She / Her

https://aniamokrzycka.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ania.mokrzycka

I am a London-based artist and independent curator with a research-led practice focused on ecologies approached from an intersectional feminist perspective. I am interested in recovering and generating spaces of kinship, real or imaginary. In 2023 I was a fellow at the Institute for Postnatural Studies; this October I started a fully-funded interdisciplinary PhD at LUL. I presented work internationally, including Matadero Centre for Contemporary Creation, Spain; IKLECTIK Art Lab, UK; Foundation B.a.d., The Netherlands; CCA Goldsmiths, UK; Salon Acme, Mexico; Unsound, Poland; Guest Projects, UK; European Media Art Festival, Germany. I was AiR at Est-Nord-Est, CA; Nida Arts Colony, LT; Trelex, CH; Joya: arte+ecología, ESP; Chalton Gallery, UK. I hold an MA in Fine Arts from the RCA in London.

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.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

I'm a Natural England geologist but mainly focus on Ice Age deposits: the last 2 million years or so, and interested in past climate change, environmental change and human activity...and how this can help us understand present and future impacts of climate change. Interested in exploring new ways of looking at, interpreting, playing with (!) data.

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 ‘(In)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.

He/Him

https://brentriverpark.org/

My background is in film-making and actor-training but recent years have seen me devoting my time to the River Brent, a much-abused river with tantalising traces of its former beauty. We do everything we can to restore this loved and neglected watercourse. We are wanting to find ways to share our mysterious love of this river with a wider public, and are aware this cannot be achieved through data alone. We are also intrigued by the aesthetic possibilities of the challenge. We want to make something beautiful out of and for the Brent.

She / Her

https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/ https://disordinaryarchitecture.co.uk/

Eliza (She/Her) is a partially deaf cultural producer, researcher and artist passionate about creating more equitable and sustainable spaces and systems. Her background lies in the built environment, contemporary art and theatre. She is current the Head of Programme for the London Festival of Architecture and Communications and Strategy lead for The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, alongside her work mentoring young creatives from under-represented backgrounds and her own artistic practice.

She / Her

@outdoor_mummy

Helen Simms is a curator with a background in geography and the arts. She is interested in the intersections of art, environment, and community and has programmed and curated for organisations including Bow Arts, The Line and UCL Urban Lab. Her PhD explored the role of art in peace-making in post-genocide Rwanda. Helen is also a London National Park City Ranger.

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.

She / Her

@meanderingpixel

Hello, I am Kavitha, a seeker of experiments, committed to being curious and question the nature of what it means to exist in this interconnected world. I am particularly interested in systemic entanglements across disciplines and my current PhD research delves into the spaces of collective imagining in the context of desirable futures. My creative practices are eclectic and comprise of experimental mixed media projects and publications. Recent highs include a zine catalogued at the Wellcome Collection, a poem published on local buses by B&H Arts Council and a photo that won a prize at The Sustainable Futures Photography Challenge.

He / Him

My name is Keir Chauhan, and I am a 2024 history graduate from University College London. Both my professional and academic experiences focus on building community by developing the connections between people and the places they call home. For instance, my conservation-based work has looked at ways to encourage and engage different communities in the natural world.

She / Her

https://kneed.info/

Leonie Rousham is an artist, she is part of a collaborative socially engaged practice called Kneed, as well as working across documentary, sound and archive. Using these as ways to collectivise experiences, memories and stories around labour, time and care, mobilised as tools to resist systems of oppression, exhaustion and isolation. She runs arts workshops for young people in Lewisham, co-organised workshops for Anti-university and co-run a DIY radio station called Panic.FM, set-up to creatively respond to the Covid-19 Crisis during a time of isolation.

I am one half of Kneed - Kneed is a collaborative practice formed by artists Ishwari Bhalerao (b. Nagpur) and Leonie Rousham (b. London). Through sound, film, performance, text and textiles, they explore and articulate structural violence, hostile bureaucracy, collective histories and informal economies of care embedded within the ecologies and contexts they find themselves within.

She / Her

https://www.florabucket.com/

Artist, researcher, educator and activist. In my current research I am attempting to detangle the tightly knit problems interwoven into the global textile industry, and explore the intersectional issues of class and environment. My artistic research has become strongly rooted in textiles and the injustices and inaccuracies surrounding the textile industry, focusing particularly on recycling and end of life.

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.

www.wildlondon.org.uk

@WildLondon

@frithinwood

An ecologist interested in the relationship between nature and society in towns and cities, I have worked for public and voluntary organisations, to develop and promote nature’s recovery in urban areas, and all their messy and marvellous complexity. With over 35 years’ experience of nature conservation policy and practice, I now oversee the development of the Trust’s nature recovery work to create and promote an ever-wilder London, and furthers the Trust’s research work, with partner and peer organisations. I co-host the London Rewilding Action Group and magpies tickle my fancy.

She / Her

https://hedgeways.wordpress.com/ @sarahroyston4 

I’m a writer and researcher based at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. My research explores intersections of creativity and sustainability, including place-based story-telling and queer ecologies. My writing is rooted in those same interests, especially how we might find magic, meaning and connection in “domesticated” places, suburbs and edgelands, and the role of re-enchantment as resistance. I've just started a collaborative project called LEAP Lab (Living Experiments in Art-Science Practice to Re-imagine Sustainability) and would love to connect with others in this space.

She / Her

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

I am a specialist in climate change adaptation for the natural environment, and I work to place nature, our life support system, at the centre of climate action. I am also exploring how creative and storytelling approaches can help engage on the nature and climate emergency and how this interacts with inclusivity, equity and environmental justice. I am a qualified coach and am working on how the coaching approach and a focus on well-being can help galvanise climate action and support us in our challenging work for nature and climate

Solène Heinzl is currently a user researcher at the Department for Education working on digital services for the social work workforce. Prior to this she worked as a researcher specialised in ethnography, filmed ethnography and innovative research approaches for better user centred policy design at EPIC and Policy Lab UK within the UK government. She completed a PhD in ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway entitled: “Cultural policies and the development of new towns: the urban ethnomusicology case study of Cergy-Pontoise 1965-Present Day.” And maintain a keen interest in ethnomusicology and people centred approaches in research.