Initiative for Applied Melancholy
Initiative for Applied Melancholy (Barbara Boss, Damiàn Dlaboha, Maximilian Grünewald, Mira Hirtz and Béla Rothenbühler) have found each other through mutual projects and their shared aim to develop a theatre of the anthropocene in their fight against the crises of humankind with the means of performative arts.
Anne-Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine
Anne-Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine is the General Director of the Air and Space Museum, Paris-Le Bourget since 2017. She is also Adjunct Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, History UFR, Heritage and Museums Master, and Member of the Academy of Technology. Anne-Catherine is a Research Associate at the CHS, Centre d’Histoire Sociale du XXe Siècle (20th Century Social History Centre), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her professional career includes positions as General Director of ICOM, International Council of Museums, Paris; and General Director of MuseDoma, Paris. She was also Director of the Exhibitions and Publications Department and member of the Executive Management Team of the Musée des Arts et Métiers (in charge of partnerships and sponsorships); and Editor-in-chief of the Revue du Musée des arts et métiers, among other positions. Anne-Catherine received several international awards, and authored more than twenty publications in prominent journals.
Soft Agency (Gilly Karjevsky, Rosario Talevi)
Soft Agency is a diasporic group of female architects, artists, curators, scholars and writers working with spatial practices. The agency’s work is rooted in feminist methodologies practices and formats, in the intersection of critical spatial practice, radical pedagogies, collectivities of becoming otherwise and alternative modes of participation. Through the creation of spaces, workshops, events, exhibitions, publications and public programs, Soft Agency seeks to disrupt and re-imagine the lively entanglements through which civic life is organized, rethinking economy, political relationships and social bonds.