Violeta Cabello is Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Basque Center for Climate Change (Bilbao, Spain). Her research focuses on knowledge coproduction in the context of environmental conflicts such as the Mar Menor.

Paula Andrea Zuluaga-Guerra is an Early Stage Researcher at the New Water Culture Foundation in the frame of the NEWAVE project and is currently doing her PhD in Environmental Public Policy at the Vrirje Universiteit of Amsterdam. Her research revolves around the collective construction of knowledge as a reflexive practice for exploring notions around the collective and the territorial practices that have shaped the Mar Menor lagoon in South East Spain during the past 50 years. Her research has received founding from the  research and innovation programme European Union’s Horizon 2020 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network NEWAVE – grant agreement No 861509.

Paula Novo is a Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Her research explores human-nature relationships in the context of environmental governance, and how arts-based approaches can help to better understand these processes. 

Marcela Brugnach, PhD, is IKERBASQUE Professor at BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change (Spain). Her research addresses the issue of uncertainty in collective decision-making processes in common pool natural resources, focusing on knowledge co-production and art-science interactions.

Maria Mancilla Garcia holds a Chair in Environmental Humanities at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium and is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden. She researches on relational aspects of socio-ecological dynamics, with a focus on issues of inclusion and environmental justice. She combines social network analysis with methodologies inspired by the arts, in particular theater and storytelling.

Josune Urrutia Asua mostly works doing comics and illustration for editorial projects, Books or any other application that needs to be illustrated. As Visual Facilitator helps people learn, communicate & work through Visual Thinking and Drawing. Interested in social and autobiographical perspectives, she has developed several research, creation and educational projects related to drawing, gaze and illness, such as her first graphic novel Hoy no es el día (Astiberri, 2022).

ARKAMEYERS [Arkaitz Saiz + Raquel Meyers] is a duo formed by photographer and videographer Arkaitz Saiz and multidisciplinary artist and independent researcher Raquel Meyers, who reflect on the paradoxes of the everyday and the distant, the analogue and the digital, memory, emotional landscapes, past and future and “civil inattention”. Akaitz’s gaze focuses on the social and environmental document, photography as a means of vindication, expression and communication, while Raquel works with obsolescence using technologies from the past (teletext, Commodore 64, fax, typewriters), photography and animation.