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With her Sustainable Food Art, Anja Fiedler creates current social issues to ‘bite into’. In her participative, often multi-sensory performances, she serves up culinary delights that become tempting and thought-provoking fare thanks to facts and multi-sensory elements. In her performances, she invites people to ponder, reflect and visualise together. anja-fiedler.de

Dr Thomas Vogelpohl is a political scientist specialising in environmental policy. Since June 2022, he has been a research associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he is researching the sustainability of water governance in Berlin and Brandenburg in the ‘Climate and Water under Change’ (CliWaC) project.

Anne-Marie Weiß is an ecologist specializing in nature conservation and vegetation ecology and a nature conservation officer at the Flora Protection Coordination Office (Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin). She studied at the HNE Eberswalde and the University of Potsdam. She has been working in flora conservation at the Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin for six years. She lives with her family in Berlin-Mitte and explores the city’s green spaces.

Alexander Stier is a nature conservation officer at the Flora Protection Coordination Office of the Berlin Nature Conservation Foundation. He studied biosciences and geoecology at the University of Potsdam. As a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Botanical Society, his main interests lie in botany and vegetation science. He is actively involved in the protection and conservation of endangered plant species.

As a curator, director, author and mediator, Alisa Tretau poses questions about the political in the private sphere. Recently, she has been increasingly realising audio-based, interactive formats in public spaces and thinking together the multiple crises of our present. She has two small children.

Ursula Seeger is an author, artist and art mediator focussing on the relationship between humans and nature. She published the lyrical-graphic volume geHÄUSe with Johann Reißer, shows works in anthologies and exhibitions and won 1st prize in the Scivias literature competition in 2021.

Johann Reißer is an author, theatre maker and lecturer. He publishes poetry and prose and performs his own plays. He received the Berlin Senate Scholarship for his novel Pulver. The volume geHÄUSe – Zwölf Schleifen zwischen Zellen und Clouds, created with Ursula Seeger, was published in 2024.

Katharina Ulbing holds a Master’s degree in Futures Studies from the Free University of Berlin. She is a communication strategist, facilitator and sauna and meditation guide. With a focus on transformative learning processes, multiple temporalities, as well as neo-materialist-feminist ontologies, she is dedicated to the question: ‘How does change happen?’. She has been an active member of the Warm Data Community since 2022 and has undergone further training in systems thinking, regeneration and participatory methods.

Dr Franziska Gaupp is an environmental scientist. She completed her doctorate at the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford and conducted research at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Today she works at the University of Osnabrück on the topic of ‘positive social tipping points’ in the sustainability transformation. She is trained in participatory group methods (warm data lab, Theory U, Art of Hosting).

Prof Irina Engelhardt is Professor of Hydrogeology at TU Berlin. As head of the
Department of Hydrogeology, she coordinates the research project
SpreeWasser:N – Water Resource Management, in which she focussed on underground water storage (tbc).

Gesche Grützmacher is head of the Central Tasks and Drinking Water Quality department at Berliner Wasserbetriebe. She is a geologist and an expert in bank filtration.

June Tomiak is a member of the parliamentary group Bündnis 90/Die Grünen in the Berlin House of Representatives. She is spokesperson for constitutional protection and spokesperson for wildlife and water protection and part of the committee for environmental and climate protection.