Multispecies Health

Researches urban evidentiary ecologies, riparian critical zones, and practices of planetary healing and repair in central São Paulo. Works at the intersection of urban anthropology and geography, with interests in feminist STS, theory from the South and the environmental humanities.

Project title. Urban Microbial Ecologies: Metabolism, Biogeography, and Collaboration

Juan Manuel Zaragoza is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy – University of Murcia since 2020. He is the founding director of ehCOLAB, a joint initiative of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Murcia, which aims to bring together academics, artists and scientists from different disciplines around issues related to the environmental humanities.

Coordinator of the Center for Studies on Contemporary Spatialities (NEC-IAU-USP) and of the Group Art Science Technology (ACT>IEA-USP). Fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), developing the project “Cartographies: technopolitics and geopoetics”. Works with mappings and cartographies in the intersection of architectural studies, arts, geography and philosophy.

Researcher CNPq/ Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Research Professor at the Center for Studies on Contemporary Spatialities, Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo/IAU-USP. Cofounder of the Ground Atlas project (groundatlas.org). Works at the intersection between architecture, urban studies, history, arts and cartography, within a decolonial, eco-political poetical perspective.

Founder of Ecoland, an agroecological project focused on proximity production and environmental education

Professor of the Department of Biological and Physiological Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Philosophy and Head of the Ecotoxicology Laboratory at UPCH. More than ten years of research in biological models for monitoring the quality of aquatic ecosystems, responses and adaptations of bioindicator communities to climate change, acid drainage and metals, and water and soil remediation systems using native flora and artificial wetlands.

A citizen initiative that seeks to reactivate the Spree Canal as a valuable public space in the center of Berlin and make it once again clean, attractive and tangible – for pedestrians and swimmers

Labtek Apung is a floating tech-lab that was born at the riverbank of Ciliwung river, Jakarta, in 2017. The non-neutral intervention emerged from an experiment, the reinterpretation of a raft into a floating tech-lab at Ciliwung river, involving children, adults, and other concerned citizens, creating a device open to reinvention. These are all done not only to voice the extremely poor river quality but also to make the river speak of its concerns in its own language. The laboratory is a place for demonstrating research-action & citizen-science. The co-researchers of Labtek Apung are: Novita Anggraini (chemist), Gusmiati (environmental engineer), Indrawan Prabaharyaka (anthropologist), Kamil Muhammad (architect), and Endira Juliand (visual artist).

Floating e.V. Berlin is a self organized space and group, where practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds meet to collaborate, co-create and imaginatively work towards possible futures. Floating’s rainwater retention basin is home to a diverse range of animals, plants and algae who have taken root and given birth to a unique landscape: a human-made environment reclaimed by nature where polluted water coexists with the relatively new presence of Floating University, forming a *natureculture* (Haraway) or a *third landscape* (Clément).

Salve Saracura is a collective of activists and artists who work with marginalized riparian communities and organized environmental and housing movements in the center of São Paulo to uncover the city’s hidden rivers, the histories of violent urbanisation and environmental disaster they carry – including the covering-over of indigenous and Afro-Brazilian memories – also connecting these histories to recent events of eviction and displacement, urban floodings and other examples of socio-environmental struggle.

Ground Atlas Brazil is an academic-artistic counter cartography project organized by architects and urbanists Ana Luiza Nobre and David Sperling. The Ground Atlas combines a collection of maps and constellations of audiovisual material that allow for mapping the grounds of our worlds, in their multiple dimensions and meanings. The goal of the Atlas’ constellations is to link isolated points, generating rhizomatic structures that bring about new meanings, weaving together and articulating matters that are geographically and culturally distant by creating affinity relationships. By mapping, that is, by collecting and visualizing these histories, the Atlas strengthens the political claims for reparation by marginalized populations in contemporary urban Brazil and other cities of the Global South.