Vladan is the co-founder of Share Foundation and Sharelab, as well as a distinguished professor of arts and design from Novi Sad, Serbia. Over the past few years, his collaborative projects with Kate Crawford gained critical acclaim, with their ground-breaking Calculating Empires research and exhibition being awarded the Silver Lion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2025. His work blends critical and system design, data investigations, counter-cartography, data visualization, and numerous other disciplines, and is included in the permanent collections of the MoMA in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Design Museum in London and the Rijksmuseum in Twenthe, as well as in the permanent exhibition of the Ars Electronica Center.

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In Slovenia, Meta Štular led the creation of one of Europe’s largest hubs for sustainable design and manufacturing – Center ROG in Ljubljana – which earned her team the Eurocities Innovation Award. For over 20 years, she specializes in social innovation, public space regeneration, and building sustainable creative ecosystems. Her expertise includes stakeholder engagement, strategy development, participatory design, and the implementation of transformative cultural programs. She will be sharing with us Center ROG’s stories of sustainable approaches to maker culture, and innovative ways of nurturing creative communities.

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Simone Rebaudengo is the co-founder of studio OIO, where his research focuses on exploring the implications of living with networked and somewhat smart products that change, grow, and are intelligent enough to make their own decisions and show a point of view. His works have been published internationally in Wired, Fastcompany, The Atlantic and Designboom, and he has won two 2014 IXDA Interaction Awards for “Addicted Products”, and a 2015-2016 Internet of Things Award for Best Design Fiction for his “Ethical Things” project, to name just a few.

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Henriëtte Waal is an artist and designer known for her interdisciplinary work in artistic research, environmental design, and community engagement. She is the artistic leader of Veenweide Atelier and the co-founder of Atelier LUMA, the bio design lab of LUMA Arles in the south of France, focused on bioregional practices and material engineering. She is author of Water Works (Waal & Driessen, Valiz, 2025), a book that positions water infrastructures beyond the mere technical, and explores ecosocial design approaches to freshwater challenges through collaborative, place-based practices. Henriëtte has led fieldwork in Mediterranean wetlands, collaborating with remote wetland communities. Combining a system-level approach with embodied practice, her work spans co-fabrication systems for beverages, footwear, colors, crafts, and spaces, as part of an ongoing search for new ecosocial balance. Her projects have been exhibited internationally, highlighting her dedication to social and environmental resilience.

Igor Simić blends fine art, cinematography, video games and music into a thought-provoking transmedia entity, developed somewhere between New York and Belgrade. He is the co-founder and creative director of Demagog Studio which, among other things, produces video games with an eco-critical angle. In 2022, his visual art was featured as part of Manifesta 14, while his video game “The Cub” was in the official selection at Tribeca Film Festival. Igor fuses lecture, cinema, art and performance into a unique format. His performative lecture Everything is Content will give us a provocative look at the impact that the ubiquity of platformized content has on our daily lives.

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Jeremy Morris is an English, South African and Swiss architect and visual artist. Traveling along with his camera, analysing the built environment and witnessing different contexts as a result of his multicultural background. He created a social and environmental awareness that drives him in his projects. Fahrenheit.works (also operating as Fahrenheit 180º) is an architectural collective and design studio founded by Jeremy and Portuguese-Swiss architect Luca Carlisle. Based in Lisbon, Portugal, they focus on regenerative architecture, ecological design, and building with alternative, earth-based materials. Their headquarters are based in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Silvia Brandi is an architect, cultural manager and co-founder of FarmLab, a rural creative hub in Southeast Austria that combines traditional crafts, digital fabrication and nature-based practices. Originally from Italy, she spent almost twenty years in Barcelona working at the intersection of architecture, education, innovation and culture. Her previous roles include faculty member and General Manager at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Director of the international Fixing the Future Festival, and Director of Educational Projects at Abacus Cooperativa.
Today, Silvia develops artistic residencies, workshops and international collaborations at FarmLab, exploring how creativity, local resources and emerging technologies can contribute to more resilient and regenerative futures. Her current work focuses on the relationship between making, learning and the seasonal cycles that shape rural life.

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Olivia is a designer and an education specialist for SDG creative, hands-on activities using technology and design, for kids and adults. She has 16 years of experience in the education sector as a senior lecturer, consultant, educational designer, coordinator, manager, head of department in university. She is passionate about creative projects encouraging critical thinking, interdisciplinarity and empathy and I advocate the SDGs by generating creative sessions for meaningful making, value-driven activities that promote sustainability, inclusion and well being. Being active in the Fab Lab network since 2009 and after having initiated Fab Labs in Europe, her latest project is SYN Fab Lab (2021), the first mobile Fab Lab in Greece that focuses on co-creating societal change all around the country.

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Ariel Facundo Uzal is co-founder and the lead maker at TransfoLAB BCN. Faku is a versatile professional, and his experience extends from photography and filmmaking (his vocation by education), audio-visual production, design and construction of custom-made high-end vehicles and professional carpentry. In the last 16 years his primary focus is on development of environmentally friendly production methods in fabrication (metalwork, carpentry, plastic moulding…), through the application of upcycling, reuse, transformation, and circular economy. Faku was also the co-founder of Transfodesign (2009 – 2019), an architectural studio focused on circular economy, and the founder of FaKuZa image&design (2010 – 2015), studio focused on photography and audio-visual production.

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Nada Tozija is co-founder of TransfoLAB BCN and in charge of circularity and sustainable design. A graduate architect, Nada has completed master’s studies in Entrepreneurship and International Trade at the Université d’Orleans, France, as well as master’s degree in Independent Program studies by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA) and Universitad Autonoma de Barcelona. Her 18 years of international experience extends from short architectural projects in Tunisia, Brazil, and Wales, to urban development projects in the United States of America, villa design in Mallorca and housing and interior design projects in North Macedonia. Having had experience in the contemporary practices of design and production, she shifted her focus towards sustainability, circular economy and making, first by co-founding her studio Transfodesign (2009-2019), and later by co-founding TransfoLAB BCN and TransfoLAB ATH, the first Center for Trash Investigation. Nada currently holds a position within the Managing Board of Ensemble – the Network of Productive and Collaborative Spaces in Barcelona, and is co-leading the Makers Cluster within ECHN.

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Rafael Calado is a Portuguese architect, innovation strategist, and community builder working at the intersection of the bioeconomy, circular economy, digital fabrication, design, and citizen innovation. He coordinated FabLab Lisboa (2014–2021), co-founded Repair Café Lisboa in 2016, and has developed international residencies, courses, and workshops with institutions including RISD, The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), and ATÖLYE Istanbul.
In 2022, Rafael founded BioLab Lisboa, Portugal’s first Citizen Lab, established through a partnership between Lisbon City Council, the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and FCiências.ID Association. He promotes international residencies, internships, workshops, research, and community-driven innovation projects. He received two Participatory Budget awards supporting maker entrepreneurship for people with disabilities and the creation of a Circular Economy Hub. Rafael is a former Maker Ambassador at Maker Faire Rome and a former Fellow of Urban Arenas for Just and Sustainable Cities. He is a founding member of the Vulca Association and the European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN).

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Anna sees culture as a practice and creativity as both an expression of personal needs and a response to them. With a degree in Information Design, studies in Art History, and over a decade of experience in the arts and creative industries, she has worked at the intersection of established cultural institutions and grassroots initiatives. After contributing to institutions such as MAK, mumok, Vienna Design Week, and neunerhaus in Vienna, she returned to South Tyrol in 2022, where she has worked with Museion, BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, Allianz der Kultur, Museion Art Club, and Cultura Libera Freie Kultur, alongside her independent practice. As an independent cultural manager and communication strategist, she works as an external Project Curator for BASIS and represents the organization on its board. A self-described militant crocheter and fiber activist, she advocates for the social and political potential of craft, encouraging everyone to embrace and share their creativity—regardless of skill level. Interested in simple subversive practices and sociopolitical cultural expression, she is an untangler of the tangible.

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Raine Heikkinen has an extensive history in supporting and creating art. Originating from squatted buildings and organizing free raves, he has been involved in countless projects. He joined the team of Kaapeli in 2007 and since then he has been in various roles. Today he works as a Head of Property. He has a long history on developing customer experience in creative centers. He is also involved in creative networking in Europe, most importantly in Trans Europe Halles (three terms in the board) and European Creative Hubs Network (Alternate member in the board). Raine has a Master´s Degree in Culture / Event Production from HUMAK, University of Applied Sciences. He has been involved with event production and creative facilitation for more than 25 years. In Kaapelitehdas he administered event spaces over 10 years. Raine is also advocating creative and cultural policies around Europe and has been lecturing in several Universities. He was also deeply involved in establishing EIT Culture & Creativity North and designing and constructing of Dance House Helsinki.

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Hannes Götsch is a social entrepreneur and developer of transdisciplinary strategy processes, a music enthusiast, and a lifelong advocate for nightlife as a catalyst for social change. For over two decades, he has been active within the regional and international club and subcultural networks, co-founding initiatives, festivals, and collectives such as SPUNK, Kognitiv, and Revoltekk. As an insomniac, he brought his deep jungle / drum and bass selections to dance floors across Europe. As founder and Chief Visionary Officer of the hybrid hub “BASIS Vinschgau Venosta”, Hannes continues to shape the organization’s future while championing the transformative power of culture. Through the multifunctional studio venue “KASINO”, he creates spaces where nightlife, community and creativity intersect, driven by the belief that shared cultural practices and the switch from pure consumption to production can connect layers and inspire lasting socio- ecological change and wealth distribution.

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Ivanol is following the trends of anti-music. The noise soundscapes do not use melody, harmony or tempo. Subtle sounds of crackles meet brutal attacks of fuzzed bassy noise. The performance is improvised – you never know what you get. Ivanol is based in Copenhagen and is loosely connected to the noise scene around Mayhem and Supernoise. The performance at Supernoise X in 2025 will be released in the fall of 2026.

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Adamantios Kafetzis, visual artist, intensive record collector, DJ, owner of the Teranga Beat record label and editor of the Eligo Audio Culture website. Adamantios Kafetzis curates DJ-sets of rare power and true feeling, always presenting unpredictable recordings. After extensive research and regular visits to Senegal and its neighboring countries, he decided to establish Teranga Beat Records, bringing to the fore a well-hidden chapter of West African music. Based in Dakar, Teranga Beat started in 2010, releasing “Diamonoye Tiopité – L’ Epoque De L’Evolution”. To date, Teranga Beat has released 14 releases. Hybrid Grooves from around the world.

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Matthaios Tsimitakis is an experienced digital communication strategist and journalist with over two decades of expertise at the intersection of media, technology, and governance. He holds an MA in the anthropology of media from SOAS, University of London. From 2016 to 2019, Matthaios served as the special advisor to the prime minister of Greece on digital communication, where he designed high-level online strategies, managed international digital diplomacy, and directed crisis communication campaigns during major national events.. His op-eds and reported analyses on the Greek crisis and global current affairs have been featured in premier global outlets, including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, BBC, Deutsche Welle, and Vice. He is currently the Managing Editor of Creatives Unite, developing its editorial agenda.

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Vasilis Charalampidis is the founder and director of the cultural organization bios, as well as a founding member and President of the Board of Directors of the European Network of Creative Hubs. He is an acclaimed graphic designer and urban planner whose work explores the impact, boundaries, and intersections of culture and creativity within the urban environment. As an expert in the cultural and creative sectors, innovation, and social cohesion, he is actively engaged in policy development and advocacy for these fields.
He is also a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and has received numerous awards and distinctions for his work in graphic design.

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