Kollektiv orangotango, Severin Halder, Paul Schweizer, Berlin

Paul Schweizer is a geographer and popular educator. He has studied youth cultures in urban peripheries of cities such as Naples, São Paulo, and Istanbul. As a member of kollektiv orangotango, he co-conducts collective art projects in public space. After having co-edited "This Is Not an Atlas", he currently participates in collective mapping processes in Europe and Latin America to facilitate global dialogue of militant cartographers.

Severin Halder is an activist and geographer driven by experiences with everyday resistance in the peripheries of places such as Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, and Maputo. Those inspirations guided him through the last decade while working within kollektiv orangotango, community gardens, and academia in and beyond Berlin. As one of the co-editors of "This Is Not an Atlas", he is currently working on the various evolutions of the project.

http://orangotango.info/

Birgit Schneider University Potsdam

Birgit Schneider is a professor for knowledge cultures and media environments in Potsdam. She worked as a graphic designer from 1998 to 2003 and was research associate in the project "Das Technische Bild" at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt University from 2000 to 2007. Since 2008, she has been Dilthey Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the Institute for Arts and Media, University of Potsdam, and in 2009 was a substitute professor for cultural techniques at the Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar. Her current research focus is the visualization of climate since 1800 and a genealogy of climate change visualization inbetween science, aesthetics and politics.

https://emw.fh-potsdam.de/personen_lehrende_portrait.php?tid=165/

Philippe Rekacewicz, University of Helsinki

Philippe Rekacewicz is a geographer, cartographer and information designer. After earning his degree in geography from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), he worked at Le Monde diplomatique from 1988 to 2014. Between 1996 and 2008, he headed in parallel the cartographic department of GRID-Arendal in Norway, a delocalized office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). He is a specialist in geopolitics and international relations. His interests include questions relating to migration, refugees, forced displacement of populations, and borders. In order to bring together these research studies, he co-founded with Philippe Rivière, the participatory research website visionscarto.net dedicated to radical and experimental cartography and geography focused on social and spatial justice, and competing fight between public and private spaces. In January 2017, he embarked into the program “Crosslocations” of the department of Anthropology at the University in Helsinki as well as the program “Territories of urban extension” at the ETH – University of Zurich.

https://visionscarto.net/

Ulrike Felsing, Bern University of the Arts HKB

Ulrike Felsing is a design researcher and lecturer at the Bern University of the Arts. From 2021–2025 she codirects the Sinergia research project: "Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analog and Digital Image Archives", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) together with University of Basel. Ulrike led the project on the digital transformation of the Swiss National Archives at the HKB, funded by the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH (2018.) In collaboration with Rudi Baur she conducted the research project “The Exploration of Design Methods in the Field of Transcultural Visual Communication”, which has been funded by the SNSF (2010–2015). In 2018 she completed her PhD thesis on “Reflexive Kataloge: Ein Medium der Übersetzung als Ausstellung, Film und Hypertext.” (Bielefeld: Transcript. Currently in print) Ulrike studied visual communication at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany.

Max Frischknecht, Bern University of the Arts HKB

Max Frischknecht is a design researcher, programmer, and graphic designer. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate for the Sinergia research project "Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analog and Digital Image Archives", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) from 2021–2025. Max holds an MA in Design from the Bern University of the Arts HKB, where he conducted a research project on the role of personal data for political communication in Switzerland’s social networks. He studied visual communication at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel and is a co-founder of the Basel based design agency Début Début.

https://maxfrischknecht.ch/

Bureau d'Études, Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt, Paris

Bureau d'études is a French conceptual art group founded in 1998 by Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt. During 20 years, the group has been developing research on the structures of power and capitalism (www.bureaudetudes.org). The group lives now in the countryside and works on a scale 1:1 collective project across agriculture, commons and resymbolizing researches (www.fermedelamhotte.fr). Bureau d'études is co-founder of the Laboratory Planet collective&journal (laboratoryplanet.org) and of the Aliens in Green project (aliensingreen.eu) a participatory action combining hands-on DIY science protocols, xenopolitical role-play and queering rituals.

https://bureaudetudes.org/

Diana Alvarez-Marin, ETH Zürich

Diana Alvarez-Marin is an architect and researcher at the chair of Digital Architectonics. She is a co-author of the book “A Quantum City, Mastering the Generic” around which she pursued her PhD “Atlas of Indexical Cities: Articulating Personal City Models On Generic Infrastructural Ground”. Her research explores the shift from mapping to modelling taking place under the influx of abundant information and the role of the observer in these articulations. She graduated with honours from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille, France. For several years she collaborated with O.M.A. in Rotterdam and group8 in Geneva. She attended the MAS program in CAAD at ETH Zürich from 2011–2012. From 2013–2016 she was visiting researcher at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore. She has taught several courses for architecture students around her research on cities: “A Quantum City: Mastering the Generic” and “Indexical Cities: Articulating your own city of Indexes”. She loves writing and thinking in both natural and programming languages.