He/They

www.lis.ac.uk, www.linkedin.com/in/ashbrockwell

I'm a transdisciplinary academic, artist and songworker, and Problems-Based Learning Lead at The London Interdisciplinary School. My research interests include transformative education, ecopsychology, environmental anthropology, ecology / ethnoecology, and the role of the arts in mental wellbeing and in promoting emotional connection with habitats and the species that live there. I enjoy working with acrylics, mixed media, found objects, and land art.

She / Her

https://www.elasticfiction.co/

https://www.instagram.com/elastic_fiction/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-lyon/

Becky Lyon is a London-born and based English-Jamaican artist and researcher. Her art practice explores methods for coming into relationship with and eliciting insights from ecology, particularly within ‘urban’ spaces, to unearth how our socio-political worlds are and could be shaped. Recurring themes in her work are sensing bodies, tactile processes and the touchy-feely; earthly curriculums and counter-currents; power relations and possibling; softness, oozing and slippery edges; intimacy and quiet resistance. Her work manifests as installations, rituals, photographic objects, handmade moving images and text. She is interested in alternative forms of ecological stewardship and founded Grounded Ground Provisions - an artist-led, schooled-by-the-forest for grown ups and the the Squishy Sessions research collective. She is a volunteer ranger for London National Park City active across Barnet, Brent and Harrow. She has an MA Art & Science from Central Saint Martins, an MA Art & Ecology from Goldsmiths University of London. She is a PhD researcher at The Centre of Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths with the topic ‘Touch as method: the artist as ecologist and feeling-for other(ed) conservation cultures in England’. She side-hustles as a consultant and trends researcher for global brands.

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beckymiller.co.uk

Becky Miller has worked in Defra’s Farming and Countryside Programme since 2022. She was the first service designer to work in the UK’s cross-government Policy Lab (2019-2022), and previously worked on MHCLG’s Local Digital Collaboration Unit (2018-2019). Before joining UK Civil Service, she worked in a range of service organisations and small businesses including London’s Union Chapel music venue and a ski school in France.

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https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk. https://bsky.app/profile/brendanarnold.bsky.social

Brendan works at Policy Lab, a policy innovation unit at the Department for Education, and is likely the UK government's first Creative Technologist. In this role he has been combining design and creative thinking to tackle knotty policy problems across government. He runs the regular Imagination Forums at Policy Lab which explore and practice new methods in a safe environment. He has a background as a practising artist as well as in technology and physics.

She/Her

https://www.ubele.org/

I am a passionate Project Officer with experience supporting Black and racialised grassroots communities through equity and equality programmes. Currently, I am leading a project that helps young people learn about environmental justice and take action in their communities. Beyond my work, I volunteer in community initiatives and am always looking for ways to contribute further. I believe in the power of collaboration and community-led change to create lasting impact.

She/her

@cultiv8london

I came to gardening through a love for the outdoors, cultivated from growing up in the countryside. I enjoy nurturing this passion in others, and sharing the produce that we've grown together.

I help run a community garden in West London where we sow and save seeds, turn compost, care for existing plants, design for the future, and support all living beings in and around our oasis.

They / She

@wildheartwithacamera / @GoWildForBees

Jasmine Isa Qureshi (they/she), is a freelance journalist (systemic structures, politics, natural history, queerness, muslim identity, take ya pick), interdisciplinary / "Queering" ecologist, previous (and sometimes still if you're up for talks about icefish nests) marine biologist, workshop facilitator, researcher (due to start a PhD at the Global Sustainability Institute at ARU - working on "Queering Ecology"; within decolonising conservation and ecology, and understanding Indigenous and ancestral teachings on regenerative ecology and queer theory, and her own work "Queering" Ecology (workshops, research, etc.)), activist and award winning poet. Jasmine is the Advocacy Lead for grassroots rewilding campaigns collective Wildcard. An Ambassador for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Jasmine is very obsessed with bugs, invertebrates, and things with "too many", or no legs. She keeps biting the hands that feed her, because they offer crumbs most often, and that usually leads to bridges burning that she didn't want to cross anyway. Oh, and she's writing a book.m description

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@kirstybadenoch

I am an artist, researcher and educator working with fragile and disturbed landscapes, communities and ecologies. I draw, design, make, talk, write, perform and plant. I engage with interdisciplinary, alchemic and messy site-based processes. I occupy the intertidal zone whenever possible, acting as a conduit for exchange. I've worked with clients and partners including National Trust, UCL, Essex Cultural Diversity Project, and various councils across London. I teach Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies, Landscape Architecture and Research by Design at The Bartlett School of Architecture. I curate Microscope, a small experimental gallery in Dalston.

Through all of these things, I seek to interrogate situations of environmental injustice and advocate toward a shared ecological future.

He / Him

https://nationalparkcity.london/

Louis (Lou) is passionate about regenerative design and building resilient communities. As a consultant he works with the Carbon Free Group on rewilding sites in Sussex & Kent as well as in London as a director of several sustainability projects including The River Roding Trust, the Cob in the Community natural building practice and as an associate of the SEADS.network. In 2015, he graduated with an MSc/Dip in Urban Regeneration from the Bartlett, UCL. He was awarded the Santander Universities Community Contribution award and was a finalist in the Mayor of London/Siemens Low Carbon Entrepreneur Prize.

She/Her

rhuxley.co.uk

Rebecca is an artist based in London who researches the night and its phenomena. She explores the infrastructures shaping nighttime, that produce certain kinds of experience and reveal corresponding social, political and environmental interactions at different scales. Her practice involves collaborative fieldwork between artists, scientists and the public.

I have worked in policy around environment, transport and community development for more than 2 decades. For the past 10 years, I have helped grow and support a number of community groups in Feltham - although I have now passed these on. Professionally I work supporting Assembly Members on the cross-party London Assembly Environment Committee, although I am attending in a personal capacity.

I have been involved in a number of community groups, and movement building of groups to care for and improve green spaces.

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@sazpaps.bsky.social

Saskia Papadakis is a researcher and oral historian with interests in politically-engaged research and social, racial and environmental justice. Saskia completed her PhD on the English North-South divide in 2022, and subsequently worked at the University of Manchester researching histories of Black Power in Leicester. Since 2023, she has been recording oral histories of the UK environmental movement 1970-2020, contributing to the creation of a new, freely accessible archive of the movement with National Life Stories at the British Library. Saskia has been involved in migrant rights activism, and is increasingly interested in food growing and urban agroecology.

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https://company-place.com/in-motion-page
@company_place

Company, Place was founded in 2018 by Vickie Hayward. Specialising in sustainable arts and culture initiatives for the built environment, we focus on large-scale, experimental and interdisciplinary projects that bring people and place together.

She is currently working on two sites of development for the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. At both she is working to bring artists into the landscape and biodiversity teams as well as looking at how artistic programmes could foster local stewardship.