Marianne Blidon (she/her) is Associate Professor of Geography and Demography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. A pioneer in the geography of sexualities in France, her work focuses on feminist and queer geographies, spatial inequalities, and the intersections of gender, sexuality, and space. She was co-founder of the journal Genre, sexualité et société. She has coedited […]
Maya Borean holds a Master’s degree in Urban Studies from Malmö University, through which she consolidated an interest in grassroots urbanism and alternative tenure. Throughout her Master’s, her research focused on squatting, urban vacancy and guardianship, collective city-making, and care relationships between individuals and their spaces. She is open to developing these topics further through […]
Annapia Debarry is a PhD candidate at the Geography Department of the University of Bonn. Her research explores the transformation of food systems in rural and urban Ethiopia through the lens of feminist political ecology, with a particular focus on embodied perspectives and critical infrastructural geographies. She examines how shifting agrarian and urban food ‘scapes’ […]
Valentine Opanga is a PhD candidate at the University of Bonn’s Center for Development Research, investigating the political ecology of urban green spaces in Nairobi’s informal settlements through a critical lens of environmental justice and urban politics. Her research explores how power dynamics shape access to natural resources, with a particular focus on understanding the […]
Dr. Uttam Kumar Roy is a Professor in the Department of Architecture & Planning and also a joint faculty member at the Centre for Transportation Systems (CTRANS) at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is currently leading the AMRUT Centre of Urban Planning for Capacity Building, established by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, at IIT Roorkee. He has over twenty-five years of research and […]
Dikchha Tiwari is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Her research focuses on youth migration, rental housing, and the everyday negotiations that shape urban experience for young people in Indian cities. Drawing on feminist and ethnographic approaches, her fieldwork engages with student and migrant […]
Per Möller is a senior lecturer in Culture Studies at Malmö University, School of Arts and Communication. His research is primarily focused on the crossing fields of cultural policies and urban development, with a critical perspective on ideological and political implications in such contexts. His PhD thesis (2021) entitled “Cultural City/City Culture: Ideas about values […]
Jacek Smolicki, PhD, is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher whose work explores the critical, existential, and technological dimensions of listening, recording, and archiving across human and more-than-human contexts. His practice includes soundwalks, soundscape compositions, experimental archives, and installations, presented internationally at venues such as Ars Electronica, Sonorities, and In-Sonora. He co-founded the Walking Festival of […]
Jakob Ingemann Parby is a senior researcher and curator at the Museum of Copenhagen with a long and diverse engagement with urban history, primarily the history of Copenhagen since 1750. He has published extensively on urban infrastructures, as well as the history of urban migration and identity and is currently working on the subjects of urban […]
Andrea Dankić (PhD Ethnology) works as a Senior Lecturer at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests include hip hop music and culture, methodology, creative processes, knowledge production, and power structures.