More than Human Symposium

Emanuele is a philosopher and Associate Professor at EHESS in Paris. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Columbia and Harvard. He is the author of La Vie sensible, The Life of Plants, Métamorphoses and Philosophie de la maison. In 2019 he took part in the "Trees" exhibition held at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. He edited the catalogue for the 23rd Triennale di Milano, Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries.

Ginsberg is a multidisciplinary artist examining our relationships with nature and technology. Experimenting with simulation, representation, and nonhuman perspectives, questioning innovation over conservation. Her work is in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and ZKM Karlsruhe. In 2023 her artwork Pollinator Pathmaker was awarded the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Artistic Exploration and she recently unveiled her first stained-glass commission for Manifesta 15 in Barcelona.

Marcus is an artist and ornithologist based in London. His works, including performances and installations that have been recorded as video art, employ shamanistic rituals and explore natural versus human-made processes.

Curator, programmer and strategist Lucia Pietroiusti is Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London, where she founded the General Ecology project and the Ecologies department. Working on research and experimentation at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, she is the curator of Sun & Sea (Venice Biennale, 2019 and international tour); and the co-editor of the More-than-Human (2020) and The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (2025).

Andrés is an architect, founder of the Office for Political Innovation and Professor and the Dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He's been director of the Advanced Architectural Design Program at GSAPP and a visiting professor at Princeton University and The Cooper Union. He is the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. His books include Superpowers of Scale (2020) and More-Than-Human (with Marina Otero and Lucia Pietroiusti) (2020).

Paulo is an architect whose practice dwells at the frontiers between architecture, visual cultures and advocacy. He teaches at the University of Brasília and leads studio autônoma. He is the author of various books that question the colonial legacies of modernity, including Des-Habitat (2019),  Lucio Costa era Racista? (2022). His curatorial project Terra, in collaboration with Gabriela de Matos, was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.

Phoebe is a renegade scientist, systems thinker and social entrepreneur, passionate about creating opportunities for transformation of people - and through that, transformation of society and the planet.

Justin is Director of Future Observatory, the national design research programme for the green transition, a partnership between the Design Museum and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. As a writer and curator, he has produced numerous exhibitions and publishing projects, having collaborated with the New Yorker, the Guardian, e-flux and various art & design journals. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Radical Cities (2014) and More than Human: Making with the Living World (2025).

Rebecca is Head of Curatorial Programme at Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. Previously, she was Senior Curator at the Design Museum and Curator of Exhibitions and Design at Serpentine Galleries. She has produced independent exhibitions at Centre Pompidou Metz, Kestle Barton and Cell Project Space and has taught on courses at the Royal College of Art, Design Academy Eindhoven and Iceland University of Arts.

A major exhibition bringing together art, science and radical thinking to ask how design can help our planet thrive by shifting its focus beyond human needs.

Future Observatory is the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, based at the museum and coordinated in partnership with UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Future Observatory curates exhibitions, programmes events and funds and publishes new research, all with the aim of championing new design thinking on environmental issues.

UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funds internationally outstanding independent researchers across the whole range of the arts and humanities: history, archaeology, digital content, philosophy, languages and literature, design, heritage, area studies, the creative and performing arts, and much more. The quality and range of research supported by AHRC works for the good of UK society and culture and contributes both to UK economic success and to the culture and welfare of societies across the globe.