A transdisciplinary artist, educator, and consultant working in video, installation, performance, and collaboration, Curry centers environmental, economic, political and gender structures. Curry’s research-based practice frames her projects with the diverse location-specific narratives that link non-conventional methods of research and activism. Extending into the areas of urban planning and design, developing projects in collaboration with the communities her work resides, the engagements and interactions generated form deeply personal, dynamic, thought-provoking experiences and concepts.

Laura has conducted projects in North and South America, Europe and the Caribbean, and has been exhibited internationally.

Member of the interdisciplinary FWF Young Independent Research Group “Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime” at Innsbruck University. His current research focuses on (i) alternatives in the corporate food regime (including values like solidarity and trust), (ii) method development in the realms of viscerality to combine traditional methods with beyond rational/multisensory approaches, (iii) re-conceptualizations of human-environment-relations by exploring them through, despite and beyond technology. Empirical examples include soy agribusiness expansion and social-ecological conflicts in NW Argentina, online gardening and offline consuming, alternative producer-consumer relationships (e.g. CSA) and their potentials for social-ecological transformation. Robert Hafner’s main research areas are South America (esp. Argentina) and Central Europe (esp. Austria).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: South America (esp. Argentina) and Central Europe (esp. Austria)

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Timothy Adams (Dr. PhD) is Postdoctoral researcher of Human Geography in commercial investments of natural resources, institutional change and innovations, inclusive businesses, gender, and resource governance (e.g., land, water, and forest etc.) at the University of Bern, Institute of geography and member of Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). His current research in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on institutional innovations for inclusive land investments, gender, and environmental justice. He integrates political ecology, science technology and innovation studies perspectives and critical theories into the field of institutional change, land commercialization, gender and development. Further research focuses on the environmental, economic, and social consequences of formalized arrangements of collective tenure institutional innovations (FACT) for commercial land investments (i.e., land, water, forest, and minerals). Timothy Adams’s main research areas are in sub-Saharan Africa but had in the past worked on projects involving commercial land investments in different resources sectors across the African continent (i.e., solar energy in Morocco, Timber plantations in Tanzania, rice farming in Ghana, and sugarcane in Malawi and Zambia).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Sub-Saharan Africa

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Keywords: Agroecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Energy Justice, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Legal Geographies, Marine Social Science, Migration, Mobility Concepts, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning, Institutional Economics

Student of the Master “Sustainability, Society and the Environment” at Kiel University. He is currently working on his master thesis about infrastructure expansion for a green hydrogen economy in Germany at Schleswig-Holstein’s west coast. Previously, he has been working on spatial conflicts due to the port expansion of the port of Hamburg. Research interests are environmental/energy/hydrogen justice, infrastructure, and political ecology.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Northern Germany, specifically Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg

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{:en}{:en}Anika Schmidt is a scientist working on urban transformations towards sustainability at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Department Urban and Environmental Sociology. Her research includes e.g. urban governance, (cooperative) processes of green space development and the socio-spatial implications of housing market dynamics. She is involved in transdisciplinary research projects, contributing to combine the knowledge and competences of scientific, municipal and non-governmental practice partners and to finding new forms of collaboration. Her scientific interests especially lie in the conflicts, paradoxes and issue of social-ecological justice of urban transformations, e.g. the goal conflicts arising through environmental or “green” gentrification, cooperative urban development and participatory processes.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: urban areas, so far mostly within Europe

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Caroline Meier is a research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Biosphere Reserves Institute at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Germany. I study cultural dimensions of human-‘nature’ relations. Of particular interest are power relations within environmental initiatives, how they emerged and how they work. In my PhD project, I investigate how international organisations allowed and still allow for local knowledge to be heard and promoted beyond the local scale by the use of the example of the UNESCO ‘Man and the Biosphere’ programme. The PhD project takes a historical perspective and is localised in the critical thought school and within this, political ecology.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Central America