Bruna Souza is a Brazilian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam working across mixed-media installation, video, photography, illustration and community-engaged projects. Drawing on materials such as found objects, archives, melted glue, foam sculptures and mirror tiles, her practice explores how people relate to themselves and each other, examining existentialism, our inner worlds, and challenging the social, systemic and political structures we create for ourselves.

Shynara Nygmetova is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher pursuing an MA in Global Collaborative Design Practice at the University of the Arts London and Kyoto Institute of Technology. Her work explores sustainable behaviour and participatory design for responsible, community-focused ways of living.

Finn van den IJssel (24) is a Rotterdam-based artist and activist entrepreneur with a background in political philosophy. He is now working on various (visual) storytelling projects that contribute to climate justice and mental/social well-being. He is part of activist film collective Bloeifilm, initiator of the grassroots publication Feel & Rise, and film teacher. As an independent writer and director, he is interested in the social and bodily reality of neoliberal capitalism and aims to imagine alternatives to it through film. Garden Shed is both his graduation and a Bloeifilm production.

Anna Viani is an interdisciplinary artist and environmental biologist working across sound, video, and performance. Through sound, moving image, and experimental performance practices, she explores ecological listening, the sonic textures of urban environments, and the relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. Her current work focuses on water as a space of transformation, tension, and interconnectedness within changing ecosystems.

Donna van Oorschot (1998) is an Amsterdam-based artist working with found paper, administrative remnants and everyday materials that come to her through circulation and use. Through bookbinding and ceramics she organizes these fragments into layered systems of accumulation and transformation. Her practice moves within an organised chaos where material traces become both documentation and reflection.

As a designer I’m mostly fascinated and interested by the world around me. My work mostly consists of themes currently playing in the world directly and indirectly around me, such as political and systemic issues. As well as develop work that feels close to my inner world. I am eager to explore and refine my passions and contribute to societal challenges through design.

House of Extinction, sprouted from the rebellious seeds of climate activism and branching out from the core belief that all anticapitalist and anti-imperialist struggles are connected, understands drag as an ancient art form which holds the potential for radical self-expression and liberation, as well as fertile grounds for community forming in the face of widespread fascist resurgence. Slaying both the streets and club stages, the gender-meddling drag artistry of the HoE cooks up politically charged performances to dash in cisheteronormative pipe dreams one lipsync at a time.

Harriet explores arts, crafts, magic and community-building with earth, plants, fungi and feelings in Amsterdam. Their work is inspired by big feelings, creative flow & collective liberation, aspiring towards a practice of care, compassion & curiosity reaching outwards in love, grief and solidarity. Current themes in their work include grief, pleasure, intimacy, devotion, craft, and making kin with the more-than-human as part of queer(ing) ecologies. This season you can find them most days in the community garden meeting neighbours, observing plants and animals, planting seeds, experimenting with compost, and talking about the garden.

Jenny is a multimedia artist whose passion in storytelling leads her to work across disciplines including climate justice, documentary film, and cultural preservation.

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Maya Oxener is a fashion designer who makes clothes, textile art and everything in between. Her practice is rooted in sustainability and community. In the making process she invites others to join her in working with their hands, creating space for reflection, conversation and connection. Maya’s preferred materials are textile waste and natural materials

Marie Lou merges installation and performance. ML is an object poet, seeing value and beauty where society has abandoned material. Collecting, caring, artistically intervening with it and arranging the material as an endless performative practice in a physical archive. For how long does collecting and repairing work, where does conscious destroying make space for deep transformation?