Valentin Bansac is an architect, researcher and photographer from France. He previously worked at OMA/AMO with Rem Koolhaas where he participated in Countryside, the future, a research and exhibition project at Guggenheim New York. Valentin graduated from the Experimentation in Arts and Politics Master’s led by Bruno Latour at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He is currently involved in the two-year research programme, Domesticated Foodscapes, at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and recently participated in Organismo: Art in Applied Critical Ecologies, an initiative facilitated by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, an international art and advocacy foundation based in Madrid.

Mike Fritsch is a Luxembourgish architect, urbanist and educator working between Luxembourg and France. A practising architect, Mike spent several years with OMA in Rotterdam and now oscillates between large-scale transformation strategies and architectural repairs, including collaborations with l’AUC in Paris. Mike teaches at ENSA-M (École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Marseille), where he manipulates new territorial narratives on the “already there”, through adaptations and social interactions.

Alice Loumeau is a French-Canadian architect, researcher and cartographer. She conducts multimedia spatial investigations through writing and cartography, exploring the transformation of territories of the Anthropocene. Alice graduated from the Experimentation in Arts and Politics Master’s led by Bruno Latour at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). She has worked as an architect in Rotterdam at OMA/AMO, at l’AUC and UR in Paris and Matheson Whiteley in London, and participates in exhibitions, publications and residencies. In the fall of 2024, Alice took part in a residency at the Villa Albertine in Texas, USA.

Ludwig Berger is a German sound artist, musician, and educator whose work explores the sonic presences of organisms and places. He focuses on interspecies, geological, and architectural listening in landscapes, with particular attention to microscopic sounds such as insect communication, plant rhythms, and glacial melting. Through installations, compositions, and performances, he uncovers hidden processes and non human perspectives in various environments. Trained in electroacoustic composition, he was a researcher at the Institute of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich and is a certified Deep Listening instructor. His practice integrates field recording, scientific inquiry, and speculative listening across disciplines. His work has received recognition from Prix Ars Electronica, the Sound of the Year Awards, and A Closer Listen’s Best Soundscape Albums of the Decade. Raised in a village in the Vosges-Palatinate Forest Biosphere Reserve (Germany/France), he is now based in Montreal.

Peter Szendy is a French philosopher and musicologist. He is Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the book series published by the Philharmonie de Paris. His publications include: Powers of Reading: From Plato to audiobooks (Zone Books, 2025); For an Ecology of Images (Verso, 2025);
The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images
(Fordham University Press, 2019); Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as
Experience (Fordham University Press, 2018); All Ears: The Aesthetics
of Espionage (Fordham University Press, 2007); Listen: A History of
Our Ears (Fordham University Press, 2001). He curated the exhibition The Supermarket of Images at the museum of the Jeu de Paume in Paris
(February-June 2020).