi Lian is a researcher, social designer, and writer moving between China and the Netherlands. Trained in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, her practice drifts across food, space, community, and the textures of everyday life. She observes, chews on what she encounters, spits it out, and slips back into the crowd. She is also the co-initiator of To Be Cooked, a design collective exploring food as a medium of connection.

Karlie is a multimedia artist and writer with a formal background in art history and media studies. She has published writing and criticism on photography and film. She interested in the relationship between ecology, materiality, perception and power.

Windmovesmountain writes about food, plants, queer love and everyday magic - observing these endless possibilities and soaking up simple joy as systems collapse around us in this troubled world. (@windmovesmountain)

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher and writer based in London. His latest books are Prophetic Culture (2021) and Technic and Magic (2018). He is Critical Fellow at the Royalty Academy Schools in London, Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, and a director at the radical publisher Verso Books. He is the host of the podcast Overmorrow’s Library for the Centre of Contemporary Arts in Geneva. He is currently working on a new book on the history of world-building imagination in the Mediterranean.

Aly sparkling Beveridge is an American chef, researcher, and artist. She is the founder of the food art and activism project Radikal Hospitality, which aims to radikalize hospitality workers into activists. Her primary research method uses autoethnography to explore her own radikalization through cultivating, foraging, fermenting, cooking, and eating, within periods of cultural and ecological immersion. She examines food from a transdisciplinary perspective and reconceptualizes food cultures and their systems into digestible interactions, with the hope of expanding individual sensory perception and investigating cultural ontologies.

For about a decade, Sophie Seita (she/they) has worked with language as a sensuous, sculptural, and sonic material, translated and moulded into live performances, performative objects, publications, sound pieces, drawings, and textiles. She teaches in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and recently held the Werner Düttmann Fellowship at Akademie der Künste (Berlin), and a research residency at Studio Voltaire. Often working collaboratively, she’s currently developing an artistic research project on ecoliteracy with Youngsook Choi, and a performance ritual for and with queer ancestors and water alongside Victoria Perrie, Jehan Roberson, Naomi Woo; and is nurturing the ongoing flourishing of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions.

Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is the Curator of Mycology at the New York State Museum, as well as faculty with the Bard Prison Initiative. Her research focuses on fungal taxonomy, diversity, evolution, symbiosis, and ecology, particularly of the less studied fungal groups, such as the insect-associated Laboulbeniales. She is a co-founder of the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists, which seeks to jointly protect Armenian sovereignty and biodiversity. Patricia also studies philosophy of science, queer ecology, and queer theory, exploring how mycology and other scientific disciplines are situated in and informed by our sociopolitical landscape. Her work, The science underground: mycology as a queer discipline, bridged the relationship between queerness and mycology. Her forthcoming book, Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, will be published by Spiegel & Grau.

Darren Le Baron is a world renowned educator in Ethnomycology and Psychedelic studies. Based in the UK and the Caribbean he is also a grassroots community activist and influencer. With a background in Creative Arts, Organic Horticulture and Permaculture, he is the creator of the Shroomshop, a Mushroom Cultivation initiative that engages local communities, schools and business enterprises alike.

Stephen Vider (he/him) is Associate Professor of History and co-director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and curator of the exhibition “AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism” (Museum of the City of New York, 2017). His popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, Avidly, Time, and Slate, among other places.

Soñ Gweha (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist pursuing a PhD in Practice between Paris, Cameroon's Littoral region, and Vienna. Rooted in Cameroonian and Afro-diasporic heritage, Afrofeminist struggles, sci-fi and a wide tradition of black music, their work explores intimacy, love, joy, and vitality from a Black, Queer, and Afrofuturist perspective through utopian, erotic, and spiritual imaginaries through music, DJing under the name SOÑXSEED, poetry, performance, fruit and plant matter, and other mixed media. Soñ Gweha crafts immersive spaces that exist between worlds, reconfiguring past-present-future temporalities. Their creations invite reflection on collective and individual liberation, offering spaces where grief, comfort, and celebration intertwine in a continuous dance.

Ghost (he/him) and John (he/him) are two artist-researchers across performances, writings and visual arts, and a married couple. They make embodied works about queer migrant experiences, dreaming of futures with lush gardens, fluidity across membranes and liberations after the fall. In their past productions, they present fragmented memories of traumatic experiences related to displacement, relationships, social movement, and technological interaction. Their experimental theatre work “Two Plant Gaysians” is currently available for booking. They are two of the six co-founders of Hidden Keileon CIC.

Wakanyi is an author, scholar of African Indigenous knowledge, and global spokesperson for the Ubuntu philosophy. Her diverse intercultural experiences as a global nomad have enriched her perspective on the human condition. Wakanyi is a graduate of University College London, where her thesis proposed the integration of Indigenous knowledge into global education systems. She is a board member of the Kenya Education Fund, providing high school education to marginalized gifted children. In addition, her advisory role with the Contentment Foundation underscores her commitment to global well-being. She is also a board member of Seeds of Wisdom, which is dedicated to sharing the wisdom and knowledge of Indigenous elders. Wakanyi is the founder of the African Folktales Project, created to bridge the gap between Indigenous and contemporary African societies, and she is a co-founder of HumanityLink, a global system of digital communication solutions for marginalized populations.

Based between Madrid and Sydney, GRANDEZA STUDIO

(Amaia Sanchez-Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol and Gonzalo Valiente Oriol) is a collective of architects and artists founded in Madrid in 2011. Their work studies late-capitalist spaces and narratives to identify – through critical analysis – and challenge – through political imagination – the mechanisms that veil and normalize structural forms of violence.

GRANDEZA STUDIO´s work hybridizes methodologies that entangle with research, critical spatial practice, writing, performance, design, filmmaking and pedagogy.

Philip Maughan is a writer and researcher based between London and Berlin. He writes regularly about food, technology, unorthodox science and culture, and is one half of the food philosophy platform Black Almanac.

Black Almanac is a speculative design-research platform that sees artificiality, alienation, and desire as key ingredients in the transformation of the global food system.
The project brings together concepts, tools, case studies, and people for whom equitable, nutritious, sustainable and joyful cuisine is the minimum viable requirement for food in the century to come.

Clara Benito is an independent researcher based in Madrid, previously part of the Institute for Postnatural Studies as a researcher, speaker in workshops and seminars, as well as co-editor, and writer within the Institute's publishing house of critical thought and ecology Chtulhu Books. With a background in philosophy and visual arts, Clara has a research master's degree rMA Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and has been part of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) since 2018. Her research, interdisciplinary in nature but with a strong influence from philosophy, touches on topics such as posthumanism, animal studies, queer theory and feminist and gender studies, decolonial theory and environmental humanities.

Laura Tripaldi is a PhD scholar in Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she works on the design of hybrid nanomaterials and the study of their processes of self-assembly for advanced technological applications. Parallel to her academic research, she writes about speculative and philosophical aspects of science and technology, with a particular focus on the concepts of complexity, self-organization, relational ontologies, artificial life, softness, and material interfaces. She is a contributor for several online magazines. Her latest book, Menti Parallele (Parallel Minds) (effequ, 2020), an essay on the intelligence of materials and their entanglement with human minds, will be translated into English and published by Urbanomic Press (2021).

Dr Kaajal Modi (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher in anthropocene heritage, working through creative practices to explore how making in collaboration with diverse communities (human, microbial and ecological) opens up novel speculations on how we create mutually-resilient climate futures. Their practice is rooted in co-creation, and incorporates fermenting, cooking, image making, live art, sound and creative interactions to enact lively and situated encounters between people, organisms and ecosystems in ways that invite critical reflection and action.

Sean Roy Parker is a visual artist, environmental educator and fermenting enthusiast living in East Midlands, UK. Until recently, Roy was living and working from The Field, an artist-run housing project set in a former Steiner School in Derbyshire, where he was finding harmony in self-organised community and researching food as cultural infrastructure for artistic production. For five years he has worked under Fermental Health, an open-ended self-initiated practice about food sovereignty and emotional well-being in late capitalism. He gives workshops on home fermentation, runs an allotment project with primary school children and makes exhibitions about digesting complex relationships with (beyond)humans.

Photo by: Will Hearle / Omved Gardens

JOVE SPUCCHI is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, performer, dramaturg, and educator working in an occult-driven practice. They explore the intersections of technology, dance, and queer nightlife as driven by the value and goal of spiritual enmeshment with the magical other. Leaning into their decade of software engineering, IT and engineering leadership, they explore how occult traditions, ritual practices, and divination techniques overlap, and “dance” with emerging technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Justin Wong is a London based interdiscipli- nary designer working at the intersections of apparel design, ecology, and scholarship. Inspired by non-human ecologies and social formations of ungovernability, his practice explores avenues for forging more-than-hu- man relations for mutual flourishing. Draw- ing from theories of race, animality, and political ecology, his research interrogates mechanisms that uphold White humanism and seeks to decolonize the racialized con- ception of the “human.” He is currently in- terested in tracing the spectral potentials of non-human actors, particularly at molecular and microbial scales.

Isaias Hernandez is an environmentalist, educator, and writer devoted to improving environmental literacy through content creation, storytelling, and public engagements. Isaias is more commonly known by his moniker, Queer Brown Vegan: the independent media platform he started to bring intersectional environmental education to all. His journey to deconstruct complex issues, while centering diversity and authenticity, has resonated with a worldwide audience.

He has produced and written his own climate-independent web series, Teaching Climate Together, which exists to bring environmental education to everyone by working with scientists, researchers, and community leaders. He is currently working on his first-ever debut book, Dear Environmentalist: Why Ecological Wealth Is Our Only Way Forward, set to be published in April 2027 with Hachette Book Group under the Timber Press imprint.

Isaias has been featured in several noteworthy publications, including the digital cover of VOGUE alongside Billie Eilish and seven other environmental activists, New York Times, The Guardian, and Business Insider. Isaias serves on the advisory board for Yale Climate Connections. As a public speaker, he’s presented for the New York Times, UC Berkeley, Yale, Harvard University, and more.

Adriana Gallo is an artist and researcher living and working in New York with roots in Milan and the Northeastern US. Her practice embodies and complicates ecologies of labor and outcomes take the form of installations, sculptures, texts, workshops, and meals.

House of Annetta is a space for learning about the ways in which ownership of land shapes our lives and the world around us. 25 Princelet Street was the home of beekeeper, artist, activist and publisher Annetta Pedretti from 1980-2018. We are committed to continuing her work at the house through building repair, self-organised education, and cybernetic projects.

Luïza Luz (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and author whose work engages with spatial, textual, sonic, and performance-based ecologies. Through the reciprocal acts of voicing and listening, they approach education as a medium, cultivating strategies that merge somatics, storytelling, and performance with intersectional environmentalism, nurturing embodied-critical learning experiences. Luïza founded and led the Planetary Embodiment seminar at the Berlin University of Arts (2021–2023), culminating in the publication Planetary Embodiment: Cooking With Words for Systemic Change and Solidarity. They are also the author of Beneath the Surface: Deep Listening, Buried Narratives, and Embodied Resistance (2024), published by Archive Books and We Make It. They have been a guest lecturer at the Dirty Art Department at Sandberg Instituut, among others.

De Sering was created in 2019 with the mission that it is critical in the current social landscape, for activism, and for the political left as a whole to rebuild communities. De Sering was founded on the belief that strong communities are essential for activism—and for the political left as a whole. We live in a time of unprecedented isolation and loneliness, and we don’t see this as a coincidence.

As social connections weaken, so does the strength of activist and leftist movements. Rebuilding community isn’t just important—it’s critical for change. Since 2019, De Sering has been a community-driven space where food, culture, and activism intersect, offering 300 donation-based meals daily to ensure food remains accessible to all.

At the heart of De Sering is the Community Kitchen, fostering connection through affordable, plant-based meals. In the evenings, we host events, workshops, and cultural programming, creating a lively, inclusive atmosphere.

Forma is a contemporary arts organisation based in Southwark, London. Driven by artists and their ideas, we develop collaborative interdisciplinary projects that challenge existing practices, span multiple artistic disciplines and demand new levels of ambition.

The Center for Genomic Gastronomy is an artist-led think tank launched in 2010 by Cathrine Kramer (NO) and Zack Denfeld (US) that examines the biotechnologies and biodiversity of human food systems. They have completed research and exhibited in Asia, Europe and North America, collaborating with scientists, chefs, hackers and farmers. Their mission is to map food controversies, prototype alternative culinary futures, and imagine a more just, biodiverse & beautiful food system.

The Center’s work has been published in WIRED, We Make Money Not Art, Science, Nature and Gastronomica and exhibited at the World Health Organization, Kew Gardens, Science Gallery Dublin and others.

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His writings span the fields of ecological theory, phenomenology, and political thought. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and monographs, including Plant-Thinking (2013); The Philosopher’s Plant (2014); Dust (2016), Energy Dreams (2017), Heidegger (2018), Political Categories (2019), Pyropolitics (2015, 2020); Dump Philosophy (2020); Hegel's Energy (2021); Green Mass (2021), Philosophy for Passengers (2022), The Phoenix Complex (2023), Time Is a Plant (2023), and, with Edward S. Casey, The Place of Plants (2023).

Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities. She is the author of the award-winning Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives. (2008) and Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World (2020). Her concept of sitopia, or food-place (from the Greek sitos, food + topos, place) has gained broad recognition across a wide range of fields in design, ecology, academia and the arts. 

Every Mouth Needs Filling is a queer-led collaborative curatorial practice formed by Caitlin Fleming and Elisha Fall in 2023. Their work centres on commensurality as a method. They utilize shared meals, screenings, exhibitions, and conversations to activate queer histories and lived experiences. They formed in response to the loss of queer venues. Their work creates care-led spaces for gathering, making, and collective nourishment. They are rooted in South East London and committed to decentralised, intergenerational practice. The name from Hilton Als’ White Girls reflects their practice as married collaborators: “Every mouth needs filling with something wet or dry, or unfamiliar and savory, like love.” They aim to consider the tongue through research and commensality and explore intimacy through its varying facets.

Alfonso Borragán's practice is articulated between research, teaching and production. He explores and activates relational processes, physical and metaphysical, with the earth, usually through collective processes and collective actions. His practice is manifested inside the fragility of collective processes and the ephemerality of action, like a latent image in constant change. His work has been described as a “vague momentum”, the critical instance where the generation of images is potentiated.

As an artist, he tries to channel an experience, building situations and devices that are born to be consumed and that try to modify the perception of reality, interfere or expand it. These develop at a symbiotic level with humans, through a correspondence that is activated through them and disappear with them. His works are articulated among them as part of a system of relationships in process.

As part of its work methodology, he activates long interdisciplinary collective processes with the context. He generates collectives formed by the local communities amalgamated with teams of scientists, anthropologists, geologists, farmers and other knowledges that expand and develop different views during these processes. These processes usually form in collective actions, ingestions, installations, videos and publications.

alfonso borragán studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and later continued his training at the MFA Slade School of Fine Arts (London) where he finalised his PhD in 2022. He works and lives in London.

He has exhibited and developed works both nationally and internationally. His latest works have been seen at the National Museum of art and CCELP in La Paz (Litofagos-Goalito); Botin Centre in Santander (Halito); Emerson Dorsch in Miami (Bucarolito); Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (Alterbees); Kontejner in Zagreb (Daguerrolito); Plataforma Bogotá (Fosfofagia 04) and Khoj Artist Association, New Delhi (Fosfofagia 03).

Currently he is lecturer in Arts and Interdisciplinarity at the Arts and Science department of University College London. Furthermore, has taught classes, workshops and conferences at the Slade School of Fine Arts, Camberwell College of Arts, the London School of Interdisciplinarity, London College of Communication, Swansea Metropolitan, Plymouth University of Arts, NTNU Trodheim, University of Cantabria, University of Barcelona, ​​Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) or the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya.

He is part of the collectives Future Famers, Food Cultura, La Comunidad and the duo Volcanica with Santiago Reyes Villaveces. Also, he runs the temporal experimental restaurant Spark with Alvaro Sau.

Farah (b. 1996, Cairo) holds an MA in Social Anthropology and Visual Ethnography from the University of Kent. In 2019, she founded @anthropology_bel3araby to make anthropology accessible in Arabic. Her work focuses on visual and collaborative Anthropology, leading to the 2022 “Being Borrowed:on Egyptian Migration to the Gulf” exhibition and Publication. In 2024, she received an AFAC grant for “Anthropology BelAraby Lab,” bridging anthropology and curatorial practices. She is also part of Safeena 7, critically engaging with photography.

gal sherizly (they/them) aka fungal 9669 is a trans/disciplinary artist, writer and FEELed researcher. They bridge differences through deep listening and amplifying similarities. gal collages sensorial storytelling and weaves edible, audible, visual, written and spoken into rituals, performances, collective gatherings, installations and workshops. Similarly to music, food is another gateway for those that long to belong. gal writes recipes for preserving ancestral and more-than-human knowledge(s)—translating them into digestible, accessible and embodied manuals. They use wor(l)ds as ingredients for cooking a planetary change: healing bodies and cistems and trans/forming dietary lexicons and expanding linguistic, musical and cultural terrains.

João Pedro Soares is a filmmaker, writer, and researcher currently pursuing a PhD in artistic Studies at NOVA-FCSH in Lisbon. His doctoral research explores the intersection of ecology and contemporary Portuguese documentary cinema.

João is a participant of the 2024-2025 Food & Art Alternative MA (online), currently on a work-exchange with The Gramounce.

Anne van Leeuwen (1987) worked on a museum about the relationship between humans and the rest of life at Artis Royal zoo and co-founded the Embassy of the North Sea in Amsterdam. In 2019, she started Bodemzicht farm and foundation with her partner Ricardo in Malden. In March 2024 she moved to the 45 hectare Lenteland regenerative community farm 't Gagel in Lochem. She is in close contact with the regenerative movement in the Netherlands and a founding farmer of the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture (EARA).

Ole G. Mouritsen PhD DSc FRS-DK is a research scientist and professor emeritus of gastrophysics and culinary food innovation at the University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on basic sciences and their applications within the fields of biotechnology, biomedicine, food, and taste. He is the recipient of numerous prizes for his work and for research communication. His extensive list of publications includes several monographs, many of them co-authored with chef Klavs Styrbæk, which integrate scientific insights with culinary perspectives and have been nominated three times for Gourmand Best in the World Awards. Currently, Ole is president of The Danish Gastronomical Academy and founder and past director of the National Danish Taste Center Taste for Life.

Becky Lyon is an English-Jamaican artist and researcher based in London. Her practice is invested in the politics of ecology, with a particular focus on England and on the possibilities of artistic methods to rehearse more equitable and liveable worlds. Working through sensory and bodily forms of knowledge, her work seeks to reclaim and re-attune relationships to place.

Lyon's work takes the form of tactile objects, sensory installations, hand-made moving images, audio experiments, and publications. Recent projects include an investigation into notions of Britishness through the spread of the ‘invasive’ muntjac deer; a heat-reactive installation inviting visitors to embody the uneven distribution of rising temperatures; performances for London’s polluted waters; and a pop-up café experience that surfaces entangled relationships to soil and water.

Shannon Higgins (she/her) is a creative, working where food and art come together, focusing on seasonal produce and how it changes throughout the year. She like experimenting with recipes that are fun and a little different, hoping to help people notice and enjoy the simple, natural flavors each season has to offer.

Architectural research practice based in Braga, Portugal, co-founded and led by PhD architects Fernando P. Ferreira and Daniel Duarte Pereira. Their practice-led research seeks novel ways of mediating and designing dialogues between the built environment, communities, ecosystems, and institutions, blurring the boundaries between art and architecture. Immersive, collaborative, and site-specific, Space Transcribers employ critical spatial practices as architectural methodologies, offering new ecological and socio-political perspectives and speculative propositions for urban and rural contexts in Portugal and beyond. Space Transcribers have lectured and exhibited internationally, and in 2023, they participated in Fertile Futures, the Portuguese representation at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. Currently, they are curating three research projects for Braga 25 – the Portuguese Capital of Culture for 2025, including Counter-Kiosk and Shape of Neighbourhood, an architecture and art festival.