Lucia Pietroiusti is Curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, London, as well as the curator of Sun & Sea (Marina), the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, awarded by the Golden Lion. At Serpentine, Pietroiusti founded and curates the long-term ‘General Ecology’ project for Serpentine (2018-ongoing) dedicated to the implementation of ecological principles throughout all of the Galleries’ exhibitions and programmes. Recent projects include The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish series (with Filipa Ramos) and Microhabitable (with Fernando García-Dory). Forthcoming publications include More-than-Human, co-edited with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier.

John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog are architects and urbanists. They established Territorial Agency, an independent organisation that combines architecture, analysis, advocacy and action for integrated spatial transformation of contemporary territories. Recent projects include Oceans in transformation, Museum of Oil, Anthropocene Observatory and North. They are Diploma 4 Unit Masters at the AA.

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Selected readings and podcasts:
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‍https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/general-ecology
‍https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/symposium-shape-circle-mind-fish-part-1
‍https://radio.serpentinegalleries.org/podcasts/the-serpentine-podcast-on-general-ecology/

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John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog are architects and urbanists. They established Territorial Agency, an independent organisation that combines architecture, analysis, advocacy and action for integrated spatial transformation of contemporary territories. Recent projects include Oceans in transformation, Museum of Oil, Anthropocene Observatory and North. They are Diploma 4 Unit Masters at the AA.

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Selected readings:
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‍Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective, in The Anthropocene Review, Vol 4, Issue 1
‍by Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Colin N Waters, Anthony D Barnosky,John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, et al.
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The Whole Earth - California and the Disappearance of the Outside by Anselm Franke and Diedrich Diederichsen
‍A Vast Machine by Paul N Edwards

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Michael Smythe is an artist, campaigner and creative director of Nomad Projects, an independent arts foundation that develops experimental projects across digital and location-specific spaces. Nomad Projects critically engages with issues surrounding environmental and social justice within the urban landscape. Recent projects include Phytology (www.phytology.org.uk), an urban physic garden and research institute in Bethnal Green (East London), Urban Mind (www.urbanmind.info) a global research project investigating the relationship between the landscape and mental health, and So Below (www.sobelow.org), a cartoon essay exploring our current and historic relationship to the land. Michael studied installation, performance and art history at the Australian National University, Canberra, and Hochschule Der Künste, Berlin.

Thomas Thwaites is a designer interested in the social impacts of science and technology. He holds an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, and a BSc. in Human Sciences from University College, London. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is exhibited at major galleries and museums worldwide. He is the author of two books; The Toaster Project, and GoatMan.

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Charlie Kronick is Senior Programme Adviser at Greenpeace UK. He has worked in the fields of environment and development as an activist, campaigner, thinker and writer for more than 20 years. He has focused for most of the last decade on issues related to energy and climate change, and recently on the risks to capital markets from investment in high carbon infrastructure.

Jan Zalasiewicz is Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester and Chair of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. A field geologist, paleontologist, and stratigrapher, he teaches and publishes on geology and earth history, in particular on fossil ecosystems and environments that span over half a billion years of geological time.

Catherine Russell is a teaching fellow in Sedimentology at the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester. Her research is in fluvial sedimentology; technical expertise in the development of innovative multi-disciplinary approaches (geology, geomorphology, and remote sensing), for analysis of the heterogeneity and internal architecture of meandering fluvial systems.

Hilary Koob-Sassen is a scriptor at The Errorists. From an elaborated Lucretian definition of scale—our cells are an infrastructure union—he presents the current formation as pressed against the next Scalar Niche but lacking the errors with which to establish traction on its potentials and conquer it for life in time. Crucial among the lacks is a a fresh money-to-matter chemistry to empower a planetary infrastructure union and an understanding of democracy as the (pitifully lo-res) harvest of error.

Selected readings:
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The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate by Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, et al.
‍The Life of Plants, A Metaphysics of the Mix by Emanuele Coccia
‍The Sensitive Life: A Micro-ontology of the Image by Emanuele Coccia
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Timothy Lenton is Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. In April 2013 he was awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He graduated with a first-class degree in natural sciences from Robinson College, Cambridge in 1994 and completed his PhD under Andrew Watson at the University of East Anglia in 1998.Lenton has taken an interest in the Gaia Hypothesis for much of his career. Early in his career, in the journal Nature, Lenton addressed a concern that the Gaia Hypothesis was incompatible with the theory of natural selection by demonstrating that a model based on Daisyworld was strengthened by incorporating natural selection. Lenton, with Andy Watson, co-authored the book Revolutions that Made the Earth; it expands on the ideas of James Lovelock on the Gaia Hypothesis, by highlighting mechanisms by which the Earth system has been stabilised by negative feedbacks throughout Earth history.
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Selected readings:
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‍Revolutions that Made the Earth by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson
Terra Forma by Frédérique Aït-Touati
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Fernanda Balata leads NEF’s work on coastal economies, which is aimed at reconciling social and economic prosperity for coastal communities with marine conservation. Fernanda has led the Blue New Deal Initiative since 2014, delivering two major reports and building a growing network to deliver a major action plan for the UK coast. Fernanda is frequently invited by a range of organisations, politicians and community groups to talk and debate about economic development, coastal issues and the environment.
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David Powell is Head of Environment & Green Transition at NEF, heading up the thinking, research and campaigning around issues such as healthy seas, climate change and clean energy. His past media appearances include Sky News, Radio 5 Live and ITV News.
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AAction is an inquisitive, continuous and collective project formed by a group of AA students to promote education as the primary place to reflect on the urgency of climate and ecological breakdown. Being aware of the importance of the architectural profession in the context of climate change, the group works both within and outside the AA to challenge and address the necessary theoretical and practical challenges.
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Lindsay Bremner is a Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster and Director of Architectural Research (2012-2017). She is currently holder of Monsoon Assemblages, European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant no. 679873, investigating the confluence of changing monsoon weather and neoliberal agendas in south Asian cities. She holds a M. Arch and DSc. Arch degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a B.Arch degree from the University of Cape Town.
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Jose Alfredo Ramirez is an architect dDirector of Groundlab. He co-directs the Landscape Urbanism Graduate Programme and the Mexico Visiting School at the AA. Jose Alfredo has given workshops  and lectured on the topic of Landscape Urbanism and the work of Groundlab worldwide.
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Adrienne Buller is Co-Director of Labour for a Green New Deal, and directs policy for the campaign. Labour for a Green New Deal is a grassroots organisation dedicated to driving radical, transformative action on climate in the Labour Party. In September 2019, they secured a radical Green New Deal, including an ambition of economy-wide decarbonisation by 2030, as Labour Party policy.

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Selected readings:

‍On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
‍The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World by Andreas Malm
‍Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of our Planetary Future by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright
‍The Case for the Green New Deal  by Ann Pettifor
‍The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

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Davor Vidas is Research Professor in International Law and Director of the Law of the Sea Programme at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, UK. He is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group and Chair of the Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise at the International Law Association. During the course of the past 25 years, he served as Principal Investigator for several major research projects on international law and interdisciplinary approaches to ocean issues. Professor Vidas is the author or editor of ten books on international law, and also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal monograph series Brill Research Perspectives on the Law of the Sea and of a popular-science book series Anthropocene.
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Alain Pottage holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics. Before joining the Law Department of the LSE, he was a researcher at the Law Commission and a lecturer in the School of Law at King's College London. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, the University of Sydney, and Cornell Law School. Alain Pottage’s current research projects focus on three areas. Together with Mario Biagioli, he is writing a critical historical study of the foundations of modern intellectual property discourses. He is preparing a monograph on the historical sociology of brands and trade marks, with particular reference to the medial and material agency of contemporary brands. The third research project is on the implications of the Anthropocene hypothesis for law, first part published as ‘Our Geological Contemporary’.

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Selected readings:
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Our Geological Contemporary by Alain Pottage in Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought edited by Justin Desautels-Stein, Christoper Tomlins
The World Ocean in Globalisation by Davor Vidas and Peter Johan Schei
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John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog are architects and urbanists. They established Territorial Agency, an independent organisation that combines architecture, analysis, advocacy and action for integrated spatial transformation of contemporary territories. Recent projects include Oceans in transformation, Museum of Oil, Anthropocene Observatory and North. They are Diploma 4 Unit Masters at the AA.
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Selected readings:
Radical Conservation—Museum of Oil, by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, in Reset Modernity! by Bruno Latour
‍Gaia: A new look at life on Earth by James Lovelock
Cosmopolitics I by Isabelle Stengers
World System Analysis by Immanuel Wallerstein
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