Julia Ihls is an interdisciplinary researcher and designer at the intersection of (natural) philosophy, media theory and spatial staging. After studying art and media science (M.A.) in Konstanz and Cork, as well as scenography/media art (Dipl.) in Karlsruhe, she worked as a copywriter for the ZKM Karlsruhe, among others. Since April 2021, she is head of the Bio Design Lab at the HfG Karlsruhe, where – in addition to teaching and curating – she researches new (bio)materials and convivialism.

Marjolijn Bol is Associate Professor in Technical Art History and PI of the ERC Project Dynamics of the Durable. Trained as an art historian, her research intersects with historical studies of craft, heritage, knowledge, and the environment with a special focus on performative methods (reconstruction) and written sources on art technology.

Clem Edwards is a Rotterdam-based artist whose practice moves between language and sculpture. Their work enacts material, experiential and affective residues of daily life. Holding space for enchantment, their work brings into conversation the possibility of the glittering dream castle and the deep knowing that the Disney story cannot exist without the labour, gender and land conditions that produced it. In 2022, miniatures were the focus of their Gerrit Rietveld Academy fellowship and they published The Material Kinship Reader (Onomatopee, 2022, co-edited by Kris Dittel).