Speakers
Please stay tuned for a full list of speakers featured at the conference. For now, please consult the conference program for a first overview.
Flor Avelino
Flor Avelino is a full professor of Organizations & Sustainability at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. She has worked as a researcher and lecturer in sustainability transitions and transformative social innovation since 2005.
With a background in political science, she specializes in power theories and has a particular interest in understanding how people, organizations, and networks are (dis)empowered to contribute to change, as well as how power relations are challenged and reproduced through translocal processes of social innovation and sustainability transitions.
Jesko Fezer
Jesko Fezer is an architect, designer, author, and professor of Experimental Design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK). His work engages with the socio-political dimensions of design, focusing on participatory and community-based approaches.
He is the co-founder of Pro qm, a Berlin bookstore specializing in urbanism, politics, and design, and a member of the exhibition design collective Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik. In collaboration with ifau (Institute for Applied Urbanism), he has realized architectural projects in cities across Europe and the U.S.
At HFBK, he leads the Studio Experimentelles Design, which operates the Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung St. Pauli (Public Design Support), offering free design assistance to local communities.
Jesko Fezer
Jesko Fezer is an architect, designer, author, and professor of Experimental Design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK). His work engages with the socio-political dimensions of design, focusing on participatory and community-based approaches.
He is the co-founder of Pro qm, a Berlin bookstore specializing in urbanism, politics, and design, and a member of the exhibition design collective Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik. In collaboration with ifau (Institute for Applied Urbanism), he has realized architectural projects in cities across Europe and the U.S.
At HFBK, he leads the Studio Experimentelles Design, which operates the Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung St. Pauli (Public Design Support), offering free design assistance to local communities.
Hagit Keysar
Hagit Keysar is Head of the Master’s Program in Visual Communication at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.
Her practice-based research brings together visual work, activism, and critical theory. In her PhD thesis and later work she explores civic and community-driven technologies and open-source practices for articulating rights and politics in situations of conflict and colonisation.
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