Stephanie Florence

Stephanie Florence is a neurodiverse artist and curator originally from amiskwacîwâskahikan, colonially known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their artwork is primarily based in collage and collaboration, borrowing from sculptural objects, installations, performative gestures, explorative painting, and photographic means. Currently, Florence is conducting exploratory research on interspecies citizenship, and how living bodies become a commodity for colonial-capitalist culture. Specifically, they are producing collaborative artwork with the flora, fauna, micro-organisms, and humans in the colonized-city landscape, with an intent to understand and communicate with beings that have been devalued by consumer-capitalist culture and extraction economies. 

They hold an MFA from University of Waterloo, a BFA from the University of Lethbridge, and a Diploma in Fine Art from MacEwan University. Florence is grateful for the support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, and Pat the Dog in researching and producing artworks. For more information visit: www.stephanieflorence.weebly.com

Elise Hoebeke

Elise Hoebeke is a contemporary jewellery artist living in Belgium. She holds a Masters degree in Visual Arts – Jewellery Context from Sint Lucas Antwerp, where she currently a lecturer in Fine Art Jewellery. Before finding her way into contemporary jewellery, Elise obtained a BA of Interior Design at LUCA School of Arts Gent (BE). As a jewellery artist she is interested in a world where space, life, object and jewellery come together.

Elise was a participant in the second An Urgent Situation residency and has since been an insightful contributor to podcasts, publications and network conversations. Inspired by the project research and mix of global cultures the project involves, Elise’s practice engages with the relationships people have to materials and their histories.

Don Lawrence Architect AS

Don Lawrence Arkitekt is an award winning architect, based in Oslo, Norway. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the Cooper Union in New York City and a Master in Architecture from the Arkitektur og Designhøgskolen in Oslo, Norway. In 2013 he established Don Lawrence Arkitekt AS which focuses on projects bordering between art and architecture’s potential for developing place. For more information visit: www.don-lawrence.com

Lawrence is one of the original project initiators, and has been involved in each stage of the project so far.

Dr. Hyungyu Park

Dr. Hyungyu Park is Associate Professor in Tourism at Middlesex University, UK. She has helped position heritage tourism as a significant interdisciplinary research area. She has advised on policy for bodies including Unesco and the Korean government. She has contributed to the development of new knowledge through publications in key journals (including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Current Issues in Tourism, and Academy of Management Learning & Education) and the sole-authored Routledge monograph Heritage Tourism (2014), which now features as a core text for heritage and tourism programmes worldwide. Her research interests include heritage tourism, identity and social memory, critical tourism pedagogy, sustainable heritage tourism, and the exploration of heritage and the arts in relation to peacebuilding, wellbeing, climate change discussions and urban cultures. Park’s work focuses on heritage tourism’s potential to create narratives and experiences that help foster reconciliation and resilience, via the individual making of meaning.

Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre

Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (LuCAC) is an art foundation in Zambia dedicated to advancing contemporary art and research into Zambian arts and culture. Comprising a gallery, library and artist residency, the LuCAC aims to facilitate and promote the production of new arts and cultural knowledge. For more information visit: www.lusakacontemporary.co.zm

LuCAC engaged with phase one of the An Urgent Situation project and immediately recognised the relevance of the topic to its own location of Zambia. LuCAC reached out to the partners, asking to share knowledge and collaborate - hoping to develop a project path at LuCAC highlighting the situation and issues in Africa. This demonstrates the relevance and impact of the project so far. With this new partner the project increases its reach, global relevance and solidarity. LuCAC will work in dialogue with the project partners to develop its own programme and contribute to furthering the project. It will contribute to the publication and host a publication launch.

Sepatokimin

Sepatokimin is an initiative to empower marginalised communities in Indonesia—building Human, Social, Intellectual, and Financial Capacity—through creative economy development. It provides the research, training, and mentoring needed by the community to make and manage their craft production with high value-added activities.

Sepatokimin is also a platform where empowered communities can promote their stories and refined products to meet the bigger market in the creative industry, such as local brands/manufacturers or other initiatives.
For more information visit: www.sepatokimin.com

Samong Haven

Samong Haven is a future-focused centre for culture and learning located in Sumberkima, North West, Bali that aims to offer a socially responsible tourist destination with culture, community and conservation at its core. Samong Haven’s programming facilitates exchange and learning for local and international participants; supporting capacity building in its neighbourhood, while offering insights into the rich cultural heritage and natural environment on its doorstep. For more information visit: https://www.samonghaven.com/

The programme and site of Samong Haven has been developed in response to earlier stages of the Globus funded project An Urgent Situation. Its multi-function space will soon be complimented by the completion of accommodation for up to 16 residents. From early 2025, people living nearby will be able to drop in for classes, workshops, and other community organised activities.

La Maraña

La Maraña is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes imagination and participatory design as tools to foster the sustainable development of communities in Puerto Rico. For more information visit: www.lamarana.org

Tourism is a key aspect of the governmental development of Puerto Rico. La Maraña are working on several community projects aiming to achieve sustainable, community orientated situations. These range from working with farmers to develop income outside of harvesting season, to supporting fishing communities that have been relocated following the destruction of their homes and businesses during Hurricane Maria (2017) and are now expected to allow for tourism in order to be able to return.

PRAKSIS

PRAKSIS is a transnational arts and culture catalyst based in Oslo, Norway. The organisation focuses on urgent issues of our time. It is dedicated to inclusivity and seek to inspire and support artistic creation, bringing new creative networks and communities into being.

PRAKSIS places peer-to-peer dialogue at the heart of its approach. Developing projects respond to the needs and concerns of creators, art professionals and socially-oriented organisations across borders and disciplines. Since 2016 they have worked with over 80 collaborating partners from autonomous activist networks to long-established national cultural institutions in and beyond Norway. PRAKSIS aims to demystify cultural production. Their public programming offers insight into creative processes and debates, seeking to enable the widest possible engagement with creative practice.