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core team #

daniela garcia-caro #

Daniela Garcia-Caro (she/her) is an agroecologist, researcher, and food system activist based in Rotterdam. Her PhD explores the role of law within agroecological transitions, where she focuses on operationalizing agroecology within law and policy, the identification of legal and regulatory stumbling blocks to an agroecological Europe, and the future courses of action to enable transformative change. Her broader interests include participating in bottom-up initiatives and bridging the gaps between food system research, practice, law and policy, as well as the intersect between digital sovereingty and food systems. She is an active workgroup coordinator in Biobulkbende food co-operative, and a member of Varia Collective and the Agroecologie Netwerk.

Find her at linkedin.com/in/dgarciacaro and orcid.org/0000-0002-5226-3684.

pooja boddupalli #

Pooja (she/her) is an architect and urban design researcher and loves all things maps, design and cities. Her research interests lie in sustainable urbanism, gastro-urbanism, heritage cities and family-friendly cities. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Urban Farming as a Nature based solution for Sustainability Motivators. She often works with Japanese not-for-profit organisations to help promote Japanese design and culture.

benjamin earl #

Benjamin Earl (he/him) is a digital designer and researcher based in Rotterdam whose work revolves around themes such as networked technologies, the poetic web, natural ecologies, self-organised practices, digital platforms, radio, and computational design. His work involves programming, radio-making, software design, writing and video making. He often works collaboratively to produce websites, workshops, broadcasts, and installations. He is one of the co-founders of Extra Practice, co-creator of the radio station Good Times Bad Times, and a member of Varia.

Find him at bnjmnearl.eu.

alice strete #

Alice Strete (she/her, RO/NL) is an artist, researcher and cook, interested in the intricate relationship between humans and the technologies they surround themselves with. Her work involves collaborative self-organising practices, publishing, and cooking, and explores topics from feminist technologies to the socio-politics of food. Her practice is often translated into publications, work sessions, workshops, dinners and sometimes physical installations. She is a member of both the Varia collective and the Biobulkbende food co-operative.

Find her at alicestrete.me.

luke murphy #

Luke Murphy (he/him/they, IE) is a software engineer and community organiser. Luke’s work over the last 12+ years in the software industry has gradually tended towards supporting exclusively self-organised free software communities such as small-scale technology collectives and cooperatives. Luke co-founded Autonomic co-operative in 2019 and has worked to support several public organisations and cultural projects: Fashion Revolution, NEoN Digital Arts, United Tech and Allied Workers, IWW UK and lumbung.space (Documenta 15). In 2020 Luke co-founded Co-op Cloud, a free software infrastructure project which received 30K EUR funding from the European Cultural Foundation and has since grown into a self-managed international federation of 15 technology collectives. Luke is based in Rotterdam and is a member of Varia, The Center for Everyday Technology. Luke’s current focus is on participating and strengthening local community technology projects which explore low-tech constraints and democratic alternatives to Big Tech such as Permacomputing Rotterdam, Bitbit Software, Vakbond Precaire Netwerken, De Digitale Buurthuiskamer, Biobulkbende and Prikbord.page.

community advisory board members #

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