06 / Fereniki
Vatavali
Fereniki Vatavali is a Dr. architect-urban planner. She has taught urban planning in National Technical Univers, Democritus University of Thrace, Hellenic Open University and Polis University of Tirana and she has participated in several research projects dealing with urban development processes and socioeconomic transformations of the Greek cities. Her professional experience includes consultancy on urban planning issues in Greece, Albania, Belgium, Japan, Syria and Jordan. She is a member of the Struggle Committee for the Metropolitan Park of Hellinikon and since 2010 she has been involved in the anti-privatization movement.
Oliver Lerone Schultz is post-media researcher based in Berlin, and associated to the Global Ports Authority (GPA). As co-curator of transmediale 2016 he put together the 'Re-examining Global Ports' panel – along with Ben Vickers – that started to discuss broader conceptual notions of the concept and cultural archetype of 'ports' in a 'post-digital' and 'post-democratic' world.
Currently he and a band of 'self-governance peers' (including Kei Kreutler and Fabi Borges) is involved in an effort to re-construct the GPA as transversal institution, crossing the symbolic spaces of power and standardization and scrutinizing the concept of 'peer-authorities'. The GPA is meant to act as a regulating body on ‘port openess’ – in all its possible meanings.
> Oliver + first global.ports panel
> private: lerone.info
02 / Oliver Lerone Schultz
07 / Alejandro Meitin
Artist, lawyer and founding member of the art collective Ala Plastica (1991 -Current) based in the city of La Plata, Argentina and he has participated in the research, development and implementation of many collaborative art practices, working with residents, youth,
farmers, artists, activists, architects, landscape architects, local authorities and pollution control experts.
He has collaborated with regional, national and making proposals on international rivers and water resources systems and conducted
exhibitions, teaching, residencies, publications, given lectures and conferences in Latin America, North America and Europe.
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01 / Nicholas Anastasopoulos
Nicholas Anastasopoulos PhD, is an architect, researcher and lecturer at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). His work addresses aspects of sustainability, expressions of the commons in space, alternative communities, future alternatives, complexity and participation. His fieldwork research covers alternative communities in Europe, the US, Israel, NZ and Ecuador.
As Prometeo Researcher (IAEN, Quito, 2014) he conducted research on aspects of Buen Vivir and sustainability, and the impact of the commons on urban environments and contributed to the FLOK Society project.
Has has been invited to lecture widely in Universities in Europe and Latin America.
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05 / Geheimagentur
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The Bank of Burning Money, the Wunder-Annahmestelle (i.e. Miracle Receiving Office), the Alibi-Agentur (i.e. Alibi Agency), the Tourism-Art-Stipendienprogramm (i.e. Tourism Art Scholarship Programme) – geheimagentur (i.e. the secret agency) produces situations and institutions that appear to be fictional but then nonetheless withstand the test of reality.
The performances of geheimagentur cross the boundaries of symbolic politics towards ‘instant pleasure’: they create a miniature version of another reality rather than confirming the old world in critical gestures. geheimagentur is an independent label, an open collective and the attempt to practice the “art of being many”.
04 / Roman
Sebastyanski
Roman Sebastyanski is an architect and urban planner, currently completing a PhD research study on public participation in the urban planning process at the UWS.
He was a founder of the Artists’ Colony in the Gdansk Shipyard. Since 2012 he has been an active member of the Young City Stakeholders’ Board and since 2014 cosignatory of the Agreement of all formal and informal social and cultural organizations actively engaged in the preservation of the Gdansk Shipyard historical heritage.
03 / Katarzyna
Kosmala
Profesor Katarzyna Kosmala is Chair in Culture, Media and Visual Arts at the School of Media, Culture and Society, University of the West of Scotland, curator, and art writer. Previously Visiting Research Fellow at GEXcel, Institute of Thematic Gender Studies, Linköping University & Örebro University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She researches and writes on discourses of creative and cultural labour, heritage and participation, marginalization, alternative forms of organizing, art facilitated interventions in peripheral locations in the context of a globalising network society, as well as art production and enterprise.