January 21

• Stephanie Sherman (Director, MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins, UAL + Associate Director of Antikythera)
• "Spatial Technics: Planetary Philosophy and Practice"
• Stephanie Sherman is a director, strategist, writer and producer working across design, technology, architecture, and culture. She develops projects and organizations that reprogram and reorganize outmoded systems as collaborative platforms. Her research focuses on the history and futures of automation, and she is currently working on transforming her PhD “Auto: Fordian Parables of Platform Automation” into a book. She currently directs the MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and is the Associate Director of Antikythera, a program at the Berggruen Institute on the future of planetary computation. She is also is a researcher at Autonomy (a think tank on the future of work) and runs Radioee.net (a nomadic translingual radio station). She has published essays in Strelka Magazine, AI & Society, Frontiers in Computer Science, and Cabinet Magazine. She holds a BA in Literature from University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Philosophy from Duke, and a Phd in Design from the University of California San Diego.

January 28

• Hyperscapes Research Office (Milan, IT)
• "Under Pressure: Operations & Processes on Zones of Conflict"
• Hyperscapes Research Office (HRO) is a spatial research and design agency focusing on ecology, geopolitics, and architecture. HRO is active in investigating territories of planetary urbanization, spatial injustice, and environmental violence. Through the collection of evidence and the identification of open forms of resistance, HRO is determined to develop a common platform that perceives and approaches design for the Earth, while mobilizing knowledge and empowering movements. HRO's fields of operation and forms involve critical and counter-cartography, geospatial analysis, teaching and workshop organization, the creation of open-access archives, public exhibitions, independent research, and publications.

February 4

• Jussi Parikka (Professor of Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University, DK)
• "Operational Images, Recursive Landscapes"
• Jussi Parikka is professor of Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University where he is also the founding co-director of the Environmental Media and Aesthetics research program. He has written and co-edited a number of books on media theory, history of digital culture, and environmental media. Most recent of these include The Lab Book: Situated Practices In Media Studies (with Lori Emerson and Darren Wershler, 2022), Operational Images (2023), and Living Surfaces: Images, Plants and Environments of Media (with Abelardo Gil-Fournier, 2024). He co-edited Photography Off the Scale with Tomas Dvorak (2021). Jussi also works as a curator including such recent shows as Climate Engines (2023-2024, at Laboral, Gijon, Spain, curated with Daphne Dragona) and serving on the curatorial team of Helsinki Biennial 2023.

February 11

• Sabotage Practice (Milan, IT)
• "Eyes Without a Face"
• Sabotage Practice is a landscape and architecture studio based in Milan, founded in 2023 by Valentina Noce. The office is currently working on private projects and as a consultant for companies. Sabotage Practice’s work has been presented during Dropcity 2024 Lecturing Program, and during Milano Arch Week 2024 in the Milano Triennale program; also, a profile of the studio was published on Domus in June 2024. Valentina Noce is an architect and researcher; she is also completing a PhD in Architecture while conducting research through writing, lectures and teaching activities.

February 18

• Svitlana Usychenko (Kyiv, UA)
• "Never neutral: the agency of spatial mapping"
• Svitlana Usychenko specializes in spatial research and strategies for circular and resilient built environments. She brings a multidisciplinary perspective through her collaborations with The Center for Spatial Technologies (Kyiv-Berlin), OneWorks (Milan), Ro3kvit (an international coalition for Ukraine based in Kyiv), and NGO ReThink (Kyiv). Her work focuses on empowering local communities across Ukraine through diverse projects that integrate data analysis techniques and experimental research in urban political ecology. Svitlana has also made contributions to academic programs in urban history and design at institutions such as MIT, Harvard GSD, and KU Leuven, where her lectures have centered on research and strategies for the recovery of Ukrainian cities.

February 25

• Trent Crawford (Melbourne, AU)
• "On Free Fall: Perspectives of a Groundless World"
• Trent Crawford is a Naarm/Melbourne-born artist whose work explores the impact of image-based technology on notions of truth, belief, and agency. He is currently based in Hamburg, Germany, completing an MFA in Time-based Media at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, as a recipient of the General Sir John Monash Scholarship. In 2022, he studied at the Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon, Portugal, following his award of the Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship, and prior to that he completed a BFA (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2017. Crawford's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne; Human Resources, Los Angeles; 4649, Tokyo; Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, Italy; the Museum of Australian Photography, Naarm/Melbourne; Ace Open, Tarntanya/Adelaide; Hobiennale, Nipaluna/Hobart; and Auto Studio, Beijing. His collaborative films 'LOCK' (2021) and 'In a World Full of Angels' (2023) were awarded Best Experimental Film at the Cologne International Film Festival and the Experimental Forum International Film and Video Art Festival.