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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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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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Thomas Rammelt

Thomas Rammelt is the co-founder and managing director of the Doggerland Foundation. He started as a barrister in the field of nature, environmental, construction and spatial planning law.

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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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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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Martin Hultman

Martin Hultman, Associate Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, is widely published in energy, climate, and environmental issues in a variety of journals and more than ten books. His work has been translated into seven languages. Hultman leads three research groups analyzing ‘masculinities and energy’, ‘rights of nature’, and ‘climate change denial’. He…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Matthew Bird

Matthew Bird is a Climate and Sustainability professional with 25 years of experience at local authorities and other community organisations and as a District and Town Councillor.

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Xandra van der Eijk

Xandra van der Eijk is a Dutch artist and researcher, interested in the fluid, networked actors that constitute waterbodies. Using a distinct artistic methodology, they provide material experience-driven approaches to imagining and understanding ecological networks. In 2019, Xandra founded and developed the first MA in ecological art in the Netherlands at Avans University of Applied…

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Marijana Lemm

Marijana is one of the co-founders of Sentient, with a background in environmental activism, regenerative agriculture, and the establishment of Montenegro’s first eco yoga retreat.

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Nils Richterich

Nils Richterich is a sociologist based at the research training group “Fixing Future” (University of Frankfurt am Main), where he works on more-than-human sociology of inequality, environmental sociology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). In his dissertation, he investigates the question of what is required to establish different forms of the rights of nature.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Thijs Middeldorp

Thijs Middeldorp (1978) is co-owner of campaign and design agency Partizan Publik, director of the Amsterdam 4 and 5 May committee, curator of the Groningen Atelier aan de Middendijk, co-founder of energy cooperative Amsterdam Energie and board member of various cultural organizations.

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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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Teresa Vicente Giménez

Teresa Vicente Giménez is Professor of Philosophy of Law. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Cooperation and Development Studies (CECODE) at the Universidad de Murcia.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Emilie Reuchlin

Emilie Reuchlin is the co-founder and managing director of the Doggerland Foundation. She is a marine biologist and political scientist with 15 years of experience in marine conservation in the international North Sea.

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Duncan Rawson

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