More than Human Symposium

Alexandra is a multidisciplinary artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Ginsberg received her PhD from London’s Royal College of Art, and her work is in collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and ZKM Karlsruhe. In 2021, Alexandra launched Pollinator Pathmaker, which received the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS Grand Prize in 2023.

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 has been director of the Advanced Architectural Design Program at GSAPP, and visiting professor at Princeton University and The Cooper Union. His books include Superpowers of Scale (2020) and More-Than-Human (with Marina Otero and Lucia Pietroiusti) (2020).

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.

Justin is the Director of Future Observatory and the former chief curator of the Design Museum. A writer and curator, he has produced numerous high-profile exhibitions and publishing projects. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian and e-flux. He is the author or editor of ten books, including More than Human: Making with the Living World (2025).

Curator, programmer and strategist Lucia 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).

Marcus is an artist. His practice explores how we relate to each other and the wider world, often driven by the need for change with social and ecological impact in mind. He works collaboratively with members of the public, organisations, and experts across disciplines — including anthropologists, ornithologists, psychiatrists and musicians — to develop processes based on empathy and trust. Recent exhibitions include The Directors (Artangel, 2022) and The Limits of Humanity (Musée de l’Homme, 2021).

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. Tavares’ projects have been exhibited worldwide. He is the author of Des-Habitat (2019) and Lucio Costa era Racista? (2022). His curatorial project Terra, with Gabriela de Matos, was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Phoebe is a scientist, systems thinker, and founder of Moral Imaginations, an activist design lab dedicated to catalysing just, regenerative futures by igniting humankind's moral imagination. The lab led to the introduction of more-than-human perspectives into UK policy-making, an award-winning partnership with Camden Council to build the imagination infrastructure of Camden and the creation of the first functional more-than-human citizens' assembly. She lectures at Schumacher College and Harvard Business School.

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.