Shannon Cooney (Berlin, DE) On Cranio-Sacral
Therapy, Dance, Performance, and “Moving Cinema.”

Ethan Nichtern (New York, NY) - On Buddhist
Philosophy, Interdependence, and Mindfulness in Leadership, Education, and Creative
Practices.

Jane Hopper - (Huddinge, Sweden) On Horticultural Gardening,
Institutional Change, Interdisciplinary and Interspecies Collaboration in “Explorations of Now.”

Nathan John (Oakland, CA) On temporary and
permanent urban architectures, land history, institutional architecture, architecture as
geopolitical responsibility, architecture & choreography, change projects in speed and
scale, and some potentials of the I-A-E (Ideas-Arrangements-Effects) framework (by the
Design School for Social Justice).

Elena Demyanenko, Susan Sgorbati, and Cordeila
Sand - (all connected thru Bennington College, Vermont) on complexity, improvisation,
response-ability, dance, and interdisciplinary, through the lens of a publication they are
co-editing on improvisation in the information age.

Andros Zins-Browne (Upstate New York, USA) - on flexible and rigid notions of time, learning to do less with less instead of a lot with a little, planning, learning, school, sociality, privacy, and what it feels like to be an artist in this moment of transition from the anthropocene to the early virucene.

Valentina Desideri - on language as a score, anticolonial
projects, absorption versus synthesis, Fake Therapy, authority, care, institutional artistic
research, medieval academic examination rites of passage, and intention/attention in
aesthetic practices.

Bat Ganbat - on IT, computers, machines, ethics and
gaming, limits, open source versus central design, Elon Musk’s brain-chip future,
Mongolian script, and other nerdy fun stuff.